Emily Brontë

(July 30, 1818 - December 19, 1848)
Emily Bronte (pen name: Ellis Bell)

Emily Brontë was the middle of the three famous Brontë sisters who were novelists and poets. She wrote under the name Ellis Bell.

Emily Brontë is credited as one of the major sources of inspiration for Emily Dickinson poetry (the other was Ralph Waldo Emerson).

Her major work, Wuthering Heights, and her only known novel, was often treated in the 19th century as a work of immorality, too much passion. Critics do not know when Wuthering Heights was written nor how long it took to write. Some critics have argued that Branson Brontë, brother to the three sisters, wrote this book, but most critics disagree.

Emily Brontë on this site

• Emily Brontë Quotations

Emily Brontë on the Web

• Biographies
  • Chronology
  • Biography - Books and Writers
  • Biography - British Authors Series
  • Biography - Dead Poets Circle
  • Biography - Kitao and Kitao
  • Biography - Spectrum
  • Biography - Victorian Station
• Essays and Criticism
  • Suicides in Wuthering Heights
  • Wuthering Heights
• Writings
  • Darkening, an untitled poem
  • Enough of Thought, Philosopher
  • Faith and Despondency
  • Faith and Despondency
  • I Am the Only Being
  • I am the only being whose doom...
  • Last Lines
  • Last Words
  • Love and Friendship
  • Love is like the wild rose briar...
  • Methinks this heart...
  • My Lady's Grave
  • No coward soul is mine
  • Plead for me
  • Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
  • The Prisoner
  • Remembrance
  • Selected Poetry of Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848)
  • She dried her tears...
  • The Night is Darkening round me
  • The Poems of Emily Bronte (About the Book)
  • Wuthering Heights - Online Literature Library
  • Wuthering Heights - University of Maryland
  • Wuthering Heights - University of Virginia
  • Wuthering Heights: Palm and e-Book formats
• Other
  • Brontë Parsonage Museum
  • Family Tree - Bronte Sisters & Haworth
  • Grave of Emily Bronte
  • Lecture Notes: Wuthering Heights
  • Lesson Plans - Wuthering Heights
  • Movie Information - Wuthering Heights

About Emily Brontë

• Categories: British author, novelist, writer: Wuthering Heights
• Places: England
• Period: 19th century
• Religious Associations: Anglican

Also on this site

• About Anne Brontë
• About Charlotte Brontë
• About Emily Dickinson
• Women Writers - 19th Century

Bibliography

• Emily Bronte. Robert Barnard, 2000. Young Adult.
• The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë. Emily Brontë; C. W. Hatfield, editor, 1995.
• Wuthering Heights. Emily Brontë. Reissue, 1983.
• Brontës at Haworth: The World Within. Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë, published 1993.
• The History of the Bronte Family: From Ireland to Wuthering Heights. John Cannon, 2000.
• A Life of Emily Brontë. Edward Chitham,1987.
• A Chainless Soul. Katherine Frank, 1990.
• Emily Brontë. Winifred Gérin, 1971.
• Four Brontës: The Lives & Works of Charlotte, Branwell, Emily & Anne Brontë: Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, 1967.
• Twin Spirits: The Novels of Emily & Anne Brontë. Robert Liddell, 1990.
• Emily Brontë. A. Mary F. Robinson. 1883, 1978.
• Bronte Transformations: The Cultural Dissemination of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Patsy Stoneman, 1996.
• Critical Essays on Emily Bronte. Tom Winnifrith, editor. 1997.

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