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was the only one who took him seriously, and her heart was
broken. Charlotte agonized over an unrequited passion for the
married head of the school in Brussels. And then there was
Branwell.

A brilliant conversationalist, Branwell started hanging
around bars in his teens, and if a stranger stopped by, he would
entertain him for the price of a night's drinks. At first all
the family's hopes were pinned on him, but it soon became clear
that he wouldn't even be able to hold down a job on his own.
Anne eventually got him a position as tutor for the Robinson
family of Thorp Hall, where she was governess, and he fell
wildly in love with the mistress of the place. Either because
the husband found out, or because the wife tired of him, he was
dismissed, and spent the rest of his short life addicted to
alcohol and opium.

While Branwell was devoting himself to his love affair, his
three sisters were busy writing. Charlotte had found some of
Emily's earlier poems, and persuaded Emily to contribute to a
book of verse by all three sisters, to be financed by money left
them by their aunt. The three picked the pseudonyms of Currer
[Charlotte], Ellis [Emily], and Acton [Anne] Bell, and their
literary careers began. Turning from poetry to fiction,
Charlotte wrote The Professor and Jane Eyre; Emily, Wuthering
Heights; and Anne, Agnes Grey--all under their pseudonyms.
Charlotte and Anne soon revealed their true identities; while
Emily, true to form, forbade her sisters to reveal anything
about her.

Two months after the "Bells" were unmasked, in September
1848, Branwell died. His dissipation had been too much for the
frail Bronte constitution to bear. Emily herself caught cold
the day of the funeral, the last day she ever went outdoors.
Consumption took hold quickly. She wasted away before her
anguished sisters but continued to see to her chores, refusing
medical attention. On December 19, at the age of thirty, she
died, unaware that her only novel would some day be recognized
as a masterpiece.

Anne died half a year later, at the age of twenty-nine.
Charlotte died at the age of thirty-eight. Patrick Bronte
lasted another six years; he had outlived all his children.

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS: THE PLOT

Mr. Lockwood, the narrator, has just rented a large,
secluded house called Thrushcross Grange in the desolate moors
of Yorkshire in northern England. When he goes to visit his