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Wuthering Heights with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, which centres on the passionate, destructive love of its two main characters, Catherine and Heathcliff. Despite the intensity of their feelings for one another, fate conspires to keep them apart, which ultimately destroys the lives of both the two lovers and everyone around them. Set against the wild, rugged beauty of the Yorkshire moors, this tale of romance and revenge has captivated readers for generations. Although Emily Brontë only published a single novel during her lifetime, she is one of the most famous English writers of the 19th century, along with her sisters Anne and Charlotte. Much of Emily’s life is shrouded in mystery, as she was extremely reclusive during her lifetime, and very little reliable information about her has been preserved.
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Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet
Born in Yorkshire in 1818.Died in Yorkshire in 1848.Notable works:Wuthering Heights (1847), novelPoems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (1846), poetry anthology (published jointly with her sisters Anne and Charlotte under male pseudonyms)Emily Brontë is one of the most famous English writers of the 19th century, but very little is known about her personal life. All surviving accounts of her life are shrouded in a certain degree of mystery and contain a number of gaps, as she led a somewhat solitary life as a result of her innate shyness and reclusive tendencies. Her mother and two of her older sisters died when she was very young, and since the cause of their sisters’ deaths was tuberculosis, which they had contracted at school, Emily and her other siblings were withdrawn from school and educated at home for the rest of their youth.
The Brontë home was an isolated, lonely house, and the siblings had almost no contact with anyone other than their father and aunt. This meant that they had to learn to entertain themselves, and they spent most of their time making up and writing stories about imaginary kingdoms. A number of these manuscripts have survived to the present day, and are considered the forerunners of the literary style that would come to characterise the three sisters’ later works, as Anne and Charlotte Brontë also went on to become famous writers, with the latter’s novel Jane Eyre (1847) being particularly successful.
Emily died of tuberculosis at the age of 30. Today, very little is known about her aside from what her older sister Charlotte wrote about her.
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Emily and her sisters initially had to publish their works under male pseudonyms, because in those days writing was not seen as a typical or appropriate profession for a woman. Wuthering Heights was therefore initially published under the name Ellis Bell.
Wuthering Heights
Star-crossed love on the rugged moors
Genre: realist novel/Romantic novelReference edition: Brontë, E. (1992) Wuthering Heights. Ware: Wordsworth.1st edition: 1847Themes: symbolism, tempestuous relationships, dualityWuthering Heights tells the story of two individuals whose love for each other is doomed to end in tragedy because of circumstances beyond their control. The story begins when a young man called Lockwood, who has rented out a house called Thrushcross Grange, goes to visit his landlord Heathcliff, who lives nearby in a place called Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff’s extremely guarded demeanour awakens Lockwood’s curiosity, and he becomes fascinated by this wild, uncouth, mysterious man. He then asks his housekeeper, Ellen Dean, what she knows about Heathcliff; it is a subject she knows well, and she begins to recount everything she knows about Heathcliff’s relationship with the Earnshaws and the Lintons, the two families who used to own Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights.
