No, the English writer Emily Brontë, author of the novel Wuthering Heights (1847), never married, and there is no evidence to suggest that she ever had a romantic relationship. Some fictionalized accounts of her life have imagined that she fell in love with a local curate, who inspired the stormy relationship between her characters Heathcliff and Cathy Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights, but these accounts are pure fiction. In addition, some of Brontë’s poems, such as “Remembrance,” have been misinterpreted as being about a lover. In reality, Brontë was described by those who knew her as “odd,” shy, reserved, and private. She died of tuberculosis at age 30 in 1848.
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