Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë rarely left Haworth for long (a spell at a Brussels boarding school, a few miserable months teaching) before homesickness pulled her back to the parsonage and the moors she walked daily with her dog. With her sister Anne she invented Gondal, an imaginary saga they wrote poetry about for years, material Charlotte later discovered by accident and pushed her sisters to publish.

Wuthering Heights appeared in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, its violence and structural strangeness baffling most reviewers. Her brother Branwell died of tuberculosis and drink that September; Emily, already ill, refused doctors and medicine almost until the hour of her own death that December, dead at thirty having published exactly one novel.