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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 5,509,068 page views. Her biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Emily Brontë is the 145th most popular writer (down from 126th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 86th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Writer.

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

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  • 91

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.04

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  • 4.96

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Emily Brontë ranks 145 out of 5,755. Before her are William Blake, H. G. Wells, Kālidāsa, Mikhail Bulgakov, Aldous Huxley, and Guillaume Apollinaire. After her are Murasaki Shikibu, Pindar, Elias Canetti, Ivo Andrić, Eugène Ionesco, and Heinrich Böll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Emily Brontë ranks 4. Before her are Karl Marx, James Prescott Joule, and Alexander II of Russia. After her are 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 4. Before her are Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Gaetano Donizetti, and George Stephenson. After her are François-René de Chateaubriand, John Quincy Adams, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Christian VIII of Denmark, Bernard Bolzano, Caroline Herschel, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and María Isabella of Spain.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Emily Brontë ranks 114 out of 7,765. Before her are William Blake (1757), H. G. Wells (1866), Elizabeth of York (1466), Aldous Huxley (1894), George III of the United Kingdom (1738), and Victoria, Princess Royal (1840). After her are Charles I of England (1600), John Napier (1550), James II of England (1633), Rowan Atkinson (1955), Edward Elgar (1857), and Catherine Howard (1523).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Emily Brontë ranks 17. Before her are Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Charlotte Brontë (1816), William Blake (1757), H. G. Wells (1866), and Aldous Huxley (1894). After her are Ian Fleming (1908), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Terry Pratchett (1948), John Milton (1608), and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759).

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