Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Bronte was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Emily was the fifth of six Bronte siblings, four of whom survived into adulthood. She died in 1848, only a year after her novel appeared, and its reputation grew steadily afterward. Her mother, Maria Branwell, died when she was three, leaving the children in the care of their aunt, and Emily was mostly taught at home by her father, Patrick Bronte, who was the curate of Haworth. She was close to her siblings, especially her younger sister Anne, and together they wrote books and journals depicting imaginary worlds.