Emily Brontë

(1818-1848) Emily Bronte was the fifth child of a parish clergyman in the small village of Haworth, in Yorkshire, England. She was a very reserved child, and spent much of her time wandering on the moors near her home. Emily could not endure long absenses from home as they made her ill, but she still managed to receive some education from the Cowen Bridge School. In 1842, Emily travelled with her sister Charlotte to Brussels. Emily is regarded as the most talented of the Bronte sisters on the strength of her one novel, Wuthering Heights, and on her poetry, where she also far excelled her sisters. Emily caught a cold at her brother Branwell's funeral, and unfortunately, followed him to the grave a few months later. Her work: Wuthering Heights