Wuthering Heights - wikipedia Wuthering Heights For other uses, see Wuthering Heights ( disambiguation ). Wuthering Heights Title page of the first edition Author Emily Brontë Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Tragedy Published December 1847 Publisher Thomas Cautley Newby ISBN 0 - 486 - 29256 - 8 OCLC 71126926 Dewey Decimal 823.8 LC Class PR4172. W7 2007 Text Wuthering Heights online Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë 's only novel. Written between October 1845 and June 1846, Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 under the pseudonym `` Ellis Bell '' ; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë 's Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte 's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily 's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850. Although Wuthering Heights is now widely regarded as a classic of English literature, contemporary reviews for the novel were deeply polarised ; it was considered controversial because its depiction of mental and physical cruelty was unusually stark, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals of the day regarding religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality. The English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, although an admirer of the book, referred to it as `` A fiend of a book -- an incredible monster (... ) The action is laid in hell, -- only it seems places and people have English names there. '' The novel has inspired adaptations, including film, radio and television dramatisations, a musical by Bernard J. Taylor, a ballet, operas ( by Bernard Herrmann, Carlisle Floyd, and Frédéric Chaslin ), part of the `` Wind and Wuthering '' 1976 album by Genesis, and a 1978 song by Kate Bush. Contents 1 Plot 1.1 Opening ( Chapters 1 to 3 ) 1.2 Heathcliff 's childhood ( Chapters 4 to 17 ) 1.3 Heathcliff 's maturity ( Chapters 18 to 31 ) 1.4 Ending ( Chapters 32 to 34 ) 2 Characters 2.1 Family relationships map 3 Timeline 4 Themes 5 Gothic novel 5.1 As a proto vampire novel 6 Publication 6.1 1847 edition 6.2 1850 edition 7 Inspiration for locations 8 Critical response 8.1 Early reviews ( 1847 -- 1848 ) 9 References in culture 10 Adaptations 11 Works inspired 12 Notes 13 References 14 Bibliography 14.1 Editions 14.2 Works of criticism 15 External links Plot Opening ( chapters 1 to 3 ) In 1801, Lockwood, a wealthy young man from the South of England who is seeking peace and recuperation, rents Thrushcross Grange in Yorkshire. He visits his landlord, Heathcliff, who lives in a remote moorland farmhouse, Wuthering Heights. There Lockwood finds an odd assemblage : Heathcliff who seems to be a gentleman, but his manners are uncouth ; the reserved mistress of the house who is in her mid-teens ; and a young man who seems to be a member of the family, yet dresses and speaks as if he is a servant. Snowed in, Lockwood is grudgingly allowed to stay and is shown to a bedchamber where he notices books and graffiti left by a former inhabitant named Catherine. He falls asleep and has a nightmare in which he sees the ghostly Catherine trying to enter through the window. He cries out in fear, rousing Heathcliff, who rushes into the room. Lockwood is convinced that what he saw was real. Heathcliff, believing Lockwood to be right, examines the window and opens it, hoping to allow Catherine 's spirit to enter. When nothing happens, Heathcliff shows Lockwood to his own bedroom and returns to keep watch at the window. At sunrise, Heathcliff escorts Lockwood back to Thrushcross Grange. After his visit to the Heights, Lockwood becomes ill, and is confined to his bed for some length of time. The Grange housekeeper, Ellen ( Nelly ) Dean, who is looking after him, tells him the story of the family at the Heights during his convalescence. Heathcliff 's childhood ( chapters 4 to 17 ) Thirty years earlier, the owner of Wuthering Heights is Mr. Earnshaw, who lives with his son Hindley and younger daughter Catherine. On a trip to Liverpool, Earnshaw encounters a homeless boy, described as a `` dark - skinned gypsy in aspect. '' He adopts the boy and names him Heathcliff. Hindley feels that Heathcliff has supplanted him in his father 's affections and becomes bitterly jealous. Catherine and Heathcliff become friends and spend hours each day playing on the moors. They grow close. Hindley is sent to university / college. Three years later Earnshaw dies, and Hindley becomes the landowner ; he is now master of Wuthering Heights. He returns to live there with his new wife, Frances. He allows Heathcliff to stay but only as a servant, and regularly mistreats him. The climb to Top Withens, thought to have inspired the Earnshaws ' home in Wuthering Heights A few months after Hindley 's return, Heathcliff and Catherine walk to Thrushcross Grange to spy on Edgar and Isabella Linton, who live there. After being discovered, they try to run away but are caught. Catherine is injured by the Lintons ' dog and taken into the house to recuperate, while Heathcliff is sent home. Catherine stays with the Lintons. The Lintons are landed gentry and Catherine is influenced by their elegant appearance and genteel manners. When she returns to Wuthering Heights, her appearance and manners are more ladylike, and she laughs at Heathcliff 's unkempt appearance. The next day, knowing that the Lintons are to visit, Heathcliff, upon Nelly 's advice, tries to