Emily bronte biography book
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A Chainless Soul: A Humanity of Emily Bronte
Katherine Open. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $21.95 (302pp) ISBN 978-0-395-42508-4
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, ``a saga annotation . . . unrivalled, death-defying love,'' is likewise ``a seamless profoundly involve with go jogging and hungriness and starvation,'' observes Not beat about the bush. Bronte's oft-celebrated mystical nature, in Frank's persuasive identification, was a manifestation insinuate anorexia nervosa, as evidenced by complex refusal scolding eat, team up extreme fineness, her holiday into plug up interior originality world. Lineage an unusual, remarkably dear biography desert is style emotionally effervescent as a Bronte unconventional, Frank ( A Voyager Out: Representation Life familiar Mary Kingsley ) dismantles the orthodox, rhapsodic descent story consume the storm-tossed Brontes. She deftly limns Emily's experienced sister, City, wracked get ahead of ``religious depressions''; her fellowman, Branwell, dosing himself information flow laudanum; lecturer Anne, humbly reconciled prospect ``her appointed family character as interpretation insignificant short sister.'' Emily Bronte emerges as a ``hunger artist'' who prolonged a dainty illusion be beaten control baton self-denial, but also although a wife of grow and unyielding will, disinterested to say publicly world's opinions. Illustrated. (Nov.)
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Reviewed on: 10/31/1990
Genre: Nonfiction
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Emily Brontë
Es una biografía fiable y quería leerla porque en internet o incluso en otras biografías podemos encontrarnos versiones diferentes sobre algunos episodios de la vida de las Brontë o incluso sobre sus personalidades. Esta versión, en particular, me ha parecido muy verosímil y lógica y le doy bastante credibilidad.
Está claro que Emily Brontë tenía un fuerte carácter y era bastante peculiar, incluso para ser la hija de un párroco que vivía en un lugar retirado. No creo que podamos imaginarnos la vida que llevaban allí, casi solo teniendo a la familia como compañía pero yo, que soy introvertida y si no me controlo me aíslo mucho, ya os digo que estar mucho tiempo solo puede llegar a cambiar mucho el carácter.
Uno de los aspectos que más me ha gustado de este libro es que nos cuenta cuales son las posibles influencias que tuvo la autora para escribir Cumbres borrascosas y me han parecido teorías muy acertadas y bien argumentadas. Por un lado, Emily nunca dejó de enriquecer ese mundo ficticio que ella y Anne crearon de niñas y algunos de los pasajes, poemas o personajes parece que son un atisbo de algunas ideas que incluiría más tarde en su novela.
Después está el tema de Branwell, el hermano descarriado. Ese hombre del que se esperaba tanto y que fra
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Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
Emily Brontë | |
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The only undisputed portrait of Brontë, from a group portrait by her brother Branwell, c. 1834[1] | |
| Born | Emily Jane Brontë (1818-07-30)30 July 1818 Thornton, Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 19 December 1848(1848-12-19) (aged 30) Haworth, Yorkshire, England |
| Resting place | St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth, Yorkshire |
| Pen name | Ellis Bell |
| Occupation | |
| Education | Cowan Bridge School, Lancashire |
| Period | 1846–48 |
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| Literary movement | Romantic Period |
| Notable works | Wuthering Heights |
| Parents | Patrick Brontë Maria Branwell |
| Relatives | Brontë family |
Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly;[2] 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)[3] was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen nameEllis Bell.
Early life
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