Contributor Avatar
Joyce M.S. Tompkins
Contributor
BIOGRAPHY

Reader in English, University of London, 1948–65. Author of The Popular Novel in England, 1770–1800.

Primary Contributions (2)
Portrait of Emily Bronte in profile, with curly dark hair, wearing a green dress with a white ruffled collar, from a painting by Branwell Bronte.
Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet who produced but one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a highly imaginative work of passion and hate set on the Yorkshire moors. Emily was perhaps the greatest of the three Brontë sisters, but the record of her life is extremely meager, for she was…
READ MORE