Bronte Sisters Biographies

Charlotte Bronte Biography (1816 - 1855)

Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte', suggests Angus Easson in his introduction to the Oxford Classics publication, 'stands as parent of all subsequent biography of the Brontes. First published in 1857, this biography of Charlotte Bronte appeared just two years after her death.

Gaskell connects incidents in the Brontes lives with characters or events in their novels - for example the death of elder sister Maria at Cowan Bridge School to that of Helen Burns at Lowood in 'Jane Eyre'.

She draws on letters and first hand interviews with those who knew Charlotte Bronte or the Bronte family, and of course her own knowledge of Charlotte as a close friend.

Recently a new novella, written in the Romantic tradition by Charlotte Bronte, has been published called 'Stancliffe's Hotel'. The action takes place in the Angrian saga, part of the imaginary world created by Charlotte and incorporating contemporary manners and some contemporary events.

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Emily Bronte Biography (1818 - 1848)

Wuthering Heights was hewn in a wild workshop said Charlotte Bronte in an 1850 preface to Wuthering Heights, and that the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master

Wuthering Heights, more than any of the Bronte novels or poems, demonstrates a passion for the surrounding moors around Haworth and Stanbury. We know that Emily knew the moors well, and that when she was away from Haworth and her 'beloved moors' she was not happy.

Her death may be 'a baby-cry on the moor', as Ted Hughes suggests, but Wuthering Heights is a screaming woman's legacy.

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