Emily Bronte : A Life in 20 Poems by Nick Holland

Emily Jane Brontë was born in July 1818; along with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, she is famed as a member of the greatest literary family of all time, and helped turn Haworth into a place of literary pilgrimage. Whilst Emily Brontë wrote only one novel, the mysterious and universally acclaimed Wuthering Heights, she is widely acknowledged as the best poet of the Brontë sisters – indeed as one of the greatest female poets of all time. Her poems offer insights to her relationships with her family, religion, nature, the world of work, and the shadowy and visionary powers that increasingly dominated her life.

Taking twenty of her most revealing poems, Nick Holland creates a unifying impression of Emily Brontë, revealing how this terribly shy young woman could create such wild and powerful writing, and why she turned her back on the outside world for one that existed only in her own mind.

Format:Paperback / softback 316 pages
Publisher:The History Press Ltd
Imprint:The History Press Ltd
Edition:New ed
ISBN:9781803999067
Published:27 Feb 2025
Classifications:Yorkshire, English, c 1800 to c 1900, Biography: literary, Poetry, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: poetry & poets
Weight:242g
Dimensions:197 x 130 x 21 (mm)