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The Bronte Sisters The Brontes lived in Haworth, a Yorkshire village in the midst of the moors. These wild, desolate expanses—later the setting of Wuthering Heights—made up the Brontes’ daily environment, and Emily lived among them her entire life. Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Eldest one of the Bronte sisters. Well-known for her autobiographical novel Jane Eyre Emily Bronte (1818-1848) perhaps the greatest writer of the three Bronte sisters Wuthering Heights (1847), a story of doomed love and revenge. Anne Bronte (1820-1849), English writer, sister of Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte. Anne Bronte is best known for her novels Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), which are generally considered more conservative novels than those of her sisters. Feminism Jane Eyre: contrast to the “angel of the family” A female writer on female position caring about the female destiny as a whole with clear female senses. Bertha Mason: another “Jane Eyre” Society of Male Chauvinism Gothic The mad woman The dark and gloom red house The description of Lowood Emily Bront? lived an eccentric, closely guarded life. Her father worked as a clergyman, and her aunt, who raised the Bront? children after their mother died, was deeply religious. Emily Bront? did not take to her aunt’s Christian fervor; the character of Joseph, a caricature of an evangelical, may have been inspired by her aunt’s religiosity. Key Facts Narrator: ? Lockwood, a newcomer to the locale of Wuthering Heights, narrates the entire novel as an entry in his diary. point of view ? narrated in Nelly’s voice, from Nelly’s point of view, focusing only on what Nelly can see and hear, or what she can find out about indirectly. setting (time) ?·?The action of Nelly’s story begins in the 1770s; Lockwood leaves Yorkshire in 1802. setting (place) ?·?All the action of Wuthering Heights takes place in or around two neighboring houses on the Yorkshire moors—Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Vi