WRITER

Emily Brontë

1818 - 1848

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Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emily Brontë has received more than 5,918,928 page views. Her biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2019). Emily Brontë is the 95th most popular writer (up from 145th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 114th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Writer.

Emily Brontë is most famous for her novel, Wuthering Heights.

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Among writers, Emily Brontë ranks 95 out of 7,302. Before her are José Saramago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, Toni Morrison, and Erich Maria Remarque. After her are Matsuo Bashō, George Sand, Marquis de Sade, Jonathan Swift, Ismail I, and James Joyce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Emily Brontë ranks 3. Before her are Karl Marx, and James Prescott Joule. After her are Alexander II of Russia, Ignaz Semmelweis, Ivan Turgenev, Christian IX of Denmark, Charles Gounod, Jacob Burckhardt, Lewis H. Morgan, Marius Petipa, and Rudolf von Jhering. Among people deceased in 1848, Emily Brontë ranks 1. After her are Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Gaetano Donizetti, François-René de Chateaubriand, George Stephenson, John Quincy Adams, Christian VIII of Denmark, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Bernard Bolzano, Caroline Herschel, Vissarion Belinsky, and Nicolas Oudinot.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Emily Brontë ranks 58 out of 8,785. Before her are Oliver Cromwell (1599), Thomas More (1478), Daniel Defoe (1660), Charles Babbage (1791), Olav V of Norway (1903), and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900). After her are Herbert Spencer (1820), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930), William Wallace (1270), Edward Jenner (1749), Virginia Woolf (1882), and Charles, Prince of Wales (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Emily Brontë ranks 8. Before her are Lord Byron (1788), Agatha Christie (1890), Charles Dickens (1812), Jane Austen (1775), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), and Daniel Defoe (1660). After her are Virginia Woolf (1882), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Lewis Carroll (1832), Mary Shelley (1797), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), and Walter Scott (1771).

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