勃朗特三姐妹(英文版)分析.pptx

The Bronte Sisters 谢宗伯 201397718 Contents The Bronte Family The Bronte Sisters’ life The Bronte Sisters’ literary career The Bronte Sisters Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Her main works: Jane Eyre(1847) The Professor(1857) Shirley(1849) Villette(1853) The Bronte Sisters Emily Bronte (1818-1848) Her main works: 1) Wuthering Heights 2)Poems The Bronte Sisters Anne Bronte (1818-1848) Her main works: 1)  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 2) Agnes Grey Their Father Portrait of Patrick Bronte around 1860 Patrick Bronte (1777 –1861): -Born in Ireland; -Anglican curate; Poet, writer, and polemicist; Studied in Cambridge; visiting the sick and the poor; died at the age of 84. Their Mother Maria Branwell(1783-1821):  Maria Bronte originated from Cornwall and came from a comfortably well off middle-class family. Her father had a flourishing tea and grocery store and had accumulated considerable wealth. Maria died at the age of 38, probably from cancer of the stomach.  She was known for her lively spirit, joyfulness and tenderness, and it was she who designed the samplers that are on display in the museum, and had them embroidered by her children. She left memories with her husband and with Charlotte, the oldest surviving sibling, of a very vivacious woman at the parsonage. The younger ones, particularly Emily and Anne, admitted to retaining only vague images of their mother, especially of her suffering in her sickbed. Other Family Members Elizabeth Branwell:Elizabeth Branwell arrived from Penzance in 1821, after the death of Maria, her younger sister, to help Patrick look after the children. Maria: the eldest child of Bronte. She died in Haworth at the age of eleven on 6 May 1825. Elizabeth: the second child of Bronte, joined her sister Maria at Cowan Bridge where she suffered the same fate. Patrick Branwell:  Known as Branwell, he was a painter, writer and casual worker. He became addicted to alcohol and laudanum and died at Haworth on 24 September 1848 at the