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MarkUK
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Date Posted:31/07/2018 06:15:29Copy HTML

I should have done this yesterday; one of England's most famous and tragic novelists, Emily Bronte, was born 200 years ago on 30 July 1818.

She was the middle sister of three girls born to a vicar of an impoverished rural parish in Yorkshire. All three wrote stories for each other as children, then in the mid 1840s they decided to write seriously under male pseudonyms so as to make their works more likely to be published.

The eldest Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre, Emily wrote Wuthering Heights and Anne wrote Agnes Grey. The first two especially are considered classics of English literature.

Sadly Wuthering Heights was to be Emily's only novel, she died in 1848, a year almost to the day after it was published, aged 30.

Anne wrote a second novel but died in 1849 aged 29.

Charlotte wrote two more novels, but she too died before her time aged 38 in 1855. A third novel was published after her death.

Their father, Patrick, died in 1861 having outlived his wife and his entire family of six children.

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