![]() ![]() Only a few poems from the Gondal sagas survive, but we know their collaboration continued until the early 1840s - it is possible Emily never abandoned her imaginary world. She collaborated with Anne in writing poetry and stories for their imaginary world of Gondal. Like her sisters and brother Branwell Emily was a writer from the time she could read. Emily was only ever happy at home she enjoyed housekeeping and the company of the family's elderly servant Tabitha Aykroyd. Mr Brontë had intended his second daughter Elizabeth should be a housekeeper, and the other four governesses, but the only paid employment Emily ever undertook was teaching at Law Hill School near Halifax in 1838. Drawing and music masters visited the Parsonage (Emily was an accomplished pianist), and her broader education came from her father, who encouraged all his children to read widely, and talked to them as he would to adults, on matters as diverse as public policy and literary criticism. The rest of her education was at home from Aunt Branwell and her sister Charlotte. ![]() She spent six months at the Clergy Daughters' School, Cowan Bridge, aged six three months at Roe Head School, Dewsbury, aged 17, and nine months at the Pensionnat Heger, Brussels, aged 24 to 25. ![]() Emily had less schooling than either of her sisters. ![]()
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