Selected Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
by Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë
Chapter 1 of 60 Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell
- Running time
- 3 h 36 min
- Language
- English
- Read by
- Ellis Christoff
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Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 1846, and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Bronte sisters adopted androgynous first names. Marked by profound sentiments, gravity and melodious harmony, the poems are strewn on the fields of soulful love, rueful reminiscence and the immortal yearnings of a Christian soul, and represent a fragrant assemblage of noetic flowers from the glebes of olden England. For those not familiar with the Bronte sisters' poetry, it should be noted that many of their poems were written in the context of their fictional, shared worlds of Gondal and Angria.
(Written by Ellis Christoff)
