![]() The film presents a romantic origin story to account for Brontë’s iconic novel. But the historical picture is far more murky. ![]() But did a real-life romance inspire Emily Brontë’s only novel? According to Frances O’Connor’s new film, Emily, the answer is yes. ![]() One described it as “a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors”.Īfter Brontë’s death, when the novel began to find success, many were surprised to find that such a tempestuous gothic romance had been written by a quiet parson’s daughter. When Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, outraged Victorian critics deemed it savage, indecent and immoral. ![]()
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