Emily Bronte's Accomplishments

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This is the tale of the famous writer Emily Bronte, and the story of her life and accomplishments. Her father Patrick Bronte was a reverend, he graduated from Cambridge and received a bachelor's in theology, then in 1811 to 1816 the Luddite was going on which was the fight between mill owners and workers. This protest went on for years and they brought Patrick Bronte in to help calm down the protesters but eventually the protest would stop after it was suppressed by the military. Patrick Bronte would then go on to tell his children about the stories of the Luddite. In Thornton, England which lays on the outskirts of Bradford, in 1818 on July 30th, Emily Bronte was born. Her mother Maria Branwell and father Patrick already had their three other …show more content…

At age six Emily would join her sisters for a brief time at the school, the school would soon after have a typhoid epidemic would break out where 45 out of 80 girls would become sick where they’d die at home or at school. The school would try and hide some of the deaths by sneakily buring them when they occurred at the school. Scared for the sake of his daughters, Patrick Bronte would then pull all his daughters out of the school and soon both Maria and Elizabeth would die from tuberculosis. With the three remaining sisters and brother they’d then be homeschooled by their aunt Elizabeth and father, even though they weren’t well educated the four kids had a large range of books creating their love for literature. In the upcoming year’s they’d all write fiction that they were inspired by Branwell’s toys he received. The three sisters would write very weird stories but in worrisome of their father finding them they’d write extremely small so that their father with failing vision could not read these stories. One of the published workers of the Bronte siblings was by their brother Branwell The Life of Alexander Percy would then in future years inspired Emily Bronte’s …show more content…

Due to the books violence and sexual passion throughout the book it led people to believe that it was written by a man, leaving many critics puzzled with the structure of the novel. The book had many mixed reviews but with such mystery of the story made it become a English classic. Emily Bronte never knew how famous Wuthering Heights became because of her death only a year later after it had been published. According to her publisher Emily was writing a second novel but was never able to finish it, the novel was never