Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, 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. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.

Set in

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  Yorkshire · United Kingdom
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  Top Withens · United Kingdom

  Popularly identified real-world model for the farmhouse Wuthering Heights
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  Haworth · United Kingdom

  village model for Gimmerton
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  Ponden Kirk · United Kingdom

  rock outcrop model for Penistone Crag
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• Ponden Hall · United Kingdom

  Reputed real-world inspiration for Thrushcross Grange; Emily Brontë was a frequent visitor