Emily Brontë, author of the novel Wuthering Heights (1847), was one of six children. Her two eldest sisters (Maria and Elizabeth) died when she was young. She had a brother named Patrick Branwell Brontë and two sisters, Charlotte and Anne, who were also novelists. The three sisters published together under the names Ellis, Currer, and Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë’s best-known novel is Jane Eyre (1847), and Anne Brontë’s is Agnes Grey (1847).
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