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Emily Jane Brontë (/ ˈ b r ɒ n t i /, commonly /-t eɪ /; [2] 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) [3] was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.
Emily and Anne created Gondal, an island continent in the North Pacific, ruled by a woman, after the departure of Charlotte in 1831. [39] In the beginning, these stories were written in little books, the size of a matchbox about 1.5 by 2.5 inches (38 mm × 64 mm) [39] and cursorily bound with thread. The pages were filled with close, minute ...
Shortly after Emily Brontë's death G.H. Lewes wrote in Leader Magazine: Curious enough is to read Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and remember that the writers were two retiring, solitary, consumptive girls! Books, coarse even for men, coarse in language and coarse in conception, the coarseness apparently of violence and ...
Initially, all four siblings—Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell—created an imaginary world called "Angria", where each sibling ran an island with a town by the name of "Glasstown". They named it "the Glass Town Confederacy". Later Emily and Anne broke off and created their own world of Gondal. Gondal also had two islands, Gaaldine and Angora.
Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. [1] Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the tortured antihero whose all-consuming rage, jealousy and anger destroy both him and those around him; in short, the Byronic hero.
December 22 – Three days after her death from tuberculosis at Haworth Parsonage, aged 30, [1] Emily Brontë is buried in her father's St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth. The funeral procession is led by her father and her dog, Keeper. [4]
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"Lines" is a poem written by English writer Emily Brontë (1818–1848) in December 1837. It is understood that the poem was written in the Haworth parsonage, two years after Brontë had left Roe Head, where she was unable to settle as a pupil.