
Emily Brontë
(1818 - 1848)
Growing up motherless in a rectory amid the moors of Haworth in the 1820s, Emily Brontë, along with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, received most of her schooling from her father. The three sisters published Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell under those pseudonyms in 1846, and Emily published Wuthering Heights in December 1847. The novel was lambasted by critics as clumsy and savage, the subject matter called “coarse and loathsome.” One year later, at the age of thirty, she died of tuberculosis.