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
Wuthering Heights (2009 TV serial) serial received a generally mixed response from critics. Metacritic denotes the average US rating as 54/100, which represents "mixed or average reviews". In the UK, Kathryn Flett of "The Observer" began by asserting that ""Wuthering Heights" is a nightmare for a film-maker", with "too many characters to make a streamlined narrative" and "annoying" protagonists. Nevertheless she found herself "[enjoying] this edited-highlights version of the Heights, directed with flair by Coky Giedroyc". She also praised Tom Hardy in the role of Heathcliff, how he managed to convincingly make the character "thoroughly dangerous to know in all the right ways, entirely capable