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While her sisters, Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling) and Anne (Amelia Gething), accept teaching positions outside of the home, Emily and their brother, Branwell (Fionn Whitehead), are left behind. A reclusive young woman, the fictionalized Emily (played by Emma Mackey of “ Sex Education”) struggles to find her footing both within and beyond her family. Yet the woman behind the book remains elusive, the details of her short life (she died in 1848 at age 30) shrouded in inscrutability.Įmily, a new film from actress and director Frances O’Connor, attempts to unravel some of these mysteries by exploring the events that inspired its titular character to write Wuthering Heights.
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