"18, within a few hours late at night on 5 March 1977. She was inspired after seeing the 1967 BBC adaptation of the 1847 novel ""Wuthering Heights"". She then read the book and discovered that she shared her birthday with author Emily Brontë. ""Wuthering Heights"" is sung from the perspective of the ""Wuthering Heights"" character Catherine Earnshaw, pleading at Heathcliff's window to be allowed in. It quotes Catherine's dialogue, including the chorus lyric ""Let me in! I'm so cold!"" and ""bad dreams in the night"". Critic Simon Reynolds described it as ""Gothic romance distilled into four-and-a-half minutes of gaseous rhapsody""."
"Angels family vault in Haworth. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ""Wuthering Heights"", now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Northern"
"Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ""Wuthering Heights"", now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Northern England, to Maria Branwell and an Irish father,"
"Brontë Country Brontë Country is a name given to an area of south Pennine hills west of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. The name comes from the Brontë sisters, who wrote such literary classics as ""Jane Eyre"" (Charlotte Brontë), ""Wuthering Heights"" (Emily Brontë), and ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (Anne Brontë) while living in the area. The geology of the Brontë country is mainly gritstone. The area includes the village of Haworth, where the Brontë sisters lived, and where the Brontë Parsonage Museum is located today. Top Withens is said to have been the inspiration for ""Wuthering Heights"". Ponden Hall,"
"Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the first to know success, while Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"", Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" and other works were"
"Catherine Earnshaw Cathy Earnshaw is a fictional character and the female protagonist of the novel ""Wuthering Heights"" written by Emily Brontë. Cathy Earnshaw is the younger sibling of Hindley, and is born and raised at Wuthering Heights. She becomes the foster sister of the orphan, Heathcliff, at the age of six, and the two become close companions. They are separated when Hindley becomes jealous of his father's affection towards Heathcliff and reduces him to servant-boy status after the death of Mr Earnshaw, who took Heathcliff in as a Liverpool foundling. Cathy and Heathcliff's strong characters do not part them; rather,"
"Catherine and her choice to marry Edgar rather than Heathcliff are central to the issues of nature versus nurture, self versus society, class division, and violence in ""Wuthering Heights"", as well as to the antitheses of good and evil, and physical existence and spiritual existence, which pervade the novel. Catherine Earnshaw Cathy Earnshaw is a fictional character and the female protagonist of the novel ""Wuthering Heights"" written by Emily Brontë. Cathy Earnshaw is the younger sibling of Hindley, and is born and raised at Wuthering Heights. She becomes the foster sister of the orphan, Heathcliff, at the age of six,"
"Hall (Fieldhead in ""Shirley""), Red House (Briarmains in ""Shirley""), and Gawthorpe Hall and Wycoller Hall (Ferndean Manor in ""Jane Eyre""). The film ""Brontë Country: The Story of the Emily, Charlotte & Anne Brontë"" discusses the area's geography and history, and the history of the Brontë family. Brontë Country Brontë Country is a name given to an area of south Pennine hills west of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. The name comes from the Brontë sisters, who wrote such literary classics as ""Jane Eyre"" (Charlotte Brontë), ""Wuthering Heights"" (Emily Brontë), and ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (Anne Brontë) while living in"
"November 1846) from several articles accepted by local newspapers and from an unfinished novel probably from around 1845 entitled ""And the Weary are at Rest"". Emily Brontë (1818–1848) has been called the ""Sphinx of Literature"", writing without the slightest desire for fame and only for her own satisfaction. She was obsessively timid outside the family circle to the point of turning her back on her partners in conversation without saying a word. With a single novel, ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847), and poems of an elementary power, she reached the heights of literature. Though she was almost unknown during her life, posterity"
"and devotion. To other people's failings she was understanding and forgiving, but over herself she kept a continual and most austere watch, never allowing herself to deviate for one instant from what she considered her duty."" Emily Brontë has often been characterised as a devout if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic and a visionary ""mystic of the moors"". Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" was first published in London in 1847 by Thomas Cautley Newby, appearing as the first two volumes of a three-volume set that included Anne Brontë's ""Agnes Grey"". The authors were printed as being Ellis and Acton Bell; Emily's"
"at the age of 30. ""Wuthering Heights"" was her only novel. Anne, born in Market Street Thornton on 17 January 1820, was a poet and novelist. She wrote a largely autobiographical novel entitled ""Agnes Grey"", but her second novel, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848), was far more ambitious. She died on 28 May 1849 in Scarborough at the age of 29. Patrick Brontë faced a challenge in arranging for the education of the girls of his family, which was barely middle class. They had no significant connections and he could not afford the fees for them to attend an"
