{"id":10385,"date":"2019-07-30T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T05:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=10385"},"modified":"2019-07-30T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T06:31:42","slug":"happy-birthday-emily-bronte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/happy-birthday-emily-bronte\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Emily Bront\u00eb!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Happy birthday to Emily Bront\u00eb, born July 30, 1818. Despite a\nshort bibliography \u2014 she wrote only one novel, \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d \u2014 she\u2019s\nstill considered one of the towering figures of 19th-century British literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bront\u00eb was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, West Yorkshire,\nEngland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a brief career as a teacher, in 1947 Bront\u00eb published what\nwould be her only novel, \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d The story of a doomed romance\nbetween Heathcliff, a complicated and tortured foundling, and his beloved\nCatherine, who spurns him for a man of higher class, has endured through the\nyears as a powerful reflection on jealousy, love and class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The novel has been adapted for film and television several times.\nThe first film adaptation, directed by A.V. Bramble and released in 1920, has\nbeen lost to history. The most recent film version, directed by Andrea Arnold,\ncame out in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book also inspired an iconic song. Kate Bush\u2019s \u201cWuthering\nHeights,\u201d written when she was just 18, hit the top of the charts when it was\nreleased in 1978, told from the point of view of Catherine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bront\u00eb had five siblings, two of who also became celebrated\nauthors \u2014 Anne, author of \u201cAgnes Grey,\u201d and Charlotte, who wrote \u201cJane Eyre.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her brother, Branwell Bront\u00eb, was an artist who died at 31 from\ntuberculosis worsened by his addiction to alcohol and laudanum. Two sisters,\nMaria and Elizabeth, died of tuberculosis at the ages of 11 and 10,\nrespectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The adult Bront\u00eb sisters published a collection of poetry together\nin 1846 under the pen names Ellis, Acton and Currer Bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Bront\u00eb’s most famous poem, \u201cNo Coward Soul Is Mine<\/a>,\u201d is still\nwidely read today. The poem ends with this stanza:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is not room for Death<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor atom that his might could render void<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since thou art Being and Breath<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what thou art may never be destroyed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left, sisters Anne, Emily and Charlotte Bront\u00eb painted by their brother, Branwell, circa 1834. (DEA Picture Library \/ De Agostini\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wuthering Heights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bront\u00eb’s only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym “Ellis Bell”. It was written between October 1845 and June 1846. Wuthering Heights and Anne Bront\u00eb’s Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte’s novel Jane Eyre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price<\/strong>: 8.50 GEL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bookshop:<\/strong>\u00a0#14 Chavchavadze Ave.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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