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Brontë

(Encyclopedia) BrontëBrontëbrŏnˈtē, family of English novelists, including Charlotte Brontë, 1816–55, English novelist, Emily Jane Brontë, 1818–48, English novelist and poet, and Anne Brontë, 1820–49…

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte is the author of Jane Eyre and a member of the remarkable Brontë family. The sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne first published their poetry under pseudonyms: Poems by Currer, Ellis and…

Birrell, Augustine

(Encyclopedia) Birrell, AugustineBirrell, Augustinebĭrˈəl [key], 1850–1933, English essayist and public official. As chief secretary for Ireland (1907–16) his failure to end the plotting that…

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson)

(Encyclopedia) Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson)Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson)găsˈkəl [key], 1810–65, English novelist. When she was still an infant her mother died, and she was…

Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë died at the young age of 30, leaving the now-legendary Wuthering Heights as her only novel. Little is known about Brontë's life; she was a member of the famed Brontë writing clan, which…

Rhys, Jean

(Encyclopedia) Rhys, JeanRhys, Jeanrēs [key], pseud. of Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams, 1894–1979, English novelist, b. Dominica. Her novels written in the 1930s mercilessly exploit her own emotional…

Gothic romance

(Encyclopedia) Gothic romance, type of novel that flourished in the late 18th and early 19th cent. in England. Gothic romances were mysteries, often involving the supernatural and heavily tinged with…

Keighley

(Encyclopedia) KeighleyKeighleykēthˈlē [key], town (1991 pop. 49,188), Bradford metropolitan district, N central England, at the junction of the Aire and Worth rivers. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal…

Brewer's: Brontes

(2 syl.). A blacksmith personified, one of the Cyclops. The name signifies Thunder. Not with such weight, to frame the forky brand, The ponderous hammer falls from Brontes' hand. Hoole:…