Emily Bronte was a one-hit wonder

It is the birthday of English writer Emily Bronte (1818), whose only novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), wasn’t published under her name originally. She used the pen name Ellis Bell. She died at age 30, the year after the book was published. Her sister, Charlotte, published a second edition after Emily’s death.  Although it wasn’t universally well received initially because of its depiction of physical and mental cruelty, and unbridled passion, today it is considered classic English literature.