Bronte Sisters

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THREE SISTERS:
FOR WHOM
HISTORY CHANGED FOREVER
 

Examiner "This is a strange book. It is not without evidences of considerable power: but, as a whole, it is wild, confused, disjointed, and improbable; and the people who make up the drama, which is tragic enough in its consequences, are savages ruder than those who lived before the days of Homer."

The Bronte sisters: Charlotte (born 21 April 1816), Emily (born 30 July 1818), and Anne (born 17 January 1820); were all born under the same dreary household in the gloom and dank of the Yorkshire Moors, admist death and decline. 

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.

Needless to say the critics were not amused with this rise of humanism and the following are some reviews of the works of Wuthering Heights, the book that changed everything!



EMILY BRONTE

Wuthering Heights:

H. F. Chorley of the Athenaeum said that it was a "disagreeable story" and that the 'Bells' (Brontës) "seem to affect painful and exceptional subjects".







Emily Jane Bronte was born on July 30th 1818 just as the Industrial Revolution was to begin in earnest. Wuthering Heights was her only book and now considered a classic of English Literature. Her two sisters, Elizabeth 1815 and Maria 1814, both died at young ages, while Emily was still the tender age of nine.

After her sister Ann died in 1848, at the tragically young age of 40, Emily never wrote again and this... her only book lies in repose as sole repository and testiment of her unique genuis. It is my personal favorite and has made a lasting impression for literature to this day...

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Charlotte Comes Next:

Jane Eyre:

The Atlas review called it a "strange, inartistic story," but commented that every chapter seems to contain a "sort of rugged power." Summarising the novel: "We know nothing in the whole range of our fictitious literature which presents such shocking pictures of the worst forms of humanity. There is not in the entire dramatis persona, a single character which is not utterly hateful or thoroughly contemptible ... Even the female characters excite something of loathing and much of contempt. Beautiful and loveable in their childhood, they all, to use a vulgar expression, "turn out badly."








This somber tomb was based largly on reality of the times, her being put in a school called Roe Head Mirifield under Miss Wooler, as their mother died early on in 1821 and their father, Patrick Bronte outlived them all and died on June 7, 1861 at age 84.



The sisters originally published their poems and novels under masculine pseudonyms, following the custom of the times practised by female writers.

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Then Finally Comes the Youngest Sister Ann:


The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

Graham's Lady Magazine "How a human being could have attempted such a book as the present without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery. It is a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors."

This is young Ann's Second Novel, published just one year befor her tragic death which forever silenced Emily.  It's largly based on personal experience, however to well be considered in the "Slice of Life Style."

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The Sister's stories immediately attracted attention, although not always the for being the best literature, but more for their passion and originality.  So what do banal pedantic critics of the times really know?

The American Whig Review "Respecting a book so original as this, and written with so much power of imagination, it is natural that there should be many opinions. Indeed, its power is so predominant that it is not easy after a hasty reading to analyze one's impressions so as to speak of its merits and demerits with confidence. We have been taken and carried through a new region, a melancholy waste, with here and there patches of beauty; have been brought in contact with fierce passions, with extremes of love and hate, and with sorrow that none but those who have suffered can understand. This has not been accomplished with ease, but with an ill-mannered contempt for the decencies of language, and in a style which might resemble that of a Yorkshire farmer who should have endeavored to eradicate his provincialism by taking lessons of a London footman. We have had many sad bruises and tumbles in our journey, yet it was interesting, and at length we are safely arrived at a happy conclusion."