Emily
Brontë was born on 30th July 1818, the 5th child of the Reverend Patrick
Brontë, a stern Evangelical curate, and his wife Maria. When Emily was three
years old, her mother died of cancer, and her Aunt Branwell, a strict
Calvinist, moved in to help raise the six children (another daughter, Anne, was
born soon after Emily). They lived in a parsonage in Haworth with the bleak
moors of Yorkshire on one side and the parish graveyard on the other.
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“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change
it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff
resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but
necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a
pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights"
Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights"
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