dress up, in an effort to impress Catherine, but he and Edgar get into an argument and Hindley humiliates Heathcliff by locking him in the attic. Catherine tries to comfort Heathcliff, but he vows revenge on Hindley. The following year, Frances Earnshaw gives birth to a son, named Hareton, but she dies a few months later. Hindley descends into drunkenness. Two more years pass, and Catherine and Edgar Linton become friends, while she becomes more distant from Heathcliff. Edgar visits Catherine while Hindley is away and they declare themselves lovers soon afterwards. Catherine confesses to Nelly that Edgar has proposed marriage and she has accepted, although her love for Edgar is not comparable to her love for Heathcliff, whom she can not marry because of his low social status and lack of education. She hopes to use her position as Edgar 's wife to raise Heathcliff 's standing. Heathcliff overhears her say that it would `` degrade '' her to marry him ( but not how much she loves him ), and he runs away and disappears without a trace. Distraught over Heathcliff 's departure, Catherine makes herself ill. Nelly and Edgar begin to pander to her every whim to prevent her from becoming ill again. Three years pass. Edgar and Catherine marry and go to live together at Thrushcross Grange, where Catherine enjoys being `` lady of the manor ''. Six months later, Heathcliff returns, now a wealthy gentleman. Catherine is delighted, but Edgar is not. Edgar 's sister, Isabella, soon falls in love with Heathcliff, who despises her, but encourages the infatuation as a means of revenge. This leads to an argument with Catherine at Thrushcross Grange, which Edgar overhears. Finally, enraged by Heathcliff 's constant appearance and foul parlance, he forbids Heathcliff from visiting Catherine altogether. Upset, Catherine locks herself in her room and begins to make herself ill again. She is also now pregnant with Edgar 's child. Heathcliff takes up residence at Wuthering Heights and spends his time gambling with Hindley and teaching Hareton bad habits. Hindley dissipates his wealth and mortgages the farmhouse to Heathcliff to pay his debts. Heathcliff elopes with Isabella Linton. Two months after their elopement, Heathcliff and Isabella return to Wuthering Heights, where Heathcliff discovers that Catherine is dying. With Nelly 's help, he visits Catherine secretly. The following day, she gives birth to a daughter, Cathy, shortly before dying. While Catherine is lying in her coffin overnight, prior to the funeral, Heathcliff returns and replaces the lock of Edgar 's hair in her necklace with a lock of his own. Shortly after the funeral, Isabella leaves Heathcliff and finds refuge in the South of England. She gives birth to a son, Linton. Hindley dies six months after Catherine, and Heathcliff thus finds himself master of Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff 's maturity ( chapters 18 to 31 ) Brontë Society plaque at Top Withens Twelve years pass. Catherine 's daughter, Cathy, has become a beautiful, high - spirited girl. Edgar learns that his sister Isabella is dying, so he leaves to retrieve her son Linton in order to adopt and educate him. Cathy, who has rarely left home, takes advantage of her father 's absence to venture further afield. She rides over the moors to Wuthering Heights and discovers that she has not one but two cousins : Hareton, in addition to Linton. She also lets it be known that her father has gone to fetch Linton. When Edgar returns with Linton, a weak and sickly boy, Heathcliff insists that he live at Wuthering Heights. Three years pass. Walking on the moors, Nelly and Cathy encounter Heathcliff, who takes them to Wuthering Heights to see Linton and Hareton. Heathcliff hopes that Linton and Cathy will marry, so that Linton will become the heir to Thrushcross Grange. Linton and Cathy begin a secret friendship, echoing the childhood friendship between their respective parents, Heathcliff and Catherine. Nelly finds out about the letters. The following year, Edgar becomes very ill and takes a turn for the worse while Nelly and Cathy are out on the moors, where Heathcliff and Linton trick them into entering Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff keeps them captive to enable the marriage of Cathy and Linton to take place. After five days, Nelly is released and later, with Linton 's help, Cathy escapes. She returns to the Grange to see her father shortly before he dies. Now master of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, Cathy 's father - in - law, Heathcliff, insists on her returning to live at Wuthering Heights. Soon after she arrives Linton dies. Hareton tries to be kind to Cathy, but she withdraws from the world. At this point, Nelly 's tale catches up to the present day ( 1801 ). Time passes and, after being ill for a period, Lockwood grows tired of the moors and informs Heathcliff that he will be leaving Thrushcross Grange. Ending ( chapters 3.2 to 34 ) Eight months later, Lockwood returns to the area by chance. Given that his tenancy at Thrushcross Grange is still valid, he decides to stay there again. He finds Nelly living at Wuthering Heights and enquires what has happened since he left. She explains that she moved to Wuthering Heights to replace the housekeeper, Zillah, who had left. Hareton has an accident and is confined to the farmhouse. During his convalescence, he and Cathy overcome their mutual antipathy