The Autumn 2025 Read-Along is scheduled to begin September 22, 2025—the Equinox.
The Nature & Folklore Edition
☛ Content Warning
Wuthering Heights contains Gothic narrative themes and episodes including, but not limited to: paranormal activity, grief, trauma, death, domestic violence, and madness.
As I read Wuthering Heights this season, I invite you to read-along, making special note of Emily Jane Brontë’s references to the natural world: weather, seasons, flora, fauna, fungi…and also, folklore. It’s there…look closely. ♡
In each of these essays I’ll focus on a few themes I think deserve attention…
Beginning September 5, 2025: The Preview
Honestly, reading Wuthering Heights is not required to enjoy the content of my essays…
Each Friday until the Equinox, I will publish a chapter summary—so you may decide if you would like to pick up a copy of Wuthering Heights and follow along with me as I explore the Nature and folklore found in the story.
These are the titles and subjects of my first three essays:
Volume One: Chapter One ‘A Beautiful Country’ : Wuthering, Fir Trees, Hawthorn, The Goddess Bitch Volume One: Chapter Two 'On That Bleak Hilltop' : Straggling Gooseberries, Coal, Peat + Wood, 'Something Like Cats,' Dark Night Coming, Witchcraft, and Ending Up Dead in a Bog Volume One: Chapter Three 'A Scamper on the Moors' : All Day Flooding, The Decomposing Dead, 3 is a Magic Number, A Ghost-Child and One Billowy, White Ocean
Beginning September 22, 2025: The Publishing Schedule
Beginning on the 22nd I will publish an essay focused on Nature & folklore found in the story every 2-3 days; IF you require more of a critical analysis of Wuthering Heights, my Readers Guide is always available here:
Please tap the ♡ to Like a post…even if the essay was published months ago, it is nice to know someone read it and valued it. Also, feel free to add to any conversation(s) in the comments section.
Assuming I publish an essay 2-3 times a week, I estimate this season’s slow-study of Nature & folklore will be completed by mid-November.
The Future
Have you read my Introduction page, “Take a Ramble with Me?” At the end of this year, I believe I will have achieved my goal: At the end of the year I hope to have created (and organized) resources which enhance your reading of the novel.
I am always reading Wuthering Heights. My list of research topics is growing and I am eager to ramble. Focusing on the Nature and folklore in the novel has inspired me to devote time to teasing out additional themes.
Thank you (always!) for being here…I hope you enjoy the next few weeks, dedicated to the Nature and folklore found in Wuthering Heights. I’m certain you’ll learn something new in each essay! ♡
The sooner I go to bed, the sooner it will be Friday. Can't wait!
Excited to be here with you. I love how what you do here carries over into how I read other books. Thank you!