Emily Bronte, born July 30th 1818, is a 19th century writer who comes from a family of writers, she is the 5th child of Patrick Bronte. Emily's work and life stood out as very inspring, she lived most of her desolate life in her families home, Haworth Parsonage, near the Yorkshire Moors in northern England. She loved this bleak and stormy landscape and much of her writing was inspired by her home. As you may know, she was very young when her two eldest sisters and her mom fell due to tuberculosis and died. She was deeply affected by the deaths of her siblings, but soon would have the halcyon of 2 more that were coming with her. The start of her career was when she was a child, her father's gift of toys, out of this she and her sisters made the paracosmic world of Angria which were their juvnilia writing. After her sisters would outgrow this phenomena, Emily continuted the trend with her own paracosmic world named "Gondal" a place where she would hide herself and could be herself, in this world Women strictly had many peculiarities. Emily was a very quite, shy and reserved person, she would never be swayed by public opinion or would it transmute her countenance and personality. She saw the good and flaws in people, she saw the solution to human suffering was to stand by our own spiritual faith. Emily's vision would soon come alive in her Magnum Opus Wuthering Heights, It exemplifies to each of us, no matter who we are, that we are often left alone in the world, and that we all long to be a part of something more than ourselves, but that it is only through love of ourselves that we can truly find love with others. We see this novel still widely read and sadly widely ridiculed by some critics. Emily taught us how one person's voice can reveal to us what the world really is, we see the surface break and the reflections fade, finding the naked truth about humanity. Emily was strong and corageous and lived up to her vision even to her last breath when she had lung infection her strength pulled through, her exceeding the limits did not last long as she soon died on that cold afternoon on December 19th 1848 in her home. She taught us that in a world of prejudice and labels we can find the faith and strenght to pull through with our vision. She was a blessing to literature and to all of us and we will meditate on her memory on this day July 30th 2011 her 193rd Birthday! Happy birthday, Emily. May your rest in peace.
~Christopher A.P.~
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