The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë (1908) by Emily Bronte, Edited By: Clement King Shorter

Emily Jane Bronte Emily Bront� was born on 30 July 1818 in the village of Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, in Northern England, to Maria Branwell and an Irish father, Patrick Bront�. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Bront� and the fifth of six children, though the two oldest girls, Maria and Elizabeth, died in childhood.In 1820, shortly after the birth of Emily's younger sister Anne, the family moved eight miles away to Haworth, where Patrick was employed as perpetual curate; here the children developed their literary talents 30 July 1818 - 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Bront� siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell.