biography
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Brontë, Emily (Jane)
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pseudonym Ellis Bell
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pronunciation:
[brontee]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1818–48)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Thornton, West Yorkshire. In 1837 she became a governess in Halifax, then attended the Pensionnat Héger in Brussels with Charlotte (1842), and in 1845 embarked upon a joint publication of poems after the discovery by the latter of her Gondal verse. She is known for her personal visionary poems and her masterly novel, Wuthering Heights (1847). The most noted of the sisters, her writings have received widespread praise for their depth of feeling, courageous realism, and terse language. |
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