Still Life of Emily Brontë's Belongings

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Still-life artist Eileen Ganly has grouped together here the wooden soldiers, which inspired the Brontë children's early writing, Emily's christening mug filled with moorland heather, her dog Keeper's collar, writing slope, quill and inkwell, sampler and her novel 'Wuthering Heights', open at the title page with author's name 'Ellis Bell', Emily's pseudonym. In the background can be seen two windows, one giving on to a view of Top Withens, reputedly the novel's setting, the other opening on to Westminster's Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. The windows symbolise Emily's roots in the Yorkshire moors and the national fame that the novel was to bring her. The motto, 'With Courage to Endure', is taken from her poem 'The Old Stoic': Yes, as my swift days near their goal: 'Tis all that I implore; In life and death a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

Brontë Parsonage Museum

Keighley

Title

Still Life of Emily Brontë's Belongings

Date

1963

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 68.5 x W 81 cm

Accession number

P57

Acquisition method

gift from the artist, 1974

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Eileen Ganley 1963

Brontë Parsonage Museum

Church Street, Haworth, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD22 8DR England

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