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A study of the life and legacy of Emily Bronte. It examines her insulated childhood, the stories of Gondal and Angria, and the lyrical poems of her twenties. Robert Barnard demonstrates that many aspects of "Wuthering Heights" were shaped or stimulated by her own experiences.
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The enigma that a young woman from such a closed and protected environment as a Yorkshire parsonage could write the wildly romantic, complex, and unconventional Wuthering Heights has long fascinated readers.Largely self-educated, Emily Bronte spent most of her short life at the family home in Haworth, England. Her solitary instincts are well known, and every biographer's task has been complicated by her refusal to reveal anything of herself during her lifetime.
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