Throughout the Victorian Era, social class was an important topic of debate and that can be seen throughout Wuthering Heights. Emily sadly died at the age of 30 only a few months later on December 9 (Brownson). She became sick with consumption and refused medical attention in October 1848. This included her father becoming nearly blind and her brother dying from consumption (also known as tuberculosis) in September 1848. Not much is known about the last the last couple of years of Emily’s life except for the fact that her family continued to be cursed with sickness. This made her seem even more mysterious and created many myths about her. Emily was often seen as a very strange woman who never was able to leave this isolation. Her only novel, Wuthering Heights, is one of her most famous works. (Brownson)Įmily went on to write almost 200 poems in her life but only a small fraction were published in her life time (Brownson). Though Emily had many deaths in her family her upbringing was reported as surprisingly normal. Emily, her two sisters Charlotte and Anne, her brother and even her father are all said to have had great imaginations and creativity. It is perhaps this turn of events that helped Emily and her two sisters become writers since most of their free time was now spent at home reading and brainstorming and exchanging stories between siblings. After this, Emily’s father made the decision to keep his daughters at home instead of sending them back to school. Tragedy struck the Brontë family once again when Emily was seven when her two older sisters, Elizabeth and Maria died from tuberculosis (Brownson). Both Patrick and Elizabeth Branwell were Methodists and this is where she got some of her religious education. As a result of losing her mother, Emily’s maternal aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, took on the responsibility as mother and caretaker of the family and came to assist the family. Unfortunately, Emily and her family lost her mother early on, just shortly after her younger sister Anne, who eventually became a writer too, was born. She was born to her mother, Maria Branwell Brontë and her father, Patrick Brontë and was the fifth of six children. A Declaration of Catherine and Heathcliff’s LoveĮmily Brontë was born on July 30th 1818 in Thornton, Yorkshire, which is located in England.

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