Brontë, Emily Jane
Brontë, Emily Jane ( 1818 – 48 ),sister of Charlotte and Anne Brontë , briefly attended the school at Cowan Bridge with Charlotte in 1824 – 5 , and was then educated largely at home, where she was particularly close to Anne, with whom she created the imaginary world of Gondal, the setting for many of her finest narrative and lyric poems. She was at Roe Head in 1835 , but suffered from homesickness and returned after a few months to Haworth; she was even more intensely attached than her sisters to the moorland scenery her work evokes so vividly. She was for a time, probably in 1838 , governess at Law Hill, near Halifax, and in 1842 spent nine months in Brussels with Charlotte, studying French, German, and music: her French ‘Devoirs’ from this period survive, as does M. Heger's praise of her abilities in music and logic. She returned on her aunt's death at the end of the year to Haworth, where she spent...
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