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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
Emily Bronte
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Emily Bronte
Age: 30 †
Born: 1818
Born: July 30
Died: 1848
Died: December 19
Novelist
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Thornton
West Yorkshire
Ellis Bell
Emily Jane Brontë
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Emili Bronte
Emily Jane Bronte
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