When she died of consumption at age 30, Emily Brontë believed her only novel had been a failure. Born on this day, July 30, in 1818, the middle of the three literary Brontë sisters only survived long enough to read the early, negative reviews of Wuthering Heights — of which there were many. “How a human being could have attempted such a book as the present without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery,” opined the Philadelphia-based Graham’s Magazine in 1948, the year after the novel’s publication.
Emily Brontë Never Knew How Successful She’d Become
Lily Rothman, Time: Entertainment
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 7:30am
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