tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post5886915251979119672..comments2024-03-26T23:35:38.726+01:00Comments on the Brontë Sisters: On December 19, 1848 Emily Brontë died of tuberculosis at her home at Haworth, Yorkshire, England at the age of thirty. Geri Meftah Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00596915249757782612noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post-1103422958224142692014-12-21T09:50:20.776+01:002014-12-21T09:50:20.776+01:00Charlotte Brontë herself firmly believed that her ...<i>Charlotte Brontë herself firmly believed that her sister had wanted to survive, regardless of brave words spoken in public about inexorable wills and no coward souls.</i><br /><br />and refusing to care for herself while ill...which went beyond not seeing doctors, Emily made no concessions to her condition whatsoever . I think the important word in the above quote is" believed " CB needed to believe Emily's wanted to live ...though what was true about Emily, CB herself said it's hard to know. <br /><br />Likely Emily did want to live. However Anne's deep wish to live is much more certain. It's all she talks about in her last letter to Ellen.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.com