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WH Introduction
WH Introduction
HEIGHTS
Introductory lecture
Overview:
Emily Bronte’s (EB) Life and Background
Romanticism & EB
Genre
Themes
Her Birth
Emily Bronte (EB) was
born on 30 July 1818 in
the village of Thornton
some miles to the West of
Bradford in Yorkshire
where her father Patrick
was curate/rector.
She was the 5th of 6
children all brilliantly
gifted.
Her Father
Her father Patrick was a Church of
England clergyman who had emigrated
from Ireland.
The oldest son of an Irish labourer, he had
to struggle very hard to educate himself.
Entered Cambridge (St John’s College) to
read theology and became a ‘gentleman’.
Her Father
He married a well-to-do woman Maria
Branwell from Cornwall in 1812 and who
died after 9 yrs from a long and agonizing
cancer, 1 year after the birth of her
youngest child Anne