Emily Bronte

Emily Brontë was a nineteenth-century English novelist and poet, best known for *Wuthering Heights* (1847), a dark, passionate tale of obsessive love on the Yorkshire moors.

The middle of the three literary Brontë sisters, she published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell and died of tuberculosis at thirty, having produced only one novel.

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literary temperament and style

Emily BronteJane Austen

Regency-era English novelist

Henry James · Alexander Pope · P.G. Wodehouse · neoclassicist · George Eliot

public persona and lifestyle

Emily BronteCharles Dickens

Oscar Wilde · extrovert · Victor Hugo · Mark Twain · Lord Byron

Family

Emily, Bronte, Brontë

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