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The Brontë sisters are:
Charlotte
♟ | 1816.
☠ | 1855.
Emily
♟ | 1818.
☠ | 1848.
Anne
♟ | 1820.
☠ | 1849.
The sisters are well known as poets and novelists. Look at their ages, didn’t they live such short lives… Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality.
Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë, by their brother Branwell (c. 1834). He painted himself among his sisters, but later removed the image so as not to clutter the picture. @ The National Portrait Gallery, London.
“Because, my dear, beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men.” (Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same…” (Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights)
“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; they will make it if they cannot find it.” (Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre)
“What a fool you must be,” said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.”
― Anne bronte, Agnes Grey
Youth gets slated; Youth becomes jaded and gets slated.
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WRITERSAtwood, Margaret
Austen, Jane
Brontë sisters
Burton, Sir Richard
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Conrad, Joseph
Curtis, Adam
de Cervantes, Miguel
Dickens, Charles
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Faulkner, William
Forster, E. M.
García Márquez
Greene, Graham
Hardy, Thomas
Hemingway, Earnest
Huxley, Aldous
Joyce, James
Kafka, Franz
Kureishi, Hanif
Lawrence, D. H.
Melville, Herman
Miller, Henry
Morrison, Toni
Nin, Anaïs
Orwell, George
Proust, Marcel
Roy, Anuradha
Rushdie, Salman
Şafak, Elif
Seneca
Smith, Zadie
Steinbeck, John
Tolstoy, Leo
Updike, John
Waugh, Evelyn
Wilde, Oscar
Woolf, Virginia
Zola, Émile
POETSAesop
Alighieri, Dante
Angelou, Maya
Blake, William
Byron, Lord
Catullus, Gaius
Coleridge, Samuel T.
Cummings, E. E.
Dickinson, Emily
Donne, John
Dryden, John
Eliot, T. S.
Frost, Robert
Gibran, Kahlil
Heaney, Seamus
Homer
Horace
Kaur, Rupi
Keats, John
Larkin, Philip
Marlowe, Christopher
Milton, John
Ovid
Plath, Sylvia
Poe, Edgar Allen
Pound, Ezra
Raleigh, Walter
Rumi
Sappho
Sexton, Anne
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Percy
Silverstein, Shel
Spenser, Edmund
Tennyson, Alfred
Virgil
Walcott, Derek
Whitman, Walt
Wyatt, Thomas
PHILOSOPHERSAntisthenes
Aquinas, Thomas
Aristotle
Bacon, Francis
Bentham, Jeremy
Cicero
Confucius
de Beauvoir, Simone
Democritus
Derrida, Jacques
Descartes, René
Empedocles
Epicurus
Foucault, Michel
Hegel, Georg
Heraclitus
Hobbes, Thomas
Hume, David
John Stuart Mill
Kant, Immanuel
Kierkegaard, Søren
Lao-Tzu
Locke, John
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Marcus Aurelius
Marx, Karl
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Paine, Tom
Parmenides
Plato
Plotinus
Pope Gregory I
Popper, Karl
Pythagoras
Rousseau, Jean
Russell, Bertrand
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Socrates
Spinoza, Baruch
St Augustine
Thales
Voltaire
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Zeno of Citium
PSYCHOLOGISTSBandura, Albert
Ekman, Paul
Erikson, Erik
Festinger, Leon
Freud, Sigmund
Horney, Karen
James, William
Johnson, Virginia
Jung, Carl
Kahneman, Daniel
Kinsey, Alfred
Klein, Melanie
Pavlov, Ivan
Piaget, Jean
Pinker, Steven
Rogers, Carl
Skinner, B. F.
Vygotsky, Lev
POLITICAL FIGURES
ⅰ Queen Boudica
ⅱ King Alfred the Great
ⅲ King Edward I
ⅳ King Henry V
ⅴ King Henry VIII
ⅵ Queen Elizabeth I
ⅶ King Charles II
ⅷ Queen Victoria
Berners-Lee, Tim
Chomsky, Noam
Columbus, Christopher
Copernicus, Nicolaus
da Vinci, Leonardo
Darwin, Charles
Dawkins, Richard
Einstein, Albert
Fukuyama, Francis
Galilei, Galileo
Gutenberg, Johannes
Harari, Yuval
Hobsbawm, Eric
Lovelace, Ada
Michelangelo
Newton, Isaac
Saïd, Edward