Emily Bronte's Life and Wuthering Heights Many literary scholars have stated that good writing only stems from real life experiences, most of which are created in tragedy. As with many Victorian and Romantic writers; tragedy was an ever present reality of living. This was especially true for female authors during this time period. The series of events in Emily Bronte’s early life psychologically set the tone for her fictional novel Wuthering Heights. Early in her life while living in Haworth, a village on the Yorkshire moors, her mother died when Emily was only six years old. She was left with her sisters Charlotte and Anne