Can we talk about Ellis Bell [Our Emilly Brontë] ? (A wuthering heights reread)

She really was a gentle soul, never discouraged by the scathing critiques provided to her work, she never gave up. Charlotte writes in her biographical notice that Emily was homebred village girl who only so much as crossed the thresh to go to church or wander in wild moors of York.

After carefully reading about Ellis's life as describes by Charlotte, and rereading wuthering heights I see what Emilly would have seen. I like to think of her as a girl, young and wild, immature and reclusive as considered by the world but somehow she knew it all. Fiery temper and a wild spirit and resilience against the hardships. Mental and physical. Never-bending. And this can be seen in her characters. In Catherine and Heathcliff and Hindley.

I read the book today and I see the intelligence stirred up with wildness and ferocity and urge to be remembered by a kindred soul.

At that time maybe a loyal man and a passionate lover such as Edgar Linton was unfathomable and laughed at by other men and women alike of that man, I like to think that emilly (a wild girl) wanted just the love of a man who would only and passionately be hers till the end.

The gothic setting of the book took my breath away and I cam really truly feel Emilly bw the lines even though the original manuscripts have been lost..