Moorland
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Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas in temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands and the biomes of montane grasslands and shrublands, characterised by low-growing vegetati
Extensive moorland in the Desert of Wales
Heather moorland on the North York Moors mainly consisting of Calluna vulgaris
Moorland of Kilimanjaro
Dartmoor in winter covered in snow. Several tors top the sparsely vegetated hills.
Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name Ellis Bell. It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning familie
Moorland
…landscape. Moorland forms the setting of various works of late Romantic English literature, ranging from the Yorkshire moorland in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett to Dartmoor in Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmesian mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles. They are also…
Title page of the first edition, 1847
The climb to ruined farmhouse Top Withens, thought to have inspired the Earnshaws' home in Wuthering Heights
High Sunderland Hall in 1818, shortly before Emily Brontë saw the building.
Diana Vernon from Walter Scott's Rob Roy, painted by John Everett Millais (1880)