Wuthering Heights (fictional location)
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Wuthering Heights is a fictional location in
The first description of Wuthering Heights is provided by Mr Lockwood, a tenant at the Grange and one of the two primary narrators:
Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling, "wuthering" being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed. One may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house, and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.
— [1]
Possible inspiration
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Many Gothic houses and manors have claimed or had claimed for them the title of Brontë's inspiration in creating the Heights. The best known of these is
See also
- Brontë Parsonage Museum, home of the Brontë family
References
- Dexter, Gary: "How Wuthering Heights got its name" (The Daily Telegraph, 12 September 2008).
- Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics, 1998).
Notes
- ^ Brontë 1998, p. 2.
- ^ "Todmorden & District News". Todmorden & District News. 26 May 1893. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
- ^ Dexter 2008. The latter is actually synonymous with "willows": as Dexter notes, "it seems that Emily was inspired by nothing less than the wind in the willows".