Emily Bronte was born on 30 July 1818 in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. At the time Emily was born there were many changes going on in society: such as the US-UK Treaty which established the border between the US and British North America. Emily was the fifth child of Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell. Among her siblings were: Mary and Elizabeth born in 1815, Charlotte in 1816, Patrick in 1817 and Anne the last in 1819. After Anne's birth the family moved to the village of Haworth in February 1820, although described like an unhealthy place. full of illnesses, Patrick had no choice because he was appointed priest. A few months after moving to Haworth, the family discovered that Mrs Bronte was developing cancer and in September 1821 Maria Branwell died. Patrick Bronte became even more secluded 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 could wear and even eat. In the spring of 1824 the children had contracted whooping cough and measles. Patrick Bronte thought that if they had a “change of scenery” they would recover faster, so he began looking for a school. In 1824, Patrick had found a newly opened school for girls and young women who had lost one or both parents. . What he had found was the Daughters of the Clergy School in Cowan Bridge. Mary and Elizabeth were sent in July; Charlotte followed a month later, in August. Emily was too young to attend school at the time, so she and her other siblings stayed at home. In 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... halfway down the paper... was writing another Gondal poem about the Civil War and never got to finish it. “He never left his imaginary world. As he stated in his 1845 diary: 'We intend to remain faithful to the scoundrels as long as they delight us'” (Tales of Glass Town, Angria and Gondal). Works cited. Robinson, Mary F. Emily Bronte. London. WH Allen, 1883. Print.I Bronte and Alexander, Christine. Tales of Glass Town, Angria and Gondal. United States, Oxford Press. 2010. Print. “Emily Bronte” Encyclopedia Britannica. 11th ed. 1910. Print.CD Merriman. “Emilia Bronte (1818-1848)”. Online-Litterature.com. Jalic Inc. 2007. Web. 4 December 2011. Brownson, Siobhan Craft. “Emily Jane Bronte” PoetryFoundation.org. Poetry Foundation. 2011. Network. 4 December 2011. Famous poems and poets. “Poems of Emily Bronte” famouspoetsandpoems.com. Famous poets and poems. 2006-2010. Network. 4 December. 2011.