“Emily — that free, wild, untameable spirit, never happy nor well but on the sweeping moors that gathered round her home.” So wrote Elizabeth Gaskell of Emily Bronte in her pioneering 1857 biography of the writer’s older sister, The Life of Charlotte Brontë. While Gaskell presented her subject and friend, Charlotte, as “a noble, true, and tender woman,” she presented Emily in a harsher light. She was a misfit and a misanthrope, a nonconformist and a law unto herself, a puzzle hard to solve and a person hard to warm to.