Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet best known for her only novel Wuthering Heights (1847). She was one of the Brontë sisters and is noted for her intense, atmospheric writing.
Background
- Born in
- The Brontë Birthplace
- Educated at
- Cowan Bridge SchoolPensionnat de Demoiselles
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."
"Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my sou…"
"If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day."
"Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with…"
"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave."
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Timeline
1818
Born
Birth1848
Died
Death
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