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and awe-inspiringly creative for your kind Recommendations—your support means more than you’ll ever know!I have slowly been creating Resources to share with first-time readers, (re)readers and readers like me—close & curious readers. Resources are available on the website, up in my navigation bar, under the Read With Me tab; also, there you will find a reader poll I’ve created! I invite you take part in the poll—I would like to gauge interest in a read-along of Wuthering Heights. Let me know if you would like to read with me…
While I am in the process of creating resources, you are invited to explore all of my Resource pages. Some—like Characters and Places—are still in the editing process and will continue to evolve:
'Most Beautiful and Profoundly Violent'
Wuthering Heights was published in December 1847, under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell. It is the only novel known to have been written by Emily Jane Brontë, the fifth child of Patrick and Maria (Branwell) Brontë.
Characters
Wuthering Heights is a multi-generational story of two families—the Earnshaws of Wuthering Heights and the Lintons of Thrushcross Grange.
Almanac
If you’ve been reading Symbolism & Structure for a while, you know I’m an adherent to A. Stuart Daley’s “A Chronology of Wuthering Heights.” I became enthralled with his (1970s) research into whether or not Brontë used calendars and almanacs to construct her novel.
Places
The characters whose lives are depicted in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights work and live within the grounds of two country estates—Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.
Want to Read-Along?
The first edition of Emily Jane Brontë’s Wuthering Heights was published by Thomas Cautley Newby, London, in 1847, under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell. Printed with little respect for Emily Jane’s (now missing) corrections to proof sheets, the Newby edition is considered an unreliable copy-text.
There is no end date on my reader poll, so feel free to look around and decide if you wish to vote for a read-along. I re-designed my website to separate essays which may contain spoilers—those are found under the heading On Reading.
If you have friends who may wish to dig deeper into Wuthering Heights, please share this post so they may take a ramble to my little corner of Substack. Please introduce yourself in the Comments—let me know if you are a first-time reader, a (re)reader, or maybe you’re simply, Heathcliff curious! Were you asked to read Wuthering Heights in high school or college? Maybe you’ve seen a film version? I’d love to hear about your experiences with the novel. If you have any questions. you may reply to this email (if you are a registered user and subscriber).
I am interested in discovering more about this novel, which I have read several times but never studied in depth.