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The Brontes Grade Level:  9-12 Part of a larger web site of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, this section is devoted to biographical information about the Bronte family members and their contributions to literature. There are six subsections to "The Brontes." You can explore each one by clicking the links on the left. Learn about this famous literary family, especially about Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, who originally published under male pseudonyms. Find out what is fact and what is myth about the sisters. The "Chronology" section puts the events of the Brontes' lives in context with world events at the time. Topic: Women authors, English--19th century--Biography URL: http://www.bronte.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=30 Emily Jane Bronte Grade Level:  6-8  9-12 Emily Bronte was an author from the nineteenth century. Her most noted novel is Wuthering Heights. Throughout this novel, Emily Bronte shares her visions for humankind and the power of the human soul. Although Wuthering Heights was written more than 150 years ago, it is still widely read today. Perhaps you have read this novel in school? To learn more about Emily Bronte, visit this web site. From this site, you can also access other web sites about Emily Bronte. Topic: Bronte, Emily,--1818-1848 URL: http://www.wc.pdx.edu/emilybronte/emilybronte.html Anne Bronte Grade Level:  9-12 This web site is both a literary, and a pictorial account of the life of Anne Bronte, with a particular focus on her connections with the seaside resort of Scarborough; a place she loved. The additional links will take the viewer to a range of pages - covering various aspects of Anne Bronte, her life, and her achievements. Topic: English authors URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/personal/cs1ma/anne/bronte.html Anne Bronte (1820-49 Grade Level:  9-12  This web page is a small section of a larger site about the Bronte Sisters, who were famous English authors. This site features some of Anne Bronte's famous literature pieces along with selected poems. Academic resources are included for more in depth research about the Bronte Sister's life and influences.  Topic: English authors  URL:  http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/BS-Anne.html    Charlotte Bronte  Grade Level:  9-12  Charlotte Bronte and her sisters, Emily and Anne, are responsible for some of the most widely read fiction of the Victorian period. The sisters all began publishing their works under pseudonyms, but eventually revealed their identities to their publishers and the general public. This page, a part of "The Victorian Web" web site, provides information about Bronte and her sisters, plus examines the social, political, and religious relevance of her famous novel Jane Eyre. Topic: Women novelists, English URL: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bronte/cbronte/bronteov.html Bronte, Charlotte Grade Level:  9-12 An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video, and art, the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database comprises entries that serve as resources in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings. The works in the database were annotated because of their value in medical humanities. One work by nineteenth-century English author Charlotte Bronte is represented: Jane Eyre. The entry for the novel includes a summary and commentary, as well as the key words by which the work may be searched. Topic: Women authors, English URL: http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/People?action=view&id=2230 The Bronte Pseudonyms: A Woman's Image The Writer and Her Public Grade Level:  9-12 You may be aware that at one time, the Bronte sisters published under pseudonyms. Their pseudonyms were Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. The reason for using them is explained. There are several possibilities to explain how the names were chosen, and those possibilities are discussed. Even the sisters' brother, Branwell, did not know of their pseudonyms. The author of this article laments the fact that not much research has been done into the pseudonyms, and believes the sisters were "early-Victorian intellectuals." Topic: Pseudonyms URL: http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/victorianweb/authors/bronte/cbronte/thormahlen/thormahlen.html The Bronte Sisters Biography Grade Level:  6-8  9-12 This all-inclusive biography of the Bronte sisters includes information about the entire Bronte family. The Bronte's lived in Haworth, England, where the father, Reverend Patrick Bronte was appointed Curate. This Web site if provided by Haworth Village. You can view photographs of the Bronte home and take a virtual tour of the Parsonage and garden where they lived. You can also select: The Brontes, for a more detailed biography page for each individual Bronte Sister. Topic: Women novelists, English URL: http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/brontes/bronte_story/bronte_story.asp Charlotte Bronte Grade Level:  6-8  9-12 In August 1824, Charlotte Bronte and three of her sisters arrived at the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, England. The writer later maintained that the school's poor conditions adversely affected her health and hastened the deaths of two of her sisters. She recreated the ordeal in Jane Eyre and its fictional Lowood School. This Biblio biography reveals these and other details about Bronte's life and career. The entry is one in a database of more than three hundred author biographies, representing contemporary writers, bestselling authors, and common names in the literary canon. Topic: Women novelists, English URL: http://www.biblio.com/authors/638/Charlotte_Bronte_Biography.html Love on the Moors: The Bronte Family Grade Level:  9-12 Ann, Charlotte, and Emily Bronte were very talented writers and became well known for their passionate novels. This Web page discusses the type of writing these women wrote. Gothic writing, very intense and sometimes violent is one way to describe their novels. "Anne, Charlotte, and Emily all wrote of intense, cruel men, Gothic heroes all". A