Emily Brontë Short Biography Birth
Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) was born in Thornton, Yorkshire. Her father, Patrick Brontë , married Maria Branwell of Penzance in 1812, and by 1820 (2), when he moved to Haworth in Yorkshire as rector, there were six children : Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne. Mother dies
Maria Brontë (senior) died in 1821 (3), and Patrick asked her elder sister, Elizabeth, to come and look after the children, which she did until her death in 1842 (24). Education
Emily attended the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge between 1824 (6) and 1825 (7), but when her two elder sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, died in 1825, she was withdrawn from the school, and thereafter educated largely at home by her father, her aunt, her elder sister Charlotte, and by drawing and music masters who visited the parsonage. First writings
Emilys first literary endeavours were the Gondal sagas, stories, plays and games written by the Brontë children in tiny books. The prose stories of Gondal are now lost, but the poems were transcribed by Emily, and formed the basis of her contribution to the sisters first publication. Roe Head School
In 1835 (17) Emily went to study at Roe Head School near Dewsbury (where her sister Charlotte had also been a student and was now teaching), but suffered with homesickness, and returned home after 3 months. | |
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