Bronte Poems

An exciting edition to Everyman's Library- a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. Our books have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classics' 128pp. The binding, paper and production is visibly superior in every way to that of Bloomsbury. In size, price, and elegant packaging, these books will make ideal gifts Beautiful 3-colour jacket designed to give a uniform look Unique and highly distinctive black-and-white pattern on each spine Full-cloth, flexible covers Sewn bindings Silk ribbon markers and headbands Gold stamping on front and spine Decorative patterned endpapers Newly designed typographic settings in classic typefaces Portable format-size 6 1/4 x 4 ins (15. 75 x 10. 25 cm) Cream wove acid free paper 256pp each volume

Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818. Her father was curate of Haworth, Yorkshire, and her mother died when she was five years old, leaving five daughters and one son. In 1824 Charlotte, Maria, Elizabeth and Emily were sent to Cowan Bridge, a school for clergymen's daughters, where Maria and Elizabeth both caught tuberculosis and died. The children were taught at home from this point on and together they created vivid fantasy worlds which they explored by writing stories. Emily worked briefly as a teacher in 1938 but soon returned home. In 1846, Emily’s poems were published alongside those of her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, in Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The following year Wuthering Heights was published. Emily Brontë died of consumption on 19 December 1848.

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