One of the Brontë sisters, along with Charlotte and Anne,
Emily was made famous by her novel Wuthering Heights, which is still considered a classic of English literature.
From fears in the late 18th century that reading novels- particularly written by women-
would be emotionally and physically dangerous for women, to the Brontë sisters publishing initially under male pseudonyms,
to the dismissal of the genre of romance fiction as beyond the critical pale, there has been a dominant culture which finds the association of women and writing to be dangerous.