A Brontë Botany: Flora in the Classic Novels of the Brontë Sisters

by Amy King, Tugce Okay (Illustrator)

The first-ever botanical guide to the Brontës—discover the heather, roses, and trees that shape Jane Eyre , Wuthering Heights , and more, with 60 enchanting natural-history illustrations.

The Brontë novels are famous for their gothic atmospheres and untamed landscapes—but the plants that root these stories are just as vivid as their characters. A Brontë Botany is the first-ever botanical guide to the works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë .

Guiding readers from the wild heather of the Yorkshire moors to the cultivated roses of manor-house gardens, Victorian-literature scholar Amy King reveals how flora functions as a living, symbolic force of emotion and fate.
The first botanical companion to the Brontë sA fresh lens on Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and more60 full-color natural-history illustrations by Tugce OkayA smart, display-worthy gift for readers and plant lovers
Wander the moors and gardens of the Brontë s—and rediscover the novels through their flowers.

224 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication October 13, 2026

About the author

Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize winner. She’s co-editor of the anthology Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change and the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry. King is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.

King has also taught poetry workshops at such places as the San Francisco State University Poetry Center and the Summer Writing Program @ Naropa University.

Her poems have been nominated for numerous Pushcart Prizes, she was a Lambda Literary finalist, and she was the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. Amy founded and curated, from 2006, the Brooklyn-based reading series, The Stain of Poetry, until 2010. Readings, reviews and more @ www.AmyKing.org .