Emily was the daughter of a Church of England clergyman and the sister of Charlotte and Anne Brontė. Their mother, Maria, died when Emily was only three.
After school, all three sisters worked as teachers and governesses, and all turned into writers. In 1846, they produced a collection of their poetry, and in 1847 they each published a first novel: Emily's (under the pen name of 'Ellis Bell') was
Wuthering Heights. Tragically, it proved to be her only book, as she caught a bad chill at her brother Branwell's funeral in September, 1848, and died of tuberculosis in
… More December, but Wuthering Heights has not been out of print for a hundred years and has been filmed and dramatized many times.
Emily never married.
