Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Emily Brontë: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Wuthering Heights

Appendix A: A Selection of Emily Brontë’s Essays and Poems

1. [“The Cat”]
2. [“Portrait: King Harold before the Battle of Hastings”]
3. [“The Butterfly”]
4. Poems
1. “Faith and Despondency”
2. “Stars”
3. “The Philosopher”
4. “Remembrance”
5. “Song”
6. “Anticipation”
7. “To A.G.A.”
8. [“No Coward Soul”]

Appendix B: Some Literary Influences

1. From George Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred (1817)
2. From Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

Appendix C: Currer Bell’s [Charlotte Brontë’s] Prefatory Essays for the 1850 Edition of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey

1. Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell
2. Editor’s Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights

Appendix D: Contemporary Responses to the Novel

1. The Spectator (December 1847)
2. The Athenaeum (25 December 1847)
3. Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
4. Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper (15 January 1848)
5. The Examiner (8 January 1848)
6. The Britannia (15 January 1848)
7. The Atlas (22 January 1848)
8. Peterson’s Magazine (June 1848)
9. The American Review (June 1848)
10. The Palladium (September 1850)
11. The Examiner (21 December 1850)
12. The Leader (28 December 1850)

Appendix E: On Geographical Remoteness and Cultural Difference

1. From William Howitt, The Rural Life of England (1838)
2. From Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)
3. William Wordsworth, “Gipsies” (1807)

Appendix F: On “Brain Fever”

Appendix G:Women in Marriage

Appendix H: Maps

Appendix I: Genealogical Table of the Earnshaw and Linton Families

Works Cited and Select Bibliography