18 Facts About Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Bronte, initially published under her pen name Ellis Bell.

Wuthering Heights is considered a classic of English literature, but contemporaneous reviews were polarised.

Wuthering Heights was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, but they were published later.

Wuthering Heights's confesses to Nelly that she loves Heathcliff, and will try to help but cannot marry him because of his low social status.

Wuthering Heights encourages Isabella's infatuation with him as a means of revenge on Catherine.

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Wuthering Heights's dies shortly after giving birth to a daughter, Cathy, and Heathcliff rages, calling on her ghost to haunt him for as long as he lives.

Wuthering Heights becomes increasingly wild and reveals that on the night Catherine died he dug up her grave, and ever since has been plagued by her ghost.

Wuthering Heights had stopped eating, and some days later was found dead in Catherine's old room.

The novel was first published together with Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey in a three-volume format: Wuthering Heights filled the first two volumes and Agnes Grey made up the third.

Wuthering Heights's addressed the faulty punctuation and orthography but diluted Joseph's thick Yorkshire dialect.

Wuthering Heights is a strange sort of book, —baffling all regular criticism; yet, it is impossible to begin and not finish it; and quite as impossible to lay it aside afterwards and say nothing about.

Wuthering Heights is an old house high on the Pennine moorland of West Yorkshire.

Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr Heathcliff's dwelling, "wuthering" being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.

Wuthering Heights's was familiar with Greek tragedies and was a good Latinist.

The only strongly religious character in Wuthering Heights is Joseph who is usually seen as satirizing "the joyless version of Methodism that the Bronte children were exposed to through their Aunt Branwell".

The most famous is 1939's Wuthering Heights, starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon and directed by William Wyler.

Maryse Conde's Windward Heights is a reworking of Wuthering Heights set in Cuba and Guadeloupe at the turn of the 20th century, which Conde stated she intended as an homage to Bronte.

Kate Bush's 1978 song "Wuthering Heights" is most likely the best-known creative work inspired by Bronte's story that is not properly an "adaptation".