Knock me upside the head for this question, but I have never read more than excerpts from the Brontes. Do they need to be read in any certain order?
Knock me upside the head for this question, but I have never read more than excerpts from the Brontes. Do they need to be read in any certain order?
No. Jane Erye is generally thought of as best with Wuthering Heights next. The others are all good, but don’t measure up to those two.
I agree. I would start with Jane Eyre. I also loved Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Jane Eyre is the best. People generally love or hate WH.
Wuthering Heights is the best if you have a poetic mind, if you love a gripping story Jane Eyre might be the one to start with.
I liked Agnes Grey.
Anne is my favorite Brontë – I wish I had read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall much earlier. Had she lived past 29 she would have surpassed the two more famous sisters.
I would start with Jane Eyre as you see her grow from childhood into a young woman. In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Helen is already a married woman with a child. This novel is lesser known because Charlotte prevented its publication after Anne’s death. It’s the most modern of the three sisters’ novels.
As for Wuthering Heights — I’ve read it twice, and gothic romance is not my thing but may be yours. Happy Reading!
Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey are probably the most accessible. JE is also the most beloved I think-followed by Wuthering Heights, as was mentioned above. I’d read one of those three first: JE would be my personal recommendation. Many critics and hardcore Charlotte Bronte fans consider Villette to be Charlotte’s best work (and therefore probably the best of the novels written by any of the three sisters) and it is excellent, but I’d leave it till after Jane Eyre.
100% agreed.
No order. Loved Jane Eyre, liked Wuthering Heights. You’ll enjoy them!
No , you can read them as you wish. In any order.
Wuthering Heights is the only book Emily Bronte wrote. The story is complex. The characters are complex. This book is not a light, easy and fun read. It’s a dark, complex and tragic story. But the greatest love story written.
@Joan I second that, it also touches upon so many themes really, rejection, prejudice, revenge, vanity, salvation etc
I went to the Bronte Museum many years ago, and it is definitely worth a visit. What amazing women!
I think it’s a great question 🙂 and was wondering the same thing 🙂