Emily Bronte was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. Around the time Emily was born, many changes were happening in society: such as the treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom which established the border between the United States and British North America. Emily was the fifth child of Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. Among her siblings were: Maria and Elizabeth born in 1815, Charlotte in 1816, Patrick in 1817 and Anne in 1819. After Anne's birth the family moved to the village of Haworth in February 1820, although described like an unsanitary place. Riddled with illness, Patrick had no choice as he was made a clergyman. A few months after moving to Haworth the family discovered that Mrs Brontë was falling ill with cancer and in September 1821 Maria Branwell died. Patrick Brontë became even more isolated than usual, so the children were left alone to look after each other. Patrick had set very strict rules for the children, including what they were allowed to wear and even eat. In the spring of 1824, the children had caught whooping cough and measles. Patrick Brontë thought that if they had a “change of scenery” they would recover more quickly, so he began looking for a school. In 1824, Patrick had found a school that had just opened for girls and young women who had lost one or both parents. . What he found was the Clergy's Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge. Maria and Elizabeth were sent in July; Charlotte followed a month later, in August. Emily was too young to go to school at that time, so she and the other siblings stayed home. During the months that Emily and her siblings were home, they were almost caught in a natural eruption called the Crow Hill Bog Burst. The Cro...... middle of paper...... write another Gondal poem about the civil war and I never got to finish it. “She never left her imaginary world. As she stated in her 1845 diary: 'We intend to stand firm with the rascals as long as they delight us'” (Tales of Glass Town, Angria and Gondal). Works Cited. Robinson, Mary F. Emily Bronte. London. W. H. Allen, 1883. Print. The Brontes and Alexander, Christine. Tales of Glass Town, Angria and Gondal. United States, The Oxford Press. 2010. Print. “Emily Bronte” Encyclopedia Britannica. 11th ed. 1910. Print. Merriman CD. “Émilie Brontë (1818-1848)”. Online Literature.com. Jalic Inc. 2007. Web. December 4, 2011. Brownson, Siobhan Craft. “Emily Jane Brontë” PoetryFoundation.org. Poetry Foundation. 2011. Internet. December 4, 2011. Famous poets and poems. “Emily Bronte Poems” famouspoetsandpoems.com. Famous poets and poems. 2006-2010. Internet. December 4. 2011.