Emily Bronte's Life and Its Mirror Image in Wuthering Heights
As we look to the past for clues to some authors and their works we may find clues to why they may have written some of these great works of art in their own life stories. Life and questions about it may have some effect on what some wordsmiths put to paper. If careful consideration is given to the past life of Emily Bronte the novel Wuthering Heights may be seen as somewhat of a mirror of her life. Much of her life is shrouded in mystery, but there is evidence that can and should be looked at as similar to the lives of several of the characters with this great novel.
According to Juliet Barker, "Emily Jane Bronte was born July 30, 1818" (Barker 1). In the same article Barker points out that Emily's mother, Maria, died when she, "was only three" (1). Emily grew up therefore without a mother. Maria's sister and Emily's aunt Elizabeth did come to the family's aid to, "live as a housekeeper and was responsible for training the girls in the household arts" (Emily web page). Here we may have a clue to the origination of the character Nelly. This somewhat knowledgeable narrator of our story could possibly be based at least partially on Emily's aunt Elizabeth. Our author's aunt could have been an authoritative personality in her life. Nelly did seem to take on characteristics we might associate with a caring aunt in the life of a young woman.
Victor A Neufeldt writes that, "in 1835 Emily went to Roe Head School, where Charlotte, her sister, had recently been appointed as a teacher" (Neufeldt 2). Emily only stayed at the school for three months before she returned home. It seems as though she missed the wildness of her moors and could not stay away...
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Barker, Juliet. The Brontes. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
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Bronte, Charlotte. "Poems from the 1850 Wuthering Heights." Wuthering Heights. Ed. William M. Sale, Jr. New York: Norton, 1990. (WH pp. 267-288).
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Woolf, Virginia. "The Continuing Appeal of Jane Eyre." Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987. 455--457. Print.
Lodge, Scott. "Fire and Eyre: Charlotte Bronte's War of Earthly Elements." The Brontes: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Ian Gregor. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1970. 110-36.
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Brennan, Zoe. "Reader's Guide: Bronte's Jane Eyre." Ebrary. Continuum International Publishing 2 2010. Print. April 28, 2014
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Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Norton Critical ed. 3rd ed. Ed. William M. Sale, Jr., and Richard J. Dunn. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.
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Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. N.p.: Project Gutenberg, 2007. Print. Transcribed from the 1910 John Murray edition by David Price