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Her mother was Maria Branwell and her father was Patrick Brontë. She was the fifth of six sisters.
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The family moved eight miles away to Haworth, where Patrick was employed as perpetual curate.In Haworth, the children would have opportunities to develop their literary talents.
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At school, however, the children suffered abuse and privations, and when a typhoid epidemic swept the school. At school two of her sisters died because of tuberculosis. So, they were removed from the school. Another of her sisters died before they were removed.
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Her always fragile health soon broke under the stress of the 17-hour work day and she returned home.
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Emily began going through all the poems she had written, recopying them neatly into two notebooks. One was labelled "Gondal Poems"; the other was unlabelled.
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the sisters' poems were published in one volume as Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.Charlotte contributed 19 poems, and Emily and Anne each contributed 21
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The authors were printed as being Ellis and Acton Bell; Emily's real name did not appear until 1850, when it was printed on the title page of an edited commercial edition.
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Emily caught a severe cold which quickly developed into inflammation of the lungs and led to tuberculosis.She refused medical remedies.
