Brontë
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Anne Acton Bell, 1820–49, English novelist.
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her sister Charlotte Currer Bell, 1816–55, English novelist.
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her sister Emily Jane Ellis Bell, 1818–48, English novelist.
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Anne , pen name Acton Bell . 1820–49, English novelist; author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1847)
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her sister, Charlotte , pen name Currer Bell . 1816–55, English novelist, author of Jane Eyre (1847), Villette (1853), and The Professor (1857)
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her sister, Emily ( Jane ), pen name Ellis Bell . 1818–48, English novelist and poet; author of Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Which makes her next release, the soundtrack to Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights”—the film and album come out on Feb. 13—such an intriguing proposition.
Elizabeth Gaskell called the biography she wrote about her friend Charlotte Brontë—which helped cement the novelist’s literary fame—an “unlucky book.”
Upon its publication in 1857, two years after the death of the author of “Jane Eyre,” Gaskell received angry letters, threats of libel lawsuits and outraged responses from Brontë’s father and her widower.
Rachael Moran, 31, of Bronte Way in Southampton, was sentenced to 12 months, suspended for 18 months.
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The much-anticipated adaption of Emily Bronte's novel is a psychological thriller, starring Barbie actress Margot Robbie and Saltburn star Jacob Elordi.
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