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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Bronte Sisters Charlotte, Emily, Anne 1.Yorkshire/ 6 children/ father: stern clergyman moved to Haworth, Yorkshire in 1820 mother died of cancer in 1821 a strict aunt 2.Unhappy experiences: 1824, sent to a boarding school=Jane Eyre 1842, they went to Brussels to study French and German. Unrequited love= Professor and Villette House of the Family Haworth Church Haworth Village The Haworth Moor 3. Their Pleasures: Playing on the moors the moor nourished their imagination, passion and free souls They read literature and wrote childish stories. 4. Major works Charlotte: Jane Eyre/ Shirley/ Villette/ Professor Emily: Wuthering Heights Anne : Agnes Grey The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall 5. Pseudonyms: Currer Bell/ Ellis Bell/ Acton Bell The Most Tragic Emily caught cold at his brother’s funeral and died of tuberculosis Anne died Charlotte died in pregnancy Wuthering Heights Mixed reviews Victorian readers found the book shocking and inappropriate in its depiction of passionate, ungoverned love and cruelty “Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know. I scarcely think it is”.---Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights The Title Wuthering: a Yorkshire dialect for “weathering”, a local adj. used to describe the fierce and wild winds that blow during storms on the moors. Wuthering Heights: up in the folds of the weathering moors 2. The Family Tree 3. Narration It begins near the end of the novel. (Flashback) Nelly: the chief narrator Lockwood: forms a frame around Nelly’s narration; an intermediary between Nelly and the reader. Wuthering Heights Thrushcross Grange The Earnshaws Hindley Heath Cathy Hareton young Cathy The Lintons Edgar Isabella Linton Heathcliff Heathcliff—an orphan brought to live at WH by Mr. Earnshaw, falls into an intense, unbreakable love with Catherine. Catherine—daughter of Mr. Earnshaw, wild, beautiful, spo