Emily Bronte

Emily Brontë was a British author and poet. She and her two sisters, Anne and Charlotte, all published works under masculine pseudonyms as well as their own names.

Emily's Wuthering Heights was her only published novel. Now considered a classic of English literature, Wuthering Heights met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared, mainly because of the narrative's stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty. Though Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was initially considered the best of the Brontë sisters' works, many subsequent critics of Wuthering Heights argued that its originality and achievement made it superior Wuthering Heights has also given rise to many adaptations and inspired works, including films, radio, television dramatisations, a musical by Bernard J. Taylor, ballet, opera, and song (notably the Kate Bush hit "Wuthering Heights").

Emily's health, like her sisters', had been weakened by the harsh local climate at home and at school. She caught a cold during the funeral of her brother in September, which led to tuberculosis. Refusing medical help, she died on 19 December 1848 at about two in the afternoon. She was interred in the Church of St. Michael and All Angels family capsule, Haworth, West Yorkshire.

Although Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's most well-known work, it was her only published novel. She was better known among her contemporaries for her lyric poetry.PoetsGraves.co.uk: Bronte

• July 30, 1818: Born

• 1820: Brontë family moves to Haworth

• 1821: Mrs. Brontë dies

• 1824: Emily enrolls at the Cowan Bridge School

• 1825: Maria and Elizabeth die; Charlotte and Emily return home

• 1826: Mr. Brontë brings home twelve wooden soldiers for Branwell--the start of the children's stories

• 1831: Emily and Anne begin the Gondal saga

• 1834: The earliest Emily manuscript--mentions the Gondals discovering Caaldine

• 1835: Attends Miss Wooler's school at Roe Head; is sent home in October

• 1837: Teaches at Law Hill School, near Halifax

• 1838-1842: Writes over half of surviving poems

• 1842: Attends school in Brussels with Charlotte; return to Haworth after the death of Aunt Branwell

• 1845: Charlotte discovers Emily's poems and convinces her to collaborate; Begins writing Wuthering Heights

• 1848: September 24, Branwell dies

• 1848: October 1, Emily leaves home for the last time to attend Branwell's funeral service and becomes ill

• December 19, 1848: Emily dies

• 1893: The Bronte Society established

• 1920: Wuthering Heights

• 1939: Wuthering Heights (Laurence Olivier)

• 1948: Wuthering Heights

• 1950: Wuthering Heights

• 1953: Broadway Television Theater, Wuthering Heights

• 1962: Wuthering Heights

• 1970: Wuthering Heights (Timothy Dalton)

• 1978: Wuthering Heights

• 1992: Wuthering Heights (Ralph Fiennes)

• 1998: Wuthering Heights

• 2002: Sparkhouse

• 2003: Wuthering Heights

• 2007: The Promise

• 2009: "Wuthering Heights" (Tom Hardy)