Bronte Biopic 'Emily' Will Be Released In U.S. Theaters This February

The Bronte sisters are rightly remembered as trailblazers in the world of literature, a trio of female authors who each penned novels that would go on to be considered wildly controversial and unimpeachable classics by turns, and they basically did it all in whatever the late eighteenth-century version of "backward and wearing heels' might be. (Translation: Writing under assumed names while facing a myriad of complicated family problems and rather bleak personal prospects.) Yet we still know relatively little about what these women were like as people or what their inspiration or writing process entailed.

Sister of Charlotte and Anne, middle sibling Emily is best known for writing the heartbreaking Gothic romance Wuthering Heights and for the fact that she died quite young. She passed away at just thirty years of age in 1848, which means that it is easy for modern audiences to project our own ideas of who she was on the scant historical record she left behind.

And, like many popular period pieces in recent years, the upcoming biopic Emily fully leans into this trend, crafting an origin story for both author and her most famous novel that doesn't exactly bear a lot of resemblance to real life. But it certainly looks as though it'll be fun to watch -- and it's finally coming to theaters in America next month.