Emily Jane Brontë was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. Emily was the fifth child of Reverend Patrick Brontë and his wife, Maria Branwell Brontë. The family moved to Haworth, ...

Highlights of the upcoming sale include this 1841 birthday note from Emily Brontë to her sister Anne. Sotheby's The 19th-century Brontë sisters—Charlotte, Emily and Anne—are literary legends known for ...

Although The Brontes have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic. Charlotte ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...