Authorial+Background

Emile Brontë was born near Yorkshire, where //Wuthering Heights// takes place, in 1818 where she grew up with her siblings Elizabeth, Anne, Charlotte and Patrick. When a typhus outbreak struck the Clergy Daughters’ School the three daughters attended, only Emily was left untouched by the sickness. After the typhus, the Brontë children were all homeschooled. Together they often imagined they were the soldiers of the great Duke of Wellington. At this time, Emile began writing poetry. At the age of 20, Emile became a teacher at a law school in Halifax England. Three years later, Emile and Charlotte moved together to Belgium to study French and German. Here, Emile began organizing her works into tidy journals later called the //Gondal Poems.// When Charlotte discovered Emile’s work, she combined them with her own and the works became published as the //Poems by Currer// under a false name. Emile Brontë wrote //Wuthering Heights// in the last year of her life as she became increasingly sickly. It is the only book she published before her death in 1848.
 * Author Bio**

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