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Emily was born in Thornton, UK
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Her whole family (five daughters , one son and the parents), moved to Haworth, where her father was named Anglican parish priet
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Her mother, Maria Branwell, died of cáncer, although we don't know if it was a stomach or a gynecological one.
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Emily and her sister Charlotte were sent to the school Clergy Daughters in Cowan Bridge (Lancashire), where their older sisters ,Maria and Elizabeth, were studying
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Her older sisters, Maria and Elizabeth returned to Haworth very sick, and once there they died of tuberculosis.
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The four remaining brothers used to write stories about imaginary kingdoms. The kingdom of Anglia was created by Charlotte and Branwell,the boy. .Nowadays, some of them are still well-preserved.
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The imaginary kingdom of Gondal was another story of the Brontë brothers, in this case it was created by Anne and Emily. Nowadays, almost none of them is well- preserved, with the exception of some poems of Emily
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Emily started to work as a governess in Law Hill, close to Halifax and after she and Charlotte were students in a private school in Brussels until the death of their aunt.
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Charlotte discovered some hidden poems of Emily and after that the three Brontë sisters decided to write a poetry book together
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Emily published the novel "Wuthering Heights", a clasic in the Victorian English literature. She used the pseudonym Ellis Bell, a male name, because of the woman oppression at this time.
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She died of tuberculosis at the age of 30 , after coming down with a common cold. She was buried in Haworth, Yorkshire
