Emily brontë born
- •
Emily Brontë: The Enigmatic Genius Behind Wuthering Heights
Emily Jane Brontë, born on 30th July 1818, at 72-74 Market Street in Thornton, West Yorkshire, is one of the most celebrated and enigmatic figures in English literature. Best known for her singular gothic novel, Wuthering Heights, first published in December 1847, Emily’s life was marked by solitude, creativity, and an intense connection to the natural world around her. While she left behind only one novel following her death and a small body of poetry, her literary legacy is profound, influencing generations of writers and readers alike to this day. Her life, though brief, was one of immense intellectual and imaginative power, and her work continues to captivate modern readers with its emotional depth, psychological complexity, and the raw portrayal of human passion.
Early Life and Family
Emily was the fifth of six children born to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. Patrick, originally a native of Imdel, County Down, Ireland, was an Anglican clergyman who has risen from his very humble beginnings to study theolo
- •
Brontë, Emily Jane [pseud. Ellis Bell]
Brontë, Emily Jane [pseud. Ellis Bell] (1818–1848), novelist and poet, was born on 30 July 1818 at the parsonage in Market Street, Thornton, near Bradford, the fifth of the six children of the Revd Patrick Brontë (1777–1861) and his wife, Maria (1783–1821), daughter of Thomas Branwell, a merchant of Penzance, and his wife, Anne. Patrick Brontë, the son of a poor tenant farmer, had left his native Ireland in 1802 to take up a sizarship at St John's College, Cambridge, and, after graduating, was ordained into the Church of England. In 1812 he met Maria Branwell who had left Cornwall to assist her uncle and aunt in the running of Woodhouse Grove School, Rawdon, near Bradford. They married in the same year and had six children: Maria (1814–1825), Elizabeth (1815–1825), Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), (Patrick) Branwell Brontë (1817–1848), Emily Jane (1818–1848), and Anne Brontë (1820–1849). With so large a family and no income except his small salary and his wife's even smaller annuity, Patrick faced constant financial problems. In 1820 h
- •
At Home with the Brontës: Emily Brontë and Her Pets
“One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume of verse in my sister Emily’s handwriting. Of course, I was not surprised, knowing that she could and did write verse: I looked it over, and something more than surprise seized me—a deep conviction that these were not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally write. I thought them condensed and terse, vigorous and genuine. To my ear they had also a peculiar music—wild, melancholy, and elevating.
"My sister Emily was not a person of demonstrative character, nor one on the recesses of whose mind and feelings even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicensed; it took hours to reconcile her to the discovery I had made, and days to persuade her that such poems merited publication. I knew, however, that a mind like hers could not be without some latent spark of honourable ambition, and refused to be discouraged in my attempts to fan that spark to flame."
Charlotte Brontë
Copyright ©dadtori.pages.dev 2025