Her Works
This was the year Wuthering Heights was published.
What is 1847?
This was the number of novels written by Emily Brontë.
What is 1?
This sister wrote the classic novel, Jane Eyre.
Who is Charlotte Brontë?
Elizabeth and Maria Brontë died of this disease at their school.
What is tuberculosis?
This was the person the Victorian era was named after.
Who is Queen Victoria?
This is how many years prior the narrator's love had died in Remembrance.
What is 15 years?
This was the age at which Emily Brontë died.
What is 30?
This sister wrote the novel, Agnes Grey.
Who is Anne Brontë?
This is the number of years Emily Brontë lived after the publication of Wuthering Heights.
What is 1?
The Victorian era experienced this technological boom.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
True or False
Wuthering Heights received immediate praise upon publication.
What is False?
Wuthering Heights was condemned after its publication in 1847.
This was the number of siblings Emily Brontë had.
What is 5?
These were the pen names of the three Brontë sisters.
What are Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell?
True or False?
Brontë is their family's real last name.
What is False?
Their father's last name was actually Brunty, an Irish name. He changed it because he was ashamed of his Irish heritage.
This event caused over one million deaths in Ireland during the Victorian era.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
This is the name of the poetry book the three sisters published together in 1846.
What is Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton?
Emily Brontë was raised by this person after her mother died.
Who is Aunt Elizabeth?
Emily regularly wrote poems about this fictional island she and Anne created.
What is Gondal?
The Brontë children all died before reaching this age.
What is 39 years old?
Their father lived longer than all of his children.
In 1876 Queen Victorian became the empress of this nation.
What is India?
These are the names of Wuthering Height's main characters.
Who are Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff?
Emily Brontë was born in this year.
What is 1818?
Charlotte and Emily Brontë both attended this academy with their sisters Elizabeth and Maria.
What is the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge?
True or False
Emily Brontë's dog named Keeper mourned her death.
What is True?
Keeper reportedly followed Emily's coffin to her grave and would howl outside of her room for weeks.
This was Britain's nickname during the Victorian era.
What is the Workshop of the World?