Haworth's population grew rapidly during the first half of the 19thcentury, from hardly 1,000 to 3,365 in 50 years. [135] The village did not have a sewage system and the well water was contaminated by faecal matter and the decomposition of bodies in the cemetery on the hilltop. Life expectancy was less than 25 years and infant mortality was around 41% for children under six months of age. [136] Most of the population lived by working the poorly fertile land of the moors and supplemented their incomes with work done at home, such as spinning and weaving wool from the sheep that were farmed on the moors. [136] Conditions changed [137] when the textile industry, already present since the end of the 17thcentury, grew with the mills being located on the banks of the River Worth, whose waters turned the wheels. Consequently fewer people were needed to work them. The following year she died aged 38. The cause of death given at the time was tuberculosis, but it may have been complicated with typhoid fever (the water at Haworth being likely contaminated due to poor sanitation and the vast cemetery that surrounded the church and the parsonage) and hyperemesis gravidarum from her pregnancy that was in its early stage. [110]

Liptak, Andrew (1 September 2017). "16 science fiction and fantasy books to read this September". The Verge . Retrieved 6 June 2021. See also: Constantin Héger Today's main road through Haworth Portrait of James Sheridan Knowles, in Fraser's Magazine 1838 Emily became a teacher at Law Hill School in Halifax beginning in September 1838, when she was twenty. [19] Her always fragile health soon broke under the stress of the 17-hour workday, and she returned home in April 1839. [20] Thereafter she remained at home, doing most of the cooking, ironing, and cleaning at Haworth. She taught herself German out of books and also practised the piano. [21]

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See also: Agnes Grey Top Withens, the ruin on the moors near Haworth that inspired Wuthering Heights The four youngest Brontë children, all under ten years of age, had suffered the loss of the three eldest women in their immediate family. [7]

Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language". Royal Irish Academy . Retrieved 22 January 2011. [ dead link] a b "The Bronte Sisters – A True Likeness? – The Profile Portrait – Emily or Anne". brontesisters.co.uk.Fraser, Rebecca (1988). The Brontës: Charlotte Brontë and her family. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 0-517-56438-6.