Ponden Hall Ponden Hall Ponden Hall is a farmhouse near Stanbury in West Yorkshire, England. It is famous for reputedly being the inspiration for Thrushcross Grange, the home of the Linton family, Edgar, Isabella, and Cathy, in Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights". However, it does not match the description given in the novel and is closer in size and appearance to the farmhouse of Wuthering Heights itself. The Brontë biographer Winifred Gerin believed that Ponden Hall was the original of Wildfell Hall, the old mansion where Helen Graham, the protagonist of Anne Brontë's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", fled from her husband.
Brontë family she still acted out scenes from the little books with Anne while travelling on the train to York. "Remembrance" was one of the 21 of Emily's poems that were chosen for the 1846 joint publication before which, Emily had deleted all references to "Gondal". Anne was not as celebrated as her other two sisters. Her second novel, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", was prevented from being republished after Anne's death by her sister Charlotte, who wrote to her publisher that "Wildfell Hall it hardly appears to me desirable to preserve. The choice of subject in that work is a mistake,