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Emiliy Bronte Born
Emily Bronte is born to Reverend Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell Bronte in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was the fifth of six children in the family: Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, and Branwell, and Anne. -
Anne Bronte Born
Born shortly before the family's move to Haworth. Emily's mother is starting to weaken. -
Family Moves to Haworth
Emily's mother's condition starts to deteriorate. Haworth is the inspiration for the house of Wuthering Heights in the book Wuthering Height's, a classic that is Emily's only novel. The moors close to the home are also the moors mentioned in Wuthering Heights. -
Maria Branwell Dies of Cancer
Her sister, Elizabeth Branwell, moved into the parsonage that same month to help Patrick care for his young family. -
Emily Goes to Cowan Bridge
Patrick sent all of his daughters except Anne to Cowan Bridge School, a "School for Clergymen's Daughters." Patrick had no money or land and this was to only way for them to be successful in life. Emily was highly regarded in school, and was called many things, including, "a darling child" and "quite the pet nursling of the school." Similar to Loward School described in Jane Eyre. -
Maria Dies
Maria dies from consumption contracted from Cowan School. Before she dies, she is brought home with her sister, Elizabeth, who was also experiencering simmilar symptoms. -
Emily and Charlotte are Brought Back from Cowan
Patrick sees how sick Elizabeth is and brings the other two sisters from Cowan. Charlotte is forced to take the maternal role in the family. Their experiences here are evident in their later works: all of Charlotte's heroines are orphans; nearly all of the children in Wuthering Heights become motherless; and in Emily's poetry, many of her characters become motherless, orphaned, or the children of the parents who abandon them. -
Elizabeth Dies
Like her sister Maria, Elizabeth also dies of consumption. At this point, Emily has lost three of her family members in around the first 7 years of her life. -
Patrick Brings Toy Soldiers for Branwell
Branwell shares his toys with his two sisters. From here, the imaginary worlds of Angria, by Charlotte, and Gondal, by Anne and Emily, were created. -
Charlotte Goes to Roe Head
Charlotte goes to Roe Head for a teaching position. Emily has a lot more time with Anne, in which they continue their stories with Gondal. -
Emily First Mentions Gondal in Her Diary
Excerpt: Taby said just now Come Anne pilloputate (i.e. pill a potato) Aunt has come into the kitchen just now and said where are your feet Anne Anne answered On the floor Aunt papa opened the parlour door and gave Branwell a letter saying here Branwell read this and show it to your Aunt and Charlotte–The Gondals are discovering the interior of Gaaldine Sally Mosley is washing in the back kitchen -
Emily Joins Charlotte at Roe Head
Emily is exceedingly impatient with her classmates. Her daily schedule is rigidly proscribed, she has not time to think about Gondal, and was no longer living with Anne. Emily goes back the following October. -
Emily Returns from Roe Head
Emily finally comes back to Roe Head. Anne takes her place at the school. -
Bronte Continues to Write Poetry
Bronte is actively writing poetry. She is alone in the house, and wishes that all of her sisters are doing all right, as written in the journal entry on this date. -
Emily Gets a Job at Law Hill
Emily gets a job as a teacher at Law Hill, her one and only job. She went there because she felt guility of enjoying the pleasures of home while her sisters were away from home. She hates working there, remarking that she preferred animals to her students. -
Emily Returns from Law Hill
Once again, Emily is back from Law Hill, a recurring theme in her life. She appears to be a bit more depressed at this stage and would not write poetry the first three months back from Law Hill. -
Brontes Plan for Possible School
On her birthday, Emily writes to plan for a creation of a school. She and Charlotte start to colloborate together, though this project eventually goes nowhere. -
Emily and Charlotte Go to Brussels
Emily and Charlotte try to improve their teaching prospects by taking a class of French with Constantin Heger at the Pensionnat Heger. After realizing their intellectual potention, Constantin personally tutors them. Though she could not write many poems, she compilled a prose allegory in "Le Palais de la Mort" which influenced the second of two poems she started, "Self-Interrogation." This marks the beginning of her more gothic undertone in future works. -
Aunt Branwell Dies
Emily and Charlotte return to Haworth after her death. This event can be directly linked the Emily's future gothic undertone. Emily stays at Haworth for the remainder of her life. -
The Professor, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey Sent to be Published
Charlotte sends a letter to Aylott and Jones, a publishing firm, to publish their books. They accepted the last two books and published them. -
Poems By Currer, Ellis and, Action Bell are Published
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne publish their first book of poems. Notice that the beginning letter of each of their name matches the beginning letter of each of the pseudonyms. The three picked these pseudonyms so that their work would become more accepted. Critics agree that the poems outlined in this work is her strongest work. -
Critic from Athenaeum
Noted her "fine quaint spirit" and asserted that she had "things to speak that men will be glad to hear,—and an evident power of wing that may reach heights not here attempted." -
"Fall, leaves, fall" was Written
'Fall, leaves, fall' Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree. I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night's decay
Ushers in a drearier day. -
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Critic Alfred H. Miles' Comments (1907)
"The grandeur and eloquence of her last verses have in our judgment never been rivalled by any English poetess: the question whether she could have maintained herself at such an elevation, were it capable of an answer, would help to elucidate the deeper problem how far poetical inspiration is the result of favourable conditions, and how far it is a visitation from above." -
Emily Bronte Dies
Emily Bronte dies of consumption (pneumonia) a few months after her brother Branwell dies of the same. She refused medical care all the way up to her death. -
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