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Brontë

[ bron-tee ]

noun

  1. Anne Acton Bell, 1820–49, English novelist.
  2. her sister Charlotte Currer Bell, 1816–55, English novelist.
  3. her sister Emily Jane Ellis Bell, 1818–48, English novelist.


Brontë

/ ˈbrɒntɪ /

noun

  1. BrontëAnne18201849FEnglishWRITING: novelist Anne , pen name Acton Bell . 1820–49, English novelist; author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1847)
  2. BrontëCharlotte18161855FEnglishWRITING: novelist her sister, Charlotte , pen name Currer Bell . 1816–55, English novelist, author of Jane Eyre (1847), Villette (1853), and The Professor (1857)
  3. BrontëEmily (Jane)18181848FEnglishWRITING: novelistWRITING: poet her sister, Emily ( Jane ), pen name Ellis Bell . 1818–48, English novelist and poet; author of Wuthering Heights (1847)


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Virginia Woolf loved Wuthering Heights and considered Emily Brontë superior to her sister Charlotte.

The six children of the Reverend Patrick Brontë, all of whom predeceased him, two of them writers of genius.

Little sister Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was not as instantly beloved.

At all events one must stay at home to keep house for Mr. Brontë.

The second of the Brontë sisters had fallen a victim to consumption.

I remember getting a complete set of the Brontë books in the original issues at Torquay, I may say, for nothing.

Charlotte Brontë found "a finished taste and ease" in the Lectures, a "something high bred."

He feared that if Miss Brontë saw what he had written she would laugh it to scorn.

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