Emily Brontë

One of the earliest full-length studies of Emily Brontë, this biography traces the short, guarded life of the author of Wuthering Heights, from the parsonage on the Yorkshire moors to her death at thirty. Writing only decades after Emily’s passing, Robinson draws on family memory and the sisters’ own writings to sketch a fiercely private woman whose imagination ran far ahead of her sheltered surroundings. She weighs the moors, the isolation, and the household of gifted, doomed siblings that shaped one of English literature’s strangest and most powerful novels. An early feminist appreciation from the Eminent Women series, sympathetic and carefully drawn. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.