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July 30, 1818: Writer Emily Brontë is born. On 30 July 1818, Emily Brontë was born in the village of Thornton in Yorkshire, England. She wrote Wuthering Heights, a novel set on the windy moors. It happened in Thornton, Yorkshire.
The Haworth parsonage where the Brontë children lived is now a museum, where you can see tiny books they made as children for their toy soldiers.
Where: Thornton, Yorkshire
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Which novel did Emily Brontë write?
Answer: Wuthering Heights
July 30, 1818: Writer Emily Brontë is born. It happened in Thornton, Yorkshire.
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