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Date of birth
Shw was born on the 30th July 1818 in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. -
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A family disaster
3 elder sisters died because of a typhoid epidemic which swept the school they were in. -
Her first poems
She started to write her first 'Gondal poems' together with her sister Anne. -
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Her studies
She became a teacher in Halifax for some time and soon moved to Brussels to study French and German. -
Her poems are released
In 1846, the sisters' poems were published in one volume as Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. The Brontë sisters had adopted pseudonyms for publication, preserving their initials: Charlotte was "Currer Bell", Emily was "Ellis Bell" and Anne was "Acton Bell". -
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was first published in London in 1847 by Thomas Cautley Newby. The novel's innovative structure somewhat puzzled critics. Wuthering Heights's violence and passion led the Victorian public and many early reviewers to think that it had been written by a man. -
Her death
Emily's health was probably weakened by the harsh local climate and by unsanitary conditions at home, the source of water being contaminated by run off from the church's graveyard.
