How Did Emily Bronte Contribute To Society

Emily Brontë presented the themes of love, revenge, and jealousy through Wuthering Heights from her own personal experiences and views of life in the 1800’s. The harsh environment of 1800’s Yorkshire played an important role in the book and in Emily’s life. Social inequality and family loss changed the lives of the characters, as it did Emily in reality. Emily Brontë showed how you can exceed society’s expectations through the unstable relationships in Wuthering Heights.

Emily Bronte was born in 1818 and lived in Thornton, Yorkshire. Emily’s mother passed away when Emily was only six years old, leaving her dad to take care of her and her five siblings. She was best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights. Along with Wuthering Heights, Emily also wrote poetry. The Brontë sisters had a published book called Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. They used male names as pseudonyms. Emily was Ellis, Catherine was Currer, and Anne was Acton. A year after Wuthering Heights was published, Emily passed away at

During the Victorian era, many people thought that females couldn't write a book such as Wuthering Heights, which is a reason why she used the pseudonym, Ellis Bell, when she published the book. She was the most influential female writer in the Victorian era and was one of the most influential writers in the Romantic era of writing. She did not write in the traditional style of Romantic writers at the time, such as Jane Austen and Lord Byron. She took elements of the Gothic genres (which included books like Dracula by Bram Stoker and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley) and the Romantic genre(which included books like Don Juan by Lord Byron and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen), and was one of the founders of the Gothic Romantic genre. Wuthering Heights and her sister Charlotte’s book, Jane Eyre, became cornerstones in the Gothic Romance