Emily Bronte

"Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy."

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Source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin

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Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte

Poet, Novelist

Emily Bronte was a 19th-century English novelist and poet, best known for her novel Wuthering Heights, which explores themes of love, nature, and human emotion.

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