Wuthering Heights author Hilary Scharper's ecogothic novel "Perdita" (2013) was deeply influenced by "Wuthering Heights," namely in terms of the narrative role of powerful, cruel and desolate landscapes.<ref>Bob Douglas, "The Eco-Gothic: Hilary Scharper's Perdita", "Critics at Large", 19 Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell". It was written between October 1845 and June 1846. "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
Wuthering Heights some of the changes Charlotte made. 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 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