Wuthering Heights

’It still has the ability to shock’: Why ’masterpiece’ Wuthering Heights is so misunderstood

2026-02-05 02:30:00 UTC

Ever since it was published in the mid-19th Century, Emily Brontë’s tale of passionate love and ruthless revenge has captivated fans and confounded critics in equal measure.

‘Wuthering Heights’ First Reactions: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s Chemistry Is a ‘Whole Other Level of Hot’ in a ’Bodice-Ripping Crowd-Pleaser

2026-02-05 02:30:00 UTC

First reactions are calling 'Wuthering Heights' a 'bodice-ripping crowd-pleaser' that is 'destined to be a massive hit.'

Is Wuthering Heights worth watching? First reactions land for Margot Robbie adaptation

2026-02-05 02:30:00 UTC

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi star as Cathy and Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s erotic adaptation of Emily Brontë’s iconic novel.

Wuthering_Heights

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 extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons; and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' ethnically uncertain foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession, revenge and reconciliation, the novel, influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction, is considered a classic of English literature.

Wuthering Heights was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey before the success of their sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, but they were published later. The first American edition was published in April 1848 by Harper & Brothers of New York. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights, which was published in 1850.