Washington Examiner
US · 1 hrs ago
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A fulsome portrait of an untameable spirit
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An article exploring Emily Brontë's character and legacy through Elizabeth Gaskell's 1857 biography, examining how Gaskell portrayed Emily as a wild, untameable spirit in contrast to her sister Charlotte.
A fulsome portrait of an untameable spirit
“Emily — that free, wild, untameable spirit, never happy nor well but on the sweeping moors that gathered round her home.” So wrote Elizabeth Gaskell of Emily Bronte in her pioneering 1857 biography of the writer’s older sister, The Life of Charlotte Brontë. While Gaskell presented her subject and friend, Charlotte, as “a noble, true, […]
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