![]() The Preface reveals that, while Charlotte admired her sister’s work, she was not afraid to point to its “faults,” or to debate the controversial elements of Wuthering Heights. ![]() ![]() Charlotte takes the preface as a chance to both praise her sister’s work and express doubt on the inclusion of some of the controversial elements. Charlotte additionally added a Biographical Notice, publicly admitting for the first time that the mysterious authors Currer, Ellis, and Action Bell were in fact three women (Ref 2). *List of Works (Creative Format? Maybe framed like we distinguish between all the sisters’ works?) Assessment of Wuthering HeightsĬharlotte’s sister Emily wrote Wuthering Heights, but it was Charlotte who edited and published the novel after Emily’s death, in addition to penning the preface to the work (it was originally published in 1847, a year before Emily died and three years before Charlotte’s edition was published). ![]() Her most well-known work, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell (one of three pseudonyms under which she published), the same year that her sisters Emily and Anne published Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, respectively (Ref 1). ![]() Charlotte Bront ë, the eldest of the famous Bront ë sisters, was a novelist and poet born in 1816. ![]()
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