Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights

Wuthering heights is a wild passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between catherine earnshaw and heathcliff a foundling adopted by catherine s father.

Emily bronte wuthering heights. Emily brontë s wuthering heights is a 1992 feature film adaptation of emily brontë s 1847 novel wuthering heights directed by peter kosminsky. Ponden hall which is said to be the inspiration for emily brontë s wuthering heights is on sale for 1 million 1 29 million. Born on july 30 1818 in thornton yorkshire england emily brontë is best remembered for her 1847 novel wuthering heights. Emily jane brontë was a british novelist and poet now best remembered for her only novel wuthering heights a classic of english literature.

It is her only finished novel. This was ralph fiennes s film debut. She published under the masculine pen name ellis bell. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving brontë sisters being younger than charlotte brontë and older than anne brontë.

Wuthering heights and anne brontë s agnes grey were accepted by publisher thomas newby before the success of her sister charlotte s novel jane eyre. The author of wuthering heights was emily jane brontë the middle of the world famous brontë sisters pronounced bron tee not bron tay see pronunciations. Located in the heart of brontë country in west yorkshire. After mr earnshaw s death heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by catherine s brother hindley and wrongly believing that his love for catherine is not reciprocated leaves wuthering heights only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man.

She was not the only creative talent in her family her sisters. Nevertheless the novel contains enough clues to enable an approximate reconstruction of its chronology which was elaborately designed by emily brontë. The story of wuthering heights is told through flashbacks recorded in diary entries and events are often presented out of chronological order lockwood s narrative takes place after nelly s narrative for instance but is interspersed with nelly s story in his journal. Wuthering heights wuthering heights heathcliff cathy the moors names and places famous worldwide even to those who have never read the book.

Emily jane brontë s only novel is widely considered one of the greatest works of fiction ever written. Wuthering heights is a 2011 british gothic romantic drama film directed by andrea arnold and starring kaya scodelario as catherine and james howson as heathcliff. Her character and life are as singular as her book. An isolated painfully shy woman she produced one of the most distinctive novels in literature and some of the greatest poetry.