Brontes

The lives and writing of the Brontë sisters have become part of popular culture. This collection brings together their poetry, showing the work they produced before their famous novels reached readers.

Emily Brontë, the author of Wuthering Heights, began her literary life as a poet. The verses she left behind often draw on the countryside of her Yorkshire home. She died young, and her poems remain among the collection's central pieces. Charlotte Brontë, whose Jane Eyre has been adapted for television and film many times, took on the task of finding publishers for the sisters' work. She recalled that the three had long cherished the ambition of becoming writers one day.

Anne Brontë, the author of Agnes Grey, often drew on her own experiences in her poems, so readers can glimpse the hardships and inner turmoil of her life. Taken together, the poems reflect the joys and sorrows that shaped the sisters, and they offer an accessible entry point to both their writing and their lives.