"""Wuthering Heights"" and ""Agnes Grey"", had launched a rumour that the three novels were the work of one author, understood to be Ellis Bell (Emily). George Smith was extremely surprised to find two gawky, ill-dressed country girls paralysed with fear, who, to identify themselves, held out the letters addressed to ""Messrs. Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell"". Taken by such surprise, he introduced them to his mother with all the dignity their talent merited, and invited them to the opera for a performance of Rossini's ""Barber of Seville"". Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" was published in 1847 under the masculine pseudonym Ellis"
"an intensely first-person female perspective. Emily Brontë's (1818–48) novel was ""Wuthering Heights"" and, according to Juliet Gardiner, ""the vivid sexual passion and power of its language and imagery impressed, bewildered and appalled reviewers"". The third Brontë novel of 1847 was Anne Brontë's (1820–49) ""Agnes Grey"", which deals with the lonely life of a governess. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–65) was also a successful writer and ""North and South"" contrasts the lifestyle in the industrial north of England with the wealthier south. Anthony Trollope's (1815–82) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his"
"part of the county around Haworth being nicknamed Brontë Country in their honour. Their novels, written in the mid-19th century, caused a sensation when they were first published, yet were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature. Among the most celebrated novels written by the sisters are Anne Brontë's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" and Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"". ""Wuthering Heights"" was almost a source used to depict life in Yorkshire, illustrating the type of people that reside there in its characters, and emphasising the use of the stormy Yorkshire moors. Nowadays, the parsonage"
"""Oliver Twist"", the failures of the legal system in ""Bleak House"", An early rival to Dickens was William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), who during the Victorian period ranked second only to him, but he is now known almost exclusively for ""Vanity Fair"" (1847). The Brontë sisters, Emily, Charlotte and Anne, were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), Charlotte Brontë's most famous work, was the first of the sisters' novels to achieve success. Emily Brontë's (1818–1848) novel was ""Wuthering Heights"" and, according to Juliet Gardiner, ""the vivid sexual passion and power of its language and imagery impressed,"
"more subdued claims admiring ""Agnes Grey"" with a less overt praise of Brontë's work than Moore. The genesis of ""Agnes Grey"" was attributed by Edward Chitham to the reflections on life found in Anne's diary of 31 July 1845. It is likely that Anne was the first of the Brontë sisters to write a work of prose for publication, although ""Agnes Grey"", ""Wuthering Heights"", and ""Jane Eyre"" were all published within the same year: 1847. Anne's novel was eventually published by Thomas Newby in a triple-volume format: Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" made up the first two volumes (by virtue of it"
"debate concentrating on questions around the moral soundness of the modern novel. Questions about artistic integrity, as well as aesthetics, including, for example. the idea of ""art for art's sake"", proposed by writers like Oscar Wilde and Algernon Charles Swinburne, were also important. Major British writers such as Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy were influenced by the romance genre tradition of the novel, which had been revitalized during the Romantic period. The Brontë sisters were notable mid-19th-century authors in this tradition, with Anne Brontë's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" and Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"". Publishing at"
"know that the books related to people of the neighbourhood. The Brontës used their neighbours as inspiration for characters in many of their books. Anne Brontë published ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" under the name Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë published ""Shirley"" and ""Jane Eyre"" under the name Currer Bell. Emily Brontë published ""Wuthering Heights"" as Ellis Bell. A well-known example of the former is Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand. In contrast, some twentieth and twenty first century male romance"
"them both into their tormenting marriage. Isabella Linton Isabella Linton is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's novel ""Wuthering Heights"". She is the sister of Edgar Linton and the wife of Heathcliff. Isabella Linton was raised in the safe, elegant environment of Thrushcross Grange with her brother, Edgar. When Catherine Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights suffers an accident while intruding on the Grange, the Lintons take her in and transform her into a lady in five weeks and return with no sign of mischief being a part of her. When Heathcliff returns to the neighbourhood to exact revenge on the Lintons"
"in a collection of letters, her sister Charlotte wrote about how Emily had to work from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. each day and was more of a governess than a teacher. Emily wrote poetry while at Law Hill and became fascinated by the story of intrigue and feuding which surrounded the house's builder, Jack Sharp, and his near neighbours, the Walker family of Walterclough Hall. It is said she reflected the story in the plot of her novel ""Wuthering Heights"" and that the central character Heathcliff was based on Sharp himself. A plaque on the wall commemorates Brontë's stay"
"Isabella Linton Isabella Linton is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's novel ""Wuthering Heights"". She is the sister of Edgar Linton and the wife of Heathcliff. Isabella Linton was raised in the safe, elegant environment of Thrushcross Grange with her brother, Edgar. When Catherine Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights suffers an accident while intruding on the Grange, the Lintons take her in and transform her into a lady in five weeks and return with no sign of mischief being a part of her. When Heathcliff returns to the neighbourhood to exact revenge on the Lintons for Edgar's marriage to his true"
