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Emily Jane Brontë

  • Date of birth

    Date of birth
    She war born on Thornton
  • Move

    Move
    With only two years, her family moved to Haworth.
    This video shows how a day in Emily's life could be.
    https://youtu.be/kfl8BeeVs6g
  • Her mother passed away

    Her mother passed away
    As a result of her mother´s death because of a fatal cancer, the children were looked after by their aunt. She died at the early age of thirty eight years, as emily will.
  • Clergy Daughter´s School

    Clergy Daughter´s School
    She was sent to that school as her older daugthers were on there.
  • Maria and Elizabeth's death

    Maria and Elizabeth's death
    Soon after Emily's admission, a typhoid epidemic swept the school. Both Maria and Elizabth got sick of tuberculosis and died. Consequently, Emily and her sister Charlotte left the school because of the poor conditions.
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    "Everyday life"

    The three survivor sisters and Branwell (her brother) were educated in home. In order to get entertained, they created a ficticious world about which they wrote. This was their way to be creative in the very boring an isolated village they lived.
  • First job

    First job
    She became teacher in Law Hill near Halifax. Soon, she went within her sister Charlotte to a private college in Brussels.
  • Poetry Book

    Poetry Book
    After having discovered Charlotte the poems that Emily used to wrote, the three sisters decided to write a poetry book in common. It was only bought by two people, but they still wanted to write more.
  • Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights
    It was finally in 1847 when she finished this magnificent novel, considered as one of the classics of English literature.
  • Death

    Death
    After having caught a cold in her brother´s funeral, she died at the early age of 30.