Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English author and poet best known for Wuthering Heights, her only work, which is now considered a classic of English literature. She also co-wrote a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne called Works by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, in which she included her own poems and was hailed as a poet of brilliance. Between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell, Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings. She wrote under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.

Emily Brontë's work on Wuthering Heights is impossible to date, and she may have spent a significant amount of time on this powerful, well-imagined story. It stands out from other novels of the time because of its dramatic and poetic presentation, lack of author commentary, and unconventional structure.

Emily differs from her sisters in that she makes no use of the events of her own life and shows no interest in a spinster's situation or a governess' role. She constructs an action, based on profound and primitive energies of love and hate, that proceeds logically and economically, requiring no rich romantic similes or rhetorical patterns, and confining the superb dialogue to what is immediately relevant to the subject, working, like them, within a confined scene and with a small group of characters. The book's solemn tone and the savagery of the characters offended certain 19th-century sensibilities. Its purported male nature was used to promote the idea that her brother Branwell was the author or co-author, based on the memories of his acquaintances long after his death. While it is not possible to clear up all the minor puzzles, neither the external nor the internal evidence offered is substantial enough to weigh against Charlotte’s plain statement that Emily was the author.

Nationality: U.K