Wuthering Heights (song) 18, within a few hours late at night on 5 March 1977. She was inspired after seeing the 1967 BBC adaptation of the 1847 novel "Wuthering Heights". She then read the book and discovered that she shared her birthday with author Emily Brontë. "Wuthering Heights" is sung from the perspective of the "Wuthering Heights" character Catherine Earnshaw, pleading at Heathcliff's window to be allowed in. It quotes Catherine's dialogue, including the chorus lyric "Let me in! I'm so cold!" and "bad dreams in the night". Critic Simon Reynolds described it as "Gothic romance distilled into four-and-a-half minutes of gaseous rhapsody".
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) it to the Birmingham stage in 1998. Masterpiece Theatre presented a 2009 two-part series of "Wuthering Heights" starring English actor Tom Hardy as Heathcliff. In this version, the second-generation characters play a key role, and the telling of the story begins and ends with them. In 2011, director Andrea Arnold directed a film adaptation starring James Howson as Heathcliff. "Wuthering Heights", a single from Kate Bush's 1978 debut album, "The Kick Inside", is told from the perspective of a ghostly Catherine Earnshaw visiting an aged Heathcliff. Australian actor Heath Ledger and his sister were named after Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.