Mary Brontë did not know on 30 July 1818 that she had given birth to the girl who would one day make history for her poetry and prose. He looked at the baby's face and could only see his fifth daughter, Emily. Emily Brontë matured as one of five girls in a family of eight, but her family soon shrank to five with the early deaths of her mother and two older sisters, Maria and Elizabeth. She grew up close to her remaining siblings while her father educated his children from home. Her close relationship with their father and sisters cultivated a love of home that the Brontë children carried into their adult lives. After teaching school for just a year, Emily returned home, where she acted as a stay-at-home daughter. A few years later he tried teaching again, but returned home with his sister Charlotte when their aunt died. She maintained the bond with her sisters left over from childhood and went on to publish a book of poems with Charlotte and Anne in 1846 under the surname Ellis Bell. Although the book sold only three copies, Brontë's poetry shines as unique for its imaginative qualities and disjunction with emotion, distinguishing it from typical Romantic works of the era. Emily lived during the Romanticism literary movement. The movement valued emotion and feeling above all, especially as a reaction to nature. Charlotte said of her sister “her native hills…were what she lived in, and beside, as much as the wild fowl, their tenants, or as the heather, their produce” (Wallace 148). He lived a decidedly romantic life and this shows in his poetry. In his poem “I remember” he invokes three elements in the first two stanzas. In another poem "How Loud the Storm Sounds Round the Hal...... middle of paper ......ly Jane Brontë: The Poetry Foundation." Poetry Foundation. Web. January 23, 2012. .Kenyon, Karen Smith. The Brontë Family: Passionate Literary Geniuses. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 2003. Print.Lutz, Norma J. “Biography of the Bronte Sisters.” Harold Bloom Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2002. Marsh, Nicholas. "Chapter 7: The Life and Works of Emily Bronte". , 2001. Print.Vine, Steven. Ed. Herbert Sussman New York: Twayne, 1998. Print London: University of Georgia, 1986. Print.