Gothic Auntie
Literature, folklore, and history
Category: The Brontë Sisters
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The Brontë sisters made an indelible mark on the gothic genre, creating a small library’s worth of work’s between them. While Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are ubiquitous, Ann Brontë’s and much of Charlotte’s work are significantly more obscure and harder to find – and physical copies can be expensive as a result. However, as…
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I can feel the lit snobs bristling from here, but it’s true; Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and a lot of gothic classics all fit the brief for dark romance. What’s more, the moral panic that dark romance has inspired is the exact same one that played out over gothic literature in the 18th and 19th centuries. The…