“I long to be at home once again, and to see the house and the people…” — Emily Brontë

“I long to be at home once again, and to see the house and the people that I love so much.”

A direct expression of homesickness and attachment to family · School letter exercise, My Dear Mama, 26 July 1842, translated from French

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Emily Brontë

About Emily Brontë

30 July 1818–19 December 1848

Emily Jane Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 at Thornton, near Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and died on 19 December 1848 at Haworth, Yorkshire. She lived only thirty years, published one novel and a small body of verse during her lifetime, travelled little, and left behind few direct explanations of…

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