Biography of Bronte sisters
Emily Bronte was an English poet and novelist who produced but one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a highly imaginative story of passion and hatred set on the Yorkshire moors. Emily was perhaps the greatest writer of the three Bronte sisters. Her father, Patrick Bronte, an Irishman, held a number of curacies before becoming the rector of Haworth in 1820. After the death of their mother in 1821, the six Bronte children were left very much to themselves in the bleak moorland rectory. ... In 1845 Charlotte came across some poems by Emily, and this led to the discovery that all three sisters--Charlotte, Emily, and Anne--had written verse. ... Though it was Charlotte who was most famous and popular of the three sisters during her own lifetime, it is Emilys Wuthering Heights that is today considered the greatest contribution that the sisters made to literature.