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Title page of Wuthering Heights (1847) Emily BrontĂ« published her novel Wuthering Heights under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. In a later edition her sister Charlotte BrontĂ« (pseudonym Currer Bell) explained that the sisters chose male pen names because they had “a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice.”

Wuthering Heights

novel by Brontë
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In 1847 English author Emily BrontĂ« published the novel Wuthering Heights under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Intense, solidly imagined, and poetic, the book centers on the passionate and destructive relationship between two lovers: the willful Catherine Earnshaw and the vengeful Heathcliff. With its theme of obsessive love, Wuthering Heights is sometimes classified as a romance, but its brooding descriptions of nature and ghost-story elements make it classic Gothic fiction. Brontë’s only novel (she died of...

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