Emily Brontë
...226; Unlike Charlotte, Emily had no close friends. She wrote a few letters and was interested in mysticism. Her first novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a story-within-a-story, did not gain immediate success as Charlotte's Jane Eyre , but it has acclaimed later fame as one of the most intense novels written in the English language. • Emily Brontë died of tuberculosis on December 19, 1848 n this intoxicated and intoxicating letter, Campbell had unwittingly described many of the characteristics of his own work. The flamboyance of the Elizabethans had colored the imagery of The Flaming Terrapin with a vivid sharpness which distinguished it from most other contemporary verse in much the same way as the vivid sharpness of the pre-Raphaelites had stood out from the monochrome subtleties of Impressionism. In...