Emily Brontë was born in Thornton near Bradford, England in 1818, the younger sister of Charlotte. When she was two years old her father was moved to a Parish in Haworth, north Yorkshire where he and his family were to stay for the rest of Emily’s life. Her mother died of Tuberculosis when she was three years old, and the management of the vicar’s five daughters and a son was taken over by her mother’s sister, Aunt Branwell.
Encouraged by Charlotte, her only novel Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 and has subsequently become an English literature classic.She died in 1848 from tuberculosis.