Emily Bronte Research Paper

Emily Brontë, the fifth child of Ulsterman Reverend Patrick Bronte and Cornish Woman Maria Bronte, was born on the thirtieth of July, 1818. Though she was born at Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire, she moved with her family to the rural countryside in Haworth where she lived for most of her life. Her mother, however, died of consumption on September 15, 1821. The two eldest sisters, Elizabeth and Maria, assumed the role she left behind, but they too fell fatally ill and died in May and June of 1825, respectively, from tuberculosis as well. The early deaths of her mother and sister drove Emily, her father, and her remaining siblings, Anne, Charlotte, and Branwell, into almost complete isolation, and Emily and Charlotte became closely devoted sisters.

He was a schoolteacher and tutor before being ordaining to curacies and marrying Maria Branwell on December 19th, 1812. In 1817, just a year before Emily’s birth, they moved to Thornton with four kids: Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, and Branwell. Anne, the couple’s sixth and last child, was born two years after Emily. After the death of their mother, Reverend Patrick supervised his children’s education at home, encouraging them to read freely the works of Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, and Aesop as well as articles of current affairs and intellectual disputes. He treated his children as intellectual equals and cultivated them to be hardy, independent, and indifferent to the transient nature of life. Much of their time that was not spent reading included spending hours on end wandering through the moors and woods surrounding the house. It was these moors that served as a model for the dismal setting of most of Wuthering

This seemingly unimportant toy stimulated their literary creativity, creating imaginary worlds for the soldiers. Charlotte and her brother Branwell designed the fantastical world of “Angria”, while Emily and Anne invented “Gondal”, a more realistic land in which the laws of the fictional wild moors reflected those of the real world. When they reunited in 1845, they worked on Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, a compilation of their poems about these imaginary worlds. They published their poem book in 1846 under masculine names in order to make the work more acceptable to the public, but they still gained very little success. Emily most likely began Wuthering Heights, her only novel, in October of 1845, finishing it in 1846 and publishing a crude version of it in 1847. Most readers, disturbed by its wickedness, deemed it an “inferior production” to Jane Eyre, Charlotte’s critically acclaimed