Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte lived from 1818 to 1848. Although she wrote only Wuthering Heights and about a dozen poms she is accepted as one of the most gifted writers ever. Perhaps the intensity of her writing grew out of the extraordinary pressures of her home life.

Emily’s mother died when she was three and she lived with her four sisters and one brother in a bleak, isolated Yorkshire village – Haworth. Her father doted on his only son, Branwell, and expected little from his daughters – they surprised him while Branwell wasted his life and died an alchoholic and drug addict. The girls suffered dreadfully at a cheap boarding school, the oldest two dying of malnutrition. Emily, Charlotte and Anne were brought home just in time but Emily never lost her terrible fear of institutions and of being closed in. The sisters later became governesses to help support Branwell, seen by their father as a future great artist. They also began to publish their writing, under male pen-names as there was much prejudice against women writers. Their first book, a collection of poetry, failed but Emily’s novel Wuthering Heights, was highly acclaimed and is still widely read today.

Emily seldom left her home village yet produced one of the most powerful novels of the inner self ever written. She caught a cold at her brother’s funeral in 1848 and died a few months later.

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Featured Books, with extracts by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights (with an introduction by S. E. Hinton)
Emily Bronte
One of the most haunting, complex and tragic love stories, Wuthering Heights tells the dark story that lies behind a remote and desolate house. Cathy and Heathcliff are powerfully and violently in love. When Cathy refuses to marry Heathcliff, he...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Children's Classics
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Jane Eyre - retold by Gill Tavner
Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre is poor, parentless and plain, detested by her aunt and cousin; her future looks bleak.  Follow her story as she seeks independence and then eventual peace in the arms of Mr Rochester. Real Reads bring this and
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/07/2009
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Wuthering Heights - retold by Gill Tavner
Emily Bronte
This famous story of Heathcliff and Catherine will thrill you and chill you to the bone.  Real Reads bring this and Jane Eyre to a new audience.  Both of these retellings have been checked for accuracy to the originals by the Collections...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/07/2009
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Wuthering Heights (Classics Illustrated)
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. This edition provides a wonderful short introduction to one of the classics of all time and despite its...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Audio Books
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2009
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Chosen by the public through a survey to coincide with the 10th birthday celebrations of World Book Day 2007, this title is one of ‘the ten books the nation can’t live without’.  Have you read them all? Below are links...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Ebooks
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 30/01/2003
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The Complete Poems
Emily Bronte
The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime - this volume contains those and all others attributed...
Featured in: 14+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/09/1992
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