Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Emily Jane Bronte was born on July 30, 1818 in Thorton, Yorkshire, England.

She was the daughter of Patrick, an Anglican clergyman, and Maria Bronte. Emily lived

with her parents, sisters Charlotte and Anne, and brother Patrick Branwell. Two other

sisters, Elizabeth and Maria, died while Emily was very young. Mrs. Bronte also died

while Emily was young, in 1821.

Mr. Bronte and an aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, raised the surviving children. They

were educated at home and spent much of their time reading and writing. Charlotte and

Emily spent a year at the Clergy Daughters' School in Lancashire. Charlotte received a

job teaching at Miss Wooler's school in Roe Head in 1835 and Emily went with her as a

student. However, Emily became homesick and returned to the moors of her hometown,

Haworth, after only three months of schooling. In 1838 Emily taught in a school near

Halifax but became exhausted after six months and resigned. Emily and Charlotte planned

to open a girl's school in Haworth and went to Brussels to learn foreign language and

school management in 1842. Emily's reserved personality seemed to fit into the style of

city life but she yearned to return to the moors. Her quiet but passionate nature was more

easily understood by the people of Brussels than her sister's somewhat restrained

temperament. She finally returned to England when her aunt died. In 1845 Charlotte,

Emily, and Anne jointly published a volume of poetry, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton

Bell. The poems by Emily, "Ellis," received the best reviews.

Emily had finished her only novel, Wuthering Heights, by the summer of 1847. It

was published in De...

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...take much effort to communicate anymore,

even over long distances. Children would take the matter into their own hands, like

Catherine did, and if they think and act carefully there is not much parents can do to stop

them.

The conflicts that arose between parents and children in Wuthering Heights would

not arise today, mainly because of how different and accepting society is today than it was

during 18th and 19th century England.

Bibliography:

Allott, Miriam, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, London, Macmillan, 1970.

Bloom, Harold (ed.), Modern Critical Views: The Brontes, New York, Chelsea House,

1987.

Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights, New York, the Penguin Group, 1995.

Gregor, Ian (ed.), The Brontes, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1970.

Kanigel, Robert, Vintage Reading, Baltimore, Bancroft Press, 1998.