Emily Brontë

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857 - 1944)

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights." She was born in Yorkshire, northern England, where her father was an Anglican curate. When Brontë was three years old her mother died of cancer. At the age of six she joined her three sisters briefly at the Clergy Daughters' School, where privations and abuse contributed to the deaths of two of them. Her elder sister, Charlotte, immortalized this terrible place in "Jane Eyre." In 1846 Emily Brontë, under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, published a selection of her poetry. In 1847 appeared her dark, gothic novel, "Wuthering Heights," with its Byronic anti-hero, Heathcliff. Brontë was shy, even reclusive, and never married. In the fall of 1848 she fell ill with inflammation of the lungs, probably due to rapidly-progressive tuberculosis, and died in December of that year, aged twenty-nine. This is a short biography of Brontë written by the British poet, novelist, and critic, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857-1944). (Pamela Nagami)

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Introduction Pamela Nagami
00:12:58
Play 01 Parentage Pamela Nagami
00:21:37
Play 02 Babyhood Pamela Nagami
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Play 03 Cowan's Bridge Pamela Nagami
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Play 04 Childhood Pamela Nagami
00:26:02
Play 05 Going to School Pamela Nagami
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Play 06 Girlhood at Haworth Pamela Nagami
00:30:51
Play 07 In the Rue D'Isabelle Pamela Nagami
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Play 08 A Retrospect Pamela Nagami
00:20:23
Play 09 The Recall Pamela Nagami
00:15:25
Play 10 The Prospectuses Pamela Nagami
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Play 11 Branwell's Fall Pamela Nagami
00:24:29
Play 12 Writing Poetry Pamela Nagami
00:29:13
Play 13 Troubles Pamela Nagami
00:19:16
Play 14 'Wuthering Heights:' Its Origin Pamela Nagami
00:28:20
Play 15 'Wuthering Heights:' The Story, Part 1 Pamela Nagami
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Play 16 'Wuthering Heights:' The Story, Part 2 Pamela Nagami
00:41:35
Play 17 'Shirley' Pamela Nagami
00:14:44
Play 18 Branwell's End Pamela Nagami
00:10:37
Play 19 Emily's Death and Finis Pamela Nagami
00:24:08