The Five-Year Brontë Plan

The Huffington Post has an article on 'The Best Two Half-Decades in Literary History':

They were unplanned "Five-Year Plans" for the ages: the amazing proliferation of classic novels published from 1846 to 1851 and from 1922 to 1927. [...]
I thought about those two stellar half-decades in recent weeks because many of the great novelists who wrote during those years had summer birth dates: Alexandre Dumas (July 24, 1802), Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804), William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811), Emily Brontë (July 30, 1818), Herman Melville (Aug. 1, 1819), Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871), Theodore Dreiser (Aug. 27, 1871), and Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899).
By seeing those names, you can probably guess many of the books I'm about to list.
Great novels that burst on the literary scene between 1846 and 1851 included Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (1846), Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), Thackeray's Vanity Fair (1848), Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850), and Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). And then there were these mid-19th century powerhouses by authors born during non-summer seasons: Honoré de Balzac's La Cousine Bette (1846), Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), and Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850). (Dave Astor)

The Brontës are also mentioned in Carmela Ciuraru's book Nom de Plume, which is reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

Ciuraru chose 16 authors alive during the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, including the Brontë sisters, Lewis Carroll and Pauline Réage, and chronologically delineates (within a brief biography of each) their reasons for creating noms de plume. [...]
Starting with the Brontë sisters' difficulty as females getting published in the 19th century, which necessitated the use of male names, the history continues until a century later, when publishing was accessible to females and their work was even acknowledged favorably by critics. (Amy Wallen)

The Deccan Chronicle reviews another book, Nayana Currimbhoy’s Miss Timmins’ School For Girls, and is reminded of another book with a strong Brontë connection:

In one part Currimbhoy flips the point of view from Charu to a student Nanditha, like Jean Rhys does in Wide Sargasso Sea. The flip goes on for a bit long and, to me, feels like a flaw because the first part did build up so tightly and sensitively. (Amandeep Sandhu)

LibriBlog reviews Wuthering Heights in Italian.

Categories: Jane Eyre, References, Wuthering Heights