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
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) on the streets of Liverpool and raised by the Earnshaw family of "Wuthering Heights" in Yorkshire, Heathcliff's past and early childhood before his mysterious adoption are only hinted at by Brontë. In keeping with the supernatural themes present in the novel, it is speculated that Heathcliff might be a demon or a hellish soul. His appearance would be faithfully interpreted as resembling a Roma, or Gypsy. He becomes a gentleman "in dress and aspect." Mrs. Ellen Dean states that he could be a "little Lascar or American castaway." A silent and at first solitary child, Heathcliff is initially resented by