ENGL 2201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pennines, Hareton Earnshaw, Robert Earnshaw
16 Sep 2016
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Emily jane bronte- pen name ellis bell (male name) Father was a minister of church of england. Mother was daughter of merchant in cornwall. Landscape around haworth gave bronte the world of wuthering heights- literary tourism. Mother dies a short move after move to haworth- replaced by aunt. Bronte women not limited to domestic role, allowed to study academics with brother. Father allowed them full access to books, readings. Emily and 3 older sisters sent to clergy school- conditions bad, two sisters died. Children write miniature books, emily and anne pair up to create. Emily dies of tuberculosis like older sisters. Charlotte bronte lives on and becomes very famous for books like jane. Idea that at some foundational level we do not experience the world as being separate- we are familiar with the world. Landscape exerts an enormous pressure on lives of characters and world of novel. 2 grand houses- wuthering heights & thrushcross grange, 4 miles from each other.
