CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. 1 CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. Emily Brontë, by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary The Project Gutenberg eBook, Emily Brontë, by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Emily Brontë Author: A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson Release Date: June 14, 2008 [eBook #25789] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EMILY BRONTë*** E-text prepared by Delphine Lettau and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Eminent Women Series Edited by John H. Ingram EMILY BRONTË All Rights Reserved. EMILY BRONTË by A. MARY F. ROBINSON Second Edition. London: W. H. Allen and Co. 13, Waterloo Place 1883. [All Rights Reserved] London: Printed by W. H. Allen and Co., 13 Waterloo Place. S.W. Emily Brontë, by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary 2 CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction 1 Emily Brontë, by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary 3 CHAPTER I. Parentage 8 CHAPTER I. 4 CHAPTER II. Babyhood 18 CHAPTER II. 5 CHAPTER III. Cowan's Bridge 28 CHAPTER III. 6 CHAPTER IV. Childhood 40 CHAPTER IV. 7 CHAPTER V. Going to School 53 CHAPTER V. 8 CHAPTER VI. Girlhood at Haworth 61 CHAPTER VI. 9 CHAPTER VII. In the Rue d'Isabelle 77 CHAPTER VII. 10 [...]... XVIII 21 CHAPTER XVIII Emily' s Death 223 FINIS! 233 ***** LIST OF AUTHORITIES 1846-56 The Works of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell 1857 Life of Charlotte Brontë Mrs Gaskell 1st and 2nd Editions 1877 Charlotte Brontë T Wemyss Reid 1877 Note on Charlotte Brontë A C Swinburne 1881 Three Great Englishwomen P Bayne MS Lecture on Emily Brontë T Wemyss Reid MS Notes on Emily and Charlotte Brontë Miss Ellen Nussey... Branwell Brontë 1879 Reminiscences of the Brontës Miss E Nussey 1870 Unpublished Letters of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë Hours at Home 1846 Emily Brontë' s Annotated Copy of her Poems 1872 Branwell Brontë: in the "Mirror." G S Phillips 1879 Pictures of the Past F H Grundy 1830 Prospectus of the Clergymen's Daughters' School at Cowan's Bridge 1850 Preface to Wuthering Heights Charlotte Brontë 1850... Brontë 1850 Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell Charlotte Brontë 1850 Wuthering Heights: in the "Palladium." Sydney Dobell Personal Reminiscences of Mrs Wood, Mrs Ratcliffe, Mrs Brown, and Mr William Wood, of Haworth 1811-18 Poems of Patrick Brontë, B.A., Incumbent of Haworth 1879 Haworth: Past and Present J Horsfall Turner ***** EMILY BRONTË INTRODUCTION There are, perhaps, few tests of excellence... gloom and trouble enjoined by the nature of the story; to her, could I only have spoken of the high noble character of Emily Brontë and not of the great trials of her life, I should have ventured to dedicate this study But to Emily' s friend I only offer what, through her, I have learned of Emily; she, who knew so little of Branwell's shames and sorrow is unconcerned with this, their sad and necessary record... in a book what we have overlooked in life; we do not recognise in her the human truth and passion, the never-failing serene bitterness of humour, that have made for Charlotte Brontë a place between Cervantes and Victor Hugo Emily Brontë is of a different class Her imagination is narrower, but more intense; she sees less, but what she sees is absolutely present: no writer has described the moors, the... and necessary record Only the lights and sunshine of my work I dedicate to her It may be that I have given too great a share to the shadows, to the manifold follies and failures of Branwell Brontë Yet in Emily Brontë' s life the shaping influences were so few, and the sins of this beloved and erring brother had so large a share in determining the bent of her genius, that to have passed them by would... disillusioned, loving little lady was married to Patrick Brontë, from her uncle's parsonage near Leeds The young couple took up their abode at Hartshead, Mr Brontë' s curacy Three years afterwards they moved, with two little baby girls, Maria and Elizabeth, to a better living at Thornton The country round is desolate and bleak; great winds go sweeping by; young Mrs Brontë, whose husband generally sat alone in his... cares for the thick-coming little lives that peopled her Yorkshire home In 1816 Charlotte Brontë was born In the next year Patrick Branwell In 1818 Emily Jane In 1819 Anne Then the health of their delicate and consumptive mother began to break After seven years' marriage and with six young children, Mr and Mrs Brontë moved on the 25th of February, 1820, to their new home at Haworth Vicarage The village... clergyman from one of the neighbouring villages would walk over to see him; but as Mrs Brontë had died so soon after her arrival at Haworth their wives never came, and the Brontë children had no playfellows in the vicarages near; nor were they allowed to associate with the village children This dull routine life suited Mr Brontë He had laboured for many years and now he took his repose We get no further... their consumptive taint, with their mother dying of cancer that one rule of Mr Brontë' s making, still preserved to us, is that the children should eat no meat The Rev Patrick Brontë, B.A., had grown to heroic proportions on potatoes; he knew no reason why his children should fare differently The children never grumbled; so Mrs Brontë' s sick-nurse told Mrs Gaskell: "You would not have known there was a . XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. Emily Brontë, by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary The Project Gutenberg eBook, Emily Brontë, by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances). Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Eminent Women Series Edited by John H. Ingram EMILY BRONTË All Rights Reserved. EMILY BRONTË by A. MARY F. ROBINSON Second Edition. London: W.