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30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)[3] was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell.
The three remaining sisters and their brother Patrick Branwell were thereafter educated at home by their father and aunt Elizabeth Branwell, their mother's sister. Their father, an IrishAnglican clergyman, was very strict, and during the day he would work in his office, while the children were to remain silent in a room together. Despite the lack of formal education, Emily and her siblings had access to a wide range of published material; favourites included Sir Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, and Blackwood's Magazine
At seventeen, Emily attended the Roe Head girls' school,[10] where Charlotte was a teacher, but managed to stay only a few months before being overcome by extreme homesickness
Emily became a teacher at Law Hill School in Halifax beginning in September 1838, when she was twenty.[19] Her health broke under the stress of the 17-hour work day and she returned home in April 1839
Emily Brontë remains a mysterious figure and a challenge to biographers because information about her is sparse,[39] due to her solitary and reclusive nature.[40][41] She does not seem to have made any friends outside her family.
Died at the age of 30 of tubercoulesis.
