Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë was born in West Yorkshire, England, on 30 July 1818. In 1820, the family moved to a nearby village, Haworth. This would come to be Emily’s home for a prominent part of her life, the seclusion of the surrounding moorland capturing her heart and influencing her imagination. It was an attachment that lasted a lifetime, and is evocatively reflected in her novel, Wuthering Heights (1847). Unfortunately, Emily did not survive to see its success. In 1848, after the death of her brother Patrick,
Emily contracted tuberculosis. She died on 19 December 1848, at the age of thirty.