Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under her pen name “Ellis Bell”. It
concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons,
and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws’ foster son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced
by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.
Wuthering Heights is now widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, but
contemporaneous reviews were polarised. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty,
including domestic abuse, and for its challenges to Victorian morality, religion, and the class system.[1][2]
Wuthering Heights was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë‘s Agnes Grey before the
success of their sister Charlotte Brontë‘s novel Jane Eyre, but they were published later. After Emily’s death,
Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights, which was published in 1850.[3] It has inspired an array
of adaptations across several media, including English singer-songwriter Kate Bush‘s song of the same name.
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In 1801, Mr Lockwood, the new tenant at Thrushcross Grange in Yorkshire, pays a visit to his landlord, Heathcliff,
at his remote moorland farmhouse, Wuthering Heights. There he meets a reserved young woman (later
identified as Cathy Linton), Joseph, a cantankerous servant, and Hareton, an uneducated young man who speaks
like a servant. Everyone is sullen and inhospitable. Snowed in for the night, Lockwood reads the diary of the
former inhabitant of his room, Catherine Earnshaw, and has a nightmare in which a ghostly Catherine begs to
enter through the window. Awakened by Lockwood’s fearful yells, Heathcliff is troubled.
Lockwood later returns to Thrushcross Grange in heavy snow, falls ill from the cold and becomes bedridden.
While he recovers, Lockwood’s housekeeper Ellen “Nelly” Dean tells him the story of the strange family.
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