An expert in the lives and works Brontës argues that it’s time for a radical change in the way we think about Emily Brontë’s death.
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A new film about the author mixes biography with mythology and some dramatic reinvention.
Books that will bring the beauty of Derbyshire’s rolling hills alive.
Despite the myth of consumption as an ethereal, wasting disease, the more prosaic truth is that the Brontës likely infected one another with tuberculosis.
Cast as some unworldly young woman who wrote a 19th-century romance, Emily Brontë is more powerful and relevant than she is given credit for.
This week is the 200th anniversary of Emily Bronte’s birth. If reading Wuthering Heights - her only published novel - feels like a suspension in a state of waking nightmare, what a richly-hued vision of the fantastical it is.
By refusing to idealise or victimise the women in Wuthering Heights, Brontë reveals herself as an early feminist.
Brontëk is a rare work that encourages Brontë fans not to take the sisters too seriously.
Since the 1930s, Wuthering Heights has been used to claim the Brontë family had an incestuous secret.
Wuthering Heights is anything but a straightforward love story.
All the evidence points to Brontё’s most famous outcast being a product of the British slave trade.
Dicken’s great anti-hero has monopolised festive literature for too long. Here are the alternative takes on the season of goodwill that you have been missing.
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Lecturer in English, Loughborough University
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Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Teaching fellow, British Studies, Harlaxton College
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Lecturer, the School of Liberal Arts, The University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, York St John University
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Associate Professor of Theatre and Media Drama, University of South Wales
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Independent researcher, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of 19th Century Literature and Culture, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, De Montfort University
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PhD Candidate, Literary Heritage, Nottingham Trent University
