10 Facts About Emily Brontë

July 2018 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Emily Brontë, the novelist and poet best known for her novel Wuthering Heights (1847). Born on 30 July 1818 in Thornton, near Bradford in West Yorkshire, Emily was the fifth of six children including the famous Charlotte and (Patrick) Branwell Brontë. Emily died of tuberculosis on 19 December 1848 in Haworth, West Yorkshire, aged 30. Wuthering Heights remains consistently among the top three best-selling of all classic novels in the English language.