Emily Brontë

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Emily Brontë (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Emily Jane Brontë (BRAHNT-ee), the fifth child of the Reverend Patrick Brontë and his wife, Maria Branwell, is best remembered as the author of one of the most enigmatic novels in English, Wuthering Heights. The close relationship she enjoyed with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, both acclaimed novelists in their own rights, shaped her life and determined the subject and quality of her writing.

Brontë spent her adult life at Haworth parsonage, the home to which her father moved when she was not yet two years old. Raised by her Aunt Elizabeth after Maria Brontë died of...

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See Also:

• Poetry of Emily Brontë, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Remembrance (Poetry)
• Wuthering Heights (Masterplots Classics)
• Wuthering Heights (Women’s Literature)
• Wuthering Heights (Character Profiles)
• Wuthering Heights (Literary Places)
• Wuthering Heights (Magill Book Reviews)
• Feminist Long Fiction (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
• Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)