Emily Bronte, English novelist and poet who wrote only one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a highly imaginative work of passion and hate set on the Yorkshire moors. Emily was perhaps the greatest writer of the three Bronte sisters, but the record of her life is extremely meager.

In fact, there's no evidence to suggest that Emily ever had an affair with anyone. "We certainly have no evidence for her ever having a love affair in her life. And she,...

When Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, outraged Victorian critics deemed it savage, indecent and immoral. One described it as “a compound of...

Emily Jane Brontë (/ ˈ b r ɒ n t i /, commonly /-t eɪ /; [2] 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) [3] was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.