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DID YOU KNOW?
EMILY BRONTE 
This week's Did You Know section
features some interesting facts about
the beautiful writer, Emily Bronte! Let's
get to know more about the author
behind the famous literary classic,
"Withering Heights", Emily Jane
Bronte:
1. Emily always hated being known 3. Emily's "Wuthering Heights"
as an author and made sister,
was published in 1847 but did not
Charlotte, promise to never tell
meet instant success like Charlotte
anyone about her writing. This
did with her book, "Jane Eyre".
Bronte sister was no fan of
Critics were hostile and called her
attention and was known for
work 'too savage' and 'clumsy in
being mysterious character among construction' but Charlotte was
her siblings. Little is known about quick to defend her sister saying
Emily because she liked living
that Emily's "Wuthering Heights"
alone and being in solitude!
was above her own writing of
"Jane Eyre". That's some sisterly
2. Emily Bronte originally
love right there!
published a book of poetry called
"Poems" under the pen name 'Ellis 4. Sadly, Emily didn't make it to a
Bell' along with her sisters
long old age. Emily Bronte died of
Charlotte and Anne who used the tuberculosis in 1848, only a year
pen name 'Currer' and 'Acton'
after "Wuthering Heights" was
respectively. Surprise! Surprise! published! Emily was always
Only two copies were sold. Talk remembered as the smartest
about a tough beginner's luck!
among her sisters and a great
writer for her interesting
literature works! A truly inspiring
figure in Victorian literature!
By Nur Ruhaiyu (1614156)