HENA03827U English - Free topic: The Writings of the Brontë Sisters

This course will partly offer an opportunity to read and discuss most of the major novels by the three Brontë sisters, but it is also intended as a pretext for discussing such pertinent Victorian issues as professions for women, women writers, women readers, tuberculosis, mental disease and spiritual hauntings. The private lives of the Brontës soon became inexctricable from their works, and we shall examine the contemporary reception of the novels, together with the extensive myth-making which began shortly after the death of Charlotte Brontë in 1855.