Wuthering Heights About the Author Emily Brontë, sister of Charlotte and Anne Brontë was born on July 30, 1818, in Yorkshire. Wuthering Heights, published in 1847, was Emily's first and only published novel. A classic tale of jealousy, vengefulness and passion, it is widely regarded as a classic of English literature. The novel brings out Emily Brontë's mastery of an extremely complex structure, acute evocation of place and poetic grandeur of vision. Emily died on December 19, 1848, at the young age of thirty. She knew nothing of the success which Wuthering Heights was to be finally accorded with.