The three sisters and their brother, Branwell (1817–1848), were very close and during childhood developed their imaginations first through oral storytelling and play set in an intricate imaginary world, and then through the collaborative writing of increasingly complex stories set therein. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is thought to be one of the first feminist novels. Her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was published in 1848. Her first novel, Agnes Grey, was published in 1847 with Wuthering Heights. In 1846 she published a book of poems with her sisters and later two novels, initially under the pen name Acton Bell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.Īnne Brontë (January 1820 – 1849) was an English novelist and poet, and the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. 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. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles.Įmily Jane Brontë (1818 – 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Although her first novel, The Professor, was rejected by publishers, her second novel, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847.

Charlotte’s Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily’s Wuthering Heights, Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature.Ĭharlotte Brontë (1816 – 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. The Brontës were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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