Emily Jane Brontë was born in July 1818; along with her sisters
Charlotte and Anne, she is famed as a member of the greatest literary
family of all time, and helped turn Haworth into a place of literary
pilgrimage. Whilst Emily Brontë wrote only one novel, the mysterious and
universally acclaimed Wuthering Heights, she is widely acknowledged as
the best poet of the Brontë sisters - indeed as one of the greatest
female poets of all time. Her poems offer insights to her relationships
with her family, religion, nature, the world of work, and the shadowy
and visionary powers that increasingly dominated her life.Taking twenty
of her most revealing poems, Nick Holland creates a unifying impression
of Emily Brontë, revealing how this terribly shy young woman could
create such wild and powerful writing, and why she turned her back on
the outside world for one that existed only in her own mind.