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 (fictional location) Wuthering Heights is provided by Mr Lockwood, a tenant at the Grange and one of the two primary narrators: Many Gothic houses and manors have claimed or had claimed for them the title of Brontë's inspiration in creating the Heights. The most well-known of these is Top Withens, a local Elizabethan farmhouse which Brontë's biographer Winifred Gérin seems to favour primarily because of its name: the word "Top" suggests "Heights", while "Withens" sounds very much like "Wuthering". Wuthering Heights (fictional location) Wuthering Heights is a fictional location in Emily Brontë's novel of the same name. A dark and unsightly place,