![]() She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the 5th of 6 children. Youth and education Įmily Brontë was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire, to Maria (Branwell) and Patrick Brontë. Emily, a woman of remarkable force of character, reserved and taciturn, published in 1848 Wuthering Heights, a powerful, but somewhat unpleasing, novel, and some striking poems. Brought up in a small parsonage close to the graveyard of a bleak, windswept village on the Yorkshire moors, and left motherless in early childhood, she and her sisters Charlote and Anne took to literature and published a volume of poems under the names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, which, however, fell flat. ![]() Patrick Brontë, a clergyman of Irish descent and of eccentric habits who embittered the lives of his children by his peculiar theories of education. ![]() ![]() Emily was the 2nd eldest of the 3 surviving Brontë sisters, between Charlotte and Anne. ![]()
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