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Birth
Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 to Maria Branwell and an Irish father, Patrick Brontë. -
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Lost her mother
When Emily was only three, and all six children under the age of eight, she and her siblings lost their mother, Maria, to cancer on 15 September 1821 -
Sent to the Clergy School
Emily's three elder sisters, Maria, Elizabeth, and Charlotte, were sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge. At the age of six, on 25 November 1824, Emily joined her sisters at school for a brief period. -
Gondal Poems
However, when Emily was 13, she and Anne withdrew from participation in the Angria story and began a new one about Gondal, a fictional island whose myths and legends were to preoccupy the two sisters throughout their lives. -
Emily became a teacher
Emily became a teacher at Law Hill School in Halifax beginning in September 1838, when she was twenty. -
Constantin Héger
In 1842, Emily accompanied Charlotte to the Héger Pensionnat in Brussels, Belgium, where they attended the girls' academy run by Constantin Héger in the hope of perfecting their French and German before opening their school. -
Poems by Currer
In 1846, the sisters' poems were published in one volume as Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. -
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was first published in London in 1847 by Thomas Cautley Newby, appearing as the first two volumes of a three-volume set that included Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey -
Death
19 december 1848
Tuberculosis
