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Emily, rewritten

The most mysterious member of the Brontë family, Emily Brontë died on 19 December 1848 at the young age of 30, leaving just one novel, Wuthering Heights, and a collection of poetry as her legacy. Yet, she is still recognised as one of the world’s greatest writers, and her only novel is one of the best love stories ever written. But, despite dramatisations of her life suggesting otherwise, and the passion she writes of so beautifully in Wuthering Heights, there is no real evidence that she was ever in love.

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