Emily Jane Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet, best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. She was described as solitary, strong-willed, and nonconforming, with a keen love of nature and animals. Apart from a brief period at school and another as a student and teacher in Brussels, Emily spent most of her life at home in Haworth, helping with chores, playing the piano, and teaching herself from books. Her work was originally published under the pen name Ellis Bell. She died in 1848, aged 30, a year after the novel's publication.