Emily Brontë Was Stranger Than Fiction |
Of literature’s “three weird sisters”—as writer Ted Hughes famously dubbed the Brontës—Emily is the weird-est, probably because history knows so little about her. Sandwiched between best-selling Jane Eyre author Charlotte, the family’s press-savvy manager and mythmaker, and Agnes Grey writer Anne, the sweet and pious peacemaker, was Emily Jane, the elusive middle sister whose personality still evades readers nearly two centuries after her untimely death. “The strange one,” as she’s often called, may have been a lesbian, or in an incestuous relationship with her brother—or just a virgin with a vivid imagination. As a soaking-wet Heathcliff on horseback rides over wild moors and onto movie theater screens yet again in Emerald Fennell’s reimagining of Wuthering Heights, Rosemary Counter tries to answer some burning questions biographers are still asking about the strangest Brontë sister.
Elsewhere, Marisa Meltzer profiles Margaret Qualley for VF’s latest cover story; the stars descend upon New York Fashion Week; we take a look at the Love Story cast in character next to the real-life people they play (including JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy) before it premieres; and we say goodbye to James Van Der Beek. |
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