But how could this be, when the letter was specifically addressed to Ellis Bell, Emily’s pen name? Anne’s was Acton Bell. Some scholars speculate that this letter was actually meant for Anne Brontë, who also had a second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, in progress. I would not hurry its completion, for I think you are quite right not to let it go before the world until well satisfied with it, for much depends on your new work if it be an improvement on your first… I am much obliged by your kind note and shall have great pleasure in making arrangements for your second novel. The letter is a part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s collection of the family’s correspondence.
A letter from Emily’s publisher Thomas Cautley Newby, dated February 15, 1848, shows as much. Emily Brontë, the author of the English literary classic Wuthering Heights, did die tragically young, and she did leave a second novel unfinished. This forlorn, Victorian scene is not entirely a work of fiction.
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