Emily Brontë and devotion. To other people's failings she was understanding and forgiving, but over herself she kept a continual and most austere watch, never allowing herself to deviate for one instant from what she considered her duty." Emily Brontë has often been characterised as a devout if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic and a visionary "mystic of the moors". Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was first published in London in 1847 by Thomas Cautley Newby, appearing as the first two volumes of a three-volume set that included Anne Brontë's "Agnes Grey". The authors were printed as being Ellis and Acton Bell; Emily's
Wuthering Heights 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