Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte was an English author best known for the literary classic, Wuthering Heights. She was the fifth sibling of the popular Bronte family of writers that include Charlotte, and Anne Bronte. She was older than Anne Bronte and younger than Charlotte Bronte. Emily Bronte was born to Maria Branwell and Patrick Bronte in Thornton near Bradford, Yorkshire in 1818. When she was 6 years old, the Bronte family relocated to Haworth where her father had taken up a position as the incumbent curate. It was in Haworth that Emily’s and her sister’s literary talents flourished. After their mother passed on, the three sisters used literature to escape from the loneliness by inventing fantasylands they named Oceania, Gaaldine, Gondal, and Angria, the setting for most of their narratives. There is not much of Emily’s work from this period that can be found, save for a few character spoken poems that include, Fannie Ratchford and The Brontes’ Web of Childhood.