Emily Jane Brontë was a novelist and poet of the Brontë family.
She was possibly the most capable writer of the three sisters.
Born at Thornton on 30th July 1818, when Rev Patrick Brontë was at the Bell Chapel there.
She was christened by Rev William Morgan on 20th August 1818. John and Jane Fennell were her god-parents.
She enrolled at Cowan Bridge school in November 1824, Because of their illness, Charlotte and Emily returned home from Cowan Bridge on 1st June 1825.
She went to Roe Head school, Mirfield [July 1835]. After a short time, she left the school and returned home after feeling unwell and emaciated.
Her earliest extant poem is dated 1836.
During the summer holidays in July 1837, she and Anne began to keep a diary.
In September 1838, she became a teacher at Law Hill School. She worked there for 6 months, and was unhappy there; she is said to have preferred the family dog to the 40 girls in her charge There is some doubt over the actual time she worked at Law Hill School, but she became ill and was back home at Haworth in March 1839.
In 1842, with a view to establishing their own school, she went with Charlotte to study languages at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels.
She wrote Wuthering Heights. It was written between December 1845 and July 1846, and was published in 7/1847. She was inspired by many local features
In 1847, she refused to accompany her sisters to London, or to reveal the true identity of Ellis Bell.
On 1st October 1848, she left the Parsonage for the last time to attend Branwell's funeral and caught a severe cold which became an inflammation of the lungs. She never left the house again.
On 9th December 1848, Charlotte wrote to Dr Epps for a second opinion on Emily condition
She was taken ill with consumption. On her death bed, she was strongly independent, insisting on dressing herself and feeding the dogs.
She died suddenly in the Dining Room at the Parsonage on 19th December 1848 at the age of 30. She was buried on 22nd December in the family vault at Haworth church.
She wrote a vast amount of poetry, and with her sisters, she was a contributor to Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell [1846].
Her major work was:
There have been rumours – originating in a letter which she wrote to T. C. Newby – that she wrote a second book, but the manuscript has never been found
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