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Emily Brontë was born in Thornton
Her mother was Maria Branwell and her father was Patrick Brontë. She was the fifth of six sisters. -
The family moved to Haworth
The family moved eight miles away to Haworth, where Patrick was employed as perpetual curate.In Haworth, the children would have opportunities to develop their literary talents. -
Her mothers died
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Emily and some of her siblings were sent to the Clergy Daughters' School
At school, however, the children suffered abuse and privations, and when a typhoid epidemic swept the school. At school two of her sisters died because of tuberculosis. So, they were removed from the school. Another of her sisters died before they were removed. -
Emily started developing `Gondal poems´
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Emily became a teacher at Law Hill School in Halifax
Her always fragile health soon broke under the stress of the 17-hour work day and she returned home. -
She began going through her poems and recopying them.
Emily began going through all the poems she had written, recopying them neatly into two notebooks. One was labelled "Gondal Poems"; the other was unlabelled. -
`Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell´ were published.
the sisters' poems were published in one volume as Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.Charlotte contributed 19 poems, and Emily and Anne each contributed 21 -
`Wuthering Heights´ was published.
The authors were printed as being Ellis and Acton Bell; Emily's real name did not appear until 1850, when it was printed on the title page of an edited commercial edition. -
Death
Emily caught a severe cold which quickly developed into inflammation of the lungs and led to tuberculosis.She refused medical remedies.
