Books by the Bronte sisters

Books by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre (1847): Jane Eyre, a plain-faced, intelligent English orphan, grows up at Gateshead, where she is abused by her aunt and cousins, and is then sent to the harsh Lowood School. She later becomes governess of Thornfield Manor, and falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester.

Shirley: A Tale (1849): The tale of four young persons - Robert Moore, the target of Luddite attacks because of his decision to install new machines in his mill; his brother Louis, a tutor; Caroline Helstone, a timid but wise young woman, and Shirley, the orphaned heiress to a fortune. 

Villette: Lucy works as a teacher at Mme. Beck's boarding school for girls. Dr. John, a handsome English doctor, frequently visits the school because of his love for the heartless coquette Ginevra. After Dr. John discovers Ginevra's unworthiness, his brotherly instincts turn his attention to Lucy, and they become close friends. Lucy also finds herself becoming closer to a colleague, the autocratic, fiery schoolmaster M. Paul Emanuel; the two eventually fall in love.

The Professor: A Tale (1857): The story of a young man, William Crimsworth, his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girl's school.

Napoleon and the Spectre

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights (1847) Heathcliff, a foundling living on the streets of Liverpool, is brought to Wuthering Heights by the kind Mr. Earnshaw, and raised as his own. Earnshaw's daughter Catherine becomes Heathcliff's inseparable friend. But when Mr. Earnshaw dies three years later, Catherine's brother Hindley forces Heathcliff to work as a hired hand. Despite her love for Heathcliff, Catherine marries a neighbour Edgar Linton. Heathcliff leaves the moors and returns later, a wealthy man, to wreak a terrible vengeance on those he believes have wronged him. 

 

Anne Bronte

Agnes Grey (English): Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, becomes a governess to the children of the wealthy. In working with two different families (the Bloomfields and the Murrays), she comes to learn about the troubles that face a young woman who must try to rein in unruly, spoiled children for a living, and about the ability of wealth and status to destroy social values. 

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (English): A mysterious widow, Mrs. Helen Graham, rents tumbledown Wildfell Hall. From the outset, she is a source of curiosity for the small community. Although reticent, Helen and her young son Arthur are slowly drawn into the social circles of the village. Gilbert Markham falls in love with Helen, and she tells him the story of her unhappy marriage with a morally bankrupt, but charming man.

 

Other

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 and Volume 2 (English)

Patrick Bronte by James Senior

Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters By Clement King Shorter

 


 

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