Wuthering Heights 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 version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850. Although "Wuthering Heights" is now a classic of English literature, contemporary reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of
Lockwood (Wuthering Heights) Lockwood (Wuthering Heights) Mr. Lockwood is one of three narrators in Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights", the others being Nelly Dean and Isabella, if one so chooses to include her letter. He is an effete English gentleman who arrives on the Yorkshire moors for a retreat from city life, and spends most of his recorded time there listening to Nelly's biography of Heathcliff, the landlord in whose affairs he has taken a peculiar interest: Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gypsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman, that