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Emily was fiercely attached to the country of her childhood, and rarely spent any time away from home. In 1835, when Emily was seventeen, she went to school at Roe Head where her sister Charlotte was teaching. Once Emily was there, she became so skinny, and pale that she was sent back home. She left home again when she was nineteen to be a governess, but that failed. And again when she was twenty-four, she left to study in Belgium, but found it was unbearable to be away from her home and from the countryside. Emily never made any close friends outside of her family circle.
In 1845, Charlotte came across some poems that Emily had written when she was younger. Emily was furious that Charlotte had read them, but the discovery led to the publication of a volume of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne's poetry under the names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. .
At this time Branwell, Emily's brother, had failed as a painter and had become addicted to alcohol and drugs. He died in September of 1848, and his death marked the beginning of Emily's own illness. Tuberculosis killed her rapidly, partly because she refused to make any changes in her daily life because of her illness. She continued to get up early everyday to feed her animals, even when she could hardly walk. She died on December 19th, 1848, at the age of thirty. Wuthering Heights was Emily Bronte's only novel, and her gift to the world.
Her Novel.
In the beginning of the novel Mr. Lockwood has just returned home from his landlord's. Mr. Heathcliff is Lockwood's landlord and he, in no way, showed Mr. Lockwood any courteousness. An example of this rudeness is when Mr. Heathcliff's dogs just about attack Mr. Lockwood for no reason and Mr. Heathcliff states that he must have tried to steal something. This beginning introduction to these charachter's sets the frame of the story. Soon the reader, and Mr. Lockwood will find out why Heathcliff is the way he is.
