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Emily had an unusual character, extremely unsocial and reserved, with few friends outside her family.

She preferred the company of animals to people and rarely travelled, forever yearning for the freedom of Haworth and the moors. She had a will of iron &#; a well known story about her is that she was bitten by a (possibly) rabid dog which resulted in her walking calmly into the kitchen and cauterising the wound herself with a hot iron.1

She had unconventional religious beliefs, rarely attending church services and, unlike the other children, never teaching in the Sunday School.

In appearance, she was lithesome and graceful, the tallest of the Brontë children (her coffin measured five feet seven inches &#;  metres) but ate sparingly and would starve herself when unhappy or unable to get her own way. As her literary works suggest, she was highly intelligent, teaching herself German while working in the kitchen (her favourite place outside of the moors) and playing the piano well enough to teach it in Brussels.

Her stubbornness lasted to the end where she refused to see a doctor or rest while she was dying of tuberculosis.

In , Ellen Nussey, a lifelong friend of the Brontës, wrote of her first impressions of the fifteen-year-old Emily in Reminiscences of Charlotte Brontë2:

Emily Brontë had by this time acquired a lithesome, graceful figure.

Biography of jane austen With her last audible words, she said to Charlotte, "If you will send for a doctor, I will see him now", [ 75 ] but it was too late. While Charlotte in particular sought fulfilment through her public literary career, Emily remained content in her solitary existence, devoted to her family, her home, and her writing. Moments so dark as these I have never known — I pray for God's support to us all. That gigantic ambition is to be felt throughout the novel

She was the tallest person in the house, except her father. Her hair, which was naturally as beautiful as Charlotte's, was in the same unbecoming tight curl and frizz, and there was the same want of complexion. She had very beautiful eyes &#; kind, kindling, liquid eyes; but she did not often look at you; she was too reserved.

Their colour might be said to be dark grey, at other times dark blue, they varied so. She talked very little.

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She and Anne were like twins &#; inseparable companions, and in the very closest sympathy, which never had any interruption.

Charlotte famously said of her sister:

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Genealogy

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Timeline

Right hand column shows Emily's age at the time of the event.

30 July,	Emily Jane born at Thornton
April	The family moves to Haworth	20m
15 September	Maria, Emily's mother, dies	3
25 November	Emily joins her sisters, Maria, Elizabeth and Charlotte, at Cowan Bridge School	6
1 June	Emily and Charlotte return from Cowan Bridge School after typhoid strikes and the death of their two older sisters.	6
5 June	Mr Brontë brings home 12 wooden soldiers for Branwell and the children begin creating imaginary worlds	7
Before July	Creates the imaginary kingdom of Gondal with Anne	12
29 July	Becomes a pupil at Roe Head School where Charlotte is a teacher	17
October	Returns from Roe Head after starving herself	17
September	Begins work as teacher at Law Hill, Halifax, probably for about six months	20
February	Charlotte and Emily travel to a school in Brussels (Emily stays for about nine months)	23
Autumn	Charlotte finds Emily's poetry. Probably began Wuthering Heights about now	27
May	Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell published	27
December	Wuthering Heights published along with Agnes Grey	29
28 September,	Branwell's funeral at which Emily catches a severe cold leading to tuberculosis	30
19 December,	Dies at Haworth Parsonage at about two in the afternoon	30
22 December,	Interred in family vault at St Michael and All Angels Church, Haworth	30

Emily was 30 years, 4 months and 23 days old when she died.

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History

Irish-born Patrick Brontë (who changed his surname from Brunty) and his Cornish wife Maria Branwell, moved to Thornton in Yorkshire where Emily was born years ago on 30 July  She was the fifth of six children.

Her second name was probably inspired by her godmother, (her mother's cousin) although it is unknown where 'Emily' came from.4

In , the family moved to Haworth, where Emily's father was to be perpetual curate. Haworth was an unhealthy, poor town and the children spent much of their time either roaming on the nearby moors or in the parsonage, creating stories and poems about imaginary lands.

The four eldest Brontë daughters were enrolled as pupils at the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge in The following year Maria and Elizabeth, the two eldest daughters, became ill, left the school and died; Charlotte and Emily returned home.

For a poor clergyman's daughter, there was little hope of a career beyond a governess or teacher and Emily began work as the latter at Law Hill school, near Halifax in but hated the job, starving herself and returning home about six months later.

Biography of emily bronte wuthering heights Plot [ edit ]. True to her nature, Emily refused medical intervention and resisted any suggestion that she was seriously ill. Critics at Large. Hindley departs for university, returning as the new master of Wuthering Heights on the death of his father three years later.

In February ,with her sister Charlotte, she attended a private school in Brussels with the intention of preparing themselves to open their own teaching establishment. Emily again found herself unsuited to the life and the sisters returned home in November. They tried to open up a school at their home in but had no pupils and Emily eventually accepted a domestic life in the parsonage, cooking and looking after her father.

Charlotte, Emily and Anne published a joint collection of their poetry in under the pen-names Currer, Ellis5 and Acton Bell. In , Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were published in a three volume set to mixed reviews (Wuthering Heights comprising two of the volumes, Agnes Grey the other).

Wuthering Heights was republished in under Emily's real name.

Her brother Branwell died in September and Emily caught a chill during the funeral. This brought on the tuberculosis that she had probably originally caught when nursing Branwell. Refusing all medical help until too late, she died years ago surrounded by her family on 19 December, , about two in the afternoon.

Biography of emily bronte wuthering heights movie Emily's unsociability and extremely shy nature have subsequently been reported many times. When Emily was only three, and all six children under the age of eight, she and her siblings lost their mother, Maria, to cancer on 15 September Harward University Press. This debate had been launched in by Robert Chambers.

She was interred in the family vault of the church opposite her Haworth home three days later.

(She was so emaciated when she died that her coffin was just 16 inches/40 cm wide.)

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Works

Emily (and her sisters') first published work was the book Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, published in with their own money.

It was not a success, selling only two copies (although it did better as a reprint after the success of the novels). The sisters and Branwell had written poetry from childhood and the venture came about when Charlotte discovered a book of Emily's poetry in and persuaded her (with difficulty) to combine them with Charlotte's and Anne's. Despite the failure of the book, the sisters continued their literary career, turning to prose.

Emily only wrote the one novel, Wuthering Heights, although she was probably working on a second when she died.

However, no trace of this book remains.

Biography of emily bronte wuthering heights pdf Journal articles [ edit ]. However in late October of that year their aunt Branwell died due to complications related to a bowel obstruction, the news only reaching the sisters after her burial and they immediately returned home. Olivia Colman. It is this spirit which moves Catherine to exclaim, 'surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

We only think she was writing it because her publisher, T C Newby, sent her a letter dated 15 February  which said:

I am much obliged by your kind note and shall have great pleasure in making arrangements for your next novel. I would not hurry its completion, for I think you are quite right not to let it go before the world until well satisfied with it, for much depends on your new work.

If it be an improvement on your first, you will have established yourself as a first rate novelist, but if it fall short the Critics will be too apt to say that you have expended your talent in your first novel. I shall therefore have pleasure in accepting it upon the understanding that its completion be in your own time.

You can read some contemporary reviews of Wuthering Heights on the Critical Reviews page.

Some of her poems (and one by Charlotte) can be seen by clicking on the link below.

Link to Selected Poetry by Emily Brontë