ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under her pen name 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 the Earnshaws’ foster son, Heathcliff .

Detailed explanation-2: -Wuthering Heights is also a social novel about class structure in society as well as a treatise on the role of women. Brontë illustrates how class mobility is not always moving in one direction. For Catherine, representing a lower class, social class plays a major role when deciding to get married.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was published in 1847 under her pseudonym “Ellis Bell".

Detailed explanation-4: -Best-known for her novel Wuthering Heights (1847), Emily Brontë also wrote over 200 poems which her sister Charlotte Brontë thought had ‘a peculiar music – wild, melancholy, and elevating’.

Detailed explanation-5: -Wuthering Heights, which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, seemed to hold little promise when it was published in 1847, selling very poorly and receiving only a few mixed reviews.