Emily Bronte, an English author, dies of TB at the age of 30 in 1848.
Emily Jane Bronte was an English author and poet best known for her one and only novel, Wuthering Heights, which is today regarded as a classic of English literature. She also collaborated on a poetry collection with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, titled Verses by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, with her own poems being hailed as artistic talent. Between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell, Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Bronte siblings. She wrote under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. TB took her life on December 19 1848.
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