Guide Note: Wuthering Heights is the only novel written by Emily Brontë that was first published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. A posthumous edition was edited by Charlotte that included some biographical notes in addition to some of Emily's poems.
Fast Facts:
- Author: Emily Brontë
- Publication date: 1847
- Publisher: Thomas C. Newby
- Narrator: Third person
- Setting: Late decades of the 18th century, Yorkshire moors
- Tense: Past-tense
- Themes: clash of elemental forces; clash of economic interests and social classes; striving for transcendence; abusive patriachal structure of society; self imposed comfinement and escape; exile; revenge; supernatural events