description and review of several of the sisters' books are provided here to illustrate this type of text. Topic: Women novelists, English URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/gothic/love.html Anne Bronte Grade Level:  9-12 Classic Reader's free online collection of classic stories currently comprises more than three thousand works of literature (including nearly two thousand short stories) by more than three hundred authors. New works are added regularly. The entry on Anne Bronte, sister of authors Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë, features a biographical sketch ("Inspired by a box of twelve wooden soldiers, the [six children of Patrick and Maria Brontë] wove tales and legends associated with remote Africa"), an image, and the complete text of the novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Topic: Women novelists, English URL: http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.71/ The Bronte Sisters Web Grade Level:  9-12 Within the "Bronte Sisters" web site are numerous links to obtain information on each of the sisters, view manuscripts and poems written by the sisters, and read biographical information about their lives and their accomplishments. Family history and photographs of the family home and church are also included. Can not locate the information that you need? Post a message on one of the numerous message boards to obtain even further information from Bronte experts. Topic: World history--19th century URL: http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Bronte.html Anne Bronte Grade Level:  6-8  9-12 View many of the works of Anne Bronte on the "Digital Library" web site. A complete biography of her life is included along with brief information about her two sisters Emily and Charlotte, who were also writers. Selected poems and a complete bibliography are available to round out this informative site. Topic: Women poets, English URL: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bronte/bronte-anne.html Biography: Introduction to the Life of Anne Bronte Grade Level:  9-12 Anne Bronte is the youngest of the three sister-authors of the Victorian era in England, and she is the subject of this web site. Although today Anne is slightly less well known than her two sisters, she was actually the most successful one during her lifetime, successfully publishing her first two novels. This biography is very complete and includes details of Anne's education, employment as governess, and her health problems. You will read primary source quotations about her from her sisters and others who knew her. Find out why Anne's novels are being re-appraised today with new insights. Topic: Women authors, English--19th century--Biography URL: http://www.mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/anne/annebiog.html Brontë Parsonage Museum and Bronte Society Grade Level:  9-12 For concise information about the Brontë family take a look at this site provided by the Parsonage Museum. Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë lived and created their literary works in the parsonage. Charlotte is best known for her novel, "Jane Eyre," Emily for "Wuthering Heights," and Anne for "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall." This site contains information about each of these novels, a family tree with pictures, a short history and chronology of the Brontës and a schedule of educational programs at the museum. In-depth resources, books for children and adults as well as other materials can be procured. Links to related sites are included. Topic: Bronte, Charlotte,--1816-1855 URL: http://www.bronte.org.uk/ Charlotte Bronte Grade Level:  9-12 Classic Reader's free online collection of classic stories currently comprises more than three thousand works of literature (including nearly two thousand short stories) by more than three hundred authors. New works are added regularly. The entry on Charlotte Brontë, sister of authors Anne Brontë and Emily Brontë, features a biographical sketch ("[the Brontë children] created imaginary kingdoms, which were built around [their brother] Branwell's toy soldiers, and which inspired them to create continuing stories of fantasylands of Angria and Gondal"), an image, and the complete text of the four novels: Jane Eyre, The Professor, Shirley, and Villette. Topic: Women novelists, English URL: http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.12/ Emily Bronte Grade Level:  9-12 Classic Reader's free online collection of classic stories currently comprises more than three thousand works of literature (including nearly two thousand short stories) by more than three hundred authors. New works are added regularly. The entry on Emily Brontë, sister of authors Anne Brontë and Charlotte Brontë, features a biographical sketch ("To escape their unhappy childhood, Anne, Emily, Charlotte, and their brother Branwell created imaginary worlds--perhaps inspired by Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels"), an image, and the complete text of the novel Wuthering Heights. Topic: Women novelists, English URL: http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.13/ Emily Brontë (1818-48): An Overview Grade Level:  9-12 This web site featuring Emily Bronte is part of the larger site titled The Victorian Web, winner of many awards for academic excellence. The researcher looking for information about Emily Bronte will find some biographical materials, information about her world, and articles about her novel "Wuthering Heights." There is a chronology of her life, her birthplace site, information about the concurrent social, political and culture context, and the influence of science in her work. There are also scholarly articles about themes and techniques pertaining to "Wuthering Heights," such as the influence of Emily's family life in her writing, her dreams, father figures, characteristics of Heathcliff and much more. Topic: Bronte, Emily,--1818-1848 URL: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bronte/ebronte/index.html The Cambridge History of English and American Literature- Volume 13 Grade Level:  9-12 The English fiction of the Victorian era is the focus of this encyclopedia volume, which includes critical essays about the