A Brontë Botany

A new book release takes a quite untraveled road to the Brontës:

A Brontë Botany

Flora in the Classic Novels of the Brontë Sisters

By Amy M. King, Tugce Okay (illustrations)

Andrews McMeel Publishing

ISBN: 9798881613952 October 2026

The first-ever botanical guide to the Brontës—discover the heather, roses, and trees that shape Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and more, with 60 enchanting natural-history illustrations.

The Brontë novels are famous for their gothic atmospheres and untamed landscapes—but the plants that root these stories are just as vivid as their characters. A Brontë Botany is the first-ever botanical guide to the works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë.

Guiding readers from the wild heather of the Yorkshire moors to the cultivated roses of manor-house gardens, Victorian-literature scholar Amy King reveals how flora functions as a living, symbolic force of emotion and fate.

The first botanical companion to the Brontës

A fresh lens on Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and more

60 full-color natural-history illustrations by Tugce Okay

A smart, display-worthy gift for readers and plant lovers

Wander the moors and gardens of the Brontës—and rediscover the novels through their flowers.