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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.
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff.
In July 1848, Charlotte and Anne (Emily had refused to go along with them) travelled by train to London to prove to Smith, Elder & Co. that each sister was indeed an independent author, for Thomas Cautley Newby, the publisher of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, had launched a rumour that the three novels were the work of one author, understood ...
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.
Scorpio: Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, 1847) Emily Brontë’s only novel is widely regarded today as a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the romantic prose tradition.
Maria Branwell (15 April 1783 [1] – 15 September 1821) is best known as being the mother of British writers Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and of their brother Branwell Brontë, who was a poet and painter. Maria married Patrick Brontë on 29 December 1812.
Emily Brontë is getting the biopic treatment. Sex Education's Emma Mackey will play the British author who died before her prime in Emily, a new film about the Wuthering Heights writer. Here's ...
'Emily' mixes creative license with archival limitations. And it's generating new interest in the 'Wuthering Heights' author, experts say. A new film's liberties with Emily Brontë may 'court ...