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Born: July 30, 1818, in Thorton, Yorkshire, England

Died: December 19, 1848, in Haworth, Yorkshire, England

Emily Brontë's reputation as a writer stands on one work, Wuthering Heights, which is noted for its timeless qualities.

Brontë's father was an Irish-born, Anglican clergyman who held many curacies before moving with his wife and six children to a position in Haworth in 1820. The rector changed his name to Brunty, a more common form of Brontë. Soon after the move, Emily's mother and two older sisters died. The remaining children were raised with the help of an aunt, Elizabeth Branswell.

After the death of their mother in 1824, the Brontë children lived more or less alone in the moorland rectory where they spent their time writing and creating stories about their magical kingdoms of Angria and Gondal. Emily's formal education began at Clergy Daughters School at Cowan's Bridge, Lancaster in 1824. She returned home in 1825 and spent the next five years on the moor in Haworth. In 1835, Emily attended Miss Woller's school at Roe Head where her older sister, Charlotte, was teaching.

In 1838, Emily briefly tried her hand at teaching, but retired after six months. In 1842, Emily and her sister, Charlotte, went to Brussels to study languages with the intent of opening a school close to their family in Haworth. When her aunt died later that year, Emily returned to Haworth permanently.

When her sister, Charlotte, discovered that all the sisters had written poetry, they published a volume of verse under the names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. The pseudonyms were an attempt to avoid attention that was considered inappropriate for women during this era. The disguise was unnecessary because the publication sold only two copies.

Wuthering Heights is the only significant work that Emily produced. Unlike typical Victorian prose, the book is considered masculine in tone, and sometimes violent. The novel was published in 1847 along with two other works by her sisters. Brontë relied on her own imagination when creating a story based upon primitive energies such as love and hate, revenge and loyalty.

It was not until later that the story was fully appreciated as a timeless work. The novel was initially considered by critics as savage, animal-like and clumsy in construction. Some have suggested that parts of the book may have been written by Emily's brother, Patrick Branswell, but there is a lack of evidence to support this theory. Soon after the publication Brontë's health failed and she died of tuberculosis in December 1848.

Wuthering Heights
Her only novel tells the story of Heathcliff’s adoption by the Ernshaw family. Bronte’s affinity for mysticism is demonstrated throughout this classic work.

The Complete Novels

The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë
The renowned Hatfield edition includes verse from an early, pseudonymous volume entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, as well as 200 works collected from various manuscript sources after Brontë's death in 1848.

Emily Brontë by Robert Barnard	The enigma that a young woman from such a closed and protected environment as a Yorkshire parsonage could write the wildly romantic, complex, and unconventional Wuthering Heights has long fascinated readers. Largely self-educated, Emily Bronte spent most of her short life at the family home in Haworth, England. Her solitary instincts are well known, and every biographer's task has been complicated by her refusal to reveal anything of herself during her lifetime. In this fascinating biography, Robert Barnard examine's Emily Bronte's insulated childhood, the lyrical poems of her twenties that prefigure the raw intensity of Wuthering Heights, and the sources of inspiration for Wuthering Heights itself. The author draws not only on Bronte's own writing, but also on the words of her friends and family to present a full picture of her life and character. Also crucial to this story are recent discoveries concerning Bronte's studies of the classics, glimpses of her in her brother's recently published juvenilia, and her little-known writing during her year of study in Brussels. Illustrated with manuscripts drawn from The British Library's vast collection, as well as photographs, contemporary pictures, and letters from many other sources, this book provides a highly readable account of the elusive Emily Bronte. THE AUTHOR Robert Barnard was Chairman of the Bronte Society, and is a writer of crime novels. He is the author of a number of works of literary criticism, including A Short History of English Literature and books on Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie.

The Birth of Wuthering Heights: Emily Brontë at Work by Robert Banard	Chitham argues that Wuthering Heights was recast and expanded between its first submission to a publisher in 1846 and its final acceptance and publication in late 1847. He suggests that the well-known chronological coherence of the book was an innovation of the second version and explores the anomalies which still remain. *About the Author* Edward Chitham is a renowned Brontë scholar and Editor of the Brontë Society Transactions.

The History of the Brontë Family: From Ireland to Wuthering Heights by Robert Banard	What was the nature of the Brontës' strange genius? Where did it spring from and what inspired it? Patrick Brontë, father of the Brontë sisters, came from Ireland, changing his name from Brunty to Brontë when he won a scholarship to Cambridge. His children never met their Irish relatives and Patrick was deliberately vague about his origins: because of this little has been known about the family's Irish background. Yet it was a huge influence in their lives and in their works. First published as The Road to Haworth in 1980, this book traces the Brontës' Irish ancestry from its murky origins around 1710. It highlights themes and stories in the novels of the Brontës which could only have come from a profound knowledge of their Irish roots as told them by their father. His father, Hugh Brunty, had been well-known in Ireland as a storyteller, his repertoire included the bizarre tale of Welsh Brunty, almost certainly a model for Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. After graduation Patrick Brontë was ordained a Church of England priest and, in 1820, arrived in Haworth with his wife (who died the following year from cancer) and six young children - only four of whom survived to adulthood. Motherless from an early age, Charlotte, Emily and Anne received their inspiration and encouragement from their father who had himself cherished literary ambitions. The Brontë family's story is every bit as strange and romantic as those penned by the sisters in their classic novels.