List of bronte sisters books

19th-century literary family

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The Brontës () 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. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are well-known poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories attracted attention for their passion and originality immediately following their publication. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were accepted as masterpieces of literature after their deaths.

The first Brontë children to be born to rector Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria were Maria (1814–1825) and Elizabeth (1815–1825), who both died at young ages due to disease. Charlotte, Emily and Anne were then born within approximately four years. These three sisters and their brother, Branwell (1817–1848), who was born after Charlotte and before Emily, were very close to each other. As children, they developed their imaginations first through oral storytelling and play, set in an intricate imaginary world, and then through the collaborative writing of increasingly complex stories set in their fictional world. The deaths of their mother and two older sisters marked them and influenced their writing profoundly, as did their isolated upbringing. They were raised in a religious family. The Brontë birthplace in Thornton is a place of pilgrimage and their later home, the parsonage at Haworth in Yorkshire, now the Brontë Parsonage Museum, has hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

Origin of the name

The Brontë family can be traced to the Irish clanÓ Pronntaigh, which literally means "descendan

Agnes Grey is the first novel written by Anne Brontë, who at the time wrote under the male pen name, Acton Bell. The story is closely based on Brontë’s own experiences working as a governess, and how it affected her life. Significant themes include issues of oppression, abuse of women, isolation, empathy, and the fair treatment of animals were applied. Agnes Grey is a coming of age story, somewhat following the style of the bildungsroman. The book has been favourably compared to Austen.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre (1846).............................E-text....................Book

Villette (1853).................................E-text....................Book

Shirley (1849).................................E-text....................Book

The Professor (1857)......................E-text....................Book

High Life in Verdopolis

Juvenilia: 1829-1835
 

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights (1847)................E-text....................Book

Anne Bronte

Agnes Grey (1847)...........................E-text....................Book

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)....E-text....................Book

Branwell Bronte

The Works of Patrick Branwell Bronte : An Edition (Vol 1)

 
The three sisters also compiled a number of their poems into a collection of poetry called Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Currer, Ellis, and Acton were the aliases used by the sisters to disguise their feminine identities.

Here are some books that contain the sisters' and Branwell's poetry:

Best Poems of the Bronte Sisters

Bronte: Poems (Emily)

The Complete Poems (Emily)

Selected Poems (Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell)

Charlotte began several novels, but never finished them. I bought a book called Unfinished Novels that includes these fragmentary novels. The book contains: The Story of Willie Ellin, Ashworth, The Moores, and Emma.