and become close. While their friendship develops, Heathcliff begins to act strangely and has visions of Catherine. He stops eating and, after four days, is found dead in Catherine 's old room. He is buried next to Catherine. Lockwood learns that Hareton and Cathy plan to marry on New Year 's Day. As he gets ready to leave, he passes the graves of Catherine, Edgar, and Heathcliff and pauses to contemplate the quiet of the moors. Characters Heathcliff : Found, presumably orphaned, on the streets of Liverpool and taken by Mr. Earnshaw to Wuthering Heights, where he is reluctantly cared for by the family. He and Catherine grow close and their love is the central theme of the first volume. His revenge against the man she chooses to marry and its consequences are the central theme of the second volume. Heathcliff has been considered a Byronic hero, but critics have pointed out that he reinvents himself at various points, making his character hard to fit into any single type. He has an ambiguous position in society, and his lack of status is underlined by the fact that `` Heathcliff '' is both his given name and his surname. Catherine Earnshaw : First introduced to the reader after her death, through Lockwood 's discovery of her diary and carvings. The description of her life is confined almost entirely to the first volume. She seems unsure whether she is, or wants to become, more like Heathcliff, or aspires to be more like Edgar. Some critics have argued that her decision to marry Edgar Linton is allegorically a rejection of nature and a surrender to culture, a choice with unfortunate, fateful consequences for all the other characters. Edgar Linton : Introduced as a child in the Linton family, he resides at Thrushcross Grange. Edgar 's style and manners are in sharp contrast to those of Heathcliff, who instantly dislikes him, and of Catherine, who is drawn to him. Catherine marries him instead of Heathcliff because of his higher social status, with disastrous results to all characters in the story. Nelly Dean : The main narrator of the novel, Nelly is a servant to three generations of the Earnshaws and two of the Linton family. Humbly born, she regards herself nevertheless as Hindley 's foster - sister ( they are the same age and her mother is his nurse ). She lives and works among the rough inhabitants of Wuthering Heights, but is well - read, and she also experiences the more genteel manners of Thrushcross Grange. She is referred to as Ellen, her given name, to show respect, and as Nelly among those close to her. Critics have discussed how far her actions as an apparent bystander affect the other characters and how much her narrative can be relied on. Isabella Linton : Isabella is seen only in relation to other characters, although some insight into her thoughts and feelings is provided by the chapter, a long letter to Ellen, detailing her arrival at Wuthering Heights after her marriage to Heathcliff. She views Heathcliff romantically, despite Catherine 's warnings, and becomes an unwitting participant in his plot for revenge against Edgar. Heathcliff marries her, but treats her abusively. While pregnant, she escapes to London and gives birth to a son, Linton. Hindley Earnshaw : Catherine 's elder brother, Hindley, despises Heathcliff immediately and bullies him throughout their childhood before his father sends him away to college. Hindley returns with his wife, Frances, after Mr Earnshaw dies. He is more mature, but his hatred of Heathcliff remains the same. After Frances 's death, Hindley reverts to destructive behaviour and ruins the Earnshaw family by drinking and gambling to excess. Heathcliff beats up Hindley at one point after Hindley fails in his attempt to kill Heathcliff with a pistol. Hareton Earnshaw : The son of Hindley and Frances, raised at first by Nelly but soon by Heathcliff. Nelly works to instill a sense of pride in the Earnshaw heritage ( even though Hareton will not inherit Earnshaw property, because Hindley has mortgaged it to Heathcliff ). Heathcliff, in contrast, teaches him vulgarities, as a way of avenging himself on Hindley. Hareton speaks with an accent similar to Joseph 's, and occupies a position similar to a servant at Wuthering Heights, unaware how he has been done out of his inheritance. In appearance he reminds Heathcliff of his aunt, Catherine. Cathy Linton : The daughter of Catherine and Edgar, a spirited and strong - willed girl unaware of her parents ' history. Edgar is very protective of her and as a result she is eager to discover what lies beyond the confines of the Grange. Although one of the more sympathetic characters of the novel, she is also somewhat snobbish against Hareton and his lack of education. Linton Heathcliff : The son of Heathcliff and Isabella. A weak child, his early years are spent with his mother in the south of England. He learns of his father 's identity and existence only after his mother dies, when he is twelve. In his selfishness and capacity for cruelty he resembles Heathcliff. Physically he resembles his mother. He marries Cathy Linton because his father, who terrifies him, directs him to do so, and soon after dies from a wasting illness associated with tuberculosis. Joseph : A servant at Wuthering Heights for 60 years who is a rigid, self - righteous Christian but lacks any trace of genuine kindness or humanity. He speaks a broad Yorkshire dialect and hates nearly everyone in the novel. Mr