Emily Jane Brontë

Emily Brontë was born in Yorkshire, the fifth of six children of a clergyman, and grew up at Haworth Parsonage. With her sisters Charlotte and Anne she published a book of poems in 1846 under the names Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Her only novel, Wuthering Heights, appeared in 1847 and tells a harsh story of love and revenge on the moors. She died of tuberculosis the next year at thirty.