Emily Brontë

The Brontë of the moors: one perfect, ferocious novel and a body of poems, dead at thirty.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1818 – 1848

language

English

region

Haworth, Yorkshire, England

notable works

Wuthering Heights, poetry with sisters' 1846 volume

Core Principles & Analysis

• She published as Ellis Bell, the most reclusive of the three sisters.
• She caught cold at her brother's funeral and died within three months.
• Her poems, discovered after death, stand with the novel's strange power.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Emily Brontë