Emily Brontë, one of the three gifted Brontë sisters, is the author of the famous English novel Wuthering Heights. She was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in England, the fifth of six children. In 1820, her family moved to Haworth,  39  her mother died in 1821 and her two elder sisters died in 1825. Her father, a minister, was a stern and sullen man, and the aunt who took over the household was more strict than loving. The four surviving children became a close-knit group and  40  one another with emotional and creative support.  41  in a small and remote community, the four siblings paired off and used their unusual literary gifts to write about imaginary lands. Emily and her younger sister Anne  42  the imaginary country of Gondal and wrote literature for it that included legends and poetry. Gondal remains a source of Emily’s later art, providing the setting, characters, and situations for many of her best dramatic poems and for her novel Wuthering Heights.