Emily alludes briefly to the juvenilia of the Brontë siblings, a collection of texts written by the children in tiny volumes and set in two imaginary kingdoms peopled by characters inspired by the dashing and romantic heroes and heroines in the many books they read. Patrick Brontë himself, the father of Emily, Charlotte, Anne, and Branwell, was, in addition to being an Anglican priest, a published poet. It was one of the few forms of entertainment and the only means of communication besides speaking face-to-face. Instead of books there is “writing,” something the characters in Emily speak of with a breathless, aspirational reverence, as if educated 19 th-century British people weren’t constantly writing in one form or another: letters, diaries, poetry, sermons, essays, reviews, and so on.
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