How tall was Emily Bronte?

Answer 1

Her coffin was 5'6" long, so she must have been several inches shorter than that to fit in, logically. Her dress on display at the Dickinson Museum in Amherst MA is a copy, but it shows the woman was no more than 5'0" if the the dress was worn at floor length. The average person of the 19th century was about 5'4" for men and 5' for women, based on the relatively less nutritious diets of that era and many diseases in childhood.

Answer 2

Emily Dickinson stood 5'0" at less than 100 lbs. She had red hair, dark eyes, and some freckles, a typical Dickinson characteristic. However, her poetry remains larger than life and full of power and insight far beyond any woman writer in American literature.

Answer 3

People that she knew during her lifetime have described her as being very small and petite. She often got mistaken for a child well into her adulthood because of how small she was. Emily had auburn or reddish colored hair. Her eyes were a deep brown color. Her skin was pale, and in the summertime friends say that she got freckles. It is often thought that she was not beautiful, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There is only one photograph of her that is documented. You can Google it to see what she looked like. Personally I don't think she is ugly. She dressed in nice, neat clothing, and was said to start dressing mainly in white dreses as an adult.

Answer 4

She was the tallest of the Bronte sisters at 5 foot 6 inches.

Answer 5

Emily Bronte was approximately 5 feet 5 inches tall.