The biographer of Emily Bronte faces considerable problems. Her slender output of one great novel and some impressive but baffling poems does not give one a great deal upon which to build. Unlike her sister Charlotte, whose works have an...

The biographer of Emily Brontë faces considerable problems. Her slender output of one great novel and some impressive but baffling poems does not give one a great deal upon which to build. Unlike her sister Charlotte, whose works do have an...

The only poems by Emily Brontë that were published in her lifetime were included in a slim volume by Brontë and her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), which sold a mere two copies and received...

An aura of mystery has surrounded all the Brontë sisters ever since "Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily), and Acton (Anne) Bell" had a volume of poetry published in 1846, followed the next year by Jane Eyre,Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey, but...

The English novelist Emily Brontë (1818-1848) wrote only one novel, "Wuthering Heights." A unique achievement in its time, this work dramatizes a vision of life controlled by elemental forces which transcend conventional categories of good and...