A Boat Against the Current

May 28, 1849— Anne Bronte , the youngest, quietest, and most religious of a trio of sisters who mined extraordinary fiction from the wild Yo...

Dec. 19, 1848— Only a year after the publication of Wuthering Heights, the single novel that assured her literary immortality, Emily Bronte ...

“No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven’s glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me f...

“A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly."-- Em...

October 19, 1847—The eponymous heroine of the book published by the British firm Smith, Elder and Co., Jane Eyre , made her way through...