Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë

The Brontë sisters were exceptional writers of poetry as well as fiction. Between 1847 and 1848, all three sisters published novels. They wrote under pen names, because books written by women were not always accepted as easily as books written by men. Emily Brontë became Ellis Bell; Charlotte Brontë was Currer Bell and Anne Brontë, Acton Bell.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is the most famous of the Brontë novels. The story tells of the destructive and passionate love between Catherine and Heathcliff, who grow up together on a farm called Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff leaves the farm when Catherine, for reasons of social class, refuses to marry him.

All three sisters died very young. They all lived in Yorkshire where the novel Wuthering Heights is set.

Michael Vaughan-Rees, Geraldine Sweeney, Picot Cassidy: In Britain. 21^st Century Edition, Cornelsen Verlag, 2000, page 51