Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era, best known for *Wuthering Heights* (1847), a novel of obsessive love and revenge on the Yorkshire moors.
One of three literary Brontë sisters, she published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.
She died of tuberculosis at thirty, having produced only one novel—now considered a masterpiece of English literature.
- Wuthering HeightsYorkshire gothic novel
- literary canonEstablished important texts
- English literatureWritten works from England
- YorkshireHistoric English county
- moorsUncultivated peaty highlands
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