Editing Emily Brontë (section)

==Death==
[[File:Emily Brontë and Charlotte Brontë resting place.jpg|thumb|right|Brass plaque on family vault of Emily Brontë and Charlotte Brontë at [[St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth]]]]
Emily's health was probably weakened by the harsh local climate and by unsanitary conditions at home,<ref name="Gaskell 47-48">Gaskell, ''The  Life of Charlotte Brontë'', pp. 47–48</ref>  where water was contaminated by run off from the church's graveyard.{{efn|name=Letter|A letter from Charlotte Brontë, to Ellen Nussey, Charlotte refers to the winter of 1833/4 which was unusually wet and there were a large number of deaths in the village — thought to be caused by water running down from the churchyard.}} Branwell died suddenly, on Sunday, 24 September 1848. At his funeral service, a week later, Emily caught a severe cold that quickly developed into inflammation of the lungs and led to [[tuberculosis]].<ref name="Benvenuto 24">Benvenuto, ''Emily Brontë'', p. 24</ref>{{efn|name=TB|Though many of her contemporaries believed otherwise, "consumption", or tuberculosis does not originate from "catching a [[common cold|cold]]". Tuberculosis is a communicable disease, transmitted through the inhalation of airborne droplets of mucus or saliva carrying ''[[Mycobacterium tuberculosis]]'', and anyone living in close proximity with an infected person would be at increased risk of contracting it. However, it is also a disease that can remain [[asymptomatic]] for long periods of time after initial infection, and developing only later when the immune system becomes weak.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/tb/education/corecurr/pdf/chapter2.pdf|title=Chapter 2, Transmission and Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis (TB)|publisher=CDC|access-date=16 December 2015}}</ref>}} Though her condition worsened steadily, she rejected medical help and all offered remedies, saying that she would have "no poisoning doctor" near her.<ref name="Fraser, 316">Fraser, "Charlotte Brontë: A Writer's Life", 316</ref> On the morning of 19 December 1848, Charlotte, fearing for her sister, wrote:
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She grows daily weaker. The physician's opinion was expressed too obscurely to be of use – he sent some medicine which she would not take. Moments so dark as these I have never known – I pray for God's support to us all.<ref name="Gaskell 67">Gaskell, ''The  Life of Charlotte Brontë'', pp. 67</ref>
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At noon, Emily was worse; she could only whisper in gasps. With her last audible words, she said to Charlotte, "If you will send for a doctor, I will see him now",<ref name="Gaskell 68">Gaskell, ''The  Life of Charlotte Brontë'', pp. 68</ref> but it was too late. She died that same day at about two in the afternoon. According to [[Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux|Mary Robinson]], an early biographer of Emily, it happened while she was sitting on the sofa.<ref name="Robinson 308">Robinson, ''Emily Brontë'', p. 308</ref> However, Charlotte's letter to William Smith Williams, in which she mentions Emily's dog, Keeper, lying at the side of her dying-bed, makes this statement seem unlikely.<ref name="Barker 576">Barker, ''The Brontës'', p. 576</ref>

It was less than three months after Branwell's death, which led Martha Brown, a housemaid, to declare that "Miss Emily died of a broken heart for love of her brother".<ref name="Gérin 242">Gérin, ''Emily Brontë: a biography'', p. 242</ref> Emily had grown so thin that her coffin measured only 16 inches (40 centimeters) wide. The carpenter said he had never made a narrower one for an adult.<ref name="Vine 24">Vine, ''Emily Brontë'' (1998), p. 20</ref> Her remains were interred in the family vault in [[St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth]].

===Legacy===
The 1946 film ''[[Devotion (1946 film)|Devotion]]'' was a highly fictionalized account of the lives of the Brontë sisters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/devotion_1945|title=Devotion|via=www.rottentomatoes.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.annebronte.org/2019/01/20/devotion-the-brontes-in-hollywood/|title='Devotion' – The Brontës In Hollywood|date=20 January 2019}}</ref>

Emily's novel was the inspiration for the debut single, "[[Wuthering Heights (song)|Wuthering Heights]]", by UK singer-songwriter [[Kate Bush]] released in January 1978 as the lead single from Bush's debut album ''[[The Kick Inside]]''. It uses unusual harmonic progressions and irregular phrase lengths, with lyrics inspired by the location and characters of the 1847 novel.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

In 2019 the English folk group [[The Unthanks]] released ''Lines'', three short albums, which include settings of Brontë's poems to music. Recording took place at the Brontës' home, using their own [[Regency era]] piano played by [[Adrian McNally]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/17/the-unthanks-lines-review-emily-bronte-maxine-peake|title=The Unthanks: Lines review – national treasures sing Emily Brontë and Maxine Peake|first=Neil|last=Spencer|newspaper=The Observer |date=17 February 2019|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>

In the 2019 film ''[[How to Build a Girl]]'', Emily and Charlotte Brontë are among the historical figures in Johanna's wall [[collage]].<ref>[https://www.scriptslug.com/assets/uploads/scripts/how-to-build-a-girl-2020.pdf ''How to Build a Girl'' screenplay] retrieved 2 June 2021</ref>

In May 2021, the contents of the Honresfield library, a collection of rare books and manuscripts assembled by Rochdale mill owners Alfred and William Law, was re-discovered after nearly a century. In the collection were handwritten poems by Emily Brontë, as well as the Brontë family edition of Bewick's 'History of British Birds.' The collection was to be auctioned off at [[Sotheby's]] and was estimated to sell for £1&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57242780|title=Emily Brontë: Lost handwritten poems expected to fetch around £1m|work=BBC News |date=25 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/25/emily-brontes-handwritten-poems-are-highlight-of-lost-library-auction|title=Emily Brontë's handwritten poems are highlight of 'lost library' auction|date=25 May 2021|website=The Guardian}}</ref>

In the 2022 film ''[[Emily (2022 film)|Emily]]'', written and directed by [[Frances O'Connor]], [[Emma Mackey]] plays Emily before the publication of ''Wuthering Heights''. The film mixes known biographical details with imagined situations and relationships.

Norwegian composer [[Ola Gjeilo]] set select Emily Brontë poems to music with [[SATB]] chorus, string orchestra, and piano, a work commissioned and premiered by the [[San Francisco Choral Society]] in a series of concerts in [[Oakland]] and [[San Francisco]].