Emily was born 1818 in Yorkshire, England. She was 1 of 4 siblings, 3 girls and a boy. All three sisters, Anne, Emily, and Charlotte, became writers, inspired by the imaginary games they played as children.They lived in a desolate, hilly landscap which inspired the settings of many nonvels. Emily only publshed Wuthering Heights and 1 book of poetry, Poems By Currer, Ellis And Acton Bell. Ellis Bell was Emily'
s pseudonym. She died in 1848. Soon after ward, Charlotte revealed the true author of wuthering heights as being emily.(1)

Emily Bronte was not the only famous writer in her family. Her older sister Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre. Her younger sister Anne Bronte wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. (3)


A portrait of Emily Bronte

Her Insperation
Emily Bronte grew up in a poverty striken town in moorland. We know that the moors where a big part in Wuthering Heights, a place that Caroline loved and would go with Heathcliff and dream they were in a castle. the moors were also special to young Catherine as well. Growing up Emily Bronte and her sister started writing by documenting the stories of made up worlds they would imagine of while playing in their home. These stories were often based on stories like Johnathan Swift's Gullivers Travels. (6)

Emily Bronte was never famous for her poetry. After the book of Poems that she and her sisters published failed, they all turned to writing novels. Then after her brother died at the age of thirty from drugs and alcohol she also died about a year later from tuberculosis. About a year before her death, she published Wuthering Heights. She never lived to see its success. (7)

A List of Her Poems & Novels (3)

• Fiction
  Wuthering Heights

• Poetry
  A Little While, A Little While
  A Daydream
  A Death-scene
  Anticipation
  Death
  Encouragement
  Faith And Despondency
  Honour's Martyr
  Hope
  How Clear She Shines
  Last Words
  Loud Without The Wind Was Roaring
  Love And Friendship
  My Comforter
  No Coward Soul Is Mine
  Plead For Me
  Remembrance
  Self-Interrogation
  Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
  Song
  Stanzas
  Stanzas To ----
  Stanzas-
  Stars
  Sympathy
  The Bluebell
  The Elder's Rebuke
  The Lady To Her Guitar
  The Night-wind
  The Old Stoic
  The Philosopher
  The Prisoner
  The Two Children
  The Visionary
  The Wanderer From The Fold
  To Imagination
  Warning And Reply

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Sources

(1) http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebronte.htm
(2)http://mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/anne/emily.jpg
(3) http://www.online-literature.com/bronte/
(4)http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/wuthering/context.html
(5)http://www.csulb.edu/~csnider/brontes.html
(6)http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebronte.htm
(7)http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-bronte-emily.asp