Description
Emily Brontë has inspired everyone from Kate Bush to Sylvia Plath – but what makes arguably the most enigmatic of Haworth’s famous literary siblings such an attractive subject for filmmakers and biographers?
The middle of the three Brontë sisters, Emily was largely unknown as a writer during her lifetime. Wuthering Heights, her passionate love story set on the windswept moors of West Yorkshire, was initially released in 1847 under her pseudonym Ellis Bell just a year before her death from tuberculosis. In the decades since, it has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen and continues to leave its mark on our modern cultural landscape.
To mark the 175th anniversary of her death, Brontë expert Dr Claire O’Callaghan, author of Emily Brontë Reappraised, and award-winning author and lecturer Michael Stewart, lead a discussion of her legacy, her relationship with her sisters and whether she really was the wild child of the moors
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About the Authors
Dr Claire O’Callaghan
Dr Claire O’Callaghan is a Lecturer in English at Loughborough University. She is the author of Emily Brontë Reappraised (2018) and has published widely on the Brontës lives and works. Claire is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of Brontë Studies, the journal of the Brontë Society.
Dr Michael Stewart
Dr Michael Stewart is an acclaimed, multi-award-winning writer whose books include Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff, Walking the Invisible: Following in the Brontës’ Footsteps, Black Wood Women and King Crow. He is Director of the Brontë Writing Centre and creator of The Brontë Stones.
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