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An Emily Bronte Chronology
- 1818
- July 30, Emily Jane Bronte born at Thornton, near Bradford, Yorkshire.
- 1820
- April, the Bronte family moves to Haworth.
- 1821
- September, Mrs. Bronte dies.
- 1824
- November, Emily Bronte enrolls at the Cowan Bridge School.
- 1825
- May 6, Maria Bronte dies; June 1, Charlotte and Emily leave Cowan Bridge; June 15
Elizabeth Bronte dies.
- 1826
- June, Mr. Bronte brings home twelve wooden soldiers for Branwell--the start of the
Btontes' oral literature and imaginative games.
- 1831
- Emily and Anne begin the Gondal saga.
- 1834
- November 24, the earliest dated Emily Bronte manuscript--mentions the Gondals
discovering Caaldine.
- 1835
- July--Octobet, a pupil in Miss Wooler's school at Roe Head; is sent home after alarming
Charlotte with her physical decline.
- 1836
- July 12, the earliest dated poem.
- 1837
- September, goes to teach at Law Hill School, near Halifax; remains there for about six
months--the exact dates of the Law Hill period are disputed.
- 1838-1842
- Over half of Bronte's surviving poems written.
- 1842
- February--November, at school in Brussels with Charlotte to study music and foreign
languages; writes the essays in French; returns to Haworth after the death of Aunt
Branwell.
- 1843
- Alone at Haworth with her father; a time of creativity and freedom.
- 1844
- Begins to arrange her poems into two notebooks, dividing the Gondalan from the
non-Gondalan material.
- 1845
- The Brontes give up hopes for a school of their own; Branwell, working on a novel, tells
his sisters of the profitable possibilities of novel writing; Emily's birthday note shows
her hearty and content, reunited with Anne and as enthusiastic as ever about the
Gondalans; October, Charlotte discovers Emily's poems and convinces her sister to
collaborate on a volume of poems; December, Wuthering Heights begun.
- 1846
- May, Poems by Currer Ellis, and Acton Bell published, with the Brontes paying for costs;
July, Wuthering Heights finished and begins to make the round of publishers, along
with Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte and The Profrssor by Charlotte; September 14,
last dated complete poem.
- 1847
- July, T. C. Newby accepts Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey but delays
publishing until the success of Jane Eyre arouses interest in the
"Bells"; December, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey published.
- 1848
- Confusion in the literary world over the identity and number of the Bells; Anne
publishes The Tenant of Wildftll Hall; Emily withdraws more resolutely into
herself; September 24, Branwell dies; October 1, Emily leaves home for the last time to
attend Branwell's funeral service--catches a severe cold which develops into inflammation
of the lungs; December 19, Emily Bronte dies.
- 1850
- Wuthering Heights reissued, with a selection of poems, and a biographical notice
by Charlotte.
- 1893
- The Bronte Society established.
- 1941
- Hatfield's edition of The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte published.
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