Time and place written · In 1846–7, Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights in the parsonage of the isolated village of Haworth, in Yorkshire.
date of first publication · 1847
2006-11-13 03:14:38
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answered by johnslat 7
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Emily Bronte is a shadowy, enigmatic figure who lived a life of almost complete seclusion in Yorkshire parsonage. In her short life (1818-1848), she wrote a few poems of mystical ecstasy or impassioned romantic loneliness and died at the age of twenty nine, a year after the publication of the only novel, Wuthering Heights. Of what went to the making of the story, we know next to nothing. We know that she and her sisters (Charlotte and Anne Bronte), as children invented imaginary kingdoms of romance, and kept chronicles of these realms of fantasy, even when they were adult; we know that they read"mad Methodist magazines", full of dreams and frenzied fanaticism; we know that they had a brother who disappointed them all and who drank himself to death. but that is about all. Despite the fact that various biographers have tried to reconstruct the life of Emily to "explain" or elucidate the central mystery of the passion between Heathcliff and Catherine in Wuthering Heights, both the book and its creator remain mysterious. Even Emily's sister Charlotte, who loved her deeply, quite failed to understand her and her book as is evident from her introduction to the second edition of the book.
2006-11-13 03:38:13
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answered by goodbye 6
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Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights.
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Plot Overview
In the late winter months of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents a manor house called Thrushcross Grange in the isolated moor country of England. Here, he meets his dour landlord, Heathcliff, a wealthy man who lives in the ancient manor of Wuthering Heights, four miles away from the Grange. In this wild, stormy countryside, Lockwood asks his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him the story of Heathcliff and the strange denizens of Wuthering Heights. Nelly consents, and Lockwood writes down his recollections of her tale in his diary; these written recollections form the main part of Wuthering Heights.
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Kevin, Liverpool, England.
2006-11-13 06:48:38
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answered by Anonymous
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The book was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.
2006-11-13 10:55:26
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answered by lxsnorton 2
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