Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of July 30th
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It is the 211th day of the year, leaving 154 days remaining in 2022.
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| Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, in a portrait by their brother, Branwell |
She told her stories in poetry, and her only novel was a soaring work of love and hate in the moorlands. It was not well received when it was published in 1847, a year before she died, but since has become a classic of English literature.
That novel, Wuthering Heights, is intense and imaginative for its time. And unlike other mid-19th Century works, it has an unusual structure and presentation, the narration coming from the retrospective view of a third party.
Brontë's writing is tighter and more straightforward than her sisters or authors of her time. But the novel can be violent and brutal, and its characters, including the protagonist, Heathcliff, savage and selfish.
Before publishing the novel, Brontë and her two sisters, Charlotte and Anne, published a volume of poetry under the pseudonyms Currier, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Scholars say the 21 poems by Emily are the superior works.
She died in 1848 of tuberculosis.
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