A. Mary F. Robinson's Emily Brontë is a short 1883 biography from the Eminent Women Series. It traces the life of Emily Brontë, her family in Haworth, and her writing, especially Wuthering Heights. Listeners interested in the Brontës and Victorian literary history will find a thoughtful portrait of a private, imaginative writer.
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Opening of the book
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. CONTENTS. Introduction1 CHAPTER I. PARENTAGE8 CHAPTER II. BABYHOOD18 CHAPTER III. COWAN'S BRIDGE28 CHAPTER IV. CHILDHOOD40 CHAPTER V. GOING TO SCHOOL53 CHAPTER VI. GIRLHOOD AT HAWORTH61 CHAPTER VII. IN THE RUE D'ISABELLE77 CHAPTER VIII. A RETROSPECT92 CHAPTER IX. THE RECALL103 CHAPTER X. THE PROSPECTUSES111
CHAPTER XL.
BRANWELL'S FALL116
CHAPTER XII.
WRITING POETRY128
CHAPTER XIII.
TROUBLES 144
CHAPTER XIV.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS: ITS
ORIGIN154
CHAPTER XV.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS: THE
STORY168
CHAPTER XVI.
'SHIRLEY'209
CHAPTER XVII.
BRANWELL'S END217
CHAPTER XVIII.
EMILY'S DEATH223
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 BRONTE. Miss Ellen Nussey.
MS. LETTERS OF CHARLOTTE AND BRANWELL BRONTE.
1879. REMINISCENCES OF THE BRONTES. Miss E. Nussey.
1870. UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF CHARLOTTE, EMILY, AND ANNE
BRONTE. Hours at Home.
1846. EMILY BRONTE'S ANNOTATED COPY OF HER POEMS.
1872. BRANWELL BRONTE: IN THE "MIRROR." G. S. Phillips.
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