Wuthering Heights
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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
“My greatest thought is living in Heathcliff, if all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be...Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure....but as my own being.”
Wuthering Heights Goodreads page.
Wuthering Heights was published in December 1847 and published by Thomas Cautley Newby, it was initially published under the pseudonym 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 Earnshaw's adopted son Heathcliff.
I was given Wuthering Heights for my birthday from my husband, and the book is one of those classics that I tend to struggle to read in full. However I love the book for its show of complicated relationships and the fine line between love and hate. I do recommend the book for those who do love the classics and give it a 6/10.
Many early reviews of Wuthering Heights were mixed in their assessment. Most critics recognised the power and imagination of the novel, but were baffled by the storyline. It was considered controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty and for its challenges to Victorian morality, religious and societal values.
Graham's Lady Magazine wrote:
“How a human being could have attempted such a book as the present without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery. It is a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors.”
The American Whig Review wrote:
Respecting a book so original as this, and written with so much power of imagination. It is natural that there should be many opinions. Indeed, it's power is so predominant that it is not easy after hasty reading to analyse one's impressions so as to speak of its merits and demerits with confidence. We have been taken and carried through a new region, a melancholy waste, with here and there patches of beauty; have been brought in contact with fierce passions, with extremes of love and hate, and with sorrow that none but those who have suffered can understand. This has not been accomplished to eradicate his provincialism by taking lessons of a London footman. We have had many sad bruises and tumbles in our journey, yet it was interesting, and at length we are safely arrived at a happy conclusion.”
A year after Emily Bronte's death Wuthering Heights had a second edition released and went onto inspire an array of adaptions across several media's, including a Hit song.
Emily Jane Bronte was born on July 30th 1818 in Thorton Yorkshire, the third of four siblings who would go on to become Novelists and poets, Emily was born between her sister Anne and her brother Branwell. Wuthering Heights is Emily's only novel and is considered a classic of English Literature. Emily would however publish a book of poetry alongside her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Emily Bronte later died at 30 on December 19th 1848 in Haworth, Yorkshire.
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