Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters by Emily Brontë

Emily was shy yet very close to her siblings and known for being a great animal lover. Patrick, along with their Aunt Branwell, tutored his remaining children at home, all of which thrived in the environment. The four youngest Brontë children, all under ten years of age, had suffered the loss of the three eldest females in their immediate family, and this was hard on them all. Charlotte Brontë used the school as the basis for Lowood School in Jane Eyre.Īfter the deaths of his older daughters, Patrick removed Charlotte and Emily from the school. The school was unsanitary and in poor condition, which most likely hastened the deaths of both Maria and Elizabeth, who died of tuberculosis in June 1825. In August 1824, when Emily was six years old, her father sent her with Charlotte, Maria, and Elizabeth to the Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire for a brief period.

Elizabeth Branwell stayed with the family until her death in 1842, because Patrick’s attempts to remarry after his wife’s death were unsuccessful. Patrick was appointed perpetual curate of St Michael and All Angels Church in the village of Haworth in 1820.Įmily’s five siblings, three elder sisters Maria, Charlotte, Elizabeth, younger sister Anne and brother Branwell, were left to the care of her sister, Elizabeth Branwell, when their mother died of cancer on 15 September 1821. She was the fifth of the six children of Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë, who was an Irish Anglican clergyman. Early Life and FamilyĮmily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street, Thornton, west of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire. She died in 1848, a year after Wuthering Heights was published, from tuberculosis. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, under the name of Ellis Bell.Įmily is the second youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings. She is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, which is now considered a classic of English literature. Notable Works: Wuthering Heights (1847)Įmily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet and one of the most famous women writers from the 19th century.

Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters by Emily Brontë