Emily Bronte

Her father, the Reverend Patrick Brontë, was an Ulsterman whose first work was as a blacksmith's apprentice. He changed his name from Brunty to Brontë.

Her mother, Maria Branwell Bronte, died of cancer when Emily was only three.

Books about Emily include A Life of Emily Brontë, by Edward Chitham, Emily Brontë, by Katherine Frank , Heretic, by Stevie Davies, Emily Brontë, by Winifred Gerin, Gondal's Queen, by Fannie E. Ratchford, and Emily Brontë, by Charles Simpson.

She died at the age of thirty, of tuberculosis, which also killed her four sisters.

In 1846, the three Brontë sisters published a collection of their poetry, at their own expense, under the pen names of Ellis, Currer and Acton Bell. The publisher was Aylott and Jones of London and the book sold only two copies. However, in 1848, the unsold copies of the first edition were bought and released by Smith, Elder, with a new title page. The book then sold out.

Her first job was a teacher at Miss Patchett's Ladies Academy, near Halifax, Yorkshire. She then went with her sister Charlotte to Brussels, in Belgium, where she taught music.

Emily's only novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), was published under the pen-name of Ellis Bell. It formed two volumes of a three volume set, with the third being the novel Agnes Grey by 'Acton Bell' - who was Emily's sister Anne Brontë.