Emily Brontë is Goals

i dont think people understand that nelly is just so lonely. she plays surrogate mother in her teens. the only person she knows her age leaves for school while she’s given a bunch of new responsibilities. then her master who she admires (for good reasons or not) dies and she has to CRY ALONE OUTSIDE THE BEDROOM while catherine and heathcliff console each other. and you can bet that joseph reprimanded her for showing any emotion afterwards. her childhood friend comes back as a stranger with a strange wife. catherine lives at the neighbour’s house for weeks until christmas while heathcliff isolates himself. nelly SINGS CAROLS BY HERSELF IN THE LIVING ROOM and then weeps for heathcliff because she feels guilty about he’s treated after old earnshaw passed. then after frances dies hindley loses it and there’s no one in the house but a spiralling violent alcoholic, a resentful doom-prophesying old man, a teenage girl with a lot of trauma and identity issues, a teenage boy with a lot of trauma and anger issues (obviously a reductive statement but you know.), and a baby to take care of. all this before she’s 25 and we all know more shit goes down later. that’s why i hate that paper that very judgementally recounts how nelly attempts to reframe her narrative to make her seem more important and how she attempts to manipulate the family tree to place herself as a mother figure. yeah girl why do you think!!!!!!!

How I learned to stop worrying and to love Nelly Dean

I really don't get why the Brontës get put in competition with Jane Austen so much. They weren't contemporaries. They didn't even write the same genre. This is the definition of pitting women against each other.

Small fandoms are great because I'm convinced if I logged in after the nuclear apocalypse, the same 5 fuckers would still be online, posting their headcanons, now slightly more radiated.

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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

emily brontë receives the first kill yourself anon in 1848

Incorrect Quotes: Jane Eyre (70/?)

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Glasses people love to make you try their glasses on to see how fucked up their eyes are. It's a sign of respect in their culture.

i think heathcliff is only problematic for being a landlord

It is the first thing we learn about Heathcliff. Emily Bronte told us the worst thing about him in the first sentence so that with each new thing we learned about him our estimation of him got better.

Till death do us part? Yea no you’re not getting out of this that easily

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I am thinking of Heathcliff binding up Hindley’s wound and preventing him from dying and back in the day Hindley not actively kicking teenaged Heathcliff from his house. They like living in the same house and torturing each other.

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Wow we're pretty split!

I think it is pretty interesting that in the story of Welsh Brunty (the probably made-up family history which is probably based on Wuthering Heights that the extended Brontë family told in late 19th century and posited as a probable inspiration for WH) Welsh Brunty is a sleazier and more unattractive variant of Heathcliff. Possibly an indication of how Heathcliff was seen in late 19th century?

Another telling of the Welsh Brunty story:

“‘On one of his [Patrick’s great grandfather, a farmer and merchant from County Louth] return journeys from Liverpool a strange child was found in a bundle in the hold of the vessel. It was very young, very black, very dirty, and almost without clothing of any kind. No one on board knew whence it had come, and no one seemed to care what became of it. There was no doctor in the ship, and no woman except Mrs. Brontë, who had accompanied her husband to Liverpool. The child was thrown on the deck. Some one said, “Toss it overboard”; but no one would touch it, and its cries were distressing. From sheer pity Mrs. Brontë was obliged to succour the abandoned infant… When the little foundling was carried up out of the hold of the vessel, it was supposed to be a Welsh child on account of its colour. It might doubtless have laid claim to a more Oriental descent, but when it became a member of the Brontë family they called it “Welsh”.’

It is from this post

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It is ABSOLUTELY fascinating. This is essentially a novel based on Wuthering Heights that they passed off as family history.

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