Emily Brontë

Born in 1818, Emily Brontë grew up at Haworth Parsonage in Yorkshire as part of the remarkable Brontë family. Alongside her sisters Charlotte and Anne, she created elaborate imaginary worlds in childhood, and that early habit of invention fed the originality of her later writing.

Although she published very little in her lifetime, her work left a lasting mark. She brought out poems under the pen name Ellis Bell, and in 1847 published Wuthering Heights, her only novel. Its wild setting, emotional force, and unusual structure helped make it one of the most distinctive novels of the nineteenth century.

Emily Brontë died in 1848 at just 30 years old. Her life was brief and deeply private, but her writing has endured for generations, admired for its fierce imagination, haunting atmosphere, and refusal to be tame.