It’s the birthday of Emily Brontë (1818-1848, #diedtooyoung), whose single novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), is considered one of the greatest novels in the English language. Emily Jane Brontë was born in the parsonage at Thornton in Yorkshire, the fifth of six children, but the family moved to Haworth in 1820 when their father became rector [...]
It’s the birthday of Mary Jessamyn West (1902-1984), whose short stories and novels were influenced by her Quaker background and whose best known work, a story collection called The Friendly Persuasion (1945), was about a Quaker family living on the border between North and South during the War of the Rebellion. West was born in [...]
It’s the birthday of Anne Brontë (1820-1849, #diedtooyoung), youngest of the Brontë sisters and usually in their shadow but the first of them—not Charlotte—to write a brilliant novel featuring a plain governess as the heroine, Agnes Grey (1847). Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the youngest of six children, and raised in Haworth Parsonage; [...]