In the Preface to the Penguin Classics edition (2003), Lucasta Miller acknowledged:

We can never, in a sense, finish reading Wuthering Heights. Yet…it does seem that progress has been made in critics’ willingness not only to recognize its brilliance but to live with —and even celebrate—the discomfort it arouses.

I fear it’s true—I may never, in a sense, finish reading Wuthering Heights. A century or more of literary criticism, art, music and film contribute to my studies.

As I study Emily Jane and her unique contribution to literature, I craft essays in my capacity as an independent scholar, moon-watcher and meadow-wanderer.

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