勃朗特姐妹英文介绍

Emily Brontë
Life Works Writing style
Wuthering heights
Plot
• Prologue (chapters 1 to 3) Mr Lockwood, a rich man from the south, has rented Thrushcross Grange in the north of England for peace and recuperation(恢复;挽回 ). Soon after arrival, he visits his landlord, Mr Heathcliff, who lives in the remote moorland(荒野;高沼地 ) farmhouse called "Wuthering Heights". He finds the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights to be a strange group: Mr Heathcliff appears a gentleman but his manners and speech suggest otherwise; the mistress of the house is in her mid teens, an attractive but reserved, even rude woman; and there is a young man who appears to be one of the family although he dresses and talks like a servant.
Plot Summary
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Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte. It was published in London, England in 1847. Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character, a small, plainfaced, intelligent and honest English orphan. The novel goes through five distinct stages: • • • • • 1.) Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is emotionally abused by her aunt and cousins; 2.) Her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations; 3.) Her time as the governess of Thornfield Manor, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; 4.) Her time with the Rivers family at Marsh's End (or Moor House) and Morton, where her cold clergyman-cousin St John Rivers proposes to her; 5.) Her reunion with and marriage to her beloved Rochester at his house of Ferndean.
Shirley
• 一八四九年五月，妹 妹安妮· 勃朗特离世。 在死亡的阴影和困惑 下，夏洛蒂· 勃朗特坚 持完成了《雪莉》， 寄托她对妹妹的哀思， 书中描写有英国早期 自发的工人运动，获 得至高评价。
Villette
•本书是夏洛蒂· 勃 朗特的最后一部作 品，无论从创作思 想或艺术手法上都 比以前的作品更为 成熟。本书的女主 人公从许多方面来 说，就是作者本人 的真实写照，作者 借本书展示了自己 的主要经历，向世 人倾诉自己的心声。
The Bronte Sisters
The Bronte Sisters
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
Emily Brontë (1818~1848)
Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
Life of Bronte Sisters
• They were born at Thornton & lived in Haworth W. Yorkshire. Patrick Bronte their father was a Yorkshire clergyman with Irish origins, and brought his family to the parsonage at the top of the hill of Haworth village on the edge of the moor in 1820. Mrs Bronte died the next year and the six children were cared for by her sister, Elizabeth Branwell. This was the children's home up to their short lived lives. Charlotte and Emily were sent to Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, but they returned within a year. The treatment at Cowan Bridge was considered harsh, and Charlotte later modelled Lowood School (Jane Eyre) after it.
life
• For the next few years, the Bronte children were taught at home. They invented games and told imaginary stories to each other. Charlotte attended Miss Wooler's school at Roe Head for one year in 1831, then returned home and taught her sisters. Charlotte returned to Roe Head as a teacher in 1835, but after suffering from depression and ill health, she resigned from her position. It was at Roe Head that Charlotte met her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey. Her many letters to Nussey have served as the best documentation of her life.
Charlotte Br源自文库nte
Life
Works Writing style
（Jane Eyre） 《简· 爱》 1847 （Shirley） 《雪莉》 1849
（Villette） 《维莱特》 1853
（The Professor） 《教师》 1857
Masterpiece
life
• Several months later Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights were published together in three volumes. The popularity of the Bronte novels allowed Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to be published shortly thereafter. The next year was one of tragedy for the Bronte sisters. Their brother Branwell, an unstable man with a history of drunkenness and opium use died in September 1848. Emily then fell ill and died of tuberculosis December 19, 1848. Anne soon followed, contracting tuberculosis that same year and died May 28, 1849.
life
• Charlotte was left alone with her father, but later married in Haworth Church, her father's curate Arthur Bell Nicholls. They enjoyed a brief happiness. Charlotte fell ill during pregnancy and died March 31, 1855.
life
• In the autumn of 1845, Charlotte discovered some poems written by Emily. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne soon realised they had all been secretly writing verse. Charlotte's first attempt at the novel was entitled The Professor, but the story was rejected by publishers. Her second attempt was published in October, 1847. Jane Eyre: an autobiography, it was an immediate success.
• Being snowed in, he has to stay the night and is shown to an unused chamber where he finds books and graffiti(涂鸦) from a former inhabitant of the farmhouse called "Catherine". When he falls asleep, his dreams are prompted by this person and he has a nightmare where he sees her as a ghost trying to get in through the window. He wakes and is unable to return to sleep so, as soon as the sun rises, he is escorted back to Thrushcross Grange by Heathcliff. There he asks his housekeeper, Ellen Dean, to tell him the story of the family from the Heights.
Writing style
• 夏洛蒂· 勃朗特巧妙改造早期的男式风格罗曼司（骑士文 学）而成的妇女专有文学形式。在勃朗特的小说里，“高 贵的男性模式”被淡化，那种手持锋利的宝剑，身穿闪闪 的盔甲的骑士已经不是罗曼司的主要画面，取而代之的是 女主人公的行动背景、感情世界、生活行为。从女性文学 的角度看，简· 爱的出走正体现了夏洛蒂·勃朗特那隐约表 露的女权主义倾向，然而，她的这种意识却并没有“革命 彻底”。 • 在写作风格上，夏洛蒂也独树一帜。她文笔简洁而传神， 质朴而生动，加之第一人称的叙述语言，使得小说贴近读 者，贴近现实。同时，小说又体现了欧洲浪漫主义文学传 统的特点，显示出作者丰富的想象力和诗人的气质。作者 在叙述中自然地使用了梦境、幻觉、预感和象征、隐喻等 手法，使小说的“自然”境界扑朔朦胧，情节扣人心弦。