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Emily Brontë

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Emily Jane Brontë (commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. [1]

69 relations: A Death-Scene, Agnes Grey, Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux, Anne Brontë, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington, Asymptomatic, Belgium, Bildungsroman, Blackwood's Magazine, Bradford, Branwell Brontë, Brontë family, Brussels, Charlotte Brontë, Come hither child, Common cold, Constantin Héger, Cowan Bridge School, Denise Giardina, Elizabeth Branwell, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Nussey, English literature, Georges Bataille, Gondal (fictional country), Halifax, West Yorkshire, Haworth, Homesickness, Jane Eyre, Janet Gezari, Juliet Gardiner, Katherine Frank, Lancashire, London, Lord Byron, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lucasta Miller, Lynne Reid Banks, Maria Branwell, Maria Brontë, Michael (archangel), Muriel Spark, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Northern England, Paracosm, Patrick Brontë, Pen name, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Perpetual curate, ..., Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, Romanticism, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Southowram, St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth, Stevie Davies, Storytelling game, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Thomas Cautley Newby, Thornton, West Yorkshire, Tuberculosis, Typhoid fever, Walter Scott, Walterclough Hall, West Riding of Yorkshire, Winifred Gérin, Wuthering Heights, York, York Minster. Expand index (19 more) »

A Death-Scene

"A Death-Scene" is a poem by English writer Emily Brontë.

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Agnes Grey

Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of Acton Bell), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850.

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Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (known as Agnes-Marie-François Darmesteter after her first marriage, and Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux after her second; February 27, 1857 – February 9, 1944) was a poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator.

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Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë (commonly; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as Prime Minister.

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Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington

Arthur Charles Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington, (9 June 1876 – 11 December 1941), known as Arthur Wellesley from 1876 to 1900, and as Marquess of Douro from 1900 to 1934, was a British nobleman and landowner.

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Asymptomatic

In medicine, a disease is considered asymptomatic if a patient is a carrier for a disease or infection but experiences no symptoms.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Bildungsroman

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman ("bildung", meaning "education", and "roman", meaning "novel"; English: "novel of formation, education, culture"; "coming-of-age story") is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is extremely important.

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Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980.

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Bradford

Bradford is in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield.

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Branwell Brontë

Patrick Branwell Brontë (commonly; 26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848) was an English painter and writer.

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Brontë family

The Brontës (commonly) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.

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Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë (commonly; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.

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Come hither child

Come hither child is a poem written by the English poet Emily Jane Brontë, one of the four Brontë siblings famous for literature in the first half of the 19th century.

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Common cold

The common cold, also known simply as a cold, is a viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract that primarily affects the nose.

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Constantin Héger

Constantin Georges Romain Héger (1809–1896) was a Belgian teacher of the Victorian era.

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Cowan Bridge School

Cowan Bridge School refers to the Clergy Daughters' School, a school mainly for the daughters of middle class clergy founded in the 1820s.

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Denise Giardina

Denise Giardina is an American novelist.

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Elizabeth Branwell

Elizabeth Branwell (1776 in Penzance, Cornwall – 29 October 1842 in Haworth, Yorkshire) was the aunt of the literary sisters Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë.

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Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer.

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Ellen Nussey

Ellen Nussey (20 April 1817 – 26 November 1897) was born in Birstall Smithies in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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English literature

This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from countries of the former British Empire, including the United States.

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Georges Bataille

Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French intellectual and literary figure working in literature, philosophy, anthropology, economics, sociology and history of art.

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Gondal (fictional country)

Gondal is an imaginary world or paracosm created by Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë that is found in their juvenilia.

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Halifax, West Yorkshire

Halifax is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England.

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Haworth

Haworth is a village in West Yorkshire, England, in the Pennines southwest of Keighley, west of Bradford and east of Colne in Lancashire.

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Homesickness

Homesickness is the distress caused by being away from home.

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England.

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Janet Gezari

Janet Gezari (born January 27, 1945 in Newark, New Jersey) is a literary critic and scholar and the Lucretia L. Allyn Professor English at Connecticut College.

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Juliet Gardiner

Juliet Gardiner (born 24 June 1943) is a British historian and a commentator on British social history from Victorian times through to the 1950s.

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Katherine Frank

Katherine Frank is a noted American author and biographer, now living in England.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.

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Lord Charles Wellesley

Major-General Lord Charles Wellesley (16 January 1808 – 9 October 1858) was a British politician, soldier and courtier.

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Lucasta Miller

Lucasta Frances Elizabeth Miller is an English writer and literary journalist.

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Lynne Reid Banks

Lynne Reid Banks (born 31 July 1929) is a British author of books for children and adults.

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Maria Branwell

Maria Branwell (15 April 1783 – 15 September 1821) was the mother of British writers Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë and Charlotte Brontë, and of their brother, Branwell Brontë, who was a poet and painter.

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Maria Brontë

Maria Brontë (commonly; 23 April 1814 – 6 May 1825) was the eldest daughter of Patrick Brontë and Maria Brontë, née Maria Branwell.

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Michael (archangel)

Michael (translit; translit; Michahel;ⲙⲓⲭⲁⲏⲗ, translit) is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006).

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a species of pathogenic bacteria in the family Mycobacteriaceae and the causative agent of tuberculosis.

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Northern England

Northern England, also known simply as the North, is the northern part of England, considered as a single cultural area.

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Paracosm

A paracosm is a detailed imaginary world.

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Patrick Brontë

Patrick Brontë (commonly; 17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861) was an Irish priest and author who spent most of his adult life in England. He was the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell Brontë, his only son. Patrick outlived his wife, the former Maria Branwell, by forty years by which time all of their children had died as well.

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Pen name

A pen name (nom de plume, or literary double) is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their "real" name.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential.

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Perpetual curate

Perpetual curate was a class of resident parish priest or incumbent curate within the United Church of England and Ireland.

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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Scarborough is a town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire, England.

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Southowram

Southowram is a village in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England that stands on the hill top to the east of Halifax, on the south side of Shibden valley.

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St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth

St Michael and All Angels' Church is the Church of England parish church of Haworth, West Yorkshire.

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Stevie Davies

Stevie Davies is a Welsh novelist, essayist and short story writer.

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Storytelling game

A storytelling game is a game where two or more persons collaborate on telling a spontaneous story.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Brontë.

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Thomas Cautley Newby

Thomas Cautley Newby (1797/1798 – 1882) was an English publisher and printer based in London.

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Thornton, West Yorkshire

Thornton is a village within the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a bacterial infection due to ''Salmonella'' typhi that causes symptoms.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.

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Walterclough Hall

Walterclough Hall, sometimes known as Water Clough Hall or Upper Walterclough, lies in the Walterclough Valley southeast of Halifax and northeast of the village of Southowram in the West Riding of Yorkshire, alongside the Red Beck.

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West Riding of Yorkshire

The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.

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Winifred Gérin

Winifred Eveleen Gérin née Bourne, OBE (7 October 1901 – 28 June 1981) was an English biographer born in Hamburg.

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell".

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York

York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.

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York Minster

The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, commonly known as York Minster, is the cathedral of York, England, and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Brontë

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