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We dedicated this page to Emily Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights.

A painting of the three Bronte Sisters

Emily was a novelist and poet. Most of her life was spent living in Haworth, Yorkshire, briefly attending Cowan Bridge school. She went back to Roe Head in 1835 because she was homesick. She only left home while being a governess at Law Hill and going on that short expedition to Brussels with Charlotte. She, along with Anne Bronte, created imaginary world of Gondal, and she adopts the personae of Gondal characters in many of her poems. Wuthering Heights was the only novel that overshadowed her poetry. Her desire in writing lyrics explored "personal identity and the poet's relationship to language and to the natural landscape. 'Loud without the wind was roaring', 'Ah! why, because the dazzling sun' and 'I am the only being whose doom' are just one of her many better, and foremost accomplishments. Emily's Wuthering Heights, about setting human passions against society with exceptional violence, was initially recieved as eccentric and too rough. Since then, it has grown in critical growth in particular reference to structure

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