Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was a British writer and poet. She is most famous for her only novel Wuthering Heights (published in 1847). She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell. Brontë had two sisters, Charlotte and Anne, who were also writers. Her brother, Branwell, was a painter. She co-wrote the poetry collection Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (1846), with her sisters. She was born in Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. She attended Cowan School with her sister Charlotte.
Brontë died of tuberculosis on 19 December 1848 in Haworth, West Riding of Yorkshire. She was 30.[1]
Emily Brontë Media
The three Brontë sisters, in an 1834 painting by their brother Branwell Brontë. From left to right: Anne, Emily and Charlotte. (Branwell used to be between Emily and Charlotte, but subsequently painted himself out.)
Emily's Gondal poems
Constantin Héger, teacher of Charlotte and Emily during their stay in Brussels, on a daguerreotype dated c. 1865
Keeper, watercolour by Emily Brontë, 24 April 1838
Title page of the original edition of Wuthering Heights (1847)
References
- ↑ "Emily Brontë". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved on 12 September 2018.
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