The Brontë sisters — Charlotte, Emily, and Anne — literary geniuses all, are best known for their classic novels. Each was also a poet in her own right. Though Emily Brontë’s poetry is considered the best among the sisters’ poetic works, poems by Charlotte Brontë are more than meriting of a consideration.

All three sisters longed to be novelists, though before attempting to publish full-length works, Charlotte undertook the task of finding a home for a collaborative book of poems. Her thinking was that it would be a good stepping stone (it wasn’t, as it turned out).

The sisters took masculine, or at least indeterminate, noms de plume. In Charlotte’s words:

“We had very early cherished the dream of one day becoming authors. This dream, never relinquished even when distance divided and absorbing tasks occupied us, now suddenly acquired strength and consistency: it took the character of a resolve. We agreed to arrange a small section of our poems, and, if possible, get them printed. Read More→