March 3, 2009
Wuthering Heights
Written by Emily Brontë
“What does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree—filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day, I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men and women—my own features—mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!”
— Chapter 33, page 304
Fun Facts
- Emily Brontë is the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë, best known as the author Jane Eyre.
- She wrote under the penname Ellis Bell in order to hide the fact that she was female.
- Wuthering Heights was her only novel.
- On first publication the book was poorly received because Victorian readers found it to be scandalous.
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