novels of Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, and other lesser-known English novelists. In addition, the site contains a section devoted to political and social novels of the Victorian period, including the works of George Eliot, Benjamin Disraeli, and Charles Kingsley. Critical resources for other genres of literature, such as drama and poetry, are also offered. Topic: English fiction--History and criticism URL: http://www.bartleby.com/223/index.html A Celebration of Women Writers: England Grade Level:  K-5  6-8  9-12 This web site would serve as a great starting point for someone doing research or just interested in learning more about female British authors. There are links to learning more about the authors themselves and their writings. Find information on Jane Austen, Beatrix Potter, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Agatha Christie, Isabella Bird, Catherine Booth, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë, and so many others. There is so much information at this web site that it takes some time to load the page. Topic: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851 URL: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/ENGLAND.html Defining Romanticism: The Implications of Nature Personified as Female in Frankenstein and Jane Eyre Grade Level:  9-12 This interesting paper explores the portrayal of nature as female in two famous literary works, Frankenstein and Jane Eyre, and begins with a discussion of a new classification and definition of Romanticism. Several examples of the personification of nature as female are included for both novels, and the author uses excerpts from each story to support her claims. Also discussed are several instances from Jane Eyre where the role of nature as female is reinforced and ultimately restored. Topic: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851 URL: http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/2D/A.Renfroe.html Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855 Grade Level:  9-12 The University of Adelaide Library maintains eBooks@Adelaide, a free virtual collection of classic works in literature, philosophy, science, and history. The texts, most of which are complemented by biographical notes and related links, can be read online or downloaded for later use. English novelist Charlotte Brontë is represented in this collection by four works: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor. This entry features an image of the author, an essay culled from the 1910 publication A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin, and Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë. Topic: Women novelists, English URL: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/bronte/charlotte/ Cyclopes Grade Level:  6-8  9-12 The giants Cyclopes were beings with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads. They were strong and stubborn. According to Greek myth there were two generations of Cyclopes. The first generation had three brothers, Brontes (thunderer), Steropes (flasher), and Arges (brightener). The second generation of Cyclopes was a lawless band of shepherds living in Sicily. It is uncertain why the Cyclopes lost favor and were demoted from the smiths of the gods to a lawless group of monsters. Topic: Mythology, Greek URL: http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/greek/articles.html Greek and Roman Mythology: Mythical Creatures: Cyclopes Grade Level:  6-8  9-12 The mythical creature called Cyclopes is from Greek and Roman stories. This creature from mythology is described as very large being with only one single eye in the middle of the forehead. Learn about the two sets of Cyclops with different origins. The first set of Cyclopes was three brothers, Brontes, Steropes, and Arges. The second set of Cyclopes included many creatures, but Polyphemus is recognized from the Odyssey. Did you know that Cyclopes were best known for their metal work? Topic: Cyclopes (Greek mythology) URL: http://www.gods-heros-myth.com/godpages/cyclopes.html Elizabeth Gaskell Grade Level:  9-12 As the daughter and wife of Unitarian ministers, Elizabeth Gaskell witnessed firsthand the poverty of the working class in Manchester, England. The experience informed her early novels, including her first work, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life. Published in 1848, it alternately alarmed its Victorian readers and elicited praise from Gaskell's contemporaries, including Charles Dickens. The complete text of this, two other novels (Cranford and Wives and Daughters), and Gaskell's masterful The Life of Charlotte Bronte complement the biography at this site. Topic: Women novelists, English URL: http://www.readprint.com/author-40/Elizabeth-Gaskell Elizabeth Gaskell Grade Level:  9-12 Celebrated as a powerful and accomplished writer in deep, rich field of fellow women writers, Elizabeth Gaskell drew praise during her lifetime for her novels, which include Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters, and protest for her biography of Charlotte Bronte. Today, the former are regarded as classics, and the latter is the standard-bearing biography. This Victorian Web entry features a brief biography of Gaskell and commentary on her works--specifically, gender issues, characterization, imagery, themes, and visual arts. Topic: Women novelists, English URL: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/gaskell/index.html Women and Literature Grade Level:  6-8  9-12 British and American literature was primarily the realm of men before the 19th century. As women more commonly received education, the numbers of female storytellers, poets, and authors increased. Learn about 15 famous women authors. Louisa May Alcott worked for suffrage and temperance, and is the author of the classic work "Little Women." Emily Bronte was a gifted storyteller and wrote "Wuthering Heights." Jane Austen wrote witty and satirical novels like "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice." Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson are among the most famous women poets. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Topic: Women authors URL: http://www.ibiblio.org/cheryb/women/wlit.html