2. Biography
Emily Bronte was born on 30 July
1818 in Thornton. In 1824, the
family moved to Haworth, where
Emily's father was perpetual curate,
and it was in these surroundings that
their literary gifts flourished.
3. Emilybecame a teacher at Law Hill School
in Halifax beginning in September 1838,
when she was twenty. In 1844, Emily began
going through all the poems she had written,
recopying them neatly into two notebooks.
One was labelled "Gondal Poems"; the other
was unlabelled.
4. Death
Emily's health had been weakened by
unsanitary conditions at home, the source of
water being contaminated by runoff from the
church's graveyard.She became sick during her
brother's funeral in September 1848. Though
her condition worsened steadily, she rejected
medical help and all proffered remedies,
saying that she would have "no poisoning
doctor" near her. She eventually died of
tuberculosis, on 19 December 1848 at around
two in the afternoon. She was interred in the
Church of St. Michael and All Angels family
vault, Haworth ,West Yorkshire
5.
6. Novels : Wuthering Heights (1847)
Poetry: Poems of Currer, Acton and Ellis
Bell (1846)
7.
«So hopeless is the world without,
The world within I doubly prize;
Thy world where guile and hate and
doubt
And cold suspicion never rise;
Where thou and I and Liberty
Have undisputed sovereignty.»
8. «How beautiful the Earth is still
To thee–how full of Happiness;
How little fraught with real ill
Or shadowy phantoms of distress ; How
Spring can bring thee glory yet
And Summer win thee to forget
December's sullen time!
Why dost thou hold the treasure fast
Of youth's delight, when youth is past
And thou art near thy prime?»
9. «No coward soul is mine
No trembler in the world's
storm-troubled sphere
I see Heaven's glories shine
And Faith shines equal arming
me from Fear»
