Emily Bront 's Homesickness

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ID10867445
AuthorsLinda M Austin (0000-0001-7992-078X, Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume44
Issue4
Pages573-596
Publication date2002-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueVictorian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/vic.2002.44.4.573
PMID12751528
OpenAlexW2112199171
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

Her biographers generally agree: Emily Brontë suffered from homesickness during the few periods she lived away from Haworth. She left home just four times in her short life. When she was six years old, she followed her older sisters Maria, Elizabeth, and Charlotte to the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge in nearby Kirkby Lonsdale. After about six months Elizabeth and Maria contracted typhoid, and Emily went home. Ten years later in 1835, she accompanied Charlotte on her first teaching position to Roe Head, a boarding school; and for some months between 1837 and 1839, Emily herself taught briefly at Miss Elizabeth Patchett's school at Law Hill near Halifax, eight miles from Haworth. Again she accompanied Charlotte to Brussels in 1842, intending to prepare herself to run a boarding school with her sisters, but she returned to England only nine months later when her aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, died. She was then twenty-four years old, and she did not leave Haworth again

Archaeology · Art history · Aunt · Boarding school · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History

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