Emily Bronte AO3 Flashcards
What did Charlotte say about Emily?
‘Liberty was the breath of Emily’s nostrils; without it she perished.’
How did Charlotte describe Emily’s homelife
‘noisless, very recluded but unrestricted and artificial mode of life’
When did Emily copy her poems into two books?
1844
What were the two books Emily put her poems into?
Gondal poems and unlabelled
When did Charlotte discover Emily’s poems and insist they be published?
1845
What was Emily’s reaction to Charlotte discovering her poems?
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
When did the sisters publish their poetry in one volume?
1846
What names did they publish their poetry under?
Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
Why did the sisters use pseudonyms to publish their poetry?
They knew they wouldn’t be taken seriously as female writers compared to their male counterparts.
When did Emily and Anne begin to concentrate on the Gondal saga?
1831
What was Gondal according to Anne?
‘A large island in the North Pacific’
What is the earliest reference to ‘To A Wreath Of Snow’
1834 in a diary entry
What is Gondal separated into?
North and South pacific
Where is the Northern Island based on?
Yorkshire
Gaaldine is..
subject to Gondal which may be related to the time period of the early 19th century where Britain was expanding its empire
Who is Emily writing as in To A Wreath Of Snow?
The Queen of Gondal, Augusta Almeda
At the time of writing To A Wreath Of Snow what was happening?
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.
Who is the main character of the Gondal stories?
Augusta G. Almeda, passionate Queen of Gondal
How many poems is Augusta the speaker in?
14, and she is the subject of many others
Who is Augusta thought to be based on?
Mary Queen of Scots and the young Queen Victoria
Who were her favourite poets?
Byron and Shelley
What did Emily write as a child?
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
When did Emily and Ann withraw from writing about Angria and start writing about Gondal?
When Emily was 13
Did Emily have a religious upbringing?
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
Which character in Wuthering Heights (published in 1847) may have been based on her aunty?
Joseph, a caricature of an evangelical christian
