Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights — the wild heart of English Romanticism

The most original and elemental of the Brontës, author of a single novel that stands among the greatest in the language. Wuthering Heights, with its storm-lashed moors and the doomed passion of Heathcliff and Catherine, broke every Victorian convention — its structure, its amorality, its sheer ferocity bewildered first readers and now seem visionary. A reclusive poet of intense lyric power, she died at thirty, a year after the novel appeared.

Key works

• Wuthering Heights1847— Heathcliff and Catherine — love as elemental violence
  Novel
• Poems1846— Fierce, visionary lyrics published as 'Ellis Bell'
  Poetry collection

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