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It isn’t just historically inaccurate. It misunderstands her entirely.

depicts exactly the sort of love affair that a person who’d never been in a romantic relationship is likely to invent, all wildness and extremity and drama. The brilliance of the novel lies in that wildness, in its author’s complete commitment to the ruthlessness of her characters’ emotions and the uncanny afterglow left in their wake—not in its realism.

There’s hardly a book in the movie before the scene at the end in which Emily unwraps a parcel of fresh copies ofand smiles with keen satisfaction at the sight of her name printed on the title page. This itself is apocryphal, since the novel was originally published under the pen name Ellis Bell, and even Emily’s own father did not know she had written it until after her death in 1848.

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