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Emily Bronte

Emily Jane Brontë was the most solitary member of a unique, tightly-knit, English provincial family. Born in 1818, she shared the parsonage of the town of Haworth, Yorkshire, with her older sister, Charlotte; her brother, Branwell; her younger sister, Anne; and her father, the Reverend Patrick Brontë. All five were poets and writers, and all but Branwell would publish at least one book. Fantasy was the Brontë children’s one relief from the rigors of religion and the bleakness of life in an impoverished region. In 1845, Charlotte Brontë came across a manuscript volume of her sister’s poems. At her sister’s urging, Emily’s poems, along with Anne’s and Charlotte’s, were published pseudonymously in 1846. An almost complete silence greeted this volume, but the three sisters, buoyed by the fact of publication, immediately began to write novels. Emily’s effort was Wuthering Heights; appearing in 1847, it was treated at first as a lesser work by Charlotte, whose Jane Eyre had already been published to great acclaim. Emily Brontë’s name did not emerge from behind her pseudonym of Ellis Bell until the second edition of her novel appeared in 1850.
Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights (DK Classics)
Wuthering Heights
The Brontë Sisters Boxed Set
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
The Bronte Sisters
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte: Poems

Books

Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights (DK Classics)
Wuthering Heights
The Brontë Sisters Boxed Set
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
The Bronte Sisters
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte: Poems

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