Emily Brontë, the middle of the three famous Brontë sisters, wrote only one novel: 'Wuthering Heights' (1847). Published under the male pseudonym Ellis Bell, the book was initially shocking to Victorian readers because of its raw emotional violence and the 'uncivilized' character of Heathcliff. Unlike her sister Charlotte’s 'Jane Eyre,' which followed more traditional moral structures, Emily’s novel was a wild, almost pagan exploration of obsessive love and revenge set on the Yorkshire moors. Emily was intensely private and reclusive, preferring the company of animals and the moors to people. She died of tuberculosis just one year after the book was published, at age 30, never knowing that her single novel would eventually be considered one of the greatest works of English literature. The mystery of her internal life and the source of her powerful imagination continues to fascinate scholars today.