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Emily Brontë

English
1818 – 1848
Emily Jane Brontë 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.
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Wuthering Heights

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Emily Brontë's only novel, first published in 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell, endures as one of the most celebrated works in English literature — a ferocious story of obsession, revenge, and doomed passion set against the bleak Yorkshire moors, now available in a Penguin Classics revised edition featuring an introduction and notes by Pauline Nestor and a new preface by Lucasta Miller.

Reviewed Apr 3, 2026

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