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Patrick was a highly gifted man, a Cambridge-educated Anglican clergyman and poet from humble rural Irish origins.

Emily Jane Brontë was born on July 30, 1818, at Thornton, Yorkshire, to the Reverend Patrick Brontë and his wife, the former Maria Branwell of Penzance. Emily's only novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), is one of the most famous and influential in the English language. The Brontë sisters' novels are translated and read globally today, and their home at Haworth Parsonage has become a museum that is visited by many thousands of tourists each year. Emily and her sisters Charlotte and Anne are unique in the annals of English literature in their status as the only three children from one family who have all achieved greatness in English literature. The Brontës' home at Haworth Parsonage has become a museum that is visited by thousands of pilgrims each year.īrontë (1818-1848) was a novelist and poet of great power and originality whose work has become canonical in both genres. Their novels have inspired an unrivalled number of homage works in fiction, theater, film, poetry, and music and are translated and read all over the world today.

As Marianne Thormählen states, the scholarly insistence as well upon imbricating the Brontës' lives and work is a part of " the uniqueness of the Bronte phenomenon " (Introduction, The Brontës in Context, 2012, 1). The dramatic emotional power of the Bronte sisters' work, the originality of their genius, and the suffering and tragedy of their brief lives has won them passionate readers who are as devoted to knowing the sisters' history as to studying their art. Charlotte, Anne, and their brother Branwell also wrote fine poetry, and Emily was a brilliant poet.

Charlotte and her younger sisters Emily and Anne are unique in the history of English literature in their status as the only three children from one family who have all written great English novels.

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was a novelist of extraordinary power who introduced into English literature a new tone of anguished passion coupled with an urgent sense of deprivation and abandonment.