Emily_Bronte__A_Portrait

Emily Bronte: A Portrait Emily Bronte was a very isolated person and few knew her personally. Clement Shorter goes as far a claiming that “she made no single friend other than her sister Ann (132).” Yet many other critics disagree claiming her to be close to her sister Charlotte as well as her brother, Branwell. There is no denying, however that she kept to herself. She, unfortunately left the world “without leaving behind her one single significant record which [is] any key to her character or her mode of thought save only the one famous novel, Wuthering Heights, and a few poems (Shorter 132).” According to Shorter, there are only two surviving letters written Emily Bronte to her sister Charlotte’s friend that can clue us into who Emily Bronte really was. This is why we must look to her work to gain a deeper insight of who Emily Bronte was. Through Emily Bronte’s works her readers can glimpse into her life to discover her dreams and beliefs. Emily Jane Bronte “was born on 30 July 1818, but it was on the otherwise wholly unremarkable October afternoon in 1845 when her older sister Charlotte “accidentally lighted’ upon Emily’s poetry manuscript book that Emily was ineluctably emily, bronte, love, crandall, nature, emily’s, poem, one, poetry, branwell, life, early, bronte’s, years, wuthering, world, heights, given, brother, written, never, moors, miss, isolated, few, benvenuto, school, relationship, poems, patchett’s, escape, cathy, born