Emily BrontëA. Mary F. RobinsonOmniClassics · Literature
Emily Brontë
A. Mary F. RobinsonAn early biographer interprets Emily Brontë through family, place, poetry, and fiction.
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About the book
A. Mary F. Robinson traces Emily Brontë's life from her family background and childhood through schooling, time in Brussels, and the writing associated with Haworth. The biography gives substantial attention to her siblings, especially the troubles surrounding Branwell, and reads her poems and Wuthering Heights as evidence of an unusually intense imaginative life. Separate chapters consider the novel's origins and tell its story, while Charlotte's Shirley enters the discussion of how Emily was remembered. This nineteenth-century interpretation belongs to an early phase of Brontë biography, and its confident psychological judgments reflect the evidence and assumptions available to its author. It offers a historical portrait of Emily alongside an argument for taking her literary achievement seriously.
- Literary biography
- Family and imagination
- Critical reputation
Why read it
See how an early admirer assembled and interpreted the life of a writer whose reputation was still developing.
English second edition of A. Mary F. Robinson's biography, 1883
Contents and reading sections
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Section 5
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Section 8
- Section 9
- Section 10
- Section 11
- Section 12
- Section 13
- Section 14
- Section 15
- Section 16
- Section 17
- Section 18
- Section 19
- Section 20
- Section 21
- Section 22
- Section 23
- Section 24
- Section 25
- Section 26
- Section 27
- Section 28
- Section 29
- Section 30
- Section 31
- Section 32
- Section 33
- Section 34
- Section 35