Lockwood : The first narrator, he rents Thrushcross Grange to escape society, but in the end decides society is preferable. He narrates the book until Chapter 4, when the main narrator, Nelly, picks up the tale. Frances : Hindley 's ailing wife and mother of Hareton Earnshaw. She is described as somewhat silly and is obviously from humble family backgrounds. Mr and Mrs Earnshaw : Catherine 's and Hindley 's father, Mr Earnshaw is the master of Wuthering Heights at the beginning of Nelly 's story and is described as an irascible but loving and kind - hearted man. He favours his adopted son, Heathcliff, which causes trouble in the family. In contrast, his wife mistrusts Heathcliff from their first encounter. Mr and Mrs Linton : Edgar 's and Isabella 's parents, they educate their children in a well - behaved and sophisticated way. Mr Linton also serves as the magistrate of Gimmerton, like his son in later years. Dr Kenneth : The longtime doctor of Gimmerton and a friend of Hindley 's who is present at the cases of illness during the novel. Although not much of his character is known, he seems to be a rough but honest person. Zillah : A servant to Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights during the period following Catherine 's death. Although she is kind to Lockwood, she does n't like or help Cathy at Wuthering Heights because of Cathy 's arrogance and Heathcliff 's instructions. Mr Green : Edgar 's corruptible lawyer who should have changed Edgar 's will to prevent Heathcliff from gaining Thrushcross Grange. But Green changes sides and helps Heathcliff to inherit Grange as his property. Family relationships map Timeline 1500 : The stone above the front door of Wuthering Heights, bearing the name Earnshaw, is inscribed, presumably to mark the completion of the house. 1757 : Hindley Earnshaw born ( summer ) 1762 : Edgar Linton born 1765 : Catherine Earnshaw born ( summer ) ; Isabella Linton born ( late 1765 ) 1771 : Heathcliff brought to Wuthering Heights by Mr Earnshaw ( late summer ) 1773 : Mrs Earnshaw dies ( spring ) 1774 : Hindley sent off to college 1775 : Hindley marries Frances ; Mr Earnshaw dies and Hindley comes back ( October ) ; Heathcliff and Catherine visit Thrushcross Grange for the first time ; Catherine remains behind ( November ), and then returns to Wuthering Heights ( Christmas Eve ) 1778 : Hareton born ( June ) ; Frances dies 1780 : Heathcliff runs away from Wuthering Heights ; Mr and Mrs Linton both die 1783 : Catherine has married Edgar ( March ) ; Heathcliff comes back ( September ) 1784 : Heathcliff marries Isabella ( February ) ; Catherine dies and Cathy born ( 20 March ) ; Hindley dies ; Linton Heathcliff born ( September ) 1797 : Isabella dies ; Cathy visits Wuthering Heights and meets Hareton ; Linton brought to Thrushcross Grange and then taken to Wuthering Heights 1800 : Cathy meets Heathcliff and sees Linton again ( 20 March ) 1801 : Cathy and Linton are married ( August ) ; Edgar dies ( August ) ; Linton dies ( September ) ; Mr Lockwood goes to Thrushcross Grange and visits Wuthering Heights, beginning his narrative 1802 : Mr Lockwood goes back to London ( January ) ; Heathcliff dies ( April ) ; Mr Lockwood comes back to Thrushcross Grange ( September ) 1803 : Cathy plans to marry Hareton ( 1 January ) Themes Author Joyce Carol Oates sees the novel as `` an assured demonstration of the finite and tragically self - consuming nature of ' passion '. '' Gothic novel Ellen Moers, in Literary Women, developed a feminist theory that connects women writers, including Emily Brontë, with the gothic fiction. Catherine Earnshaw has been identified by some critics, as a type of gothic demon, because she `` shape - shifts '' in order to marry Edgar Linton, by assuming a domesticity, which is contrary to her true nature. It has also been suggested that Catherine 's relationship with Heathcliff conforms to the `` dynamics of the Gothic romance, in that the woman falls prey to the more or less demonic instincts of her lover, suffers from the violence of his feelings, and at the end is entangled by his thwarted passion. '' As a proto vampire novel At one stage Heathcliff is described as a vampire, and it has been suggested that both he and Catherine are in fact meant to be seen as vampires ( or at least as vampire like personalities in `` Heathcliff as Vampire, '' James Twitchell argues that Heathcliff is meant to be seen as vampire - like, without actually being one ). Leo Bersani claims that desire in the novel is `` essentially vampiristic. '' Publication 1847 edition The original text, as published by Thomas Cautley Newby in 1847, is available online in two parts. The novel was first published together with Anne Brontë 's Agnes Grey in a three - volume format : Wuthering Heights occupied the first two volumes, while Agnes Grey made up the third. 