********************************************* ***** ******* Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) - pseudonym Ellis Bell ******************************************* ****** ******** It never ceases to amaze me that a book as passionate and romantic as 'Wuthering Heights' was written by such a quiet, little mouse like person as Emily Bronte. To my mind she was the greatest writer of the three Brontë sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The story of the Brontes is very, very sad. They were the children of a father who was both cold and violent, and of a gentle, sickly mother, who died very young. They were ...
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