![]() The second half is about what happens after Cathy’s death, which involves her daughter, Hareton, and Linton. For one thing, the love story between Heathcliff and Cathy only takes up half the book. But the book is closer to a gothic novel than a romance. People tend to think of Wuthering Heights as a romance-in fact, it was even voted the greatest love story of all time. Wuthering Heights is not a romance novel. “He neither wept, nor prayed he cursed and defied execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation.” 5. “His sorrow was of that kind that will not lament,” the book says. ![]() In Wuthering Heights, Catherine’s brother Hindley Earnshaw descends into alcoholism after his wife Frances dies. While Emily was writing the novel, Branwell was living in the same house succumbing to alcohol and opium addiction, a situation that was accelerated by the end of his affair with a married woman named Mrs. Hindley Earnshaw was similar to Branwell. (Charlotte published Jane Eyre that same year with a traditional publisher under the name Currer Bell.) 4. Knowing that female writers weren’t respected, the sisters used male pseudonyms: Ellis Bell for Emily and Acton Bell for Anne. ![]() ![]() The title page of 'Wuthering Heights.' / Culture Club/GettyImagesĪfter being rejected by publishers, Emily and Anne paid the considerable sum of 50 pounds to publish Wuthering Heights and Agnes Gray together in one volume. ![]()
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