Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters: Breaking Barriers

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Primary
Nagoya University (Japan)

Nagoya University: E Texts of the Work of the Bronte Sisters

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to the available e-texts of works of all three Bronte sisters: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.
Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Bronte Sisters Tenant of Wildfell Hall

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of Anne Bronte's 1848 novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. An introductory note discusses the book and author.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Masterpiece: The Brontes Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Website
Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: An Overview of Emily Bronte

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Website
Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation: Emily Jane Bronte (1818 1848)

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography of the poetry of writer Emily Bronte, with a synopsis of her collection of works.
Website
Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Charlotte Bronte

For Students 9th - 10th
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....
eBook
University of Pennsylvania

University of Pa: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
eBook
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: The Bronte Sisters Shirley

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: The Bronte Sisters Jane Eyre

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: The Bronte Sisters Wuthering Heights

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
eBook
University of Pennsylvania

University of Penn: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (Etext)

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Handout
SparkNotes

Spark Notes: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
eBook
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: The Bronte Sisters Villette

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of Charlotte Bronte's novel, Villette.
Website
University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: Anne Bronte (1820 1849)

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Website
Other

Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights

For Students 9th - 10th
Author Joyce Carol Oates examines the theme of inevitability in "Wuthering Heights," the life of the Bronte sisters, and how it affected their art.
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Other

Anne Bronte the Scarborough Connection

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
eBook
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: On the Death of Anne Bronte

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains the full text of "On the Death of Anne Bronte," Charlotte Bronte's elegy to her sister.
eBook
University of Pennsylvania

Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The Digital Library provides links to the texts of two of Emily Bronte works, "Poems by Currier, Ellis, and Acton Bell," and "Wuthering Heights."
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Anne Bronte

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Graphic
Curated OER

The Bront

For Students 9th - 10th
To learn more about the Bronte Sisters check out this site highlighting their poetry. Find out a little more about these talented sisters through this brief but informative biography.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Authors

For Students 9th - 10th
From William Blake and John Keats to Charles Dickens and the Bronte sisters, explore 23 iconic authors from the Romantic and Victorian periods.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Childhood

For Students 9th - 10th
These articles research how childhood was depicted in the literature of the 18th and 19th century, and how perceptions of childhood were different from those of today.
Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Works of Lit

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
From the Romantic poetry of Blake, Shelley, and Keats to the Victorian novels of Dickens, Eliot, and the Bronte sisters, and beyond to fin de siecle works by Wilde, explore 55 of the most famous works of literature from 1780-1901.