Manor house

Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) was the fifth of sixth children born to a clergyman in the village of Thornton, Yorkshire, UK. She was the middle one of three sisters - the others being Charlotte and Anne - who all went on to become novelists.

She began writing poems in the 1840s, and published a collection under the pseudonym Acton Bell with her sisters in 1846. But it is for her only novel Wuthering Heights that she is best remembered, a tale of passion and frustrated love set around a manor house and bleak moorland landscape of the West Yorkshire where the Brontë family was raised.

Like her sisters and brother, Emily Brontë died tragically young as a result of the harsh climate where she lived. She caught a chill in November 1848, aged only 30, and died from tuberculosis a month later.

You can read the complete text of her only novel on this web site.

Novels

Emily Brontë Online Store