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Emily Bronte’s Life

A female English poet and novelist, Emily Bronte was born on July 30, 1818 in Thornton, Yorkshire in England. Her family moved eight miles away to Haworth in 1824, where her father, Patrick Bronte, worked as a perpetual curate.

Her mother, Maria Bronte, died when Emily was just three.

Following the death of their mother, the responsibility of bringing up the six Bronte children fell upon their father, who sent Emily’s three elder sisters, Elizabeth, Charlotte and Maria, to Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge.

The girls faced mistreatment in the school, which Charlotte described in her novel “Jane Eyre.” Emily also attended the same school for a short period of time, but Elizabeth and Maria soon caught typhus there. As Maria was already suffering from tuberculosis, she succumbed to typhus and consequently died.

The remaining sisters left the school, but Elizabeth also died shortly after that.

The surviving three Bronte sisters and their bro