Curated OER
Introducing Jane Eyre
"How can a magazine reflect a particular time and culture?" Using this prompt, your class explores the Victorian Era as it relates to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. They can also play the "Victorian Women's Rights" game for the year 1840...
Curated OER
Jane Eyre Quiz
For this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Curated OER
Landscapes of the Mind
Young scholars review Emily Dickinson's biography and examine themes and forms of some of her poems. They measure ways Graham integrates aspects of Dickinson's life and the themes and forms of her poetry into Letters to the World.
Curated OER
The Victorian Era - History Through Literature
Students can learn about the Victorian Era through famous novels, such as "Wuthering Heights" and "Great Expectations".
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters: Breaking Barriers
Discover the brilliant Bronte sisters, who defied the limited options for women in 19th-century Britain to create some of the most iconic novels in English literature, in these three video excerpts from To Walk Invisible: The Bronte...
Nagoya University (Japan)
Nagoya University: E Texts of the Work of the Bronte Sisters
This site provides links to the available e-texts of works of all three Bronte sisters: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Bronte Sisters Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Read the full text of Anne Bronte's 1848 novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. An introductory note discusses the book and author.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Masterpiece: The Brontes Collection
Understand the impact of the Bronte sisters' personal and professional struggles on their writing in MASTERPIECE: Breaking Barriers: To Walk Invisible. Gain a deeper understanding of the use of plot, setting, and characterization with...
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: An Overview of Emily Bronte
This site offers a chronology of Bronte's life, links to information about her and her sisters, and includes cultural contexts and discussions of the themes and techniques used in her work.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: Emily Jane Bronte (1818 1848)
A detailed biography of the poetry of writer Emily Bronte, with a synopsis of her collection of works.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Charlotte Bronte
This resource provides an elaborate overview of the life, works, and times of Charlotte Bronte. Content ranges from the genre, plot, and theme found in "Jane Eyre," to the position of middle-class women of Bronte's time, to the Boer War....
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pa: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
This University of Pennsylvania site reproduces the 1846 book here with some enhancements. Icons representing each of the 3 Bronte sisters identify who wrote which poem, and a provenance of the text explains where the information...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: The Bronte Sisters Shirley
Read Charlotte Bronte's "Shirley." The novel is set in the north of England, specifically Yorkshire, in the later years of the Napoleonic Wars and the time of the Luddite riots.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: The Bronte Sisters Jane Eyre
Read Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel "Jane Eyre." It is fictionalised autobiography of its author that follows the fortunes of the heroine who comes to work for the mysterious Mr. Rochester.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: The Bronte Sisters Wuthering Heights
This website provides the full text of Emily Bronte's novel, "Wuthering Heights." There is a brief paragraph introducing the context, characters, and significance of this "tale of heartbreak and mystery."
University of Pennsylvania
University of Penn: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (Etext)
The whole novel, including illustrations, is reproduced at this site hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. An interesting feature is the brief explanation of the provenance of the work, as well as the inclusion of Anne Bronte's...
SparkNotes
Spark Notes: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Read a Plot Overview of the entire book of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte or a chapter by chapter Summary and Analysis. Also provided are links to character lists, main ideas, quotes, and writing help.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: The Bronte Sisters Villette
Read the full text of Charlotte Bronte's novel, Villette.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania: Anne Bronte (1820 1849)
Biographical website from the University of Pennsylvania that deals with the life and the works of Anne Bronte. Links include: biography, selected poems, various works, and a bibliography.
Other
Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights
Author Joyce Carol Oates examines the theme of inevitability in "Wuthering Heights," the life of the Bronte sisters, and how it affected their art.
Other
Anne Bronte the Scarborough Connection
This site contains a detailed overview of the life and work of Anne Bronte. Extensive content includes a biography, a look at her home and friends, numerous pictures and portraits, lists and criticism of her novels and poems, and much more.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: On the Death of Anne Bronte
This site contains the full text of "On the Death of Anne Bronte," Charlotte Bronte's elegy to her sister.
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page
The Digital Library provides links to the texts of two of Emily Bronte works, "Poems by Currier, Ellis, and Acton Bell," and "Wuthering Heights."
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Anne Bronte
This site features the author Anne Bronte including a biography and the full text of two novels including Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.