If you had only lived thirty years, what would people say about you when you were dead? "Emily Bronte ... is ... the greatest writer of the three Bronte sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne" (Emily Bronte (1818-1848)). Her childhood influenced her writing.Emily Bronte had a short life. In Emily's family there were five children, four girls and one boy.

Emily Jane Bronte was born on July 30, 1818 in Thornton, Yorkshire. Emily Bronte was the only child from her family to be given a middle name. She was the fifth child to be born to Patrick and Maria Bronte. In May of 1825 Mrs. Patrick Bronte died, leaving her husband, Patrick, to raise their children alone. A month later, young Elizabeth Bronte died. To spark imagination in his children's minds "Mr. Bronte [brought] home twelve wooden soldiers for Branwell - [this was] the start of the Bronte's oral literature and imaginative...