Emily Brontë

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English novelist and poet (1818–1848) who published only one novel during her short life. Wuthering Heights is considered a singular achievement in English literature for its dark romanticism and unconventional narrative structure.

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Wuthering Heights

The foundling Heathcliff's consuming passion for Cathy and his vengeance on those who separated them spans two generations in the wild Yorkshire moors. Emily Brontë's only novel is considered a unique achievement in English Romantic fiction.

1847 United Kingdom

Middlemarch

The interlocking lives of the inhabitants of a provincial English town in the 1830s, focusing on the idealistic Dorothea Brooke and the ambitious young doctor Tertius Lydgate. Virginia Woolf called it "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people."

1871 United Kingdom

Jane Eyre

Orphan Jane Eyre works as a governess at Thornfield Hall, falls in love with its brooding owner Mr. Rochester, and discovers his terrible secret. Charlotte Brontë's debut novel was a landmark in the development of the literary protagonist with an inner life.

1847 United Kingdom

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