Biography of Emily Brontë
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30 July 181819 December 1848
Original English writer and tormented, distinctly romantic, Emily Bronte was born on 30 July 1818 at Thornton, Yorkshire, England. Daughter of Reverend Brontë and his wife Maria Branwell, at the end of April 1820 he moved with his family to Haworth in Yorkshire, after the Reverend was assigned the Church of Saint Michael and All Angels. In September 1821 Maria Branwell died and his sister Elizabeth goes to live temporarily with them to help them. In 1824, Emily, along with her sisters, enters the school of Cowan Bridge for daughters of clergymen.
Other two losses affect family Brontë in 1825: die, affected both by tisi, Emily sisters, Mary and Elizabeth. Left school, the young Brontë continue their education at home, reading and learning the "feminine Arts". In 1826 the father, returning from a trip, bring a box of toy soldiers to children: the figures become "youngsters", protagonists of various stories written by sisters. In 1835, Charlotte and Emily join the Roe Head school. After three months, Emily comes home physically destroyed and its place in Roe Haed is taken from younger sister Anne.
On 12 July 1836 Emily wrote his first poem dated. In 1838 joined as a teacher in the school of Law Hill, but after only six months back home. In a letter dated 1841 Emily talks about a project to open, along with her sisters, a school that is all their own. The following year Emily and Charlotte leave for Brussels where the Pensioner Heger. The death of aunt Elizabeth return home and each one of them inherits £ 350. Emily returned alone to Brussels in 1844 and began to transcribe his poems in two notebooks, one Untitled, the other called "Gondal Poems". Charlotte finds this notebook in 1845 and took shape in her decision to publish a volume of verse. Emily agrees as long as the book bait under a pseudonym. In 1846 comes out then "Poems" of Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily) and Acton (Anne) Bell (Brontë). In 1847 are published "Wuthering Heights" by Emily, "Agnes Grey Anne" and "the Professor" and "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte. "Wuthering Heights" raises a big uproar.
It is a novel full of symbolic meanings, dominated by a feeling of tension and anxiety mixed with expectation and curiosity for the final revelation. A book suffused with thrills, scary, encourages an understandable uproar and made rivers of ink flow. Famous become the 1939 film adaptation of "Wuthering heights" (Wuthering Heights-the voice in the storm, with Laurence Olivier), based on the novel. On 28 September 1848 Emily cools during the funeral of his brother (died of tuberculosis) and falls seriously ill. She died of tuberculosis on 19 December of the same year.
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