Emily Brontë Reappraised

By Claire O'Callaghan

Revised edition of this biography with a twist about Emily Brontë, the subject of major 2022 film Emily starring Emma Mackey.

Brontë scholar Claire O'Callaghan conjures a new image of Emily Brontë and rehabilitates her reputation by exploring the themes of her life and work. We discover that Emily was a thoroughly modern woman.

Emily Brontë occupies a special place in the English literary canon. And rightly so: the incomparable Wuthering Heights is a novel that has bewitched us for almost 200 years, and the character of Heathcliff is, perhaps, the ultimate romantic hero—and villain. But Emily herself remains an enigmatic figure, often portrayed as awkward, as a misanthrope, as no normal being. That's the conventional wisdom on Emily as a person, but is it accurate? Is it fair?

It's time for the real Emily Brontë to please stand up.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Saraband
• Release date: Jun 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781912235230

Claire O'Callaghan

Dr Claire O'Callaghan is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Brontë Studies Journal, Lecturer in English in the School of Arts, English, and Drama at Loughborough University, England, and co-host of The Third Sex Reading Group. In addition to her specialism of the Brontës, her research focuses on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature and culture, with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and queerness. She has published and broadcast widely on these topics and lives near the Brontës' home town, Haworth, in the North of England.