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Emily Brontė (July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848) was 
a British novelist and poet, best remembered for her 
one novel Wuthering Heights, an acknowledged classic 
of English literature.

Emily was born at Thornton in Yorkshire, the younger 
sister of Charlotte Brontė and the fifth of six 
children. In 1820, the family moved to Haworth, 
where Emily's father was perpetual curate, and it 
was in these surroundings that their literary talent 
flourished. In childhood, after the death of their 
mother, the three sisters and her brother Branwell 
created imaginary lands (Angria, Gondal, Gaaldine), 
which featured in stories they wrote. Little of Emily's 
work from this period survives, except for poems 
spoken by characters (The Brontės' Web of Childhood, 
Fannie Ratchford, 1941).

In 1838, Emily commenced work as a governess at Law 
Hill, near Halifax. Later, with her sister Charlotte, 
she attended a private school in Brussels.

It was the discovery of Emily's poetic talent by her 
family that led her and her sisters, Charlotte and 
Anne, to publish a joint collection of their poetry 
in 1846. Owing to the prejudices on female writers, 
all three used male pseudonyms, Emily's being "Ellis 
Bell".

She subsequently published her only novel, Wuthering 
Heights, in 1847. Although it received mixed reviews 
when it first came out, the book subsequently became 
an English literary classic.

Like her sisters, Emily's constitution had been 
weakened by their harsh life at home and at school. 
She died on December 19, 1848 of tuberculosis, having 
caught a chill during the funeral of her brother in 
September, and was interred in the Church of St. 
Michael and All Angels Cemetery, Haworth, West 
Yorkshire, England.