Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights — Victorian Literary Masterpiece
The Stormy Lioness
Emily Brontë wrote one novel in her 30 years on Earth and it was Wuthering Heights. She published under the name Ellis Bell to avoid Victorian bias. The novel was initially dismissed as too wild, too passionate. Today it is considered one of the greatest in the English language. She died of tuberculosis the year after publication.
Leo Legacy
- Wuthering Heights: 1847 — one of the greatest novels in the English language
- Ellis Bell pseudonym: Published as Ellis Bell to overcome Victorian bias against female authors
- Poetry: Her poems are among Victorian literature’s finest — published posthumously
- Moors landscape: Her relationship with the Yorkshire moors defined her entire artistic vision
Brontë’s Leo fire burned in one white-hot short life that produced one perfect, eternal novel.
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”