Emily Bronte
1818–1848
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was an English novelist and poet, the author of Wuthering Heights (1847). She grew up at the parsonage in Haworth, Yorkshire, with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, with whom she created the imaginary worlds of Angria and Gondal.
Her poems first appeared in 1846 in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, the sisters’ pseudonyms. Passionate and visionary, they include “No coward soul is mine”, “Remembrance” (“Cold in the earth”) and “The Old Stoic”. She died of tuberculosis at 30.
