In 1847 the talented
Brontë sisters published their masterpieces,
Jane Eyre and
Wuthering Heights. The daughters of an eccentric Low Church Irish clergyman, their different characters and approaches to Christianity were reflected in their works. The saintly, long-suffering Charlotte
Brontë was an Anglican feminist and a passionate anti-Catholic who had been influenced by her
Wesleyan family background with its belief that only complete adherence to God’s will brings salvation. These themes stand out in her
Jane Eyre, where only after the brooding romantic Mr Rochester’s blindness, like St Paul, and his subsequent repentance to God can the book's heroine and Rochester be bought together.
Emily
Brontë was a silent, reserved, emotionally bound up woman. In private she
prefered to live in her imagined land of
Gondal rather than the real world. The mystical Emily was obsessed by death. Her classic, poetical story,
Wuthering Heights, about
Heathcliffe’s doomed, obsessional love for Cathy shocked many critics with its immoral passion, unusual construction and violent nature.
In 1847 the talented Brontë sisters published their masterpieces, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. The daughters of an eccentric Low Church Irish clergyman, their different characters and approaches to Christianity were reflected in their works. The saintly, long-suffering Charlotte Brontë was an Anglican feminist and a passionate anti-Catholic who had been influenced by her Wesleyan family background with its belief that only complete adherence to God’s will brings salvation. These themes stand out in her Jane Eyre, where only after the brooding romantic Mr Rochester’s blindness, like St Paul, and his subsequent repentance to God can the book's heroine and Rochester be bought together.
Emily Brontë was a silent, reserved, emotionally bound up woman. In private she prefered to live in her imagined land of Gondal rather than the real world. The mystical Emily was obsessed by death. Her classic, poetical story, Wuthering Heights, about Heathcliffe’s doomed, obsessional love for Cathy shocked many critics with its immoral passion, unusual construction and violent nature.
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