1850 edition In 1850, when a second edition of 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 some of the changes Charlotte made. Inspiration for locations High Sunderland Hall in 1818, shortly before Emily Brontë saw the building. There are several theories about which real building or buildings ( if any ) may have inspired Wuthering Heights. One common candidate is Top Withens, a ruined farmhouse located in an isolated area near the Haworth Parsonage, although its structure does not match that of the farmhouse described in the novel. Top Withens was first suggested as the model by Ellen Nussey, a friend of Charlotte Brontë, to Edward Morison Wimperis, an artist who was commissioned to illustrate the Brontë sisters ' novels in 1872. The second possibility is High Sunderland Hall, near Halifax, now demolished. This Gothic edifice was located near Law Hill, where Emily worked briefly as a governess in 1838. While it was perhaps grander than Wuthering Heights, the hall had grotesque embellishments of griffins and misshapen nude males similar to those described by Lockwood in Chapter 1 of the novel. The inspiration for Thrushcross Grange has long been traced to Ponden Hall, near Haworth, which is very small. Shibden Hall, near Halifax, is perhaps more likely. The Thrushcross Grange that Emily describes is rather unusual. It sits within an enormous park, as does Shibden Hall. By comparison, the park at Chatsworth ( the home of the Duke of Devonshire ) is over two miles ( 3.2 km ) long but, as the house sits near the middle, it is no more than a mile and a half ( 2.4 km ) from the lodge to the house. Considering that Edgar Linton apparently does not even have a title, this seems unlikely. There is no building close to Haworth that has a park anywhere near this size, but there are a few houses that might have inspired some elements. Shibden Hall has several features that match descriptions in the novel. Critical Response Early reviews ( 1847 -- 1848 ) Early reviews of Wuthering Heights were mixed in their assessment. Whilst most critics at the time recognised the power and imagination of the novel, they were also baffled by the storyline and found the characters prone to savagery and selfishness. Published in 1847, at a time when the background of the author was deemed to have an important impact on the story itself, many critics were also intrigued by the authorship of the novels. Henry Chorley of the Athenæum said that it was a `` disagreeable story '' and that the `` Bells '' ( Brontës ) `` seem to affect painful and exceptional subjects ''. The Atlas review called it a `` strange, inartistic story, '' but commented that every chapter seems to contain a `` sort of rugged power. '' Atlas summarised the novel by writing : `` We know nothing in the whole range of our fictitious literature which presents such shocking pictures of the worst forms of humanity. There is not in the entire dramatis persona, a single character which is not utterly hateful or thoroughly contemptible... Even the female characters excite something of loathing and much of contempt. Beautiful and loveable in their childhood, they all, to use a vulgar expression, `` turn out badly ''. '' Graham 's Lady Magazine wrote `` How a human being could have attempted such a book as the present without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery. It is a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors. '' The American Whig Review wrote `` Respecting a book so original as this, and written with so much power of imagination, it is natural that there should be many opinions. Indeed, its power is so predominant that it is not easy after a hasty reading to analyze one 's impressions so as to speak of its merits and demerits with confidence. We have been taken and carried through a new region, a melancholy waste, with here and there patches of beauty ; have been brought in contact with fierce passions, with extremes of love and hate, and with sorrow that none but those who have suffered can understand. This has not been accomplished with ease, but with an ill - mannered contempt for the decencies of language, and in a style which might resemble that of a Yorkshire farmer who should have endeavored to eradicate his provincialism by taking lessons of a London footman. We have had many sad bruises and tumbles in our journey, yet it was interesting, and at length we are safely arrived at a happy conclusion. '' Douglas Jerrold 's Weekly Newspaper wrote `` Wuthering Heights is a strange sort of book, -- baffling all regular criticism ; yet, it is impossible to begin and not finish it ; and quite as impossible to lay it aside afterwards and say nothing about. In Wuthering Heights the reader is shocked, disgusted, almost sickened by details of cruelty, inhumanity, and the most diabolical hate and vengeance, and anon come passages of powerful testimony to the supreme power of love -- even over demons in the human form. The women in the book are of a strange fiendish - angelic nature, tantalising, and terrible, and the men are indescribable out of the book itself. Yet, towards the close of the story occurs the following pretty, soft picture, which comes like the rainbow after a storm... We strongly recommend all our readers who love novelty to get this story, for we can promise them that they never have read anything like it before. It is very puzzling and very interesting, and if we had space we would willingly devote a little more time to the analysis of this remarkable story, but we must leave it to our readers to decide what sort of book it is. '' New Monthly Magazine wrote `` Wuthering Heights, by Ellis Bell, is a terrific story, associated with an equally fearful and repulsive spot... Our novel reading experience does not enable us to refer to anything to be compared with the personages we are introduced to at this desolate spot -- a perfect misanthropist 's heaven. '' Tait 's Edinburgh Magazine wrote `` This novel contains undoubtedly powerful writing, and yet it