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Analysis Of Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë was an English poet and author who is most famous for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, one of the most well known classics in English literature. Emily was born on July 30th, 1818 in the village of Thornton in Northern England, to Irish father Patrick Brontë (1777-1861). She was the fifth child in a family of six children and was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë, also an accomplished English writer. In April 1820, the family moved to the remote village Haworth, where they remained permanently. Following the death of her mother in 1821, Emily and her sisters were sent to the Clergy Daughter’s School at Cowan Bridge in 1824, where they studied for a year before returning home due to a typhoid epidemic that left her sisters Elizabeth and Maria dead. The remaining three sisters and brother Patrick were then educated at home by their father and aunt. In 1826, Mr. Brontë brought home a box of toy soldiers for Branwell, Emily’s brother, which became the inspiration for a series of stories and plays the siblings wrote, which were set in many different fantasy worlds they created, including the “Glasstown Confederacy”, one of their most complex. Emily and her sister Anne helped Charlotte and Branwell write the Bronte juvenilia, which included tales and adventures in their imaginary kingdoms. In 1831, Emily and Anne created their own world called Gondal, featuring pacific islands and intriguing characters filled with

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