Emily Brontë

This early biography of Emily Brontë traces the short, intense life of the author of Wuthering Heights, from the windswept Yorkshire parsonage she rarely left to the fierce imagination that produced one of the strangest and greatest novels in English. Written not long after Emily’s death, it draws on memory and testimony to portray a solitary, passionate genius alongside her famous sisters. Sympathetic and evocative, it helped shape the enduring image of the Brontë family and their moorland world. A valuable and readable portrait of one of literature’s most mysterious figures.