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A Life of Emily Bronte Edward Chitham

A Life of Emily Bronte By Edward Chitham

A Life of Emily Bronte by Edward Chitham


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Biography of Emily Bronte, examining her life and art. The author looks at her relationship with her family, her father's Irish background and her development from an extrovert child to a defensive woman. Her literary work is also discussed, with a special emphasis on Wuthering Heights.

A Life of Emily Bronte Summary

A Life of Emily Bronte by Edward Chitham

How could a young woman without much formal education and little experience of life produce such a work as Wuthering Heights? How did a lively, extrovert child turn into a reserved and defensive mature woman, highly self-critical and secretive? This new biography of Emily Bronte uses hitherto relatively neglected material to provide a portrait of Emily's life and art. Concentrating on her childhood, the author examines Emily's relationship with her family and her contacts with people outside the family, and develops his previous research into the influence of her father's Irish background. He has made a study of extant manuscripts and takes into account recent advances in scholarship and improved poem texts. The book looks as questions such as - what was the nature of Emily's feelings for Charlotte, Anne and Branwell, when was Wuthering Heights conceived and was there a major revision, and was Emily writing a second novel when she died?

Table of Contents

Papish Pat goes to Yorkshire; a somewhat eccentric upbringing; almost swept away; Maria abused - Elizabeth hurt; visions of futurity; bold, beautiful and bright; what happened at Roe Head; the poetry of A G A; Law Hill and Halifax; a serious poet; Brussels; domestic chores lightened by fancy; my darling pain - Heathcliff in the open; the themes of Wuthering Heights; Heathcliff on a public stage; living according to nature - the last stage; Emily Bronte - a child's savage woe.

Additional information

GOR002036388
9780631147510
0631147519
A Life of Emily Bronte by Edward Chitham
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
19870917
296
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