Emily Brontë

English novelist and poet (1818–1848)

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Lived 1818–1848, aged 30United Kingdom

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1818–1848
Aged 30

Summary

Updated 2026-06-08

She wrote one novel—a single book—and it was despised in her lifetime. Wuthering Heights appeared in 1847, critics called its characters coarse and immoral, and a year later Emily Brontë was dead at thirty. The book outlasted every insult.

Biography

About

Emily Jane Brontë was born 30 July 1818, the fifth of six children in a Yorkshire parsonage. Her mother died when she was three; her father, the curate of Haworth, taught her at home. She and her siblings invented elaborate imaginary worlds—Glass Town, Angria, Gondal—filling journals with their stories. Charlotte described her as solitary, strong-willed, nonconforming, devoted to nature and animals. Apart from brief stints at school and a stretch in Brussels as a student and teacher, Emily spent her life at Haworth: helping with chores, playing piano, reading. In 1847 she and her sisters publi…

Voice

In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë

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Still, as I mused, the naked room, The alien firelight died away; And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright, unclouded day.

— "A Little While, a Little While", st. 6 (1846)

Emily Brontë

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When weary with the long day's care, And earthly change from pain to pain, And lost and ready to despair, Thy kind voice calls me back again: Oh, my true friend!

— "To Imagination", st. 1 (1846)

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