Emily Bronte AO3

Question 1

What did Charlotte say about Emily?

Answer 1

‘Liberty was the breath of Emily’s nostrils; without it she perished.’

Question 2

How did Charlotte describe Emily’s homelife

Answer 2

‘noisless, very recluded but unrestricted and artificial mode of life’

Question 3

When did Emily copy her poems into two books?

Answer 3

1844

Question 4

What were the two books Emily put her poems into?

Answer 4

Gondal poems and unlabelled

Question 5

When did Charlotte discover Emily’s poems and insist they be published?

Answer 5

1845

Question 6

What was Emily’s reaction to Charlotte discovering her poems?

Answer 6

She was furious at the invasion of privacy and refused to publish them. But Ann came forward and said she wrote poems in private too

Question 7

When did the sisters publish their poetry in one volume?

Answer 7

1846

Question 8

What names did they publish their poetry under?

Answer 8

Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell

Question 9

Why did the sisters use pseudonyms to publish their poetry?

Answer 9

They knew they wouldn’t be taken seriously as female writers compared to their male counterparts.

Question 10

When did Emily and Anne begin to concentrate on the Gondal saga?

Answer 10

1831

Question 11

What was Gondal according to Anne?

Answer 11

‘A large island in the North Pacific’

Question 12

What is the earliest reference to ‘To A Wreath Of Snow’

Answer 12

1834 in a diary entry

Question 13

What is Gondal separated into?

Answer 13

North and South pacific

Question 14

Where is the Northern Island based on?

Answer 14

Yorkshire

Question 15

Gaaldine is..

Answer 15

subject to Gondal which may be related to the time period of the early 19th century where Britain was expanding its empire

Question 16

Who is Emily writing as in To A Wreath Of Snow?

Answer 16

The Queen of Gondal, Augusta Almeda

Question 17

At the time of writing To A Wreath Of Snow what was happening?

Answer 17

Emily was writing as an attempt to escape the reality of her sister’s illness by falling back into the fantasy world they created together.

Question 18

Who is the main character of the Gondal stories?

Answer 18

Augusta G. Almeda, passionate Queen of Gondal

Question 19

How many poems is Augusta the speaker in?

Answer 19

14, and she is the subject of many others

Question 20

Who is Augusta thought to be based on?

Answer 20

Mary Queen of Scots and the young Queen Victoria

Question 21

Who were her favourite poets?

Answer 21

Byron and Shelley

Question 22

What did Emily write as a child?

Answer 22

The 3 remaining sisters and their brother began to write fiction at home, inspired by a box of toy soldiers Branwell had about a fictional land called Angria

Question 23

When did Emily and Ann withraw from writing about Angria and start writing about Gondal?

Answer 23

When Emily was 13

Question 24

Did Emily have a religious upbringing?

Answer 24

Yes, her father was a Church rector and her aunt who raised the girls after her mother’s death was highly religious.
She went to the Clergy’s daughters school at Cowan Bridge for a brief period where she encountered abuse and privations later described by Charlotte in Jayne Eyre
Emily did not take her to her Aunt’s Christian fervour

Question 25

Which character in Wuthering Heights (published in 1847) may have been based on her aunty?

Answer 25

Joseph, a caricature of an evangelical christian