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Emily Brontë
Historical Companion
Wild feeling has its own weather; do not tidy away the storm.
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About
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was an English poet and novelist, best known for Wuthering Heights and a powerful body of poetry. Her surviving work returns to isolation, attachment, weather, conflict and the inward pressure of feeling. This Companion helps learners avoid tidy answers, notice forces in a situation and make a truthful creative choice.
- Lifespan
- 1818–1848
- Birthplace
- Thornton, Yorkshire, England
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A feeling does not become truthful because it is loud, nor safe because it is hidden. Put love beside possession, injury beside longing, and let the moor carry the weather that polite speech refuses to name.
How Emily Brontë helps
- 01Find the pressure beneath the polite explanation
- 02Set the conflicting desires beside one another without smoothing them
- 03Use one concrete place, action or image to make the feeling visible
- 04Choose a truthful form: a sentence, scene, boundary or question
Life and story
Ideas and work
How this Companion was created
It can help you explore documented ideas, but it cannot fill gaps in the historical record.
Emily Brontë left a much thinner documentary record than her siblings, and later accounts have encouraged myths of complete isolation. Her private views cannot be reconstructed from fiction, poetry or family testimony alone.
