emily’s Reviews > This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life > Status Update
emily
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‘Elizabeth Gaskell wrote a biography of Charlotte that gave a portrait of E as—enigmatic—mostly unpleasant misanthrope. I present a portrait of a consummate artist—Fugitive, at odds w/ conventions—almost impossible to grasp—The past, whether geological / ancestral, is never laid to rest—The terrible beauty—the wuthering—of nature’s wrath—not to mention her—obsession with spirits, & objects reappearing from long ago—’
— Jun 28, 2026 07:03PM
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emily
is on page 72 of 352
‘—playing became more instinctive, it nourished her, but her emotional closeness to animals came unbidden. Injured birds and homeless cats were brought into the house to nurse or keep or both. Once, she saw an unknown dog—he bit her arm—she rushed into the kitchen, grabbed an iron out of the fire, and seared the wound to burn out the infection. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of heath for her—’
— Jul 02, 2026 07:13PM
emily
is on page 39 of 352
‘People take on the terroir—as if they grow out of the ground, rooted. Where did life end, and death begin? This question would be omnipresent throughout—She was one of those ‘to whom the miseries of the world / Are misery, and will not let them rest.’ Don’t look away from pain, but stare at it unflinchingly, enter it, and linger there. Be haunted eternally. Purple auriculas, snowdrops, and crocuses began to flower—’
— Jul 01, 2026 04:58PM
