Brontë

[bron-tee]

noun

1. Anne Acton Bell, 1820–49, English novelist.

2. her sister Charlotte Currer Bell, 1816–55, English novelist.

3. her sister Emily Jane Ellis Bell, 1818–48, English novelist.

Brontë

/ ˈbrɒntɪ /

noun

1. Anne , pen name Acton Bell . 1820–49, English novelist; author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1847)

2. her sister, Charlotte , pen name Currer Bell . 1816–55, English novelist, author of Jane Eyre (1847), Villette (1853), and The Professor (1857)

3. her sister, Emily ( Jane ), pen name Ellis Bell . 1818–48, English novelist and poet; author of Wuthering Heights (1847)

Example Sentences

She started to think about it properly about 10 years ago when she working on the one-off BBC drama To Walk Invisible, about the lives and literary achievements of the Brontë sisters.

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In recent months, first-look shots of him as Heathcliff have lit up the internet as he prepares to star opposite Margot Robbie in director Emerald Fennell’s reportedly kinky version of the 1847 Emily Brontë novel, Wuthering Heights.

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Emerald Fennell spoke about her adaptation for the first time on Friday in author Emily Brontë's home town of Haworth, West Yorkshire.

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Fennell told the Brontë Women's Writing Festival on Friday that she felt a "profound connection" with the book when she first read it at the age of 14.

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The choice of casting raised eyebrows because Robbie, at 35, is older than Catherine Earnshaw, who is a teenager in the book; while Heathcliff is described by Brontë as being "dark-skinned".

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