Emily - the average of the three Bronte sisters. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. During his short life, she published only collection of poetry with her sisters: Poems Carrere,

Emily Bronte

Emily - the average of the three Bronte sisters. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. During his short life, she published only collection of poetry with her sisters: "Poems Carrere, Ellis and Acton Bell" and the novel "Wuthering Heights" by which was a great figure in English literature.

biography

Emily Bronte was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire. Her parents were Mary Branvell and Patrick Brontë. She was the fifth of six children in the family. In 1824 the family moved to Harvort where Emily's father was parish.

After the death of his mother, sisters Maria, Elizabeth and Charlotte were sent to the school for the daughters of priests in Cowen Bridge, where they had inconveniently. Later, Charlotte Bronte described the humiliation and hardships that she had to endure at school, in his novel "Jane Eyre." Emily was also in this school, but very long. Soon the typhus epidemic, and sisters Maria and Elizabeth contracted. Mary tuberculosis patients sent home, where she died. After that, the school also took Charlotte, Elizabeth and Emily. Elizabeth died at home already.

Later three sisters and their brother Patrick Branvell educated at home father and aunt Elizabeth Branvell. In his spare time, children love to create for himself a fictional world in which were toy soldiers, and write stories about these worlds.

At the age of seventeen Emily studied at school Rowe HEAD for girls, which taught Charlotte, but was able to stand there only three months, after which it swept irrepressible longing for home. She returned home and to school instead went to Ann [1]. The aim was collected and measured these girls could get sufficient education to open his own school.

Emily was a school teacher Luo Hill in Halifax since September 1838, aged 20 years. 17 hours a day undermined his health, and she returned home in April 1839. She then lived with his father, kuhovaryachy, removing and teaching in Sunday School. In her spare time, she studied German and learned to play the piano.Konstanten Eger, teacher Charlotte and Emily during their stay in Brussels. Daguerreotype around 1865In 1842, Emily went to Charlotte to Brussels to study at the academy for girls Kontantena Eger. They wanted to improve their knowledge of French and German that would pryhodylosya for their own school. The girls returned home after the death of her aunt. Home they tried to open a school, but failed to attract students to their remote village.In 1844, Emily began to revise his poems and rewrote them neatly into two notebooks. In autumn 1845 Charlotte found a notebook and began to demand publication of poems. First Emily got mad because my sister got in her personal records, but then Ann admitted that too secretly writes poetry and has borne. In 1846 all three sisters poems were published in the collection "Poems Carrere, Ellis and Acton Bell." Girls have chosen pseudonyms. Charlotte has Carrere Bell, Emily - Ellis Bell and Anne - Acton Bell. Charlotte later wrote that they intentionally distinctly male names to dispel any prejudices about gender labels. The collection is composed almost entirely of poems Emily has gotten a bad criticism. But it pushed the girls to writing novels.

His only novel, "Wuthering Heights» (Wuthering Heights) Emily published in 1847. The novel came out in two volumes in the set of three volumes. The third book contained novel "Agnes Grey" sister Ann. Unusual, modern building story has surprised critics. Although initial reviews were as good and bad, the novel often hanyly for portraying amoral sense, then book has the status of a classic work of English literature. In 1850, Charlotte edited and published his novel in a single volume under his own name Emily.

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