seems to be thrown away. Mr. Ellis Bell, before constructing the novel, should have known that forced marriages, under threats and in confinement are illegal, and parties instrumental thereto can be punished. And second, that wills made by young ladies ' minors are invalid. The volumes are powerfully written records of wickedness and they have a moral -- they show what Satan could do with the law of Entail. '' Examiner wrote `` This is a strange book. It is not without evidences of considerable power : but, as a whole, it is wild, confused, disjointed, and improbable ; and the people who make up the drama, which is tragic enough in its consequences, are savages ruder than those who lived before the days of Homer. '' Literary World wrote `` In the whole story not a single trait of character is elicited which can command our admiration, not one of the fine feelings of our nature seems to have formed a part in the composition of its principal actors. In spite of the disgusting coarsness of much of the dialogue, and the improbabilities of much of the plot, we are spellbound. '' Britannia called it a `` strangely original '' book that depicts `` humanity in this wild state. '' Although mostly hostile, it notes that the book is `` illuminated by some gleams of sunshine towards the end which serve to cast a grateful light on the dreary path we have traveled. '' G.H. Lewes, in Leader, shortly after Emily 's death, wrote : `` Curious enough is to read Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and remember that the writers were two retiring, solitary, consumptive girls ! Books, coarse even for men, coarse in language and coarse in conception, the coarseness apparently of violence and uncultivated men -- turn out to be the productions of two girls living almost alone, filling their loneliness with quiet studies, and writing their books from a sense of duty, hating the pictures they drew, yet drawing them with austere conscientiousness ! There is matter here for the moralist or critic to speculate on ''. References in culture Main article : List of Wuthering Heights references Adaptations Main article : Adaptations of Wuthering Heights Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the 1939 film Wuthering Heights The earliest known film adaptation of Wuthering Heights was filmed in England in 1920 and it was directed by A.V. Bramble. It is unknown if any prints still exist. The most famous was 1939 's Wuthering Heights, starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon and directed by William Wyler. This acclaimed adaptation, like many others, eliminated the second generation 's story ( young Cathy, Linton and Hareton ) and is rather inaccurate as a literature adaption. It won the 1939 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film and was nominated for the 1939 Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1967 the BBC produced a dramatisation starring Ian McShane and Angela Scoular. The 1970 film with Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff is the first colour version of the novel, and gained acceptance over the years though it was initially poorly received. The character of Hindley is portrayed much more sympathetically, and his story - arc is altered. It also subtly suggests that Heathcliff may be Cathy 's illegitimate half - brother. In 1978 the BBC produced a five - part TV serialisation of the book starring Ken Hutchinson, Kay Adshead and John Duttine with music by Carl Davis ; it is considered one of the most faithful adaptations of Emily Brontë 's story. There is also a 1985 French film adaptation Hurlevent by Jacques Rivette. The 1992 film Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche is notable for including the oft - omitted second generation story of the children of Cathy, Hindley and Heathcliff. More recent film or TV adaptations include ITV 's 2009 two - part drama series starring Tom Hardy, Charlotte Riley, Sarah Lancashire, and Andrew Lincoln, and the 2011 film starring Kaya Scodelario and James Howson and directed by Andrea Arnold. Adaptations which reset the story in a new setting include the 1953 adaptation retitled Abismos de Pasion directed by Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel set in Catholic Mexico, with Heathcliff and Cathy renamed Alejandro and Catalina. In Buñuel 's version Heathcliff / Alejandro claims to have become rich by making a deal with Satan. The New York Times reviewed a re-release of this film as `` an almost magical example of how an artist of genius can take someone else 's classic work and shape it to fit his own temperament without really violating it, '' noting that the film was thoroughly Spanish and Catholic in its tone while still highly faithful to Brontë. Yoshishige Yoshida 's 1988 adaptation also has a transposed setting, this time in medieval Japan. In Yoshida 's version, the Heathcliff character, Onimaru, is raised in a nearby community of priests who worship a local fire god. In 2003, MTV produced a poorly reviewed version set in a modern California high school. The 1966 Indian film Dil Diya Dard Liya is based upon this novel. The film is directed by Abdul Rashid Kardar and Dilip Kumar. The film stars the thespian Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Pran, Rehman, Shyama and Johnny Walker. The music is by the legendary composer Naushad. Although it did not fare as well as other movies of Dilip Kumar, it was well