Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered … See more

Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 to Maria Branwell and an Irish father, Patrick Brontë. The family was living on Market Street, in a house now known as the Brontë Birthplace in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of … See more

Emily became a teacher at Law Hill School in Halifax beginning in September 1838, when she was twenty. Her health soon broke under the stress of the 17-hour workday, and she returned home in April 1839. Ther… See more

Emily Brontë's solitary nature has made her a mysterious figure and a challenge for biographers to assess. Except for Ellen Nussey and Louise de Bassompierre, Emily's fellow student in Brussels, she does not seem t… See more

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was first published in London in 1847 by Thomas Cautley Newby, appearing as the first two volumes of a three-volume set that included Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey. The authors were printe… See more

Emily's health was probably weakened by the harsh local climate and by unsanitary conditions at home, where water was contaminated by run off from the church's graveyard. Branwell died suddenly, on Sunday, 2… See more