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Emily Brontë

1818 - 1848

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Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Emily was the fifth of six Brontë siblings, four of whom survived into adulthood. Her mother died when she was three, leaving the children in the care of their aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, and aside from brief intervals at school, she was mostly taught at home by her father, Patrick Brontë, who was the curate of Haworth. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emily Brontë is the 151st most popular writer (down from 95th in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 58th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Writer.

Emily Brontë is most famous for her novel, Wuthering Heights.

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Among writers, Emily Brontë ranks 151 out of 7,302. Before her are E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cato the Elder, Cyrano de Bergerac, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau, and Diogenes Laërtius. After her are Carlo Collodi, Plautus, Yasunari Kawabata, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, and Samuel Beckett.

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Among people born in 1818, Emily Brontë ranks 6. Before her are Karl Marx, James Prescott Joule, Christian IX of Denmark, Alexander II of Russia, and Ignaz Semmelweis. After her are Ivan Turgenev, Charles Gounod, Jacob Burckhardt, Marius Petipa, Lewis H. Morgan, and Tewodros II. Among people deceased in 1848, Emily Brontë ranks 3. Before her are Gaetano Donizetti, and Jöns Jacob Berzelius. After her are Christian VIII of Denmark, François-René de Chateaubriand, George Stephenson, John Quincy Adams, Caroline Herschel, Bernard Bolzano, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Vissarion Belinsky, and María Isabella of Spain.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Emily Brontë ranks 126 out of 8,785. Before her are Lemmy (1945), Jeff Beck (1944), Maud of Wales (1869), Roger Taylor (1949), Edward III of England (1312), and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545). After her are Edward II of England (1284), Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837), David J. Thouless (1934), Edward I of England (1239), Edward Elgar (1857), and Diana, Princess of Wales (1961).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Emily Brontë ranks 13. Before her are Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Daniel Defoe (1660), Virginia Woolf (1882), Jane Austen (1775), and Lewis Carroll (1832). After her are Mary Shelley (1797), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Anna Wintour (1949), and John Milton (1608).

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