Women Ahead Of Their Time: The Brilliant Bronte Sisters (Full Documentary)

I am a die-hard fan of English Literary society particularly Victorian Era and Romanticism. But, the way you presented this episode, I simply have no words. Thanks ................. !!!

Lol, imagine there are people who think that the Brontes are good writers.

Charlotte was not a spinster. She was married.

RIP Bronte Family. I am thankful The Creator brought all of you into existence and allowed you to be born. May your memory live on ❤️🇺🇲🇬🇧

Read Jane Eyre at least 25 times and never brought to mind an "ugly" face such as the horror portrayed by this peculiar artist....😂

How is heathcliff ideal? He was abusive and gross

I love how passionate the host was about the Bronte. I can feel her every emotion rippling through my heart

Just brought some old as oppose to plastic one.

What is the beautiful choirmusic bit before she walks the path and reads.

Hello from Honolulu, HI! I must say that I absolutely enjoyed listening and watching Sheila Hancock in this video. She has renewed my interest in the Bronte writings, which I gave up more than 30 years ago. Her readings and interpretations were just what I needed while resting and recovering from a back surgery. Just so lovely and charming!

Mind you, Laurence Olivier's Heathcliff wasn't as bad as the character in the novel, he has never struck me as being sentimental either. His Heathcliff has always struck me as vindictive, bitter and especially cruel toward his wife, Isabella (as portrayed by Geraldine Fitzgerald).

A fantastic video!

Thank you for these wonderful perspective documentaries. It's wonderful to keep learning, especially in the arts and literature. 😊

I dated Charlotte when I was young. All 3 sisters were both gracious and attractive. I once asked Emily why Heathcliffe for a name? She told me that they had a cat when they were young named Heathcliff. Well,better get going, as at my age you tire quickly.

So was the consumption caused by bad drinking water polluted by the graveyard?

Heathcliff was everyones ideal man..

I am sure the Brontes identified as man. Or at least as transgender. They might have been born as female, but their contribution sounds very male. Whoever denies this, is racist, not woke or bhas the wrong pronouns😂😂😂

Jane Eyre rivals Little Women as my favorite book going back about 50 years. I reread both periodically, Jane Eyre most often.

Great host!

"She had to imagine love". No, she didnt... She had to imagine sex, yes, but it is quite possible to possess, not just imagine, love unrequited.

Except Emily's bedroom as shown here, "that tiny room", was * not * tiny when Emily slept there. Charlotte enlarged the bedroom next door years later, after Emily's death, to use a a master bedroom for her and her new husband.

So, when the children all lived, that room was never as it is shown today.

Thanks so much for this

A wonderful biography about Emily Bronte is called A Chainless Heart, taken from one of her poems. It speaks to the freedom she always wished for. I read this years ago and have unfortunately forgotten the name of the author. I'm going to look for it again. A wild thinking and passionate woman was Emily which explains Wuthering Heights.

I read Wuthering Heights when I was fourteen. In order to understand the dialect I had to read it out loud. The most extraordinary thing about my reading Wuthering Heights at that age is this :It was on my required summer reading list from the Sisters of Charity of Halifax at my Catholic boarding school, The Academy of the Assumption In Wellesly Hills, Massachusetts. The year was 1960. I am 76 now, and I remember vivdly exactly where I was while reading that novel. Only when I was in my early 30's did I realize how extraordinary it was that Wuthering Heights was chosen by Catholic for a 14 year old child to read. I am grateful to all of them, and especially to Sister Patricia Ann, the Principal, who I suspect was the one who created those summer reading lists.

Tragic life and tragic end!
Heathcliff, Cathy, their creator, Bronte sisters

Have you my dear seen "Outlander" Series of the books or movies, they were filmed not to long back in UK Ireland, England. Wonderful for me as you are about Heathcliff I am about Jamie, the perfect provide & protector. Absolutely thee best I have ever read. I have read, my own library only of what I have read. None of Bronte or Austin even comes close to "Outlander" or " The Handmaid's Tale" as well. You need to catch up, do the book clubs for a while see what's out there & what's up and coming. The Winds of Time is thee best JRR Tolkien type life epic, he wrote literally till his death. Absolutely a 10 Star story.xo

What an wonderful video. This host is pure joy and I enjoyed this immensely. ❤

Yes I finally found it! I remember watching this a while ago on Curiosity Stream and I wanted to watch it again but it was no longer there and now I had to track down the right documentary about the Bronte sisters and now after a couple days of work I found it!

I am convinced Emily Brontë was deeply spiritually enlightened, but her conception of the divine, was just beyond the Christian faith. Fascinating girls.

What a wonderful program, I'm so glad I came across this. Thank you so much.

감동적입니다. 몇년전부터 4번째 시청이네요. Wuthering heights도 최고로 좋아하는소설. 영어소설로 몇년에 한번씩은 꼭 읽게됩니다. 브론테자매 흔적을 느낄수있는 생가를 방문해보는게 꿈..

Really enjoyed Shelia Hancocks Bronte documentary.
The last line of Wuthering Heights is so perfect an end to a story that stirs every emotion its possible to feel

So glad I watched this, BEFORE, commercials! You remember that? I’m at watching it again!

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As a parent, I have always shed tears for Patrick Bronte. I cannot imagine outliving my beloved spouse and every single one of my children.

If the Brontë sisters could have only seen the universal impact their work and lives had throughout the eras… a simple thank you to the trio will not suffice.

Doing fine till the first crappy ads came on, I'm outta here.

Why is everybody talking about Jane Eyre and nobody about Vilette? In my opinion the best book of Charlotte Brontë.

All of the Bronte's were the children of a false teacher, and sadly both Charlotte and Emily were more than blasphemous - even Branwell and Charlotte were adulterous and Charlotte did worse and ended up slandering her own siblings, plagerized her siblings work, and then married a false teacher and just as Lewis Carroll was blasphemous and has since been exposed as the pedophile he really died as - it is no wonder why the Bronte's got the fate that they deserved. At least, Anne had the one foresight to admit - "God's will be done".

Thank you!! Love from New Hampshire. Always, Selena

A most wonderfully narrated film. I am brought to tears.

I love Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. This is a very beautiful tribute to the Bronte sisters. Thank you Sheila for a wonderful presentation. I cried when you read the line from the Wuthering Heights in the end, very poignant and touching.

I love this video..Favorited❤.

Thank you to Sheila for this brilliant presentation. Thank you to everyone who was involved in the making of this documentary.

This is my favorite novel ever!!!

The whole documentary is amazing, but the ending got me to tears. All the love to everyone involved, to Sheila and to the Bronte sisters

Thank you ❤🌹

I’m only 50 years old and Wuthering Heights and Duel in The Sun are top in my great romances.. When I was a child I felt his Heathcliff’s sadness and I hated Kathy for torturing him. Then I got older and saw the deadness in his eyes.. He was nothing without her and well we all know the end.. Unfortunately I still fell for Heathcliff

Thank you so much for this magical presentation, a celebration of sisterhood and Sheila was the perfect guide, very touching. Shall start rereading and also wish for Sheila to recite more. Beautiful!