A Wife Now Living

Wuthering Heights Book review by Margaret Emily Bronte Rating: 9/10 Date read: 20 June to 3 August Wuthering Heights, the only novel written by Emily Brontë (a friend of the blog), was published in 1847. It is a Gothic romance novel which centres around themes of the supernatural, nature & civilisation, love, passion, masculinity & femininity, revenge & redemption and social class (LitCharts). The story’s chief characters are Catherine Earnshaw and her adopted brother, Heathcliff, who originally live in Wuthering Heights, an old manor house on the dark and stormy Yorkshire Moors. The majority of the story is narrated by Nelly Dean, a lifelong employed servant of the Earnshaw, and later, Linton families. She explains to John Lockwood, a wealthy gentleman staying in Thrushcross Grange, a house later owned by Heathcliff, the complicated and strange histories of the Earnshaw and Linton families over the past fifty years. This consists of three generations of people, many birt