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Emily Jane Brontë:

30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848

Pen name: Ellis Bell.
Born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England:

A sister to two more sisters, became inspired by box of soldiers being gifted to them, they started to write imaginary stories about soldiers, thou little left of Emily’s. At the age of thirteen Anne and she wrote about a myth and legends full fantasy island by the name of “Gondal”. Emily's real name came to light in 1850, by being printed on the title page of an edited commercial edition for: “Wuthering Heights”,

yet to become popular. And because of its violently and yet passionate style, it was thought to had been written by a male author. It became her only novel which she wrote in year 1847 under her pen name “Ellis Bell”; about two families living on the west Yorkshire Moors, the one “the Earnshaws” and the other one “the Lintons”.

A tumultuous romantic and gothic influenced novel to be widely considered as the greatest novels ever written in English, but the reviews were dividedly critical of its seductive depictions of mental-and bodily violence by challenging the Victorian path of mortality, religion, and the social hierarchy.

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