Bronte Writes "Wuthering Heights"

Wuthering Heights, the only novel by the English writer Emily Jane Bronte, was published in 1847. Set on the wild Yorkshire moors, it tells the turbulent story of the foundling Heathcliff and his consuming, destructive love for Catherine Earnshaw across two generations of two families.

The novel's dark passions, complex narrative structure, and brooding atmosphere were unusual for their time, and some early reviewers found them disturbing. Like her sisters, Emily first published under a pseudonym, appearing as Ellis Bell, and her gifts were only fully recognized after her death in 1848.

In the same year, her sister Charlotte Bronte published Jane Eyre, and their sister Anne also produced fiction, making the Bronte sisters one of the most remarkable literary families in English history. Once underrated, Wuthering Heights is now regarded as a classic of English literature and a powerful work of the Romantic imagination.