![]() The mother’s sister, Elizabeth, known to the children as “Aunt Branwell,” moved in with the family to help raise Emily, her four sisters, and brother Branwell. When Emily was just three, and only a year after moving to Haworth, on September 15, 1821, her mother, Maria, died after a long battle with cancer. The hamlet, situated among the picturesque yet isolated North England moors, was typical of small towns of the era, lacking amenities like sewers and a reliably clean water supply, which inevitably led to outbreaks of disease. ![]() At the age of two, her father moved the family-comprised of Emily’s older sisters Maria, Elizabeth, and Charlotte, older brother Patrick (known as “Branwell”), and younger sister Anne-from Thornton to nearby Haworth, a rustic village in Yorkshire, to assume the post of perpetual curate at the local parsonage. Emily was the fourth, and youngest, daughter in the family at the time she was born, but would be the second eldest of the sisters to survive into adulthood. ![]() Emily Jane Brontë was born on July 30, 1818, in the village of Thornton in Yorkshire, England, the fifth of six children born to Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë, an Irish Anglican clergyman and poet. ![]()
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