![]() Like her siblings, she wrote her own fictional stories and characters, but only a very small amount of them survived. She was quiet, shy, and loved to read but may have the most vivid and creative stories. ![]() The children often had creative and intelligent imaginations and made up their own stories and fantasy worlds. Brontë and her surviving sister Charlotte were immediately brought back home and were tutored both by her father and aunt.Įmily Brontë's birthplace at Thornton, YorkshireĪs a child, Brontë was very close to her siblings, including her only brother Branwell. In 1825, a tuberculosis outbreak occurred at the school that claimed the lives of her older sisters, Maria and Elizabeth. ![]() This would leave a traumatizing effect on her due to the school's harsh conditions, strict discipline, and the recent aftermath of her mother's death. Her aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, moved in to be a caregiver and mother figure to Brontë and her siblings.Īt age 6, Brontë, alongside her sisters, Maria, Elizabeth and Charlotte, was sent to the Clergy's Daughters School of Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. Shortly after her birth, the Brontë's moved to Haworth, Yorkshire, and in April 1821, her mother Maria died of cancer. ![]() 1817), and a younger sister named Anne (b. Emily Jane Brontë was born on July 30th, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the fifth child and fourth daughter of Patrick Brontë, an Irish-born clergyman, and his wife, Maria. ![]()
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