Literary Birthday – 30 July – Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 and died on 19 December 1848.

Emily Brontë Quotes

1. He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
2. Terror made me cruel.
3. A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o’clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone
4. Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
5. If I could, I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
6. Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
7. The tyrant grinds down his slaves, and they don’t turn against him; they crush those beneath them.
8. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
9. Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet, remembered for her Gothic novel, Wuthering Heights, which is now considered a classic of English literature. Soon after the publication of her novel, Emily’s health began to fail rapidly. She had been ill for some time, but now her breathing became difficult, and she suffered great pain. She died of tuberculosis in December 1848. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell. Her sisters were Anne Brontë and Charlotte Brontë.

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Source for image: Branwell Brontë, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

by Amanda Patterson
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