The Brontë sisters - help needed fast!

[EmmaO]

I've been trying to find information about what kind of impact the Brontë sisters had on English literature but the same phrase "they had a great impact on English literature" keeps appearing everywhere and no one has really been able to explain to me what that means. I really wish someone could help me out here and tell me how they influenced the direction of English literature. I'd be really grateful.

[IrishMark]

well it is debateable if they actually changed the course of literature or any specific literary genre as their work straddled romanticism/victorianism of which they were atypical. technically they influenced more or less every romance novelist since the mid 19th century.