1. Emily Brontë
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Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist, best
remembered for her novel, Wuthering Heights.
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Emily was born on 30 July 1818 in the village of
Thornton , in the Yorkshire moors.
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Emily and her sisters were self-educated
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(1818-1848)
In 1839 Emily with Charlotte travelled to Belgium.
The Brontë sisters’ pseudonyms:
Charlotte was Currer Bell,
Emily was Ellis Bell and Anne was Acton Bell.

2. <<My sister's disposition was not naturally gregarious;
circumstances favoured and fostered her tendency to seclusion;
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except to go to church or take a walk on the hills, she rarely
crossed the threshold of home. Though her feeling for the people
round was benevolent, intercourse with them she never sought;
nor, with very few exceptions, ever experienced. And yet she know
them: knew their ways, their language, their family histories; she
could hear of them with interest, and talk of them with detail; but
WITH them, she rarely exchanged a word. >> [Charlotte]

3. Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë,
written between October 1845 and June 1846,
and published in 1847 under the pseudonym
Ellis Bell.
<<If he loved with all the powers of his
puny being, he couldn’t love as much in
eighty years as I could in a day. >>

4. ~Second generation
• Heathcliff’s revenge: property,
gained by marriage to Isabella Linton
• Degradation of Hareton,
Heathcliff’s and Isabella’s son.
• Heathcliff loses interest in revenge.
• Heathcliff and Catherine together in
death.
• Marriage of Cathy and Hareton:
property restored to rightful owner.

5. Inspiration for locations
Inspiration for Wuthering Heights :Top
Withens

6. Female main characters:
Catherine Earnshaw: Heathcliff's adoptive sister.
Nelly Dean: The main narrator of the novel, Nelly is a servant for all three
generations of the Earnshaw and Linton families.
Isabella Linton: The younger sister of Edgar, used by Heathcliff.
Catherine (Cathy) Linton : The daughter of Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar
Linton.
Frances Earnshaw : Hindley's wife, mother of Hareton.

7. Woolf turns to Wuthering Heights. Her sense of Emily’s genius is profound.
‘Wuthering Heights is a more difficult book to understand than Jane Eyre, because
Emily was a greater poet than Charlotte.’
‘When Charlotte wrote she said with eloquence and splendour and passion “I
love”, “I hate”, “I suffer”. Her experience, though more intense, is on a level with
our own. But there is no ‘I’ in Wuthering Heights.There are no governesses.There
are no employers.There is love, but it is not the love of men and women. Emily was
inspired by some more general conception. The impulse which urged her to create
was not her own suffering or her own injuries. She looked out upon a world cleft
into gigantic disorder and felt within her the power to unite it in a book.That
ambition is to say something through the mouths of her characters which is not
merely “I love” or “I hate”, but “we, the whole human race”