Shortly thereafter, the family moved eight miles away to Haworth, where Patrick was employed as perpetual curate. Emily was the second youngest of six siblings, preceded by Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte and Branwell. Emily became a teacher at Law Hill School in Halifax beginning in September 1838, when she was twenty. This story was probably inspired by The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott of whose novels Charlotte was a fan.

In the 2023–present revival of Clone High, JFK gets back together with the Brontë sisters following his breakup with Joan of Arc in "Sexy Ed". In 1845 Anne took Emily to visit some of the places she had come to know and love in the five years she spent as governess. However, it was not until December 1827 that their ideas took written form, [37] and the imaginary African kingdom of Glass Town came into existence, [38] followed by the Empire of Angria. Margaret Wooler showed fondness towards the sisters and she accompanied Charlotte to the altar at her marriage.

After she declined his proposal, Nicholls, pursued by the anger of Patrick Brontë, left his functions for several months. A cover version of Bush's song was included on the Pat Benatar album Crimes of Passion, bringing it a much larger audience. It was less than three months after Branwell's death, which led Martha Brown, a housemaid, to declare that "Miss Emily died of a broken heart for love of her brother". These were very uncommon forenames but the initials of each of the sisters were preserved and the patronym could have been inspired by that of the vicar of the parish, Arthur Bell Nicholls. By 1860 Charlotte had been dead for five years, and the only people living at the parsonage were Mr.

Elizabeth Branwell was a Methodist, though it seems that her denomination did not exert any influence on the children. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. Patrick could have sent his daughter to a less costly school in Keighley nearer home but Miss Wooler and her sisters had a good reputation and he remembered the building, which he passed when strolling around the parishes of Kirklees, Dewsbury and Hartshead-cum-Clifton where he was vicar. The Brontë birthplace in Thornton is a place of pilgrimage and their later home, the parsonage at Haworth in Yorkshire, now the Brontë Parsonage Museum, has hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.Ellen Nussey, who hated Arthur, insists that his marital claims had perverted Charlotte's writing and she had to struggle against an interruption of her career. Although the sisters were told several months after publication that only two copies had sold, [34] they were not discouraged (of their two readers, one was impressed enough to request their autographs). Although impressed by his dignity and deep voice, as well as by his near complete emotional collapse when she rejected him, she found him rigid, conventional and rather narrow-minded "like all the curates"—as she wrote to Ellen Nussey.