became Currer Bell and Anne became Acton Bell).
Like her sister Anne, Emily worked for awhile as a governess until she became homesick and returned to her family in Haworth, where she continued her writing..
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| Emily Jane Bronte (1818 – 1848) was a British novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights. The second eldest of the three Bronte sisters,she published under the masculine pen name Ellis Bell, to evade contemporary prejudice against female writers. (Charlotte became Currer Bell and Anne became Acton Bell). Like her sister Anne, Emily worked for awhile as a governess until she became homesick and returned to her family in Haworth, where she continued her writing.. |
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| It was the discovery of Emily's poetic talent by Charlotte that led her and her sisters to publish a joint collection of their poetry in 1846, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. In 1847, she published her only novel, Wuthering Heights, as two volumes of a three volume set (the last volume being Agnes Grey by her sister Anne). It received mixed reviews when it first came out, but the book subsequently became an English literary classic. In 1850, Charlotte edited and published Wuthering Heights as a stand-alone novel and under Emily's real name, posthumously, for she had died two years earlier of Tuberculosis. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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