Wuthering Heights

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Wuthering Heights

• By Emily Bronte

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Emily Bronte

• Emily Bronte (1818-1849)
• English author and one of the famed Bronte
  sisters wrote Wuthering Heights (1847)

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Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel
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First published under Emilys pseudonym Ellis
Bell

• She was the fourth daughter of Maria Branwell
  (1783-1821), who died of cancer when Emily was
  just three years old, and Irish clergyman Patrick
  Bronte (1777-1861).

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She was educated, but had to return home.

• In 1824, Emily, with her four sisters entered the
  Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge, near
  Kirkby Lonsdale. When Maria and Elizabeth died
  there a year later of tuberculosis, she and
  Charlotte returned home to Haworth.

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The Moors

• Set in 18th Century England

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Main characters

• The narrative tells the tale of the
  all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted,
  love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw,
  and how this unresolved passion eventually
  destroys them and many around them.

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Two Narrators

• The narrative is non-linear, involving several
  flashbacks, and two primary narrators Mr.
  Lockwood and Ellen "Nelly" Dean. The novel opens
  in 1801, with Mr. Lockwood arriving at
  Thrushcross Grange, a grand house on the
  Yorkshire moors that he is renting from the surly
  Heathcliff, who lives at nearby Wuthering
  Heights.

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Wuthering Heights, Chapter 1

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