This course delves into the works of the three Brontë sisters: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. In total, these sisters wrote seven of the most important novels of the nineteenth century—novels that have spawned spin-offs and adaptations, plays and films, homages and parodies. Their lives, too, have become the stuff of myth: to this day, readers frequently wonder how three of the most influential novelists could emerge from the same family in a remote Yorkshire village. In addition to diving into some of the Brontës’ major novels, we will also reach out to their poetry, juvenilia, letters, and afterlives. How did the social, historical, and artistic contexts of the mid-nineteenth century influence their work? How did their novels shape the future of fictional forms? How do more recent adaptations write and rewrite the myth of the Brontë sisters?