Dr Claire O’Callaghan, Dr Michael Stewart

Understanding Emily

Description

Emily Brontë has inspired everyone from Kate Bush to Sylvia Plath – but what makes arguably the most enigmatic of Haworth’s famous literary siblings such an attractive subject for filmmakers and biographers?

The middle of the three Brontë sisters, Emily was largely unknown as a writer during her lifetime. Wuthering Heights, her passionate love story set on the windswept moors of West Yorkshire, was initially released in 1847 under her pseudonym Ellis Bell just a year before her death from tuberculosis. In the decades since, it has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen and continues to leave its mark on our modern cultural landscape.

To mark the 175th anniversary of her death, Brontë expert Dr Claire O’Callaghan, author of Emily Brontë Reappraised, and award-winning author and lecturer Michael Stewart, lead a discussion of her legacy, her relationship with her sisters and whether she really was the wild child of the moors

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About the Authors

Dr Claire O’Callaghan

Dr Claire O’Callaghan

Dr Claire O’Callaghan is a Lecturer in English at Loughborough University. She is the author of Emily Brontë Reappraised (2018) and has published widely on the Brontës lives and works. Claire is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of Brontë Studies, the journal of the Brontë Society.

MICHAEL STEWART

Dr Michael Stewart

Dr Michael Stewart’s debut novel, King Crow, was the winner of the Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Award and has been selected as a recommended read for World Book Night. Other books include Couples (poetry); Café Assassin (novel); Mr Jolly; Four Letter Words (short fiction); The Dogs (poetry); Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff (novel); Walking the Invisible: following in the Brontës’ Footsteps (hybrid memoir).
He is also the creator of the Brontë Stones project, four monumental stones situated in the landscape between the birthplace and the parsonage, inscribed with poems by Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeannette Winterson and Jackie Kay, which he delivered in collaboration with Bradford Literature Festival.