Emily Brontë Biography

Emily Brontë biography

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NAME: Emily Brontë
OCCUPATION: Writer
BIRTH DATE: July 30, 1818
DEATH DATE: December 19, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH: Thornton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
PLACE OF DEATH: Haworth, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Full Name: Emily Jane Brontë
AKA: Emily Brontë
AKA: Ellis Bell

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Emily Brontë is best known for authoring the novel Wuthering Heights. She was the sister of Charlotte and Anne Brontë, also famous authors.

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Born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, on July 30, 1818, Emily Jane Brontë lived a quiet life in Yorkshire with her clergyman father; brother, Branwell Brontë; and two sisters, Charlotte and Anne. The sisters enjoyed writing poetry and novels, which they published under pseudonyms. As "Ellis Bell," Emily wrote Wuthering Heights (1847)—her only published novel—which garnered wide critical and commerical acclaim. Emily Brontë died in Haworth, Yorkshire, England, on December 19, 1848—the same year that her brother, Branwell, passed away. (Her sister, Anne Brontë, died the following year.)