Lesson 2: Should Jacob Elordi be Heathcliff?

Today’s lesson looks at the context around the poet and novelist Emily Brontë, Gothic vs. Romantic vs. domestic novels, Liverpool’s slave trade, and Emerald Fennell. Let’s dig in, shall we?

The primary, maybe only, anecdote about Emily Brontë involves her punching a bulldog.

Her bulldog, specifically. With her bare fists.

In the biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857), published after the Brontë children had already passed, Elizabeth Gaskell includes the Bulldog Anecdote ™️ as an insight t...