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Victorian era is the great and the prosperous period for English literature. It is at this period a great number of well known poets and novelists have written highlights and valuable literary works which constitute English literature. These writers have typically portrayed the aspects of life and living conditions in the nineteenth century. Emily Bronte is considered as one of the greatest writer among them. She is born in 1818 In Thornlan, Yorkshire, two years after her sister Charlotte and a year and half before her sister Anne who become authors too. Her father is a clergyman of the Church of England who moves from Thornton to Haworth, also in Yorkshire, with his family. Emily is sent to school with her sisters, Maria, Elizabeth and Charlotte. But because of the harsh living conditions, Maria and Elizabeth die of tuberculosis, at which time there is an outbreak of typhoid fever at the school. Therefore, Charlotte and Emily are taken home by their father where they have enough time to read their father's books and are thus nurtured on the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Sir Walter Scott and many others. In 1847, Emily Bronte writes her single novel Wuthering Heights in the parsonage in Yorkshire. It is her unique masterpiece propelled by a vision of elemental passions but controlled by a skillful artistic way. Victorian readers find it shocking, obscure and inappropriate at "the level of experience unsympathetic to, or rather, simply irrelevant to the social and moral reasons.

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