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 families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.
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.
Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the 1939 film Wuthering Heights
Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.
The only undisputed portrait of Brontë, from a group portrait by her brother Branwell, c. 1834
Emily's Gondal poems
Constantin Héger, teacher of Charlotte and Emily during their stay in Brussels, on a daguerreotype dated c. 1865
Portrait painted by Branwell Brontë in 1833; sources are in disagreement over whether this image is of Emily or Anne.