Emily Brontë was born in Yorkshire, England, on July 30, 1818. Her mother died when she was three and her father, a former schoolteacher and tutor who had become an Anglican minister, moved the family to Haworth in 1824. Two of her sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, died during childhood. Emily and her two other sisters, Charlotte and Anne, along with their brother Patrick Branwell, became devoted to writing stories and poems in their adolescent years. In 1846 the three sisters published a collection of their poetry in a single volume as Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, a collection that went unnoticed at the time. A year later, Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights, now recognized as one of the greatest novels in the English language. Her sister Charlotte is the author of another masterpiece of English literature, Jane Eyre. Emily became sick during her brother’s funeral in September 1848 and her condition worsened steadily. She rejected medical help and died of tuberculosis on December 19, 1848, at the age of 30.
Emily Brontë was born in Yorkshire, England, on July 30, 1818. Her mother died when she was three and her father, a former schoolteacher and tutor who had become an Anglican minister, moved the family to Haworth in 1824. Two of her sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, died during childhood. Emily and her two other sisters, Charlotte and Anne, along with their brother Patrick Branwell, became devoted to writing stories and poems in their adolescent years. In 1846 the three sisters published a collection of their poetry in a single volume as Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, a collection that went unnoticed at the time. A year later, Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights, now recognized as one of the greatest novels in the English language. Her sister Charlotte is the author of another masterpiece of English literature, Jane Eyre. Emily became sick during her brother’s funeral in September 1848 and her condition worsened steadily. She rejected medical help and died of tuberculosis on December 19, 1848, at the age of 30.
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