Wuthering heights

1. INTRODUCTION
Authors’s Life
Emily wa
s born at Thornton near in July 1818. She was the fifth child 
of Patrick and Maria Bronte. In 1820 the family moved to Haworth in 
Yorkshire, eighteen months later Mrs. Bronte died and her husband turned 
to a maiden aunt, Miss Elizabeth Branwell who came from Plymouth to 
bring up his children in a strict and authoritarian way. The Bronte children 
with the exception of Charlote, suffered from tuberculosis or consump
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tion. The first to die was, the eldest sister, Maria on may 1825 she had 
become a little mother to her brother and sister. The boy Branwel declared 
after her death that he had heard her crying outside the windows at night. 
Perhaps this provided the inspiration for frightening sequence in Wuther-
ing Heights where the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw disturbs the peace of 
Lockwood. 
Another sister Elizabeth died in the same year.In 1831 Charlote was 
sent away to school, leaving behind an unfinished Island story: there af
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ter Emily and Anne decided to make their own Island chronicles and the 
place Gondal, was created.Emily briefly attended the school at Cowan 
Bridge, but was wretched and homesick for Haworth and the Yorkshire 
Moors, and returned home after only three months. Emily became a gov-
erness in Halifax but planned with Charlote to set up a school at Haworth 
and together went to the PensionnatHeger in Brussels to increase their 
qualifications. 
Emily returned home on the death of her aunt in 1842 and remained 
there for the rest of her life.Emily Bronte’s life is of a particular type of 
artist. She lived passionately in the world of her imagination but never 
lost her grip on reality. She had a profound knowledge of emotion but as 
an artist she was never overwhelmed by it.She died from tuberculosis in 
1848 and Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 under the pseudonym 
of Ellis Bell.

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Vision International Refereed Scientific Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2016
The Life Of Emily Brontë And Critical Analysis Of Her Masterpiece “Wuthering Heights”