Emily Brontë is known primarily for Wuthering Heights, a novel set on the Yorkshire moors and built around the destructive relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. The story is told through layered narrators, beginning with outsider Mr Lockwood and moving into housekeeper Nelly Dean's account of two neighbouring families across two generations. Rather than functioning as a straightforward romance, the novel deals in obsession, revenge, inheritance, social position and the damage passed from parents to children. Its isolated houses, violent weather and supernatural suggestions give it a strong gothic atmosphere, while the structure requires readers to piece events together through partial accounts. Brontë also wrote poetry, much of it concerned with solitude, imagination and landscape. Her work sits within Victorian fiction, gothic fiction and nineteenth-century classics alongside Charlotte Brontë and Thomas Hardy. Read more Less
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