Bronte Quotes

Compilation of quotes from novels written by the three Brontë sisters - Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë .

The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality.
Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature.

Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Anne's Agnes Grey, appeared in 1847 after many tribulations, for reasons of finding a publisher. The packets containing the manuscripts often returned to the parsonage and Charlotte simply added a new address and did this at least a dozen times during the year.

The first one was finally published by Smith, Elder & Co in London, of which the 23-year-old owner George Smith had been specialised until then in publishing scientific revues aided by his perspicacious reader, William Smith Williams and remained faithful to the family.

Those of Emily and Anne were confided to Thomas Cautley Newby who intended to compile a three-decker, more economical for sale and for loan in the circulating libraries the two first volumes to include Wuthering Heights and the third one Agnes Grey.

Both the novels attracted critical acclaim, occasionally harsh about Wuthering Heights, praised for the originality of the subject and its narrative style, but viewed with suspicion because of its outrageous violence and immorality – surely, the critics wrote, a work of a man with a depraved mind– fairly neutral about Agnes Grey, more flattering for Jane Eyre, which soon became what today would be called a best-seller - in spite of certain commentators denouncing it as an affront to morals and good mores.


Features of the App:
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* Selected quotes and excerpts from the novels written by the Bronte Sisters
* Simple & elegant design
* Works in both Portrait & Landscape mode
* App works Offline and doesn't require internet connection

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