Emily Bronte was born in 1818, on July 30th. She was the fifth child of the Reverend Patrick Bronte, an Evangelist, and his wife Maria. They lived in Haworth surrounded by the moors of Yorkshire. Emily’s mother died of cancer when Emily was just three years old, and her Aunt Branwell moved in to help raise the children. When Emily was six years old she went to a boarding school called The Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge. The school was funded by charity and the conditions were bleak. Emily’s older sisters, Maria, Elizabeth and Charlotte were already enrolled.

The Clergy Daughters’ School was run with the notion that if the teachers punished their students’ bodies, then their solves might be saved. The students were kept hungry, cold and, in most cases, extremely ill. In 1825, Maria and Elizabeth both died of tuberculosis, the disea

When Linton finally passed away, Cathy said she felt free. “He’s safe and I’m free. I should feel very well but you have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel I only see death! I feel like death! (Bronte, 287)”

The setting of the novel is one that resembles where Emily Bronte grew up. The moors, the storms, and the harsh nature of the Yorkshire Hills take on a new meaning. To some people, these conditions may seem unbearable and unforgiving, but to others, like Emily, these conditions can be seen as beautiful, and wild.

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