"It features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. The Brontë sisters were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. They had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each the following year: Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"", Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne's ""Agnes Grey"". Later, Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) and Charlotte's ""Villette"" (1853)"
"writer Sean Michael Wilson and hand painted by comic book veteran artist John M Burns. This version received a nomination for the Stan Lee Excelsior Awards, voted by pupils from 170 schools in the United Kingdom. Kate Bush's song ""Wuthering Heights"" is most likely the best-known creative work inspired by Brontë's story that is not properly an ""adaptation"". Bush wrote and released the song when she was 18 and chose it as the lead single in her debut album (despite the record company preferring another track as the lead single). It was primarily inspired by the Olivier–Oberon film version, which"
"""per se"""". Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a"
"characters, he also tended to depict a more middle class society than Dickens did. He is best known for his novel ""Vanity Fair"" (1848), subtitled ""A Novel without a Hero"", which is an example of a form popular in Victorian literature: a historical novel in which recent history is depicted. Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë produced notable works of the period, although these were not immediately appreciated by Victorian critics. ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847), Emily's only work, is an example of Gothic Romanticism from a woman's point of view, which examines class, myth, and gender. ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), by her sister"
"Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but"
"""Wuthering Heights"" was due, Charlotte Brontë edited the original text, altering punctuation, correcting spelling errors and making Joseph's thick Yorkshire dialect less opaque. Writing to her publisher, W.S. Williams, she mentioned that ""It seems to me advisable to modify the orthography of the old servant Joseph's speeches; for though, as it stands, it exactly renders the Yorkshire dialect to a Yorkshire ear, yet I am sure Southerns must find it unintelligible; and thus one of the most graphic characters in the book is lost on them."" An essay written by Irene Wiltshire on dialect and speech in the novel examines"
"with the publication of ""Wuthering Heights"" by Ellis Bell (Emily) and ""Agnes Grey"" by Acton Bell (Anne). Accompanying the speculation was a change in the critical reaction to Brontë's work, as accusations were made that the writing was ""coarse"", a judgement more readily made once it was suspected that Currer Bell was a woman. However, sales of ""Jane Eyre"" continued to be strong and may even have increased as a result of the novel developing a reputation as an ""improper"" book. A talented amateur artist, Brontë personally did the drawings for the second edition of ""Jane Eyre"" and in the"
"Catherine Linton Catherine Linton (also known as ""Young Catherine"" or Cathy Linton and later as Catherine Heathcliff then as Catherine Earnshaw) is a character in Emily Brontë's novel ""Wuthering Heights"". She is the daughter of Edgar Linton and Cathy Earnshaw, and, despite Heathcliff's attempts at exacting revenge on her for the indiscretions of her family, she eventually marries her true love, Hareton Earnshaw, re-establishing long-lost equilibrium in the story. Cathy is the only child of Catherine and Edgar. Her mother dies a few hours after giving premature birth to her, about half-way through the novel. Her father, Edgar, calls her"
"he was interred in the family vault. Emily Brontë died of tuberculosis on 19 December of that year and Anne Brontë on 29 May 1849 in the coastal resort of Scarborough. Charlotte, the last living sister, married the Reverend Arthur Bell Nichols, curate of Haworth, in 1854 and died in March 1855, because of pregnancy complications. In Stella Gibbons' novel ""Cold Comfort Farm"" (1932), the character Mr. Mybug is introduced as writing a psychological study of Branwell Brontë intended to show that Branwell wrote ""Wuthering Heights"". In Pauline Clarke's novel ""The Twelve and the Genii"" (called ""The Return of the"
"In Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847), before their relationship blossoms, Catherine Heathcliff (née Catherine Linton) scorns Hareton Earnshaw's primitive attempts at reading, saying, “I wish you would repeat Chevy Chase as you did yesterday; it was extremely funny!” In Elizabeth Gaskell's ""North and South"" (1855), on hearing the conversation between Mr. Thornton and her father, Margaret Hale wonders, “How in the world had they got from cog-wheels to Chevy Chase?” In F. Anstey's ""Vice Versa"" (1882), the boys at Dr Grimstone's boarding school are required to play a game called ""chevy"" (a version of ""prisoners' base"" or ""darebase""), ""so called"
"with her niece and companion, Mary Fearnley Sander, until her death, aged 100, on 16 November 1979. Thomas, Alison, ""Portraits of Women: Gwen John and Her Forgotten Contemporaries"", Wiley-Blackwell, 1996. Edna Clarke Hall Edna Clarke Hall (1879–1979) was a watercolour artist, etcher, lithographer and draughtsman who is mainly known for her many illustrations to ""Wuthering Heights"" by Emily Brontë. Born Edna Waugh in Shipbourne, she was the tenth child of the philanthropist Benjamin Waugh, who, with William Clarke Hall (1866–1932), founded the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). In 1881, the Waughs moved to Southgate, and"
"in various animals, including humans, and Peter Brontë Gatenby, the Medical Director of the UN. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the"