Pagine1818–1848 · Thornton, Yorkshire, England · also known as Emily Bronte, Ellis Bell
Emily Brontë wrote just one novel — and it is one of the wildest in English. Wuthering Heights (1847), published as by “Ellis Bell,” tells of the obsessive love between Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff across two generations on the Yorkshire moors. Shy and fiercely private, she was also a remarkable poet. She died of tuberculosis at 30, a year after the novel appeared; her sister Anne (Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) died the following spring.
Begin with Wuthering Heights.
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Emily Brontë wrote just one novel — and it is one of the wildest in English. Wuthering Heights (1847), published as by “Ellis Bell,” tells of the obsessive love between Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff across two generations on the Yorkshire moors.
Wuthering Heights is usually considered Emily Brontë’s best-known work.
Most readers start with Wuthering Heights.
Both refer to the same writer. Other spellings and names include Emily Bronte, Ellis Bell.
Yes — 1 of Emily Brontë’s books are free to read online in Pagine, the free e-reader and reading tracker.