ABSTRACT
About the author Once upon a time there were three little girls called Charlotte, Emily and Anne, who loved to sit around the kitchen table writing stories and poems. They lived with their father, the curate, in a large vicarage in a small town high up on the Yorkshire moors. They had a brother called Branwell, who also enjoyed writing but unfortunately took to drink. Their mother and two older sisters had died tragically young from tuberculosis. When the three remaining sisters reached their twenties, they started writing novels under the supervision of the eldest sister, Charlotte, who was determined to get them published even if she had to pretend they were all men. Emily, the middle sister, only produced one novel, but it was brilliant. It is such a strange and disturbing story that it has a unique place in English literature. Since it was first published in 1847 there has never been anything quite like it and we still don't understand how or why Emily wrote it.
