Using museum collections as creative starters.Using objects, artworks and other sources to find out about the past.Use our Classroom resources to investigate this object and the Arts in the Age of Revolution further. When ‘Wuthering Heights ‘ was published in 1848 one reviewer wrote: “ the reader is shocked, disgusted, almost sickened by details of cruelty, inhumanity, and the most diabolical hate and vengeance, and anon come passages of powerful testimony to the supreme power of love-even over demons in the human form. In them the sisters created imaginary worlds, most notably in Anne and Emily’s Gondal saga. They consist of paper scraps sewn into covers made from everyday items such as sugar bags and wallpaper. These ‘little books’, only a few centimetres in size, were hand-made by Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Sadly, the sisters’ writing careers w ere to be short – lived, all three died young, and within six years of each other. Charlotte also wrote Shirley (1849), based partly on what her father had told her about Luddite machine – breaking in 1811-1812. Charlotte found fame with Jane Eyre (1847) and Anne with The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). Among the se were Emily’s Wuthering Heights (1847) – regarded by many at the time as shocking, both for its sense of sexual passion and scenes of physical and mental cruelty. The sisters went on to write and publish some of the most famous works of the time. The Poems of Currer, Acton and Ellis Bell w as published in 1846. They chose three unusual names which were neither traditionally male or female, each beginning with the same letter s as their own initials. They agreed to work together on a book of poetry under pseudonyms ( false names ) and publish it using their own money.
Īnne, Emily and Charlotte dreaded the prospect of a life spent as a governess, b ut at the time, their chosen profession of writing was still widely regarded as something that ‘ young ladies ’ simply did not do.
The siblings were close, writing stories and plays together, and invent ing imaginary worlds to amuse themselves.
T heir father Patrick (who was the parish priest) had migrated from Ireland, and changed his name from Prunty – perhaps out of admiration for Horatio Nelson (1st Duke of Bronté ), and perhaps to distance himself from his brother William who had been a founding member of the United Irishmen and taken part in the 1798 uprising. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë l ived in Haworth in West Yorkshire, along with their brother Branwell, their mother having died in 1821, when Anne was just 20 months old.
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