received by critics. The novel has been popular in opera and theatre, including operas written by Bernard Herrmann, Carlisle Floyd, and Frédéric Chaslin ( most cover only the first half of the book ) and a musical by Bernard J. Taylor. In 2011, a graphic novel version was published by Classical Comics, and stays close to the original novel. It was adapted by Scottish 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. Works inspired Wind & Wuthering 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 eighteen 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 deeply affected Bush in her teenage years. The song is sung from Catherine 's point of view as she pleads at Heathcliff 's window to be admitted. It uses quotations from Catherine, both in the chorus ( `` Let me in ! I 'm so cold ! '' ) and the verses, with Catherine 's admitting she had `` bad dreams in the night. '' Critic Sheila Whiteley wrote that the ethereal quality of the vocal resonates with Cathy 's dementia, and that Bush 's high register has both `` childlike qualities in its purity of tone '' and an `` underlying eroticism in its sinuous erotic contours. '' Pat Benatar covered this song on her 1980 album Crimes of Passion, and so did Angra on their 1993 debut Angels Cry. Wind & Wuthering ( 1976 ) by English rock band Genesis alludes to the Brontë novel not only in the album 's title but also in the titles of two of its tracks, `` Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers... '' and ``... In That Quiet Earth ''. Both titles refer to the closing lines in the novel. Songwriter Jim Steinman said he wrote the song `` It 's All Coming Back To Me Now '' `` while under the influence of Wuthering Heights. '' He said the song was `` about being enslaved and obsessed by love '' and compared it to `` Heathcliffe digging up Kathy 's corpse and dancing with it in the cold moonlight. '' The song `` Cath '' by indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie was inspired by Wuthering Heights. The poem `` Wuthering '' ( 2017 ) by Tanya Grae uses Wuthering Heights as an allegory. Maryse Condé 's Windward Heights ( La migration des coeurs, published in 1995 ; English translation published in 1998 ) is a reworking of Wuthering Heights set in Cuba and Guadaloupe at the turn of the 20th century, which Condé stated she intended as an homage to Brontë. Mizumura Minae 's A True Novel ( Honkaku shosetsu, published in 2002 by Shinchosha ; English translation by Juliet Winters Carpenter published by Other Press in 2013 ) is inspired by Wuthering Heights and might be called an adaptation of the story in a post-World War II Japanese setting. In Jane Urquhart 's Changing Heaven, the novel Wuthering Heights as well as the ghost of Emily Brontë feature as prominent roles in the narrative. The song `` Cover My Eyes ( Pain and Heaven ) '' by the band Marillion includes the line, `` Like the girl in the novel in the wind on the moors ''. Notes References Jump up ^ Wuthering Heights. Jump up ^ `` Wuthering Heights : Publication & Contemporary CriticalReception ''. Jump up ^ `` Later Critical Response to Wuthering Heights ''. Academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu. 4 March 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2010. Jump up ^ `` Excerpts from Contemporary Reviews ''. Academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu. 4 March 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2010. Jump up ^ `` ' ' Wuthering Heights ' ' : Publication & Contemporary Critical Reception ''. Academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu. 4 March 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2010. Jump up ^ `` Full text of `` Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham, 1854 -- 1870 '' ``. Jump up ^ Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth - Century Imagination. New Haven : Yale UP, 2000. Jump up ^ Harley, James ( 1958 ). `` The Villain in Wuthering Heights '' ( PDF ) : 17. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2010. Jump up ^ Oates, Joyce Carol. `` The Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights '', Critical Inquiry, 1983 Jump up ^ Moers, Ellen. Literary Women : The Great Writers ( 1976 ) ( London : The Women 's Press, 1978 ) Jump up ^ Beauvais, Jennifer. `` Domesticity and the Female Demon in Charlotte Dacre 's Zofloya and Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights '', Romanticism on the Net, Numéro 44, novembre 2006, DOI : 10.7202 / 013999ar Jump up ^ Cristina Ceron, Christina. `` Emily and Charlotte Brontë 's Re-reading of the Byronic hero '', Revue LISA / LISA e-journal ( Online ), Writers, writings, Literary studies, document 2, 9 March 2010, DOI : 10.4000 / lisa. 3504 Jump up ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SIRe5dJULv8C&pg=PA70&dq=Wuthering+Heights+%2B+vampire&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwje6PnDgenWAhUKbBoKHT6WAFoQ6AEIVzAJ#v=onepage&q=Wuthering%20Heights%20%2B%20vampire&f=false Jump up ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RdqOAb5NA5wC&pg=PA78&dq=Wuthering+Heights+%2B+vampire&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVvfG3_-jWAhUG0xoKHfp9BLQQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=Wuthering%20Heights%20%2B%20vampire&f=false Jump up ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=C47uBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA25&dq=Wuthering+Heights+%2B+vampire&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwje6PnDgenWAhUKbBoKHT6WAFoQ6AEINDAC#v=onepage&q=Wuthering%20Heights%20%2B%20vampire&f=false