Emily Brontë
by A. Mary F. Robinson (1857–1944)
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"Emily Brontë" by A. Mary F. Robinson is a biographical account written in the late 19th century. This work explores the life of the renowned author, delving into her parentage, childhood, and the influences that shaped her literary career. The book focuses on significant aspects of Brontë's life, including her complex relationships with her siblings, particularly with her brother Branwell, and the impact of her early environment on her writing. The opening of the text introduces Emily Brontë's lineage and family background, emphasizing that her literary talents were not inherited from her parents, who lacked notable artistic skill. A. Mary F. Robinson explores the dynamics within the Brontë family, particularly the challenges they faced, including the early death of their mother and the subsequent neglect by their father. Robinson sets the stage to illustrate how these circumstances contributed to Emily's development as a writer, highlighting the isolation and influences of her upbringing in the moorlands of Haworth, which would later inform her famous works. The narrative begins to paint a portrait of a sensitive and imaginative child, whose life experiences would deeply inform her literary genius.
- Authors, English · 19th century · Biography
- Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
- Women and literature · England · History · 19th century
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Chapter I
PARENTAGE.
Emily Bronte was born of parents without any peculiar talent for literature. It is true that her mother's letters are precisely and prettily written. It is true that her father published a few tracts and religious poems. But in neither case is there any vestige of literary or poetical endowment. Few, indeed, are the Parish Magazines which could not show among their contents poems and articles greatly superior to the weak and characterless effusions of the father of the Brontes. The fact seems important; because in this case not one member of a family, but a whole family, is endowed in more or less degree with faculties not derived from either parent.
For children may inherit genius from parents who are themselves not gifted, as two streaming currents of air unite to form a liquid with properties different from either; and never is biography more valuable than when it allows us to perceive by what combination of allied qualities, friction of opposing temperaments, recurrence of ancestral traits, the subtle thing we call character is determined. In this case, since, as I have said, the whole family manifested a brilliance not to be found in either parent, such a study would be peculiarly interesting. But, unfortunately, the history of the children's father and the constitution of the children's mother is all that is clear to our investigation.
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