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“At length my body and my spirit were weary of wandering; my bark was tossed by storms, I longed to come into port.”

Using the journey at sea as an image of exhaustion and the desire for peace · School letter exercise, From One Brother to Another, August 1842, translated from French

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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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