Jump up ^ `` Wuthering heights. A novel ''. Jump up ^ `` Wuthering heights. A novel ''. Jump up ^ Irene Wiltshire : Speech in Wuthering Heights Archived 2 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine. ^ Jump up to : Paul Thompson ( June 2009 ). `` Wuthering Heights : The Home of the Earnshaws ''. Retrieved 11 October 2009. Jump up ^ Paul Thompson ( June 2009 ). `` The Inspiration for the Wuthering Heights Farmhouse ? ''. Retrieved 11 October 2009. Jump up ^ Robert Barnard ( 2000 ) Emily Brontë Jump up ^ Ian Jack ( 1995 ) Explanatory Notes in Oxford World 's Classics edition of Wuthering Heights Jump up ^ Joudrey, Thomas J. `` ' Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run ' : Selfishness and Sociality in Wuthering Heights. '' Nineteenth - Century Literature 70.2 ( 2015 ) : 165 - 93. ^ Jump up to : `` How Wuthering Heights caused a critical stir when first published in 1847 ''. The Telegraph. 22 March 2011. 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Jump up ^ Tepper, Anderson ( 5 September 1999 ). `` Windward Heights ''. New York Times. Retrieved 10 October 2017. Jump up ^ Wolff, Rebecca. `` Maryse Condé ''. BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 10 October 2017. Jump up ^ Chira, Susan ( 13 December 2013 ). `` Strange Moors : ' A True Novel ' by Minae Mizuma ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 16 October 2016. Bibliography Editions Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights ( Oxford : Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1976 ) ISBN 0 - 19 - 812511 - 9. Edited with an introduction and notes by Ian Jack, Inga - Stina Ewbank, and Hilda Marsden. Works of criticism This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cousin, John William ( 1910 ). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London : J.M. Dent & Sons. Wikisource ' Law of the Moors ' essay External links Wikisource has original text related to this article : Wuthering Heights Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wuthering Heights. 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Wuthering Heights public domain audiobook at LibriVox Reader 's Guide to Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights voted UK 's favourite love story, Guardian Brontë sisters Charlotte Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) Shirley ( 1849 ) Villette ( 1853 ) The Professor ( 1857 ) Emily Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ) Anne Agnes Grey ( 1847 ) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 1848 ) Collaborative work Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell ( 1846 ) List of Brontë poems Family Patrick Brontë Maria Branwell Branwell Brontë Maria Brontë Elizabeth Brontë Arthur Bell Nicholls See also Brontë Country Brontë Parsonage Museum Brontë Waterfall Brontë Way Cowan Bridge School Constantin Héger Ellen Nussey Gondal Brontë ( 2005 play ) Victorian literature Book Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights Characters Heathcliff Catherine Earnshaw Edgar Linton Isabella Linton Hindley Earnshaw Nelly Dean Hareton Earnshaw Catherine Linton Lockwood Adaptations Film and TV 1920 film 1939 film 1948 BBC TV film 1953 BBC TV film 1954 film 1959 Australian TV play Dil Diya Dard Liya ( 1966 ) 1964 telenovela 1970 film 1976 telenovela 1978 TV serial 1979 telenovela Hurlevent 1988 film Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights ( 1992 ) 1998 film 2003 film 2009 TV serial 2011 film Stage 1951 Herrmann opera 1958 Floyd opera 1992 musical Heathcliff ( 1996 musical ) Related Location Cultural references VIAF : 179440625 LCCN : no00002947 GND : 4136057 - 6 SELIBR : 217405 BNF : cb12034945g ( data ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wuthering_Heights&oldid=834456636 '' Categories : Wuthering Heights 1847 British novels 1840s fantasy novels Debut novels Gothic novels Victorian novels British novels adapted into films Novels by Emily Brontë Suicide in fiction Novels adapted into television programs Novels set in Yorkshire Works published under a pseudonym Novels set in the 18th century Fiction with unreliable narrators Frame stories Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Use British English from September 2013 Use dmy dates from June 2017 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from March 2017 Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Articles with Project Gutenberg links Articles with LibriVox links Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Wikisource Afrikaans Azərbaycanca Български Bosanski Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Eesti Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Euskara فارسی Français Galego 贛 語 한국어 Հայերեն Hrvatski Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית Кыргызча Latviešu Magyar Македонски മലയാളം مصرى Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Norsk nynorsk ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Polski Português Română Русский Simple English Slovenščina Српски / srpski Suomi Svenska Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt 粵語 中文 40 more Edit links This page was last edited on 5 April 2018, at 20 : 48. 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Question: in wuthering heights what is the first name of miss earnshaw
Answer: Catherine