Emily Bronte

1818 - 1848 *

introspective member of the famous Brontë family, whose only novel is one of the most significant of its period.

Emily, the most introspective of the Brontë sisters was briefly educated at school but so disliked being away from her home that she returned and continued with more informal schooling. Her early attempts at writing included poetry. Her work conveys a sense of mystery and longing that she experienced in her life. Her only novel, Wuthering Heights, is considered to be technically brilliant, with forthright and passionate language used to tell a fascinating saga. The brilliance of this novel was only acknowledged after her painful death from tuberculosis.

          Source: Classics Network Editorial Team

Perhaps the greatest writer of the three Brontë sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Emily Brontë published only one novel, WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1847), a story of the doomed love and revenge. The sisters also published jointly a volume of verse, POEMS BY CURRER, ELLIS AND ACTON BELL, but only two copies of the book was sold.

--'Heatcliff had knelt on one knee to embrace her; he attempted to rise, but she seized his hair, and kept him down.
--"I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both death! I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your su... [read entire biography]

          Source: Petri Liukkonen

BRONTE, CHARLOTTE (1816-1855), EMILY (1818-1848), and ANNE (1820-1849), English novelists, were three of the six children of Patrick Bronte, a clergyman Of the Church of England, who for the last forty-one years of his'life was perpetual incumbent of the parish of Ha worth in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Patrick Bronte was born at Emsdale, Co. Down, Ireland; on the iyth of March 1777. His parents werc'!of the peasant class, their original name of Brunty apparently having been changed by their s... [read entire biography]

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Characters and Setting in Wuthering Heights -- This essay discusses how characters in novels can often move through physical landscapes as well as moral landscapes. It basically discusses how the setting in the novel relate to the temprements of the characters.
By Kristy Shrigley, High School Student	Editorial Rating:

An Evangelican Review of Wuthering Heights -- A literary review of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights written in an Evangelican perspective
By Keli Svicek, Student	Editorial Rating:

     

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