5/28/2023 0 Comments Emily bronte booksPatrick was appointed perpetual curate of St Michael and All Angels Church in the village of Haworth in 1820.Įmily’s five siblings, three elder sisters Maria, Charlotte, Elizabeth, younger sister Anne and brother Branwell, were left to the care of her sister, Elizabeth Branwell, when their mother died of cancer on 15 September 1821. She was the fifth of the six children of Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë, who was an Irish Anglican clergyman. Early Life and FamilyĮmily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street, Thornton, west of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire. She died in 1848, a year after Wuthering Heights was published, from tuberculosis. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, under the name of Ellis Bell.Įmily is the second youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings. She is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, which is now considered a classic of English literature.
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