Skip to main content
Like
Create new Glog
previous
next
Email share
457 views | 0 likes | 0 reposts
Emily Bronte was born on 30 July 1818 at 74 Market Street in Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. She was the fourth daughter of Maria Branwell (1783-1821), who died of cancer when Emily was just three years old, and Irish clergyman Patrick Bronte (1777-1861).
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
REVENGE
Subverting love
. . . every breath from the hills so full of life, that it seemed whoever respired it, though dying, might revive.
“I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again—it is hers yet—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it, and so I struck one side of the coffin loose, and covered it up—not Linton’s side, damn him! I wish he’d been soldered in lead—and I bribed the sexton to pull it away, when I’m laid there, and slide mine out too. I’ll have it made so, and then, by the time Linton gets to us, he’ll not know which is which!” “You were very wicked, Mr. Heathcliff!” I exclaimed; “were you not ashamed to disturb the dead?”
Emily had four older siblings
http://www.online-literature.com/bronte/
Emily's works did not receive full acclaim until after her death at age 30
