It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moorsthe Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff.
It was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. Wuthering Heights is now considered a classic of English literature, but contemporaneous reviews were polarised. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, and for its challenges to Victorian moralityand religious and societal values. Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights after Emily's death which was published in InMr Lockwoodthe new tenant at Thrushcross Grange in Yorkshirepays a visit to his landlord, Heathcliffat his remote moorland farmhouse, Wuthering Heights.
There he meets a reserved young woman later identified as Cathy Linton ; Joseph, a cantankerous servant; and Hareton, an uneducated young man who speaks like a servant.
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Everyone is sullen and inhospitable. Snowed in for the night, he reads some diary entries of a former inhabitant of his room, Catherine Earnshaw, and has a nightmare in Jsne a ghostly Catherine begs to enter through Jane Eyre s Inner Conflict window.
Woken by Lockwood, Heathcliff is troubled. Lockwood falls ill from his walk in the snow and becomes bedridden after he returns to Thrushcross Grange. As he recovers, Lockwood's housekeeper Ellen Nelly Dean tells him the story of the strange family. Thirty years earlier, the Earnshaws live at Wuthering Heights with their children, Hindley and Catherine, and a servant — Nelly herself.
Returning from a trip to LiverpoolEarnshaw brings a young orphan whom he names Heathcliff and treats as his favourite. His own children he neglects, especially after his wife dies. Hindley beats Heathcliff, who gradually becomes close friends with Catherine.
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Hindley departs for university, returning as the new master of Wuthering Heights on the death Jans his father three years later. He and his new wife Frances allow Heathcliff to stay, but only as a servant. Catherine is attacked by their dog, and the Lintons take her in, sending Heathcliff home.]
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