Seasonal Shifts
Hello Everyone! Hope you’re all well…here in the northern hemisphere, it’s Autumn!
A riot of goldenrod and asters mingle with the last of the purple coneflowers outside my back window. Canada geese fill the sky and our hawthorn is heavy with berries…
What are you reading? I just completed DNF an audiobook of Frankenstein and kinda hated it—the narrator reminded me of a Looney Tunes vampire. Audiobooks never do agree with me; I think I’ll revisit Shelley later (in book form)—it’s a re-read, so there is really no hurry, I suppose.
I began posting regularly for participants in my Autumn 2025 Read-Along of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights on Monday, September 22. Only 2% of my subscribers are registered to receive read-along posts; if you’re not receiving those essays (and wish to), update your subscriber settings.
The first six essays are shared below—to learn more about this project, read THIS.
The Autumn 2025 Read-Along
A Natural History of Wuthering Heights
Volume One
Chapter One
Wuthering, Fir Trees, Hawthorn, The Goddess Bitch
Chapter Two
Straggling Gooseberries, Coal, Peat + Wood, 'Something Like Cats,' Dark Night Coming, Witchcraft, and Ending Up Dead in a Bog
Chapter Three
All Day Flooding, The Decomposing Dead, 3 is a Magic Number, A Ghost-Child and One Billowy, White Ocean
Chapter Four
Furze & Whinstone, Cuckoos & Dunnocks, and a Pocketful of Apples and Pears
Chapter Five
A High Wind Blustering and Keeping The Dead
Chapter Six
Consumption, A Ramble at Liberty, Working Dogs & Wolfish Men
Essays will be published Monday, Wednesday and Friday—through November 2025.
Thank You and…A Favor
Welcome to all the new subscribers to Symbolism & Structure! If you haven’t noticed, I write about Wuthering Heights. I’m certainly not a Brontë scholar. I rarely write about the enigmatic Brontë family of writers. Only occasionally, will I focus on biographical aspects of Emily Jane Brontë. It’s her novel which interests me…its characters, setting, food, furniture, Nature, and folklore.
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The next two months are dedicated to teasing out Nature and folklore in the novel and then I will begin thinking about my plans for close study next year! I have a number of ideas. I hope you’ll join me…Take care. ♡
Cover Image: Veiled (detail), 2024, Michael Allen |