In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire the Brontë family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world. The middle of the three Brontë sisters, Emily Jane was born on July 30, 1818. The author of Wuthering Heights, she was also a very talented poet as witnessed here in this collection. She died of tuberculosis at the age of only 30 in 1848. So frail at death her coffin measured only sixteen inches wide.
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Emily Brontë (1818–1848), sister of Anne and Charlotte, published only one novel in her career, Wuthering Heights. Though she died just one year after its publication and never knew of its success, the story of doomed love and revenge went on to earn its place among the masterpieces of English literature.
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.
Richard Mitchley is an actor and narrator who has appeared in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet…, The Black Adder, and Doctor Who.