Greetings from the Editor

Victorians Journal #134, Winter 2018, marks the second of three special numbers celebrating the birth bicentenaries of Charlotte (2016), Emily (2018), and Anne (2020) Brontë.As was the case with our special Charlotte number, Victorians is again fortunate to have the expertise of two fine Victorian scholars serving as guest acquisitions editors: Deborah Denenholz Morse and Amber Pouliot.

As the following work attests, Emily Brontë's reputation as elusive, evocative, and provocative continues to fascinate readers and writers, from academic scholars to producers and consumers of young adult fan-fiction. The dearth of information about Emily's personal life, and her small but endlessly compelling literary legacy, seem designed to make us long for more from this far too short-lived literary genius. The new work offered here illustrates how much still remains to be said about her solitary novel and about the dramatic implications of its first- and second-generation lovers and siblings. As for Emily Brontë's poetry—this is a rich field of study only just beginning to come into its own.

On behalf of Victorians Journal, I am delighted to offer this new work on Emily, in concert with that of Charlotte and in anticipation of our forthcoming volume on Anne. Please direct queries and submissions for the Anne Brontë Bicentenary volume to deborah.logan@wku.edu. At Western Kentucky University, I offer my best thanks and gratitude to Dean Larry Snyder of Potter College of Arts and Letters, and to English Department Head, Dr. Rob Hale, for their continued support of Victorians Journal.