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Facts about Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Initially, Wuthering Heights received mixed and often hostile reviews from critics, who found its dark themes and morally ambiguous characters deeply unsettling.
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Wuthering Heights was Emily Brontë's only novel, making it one of literature's most celebrated single-work legacies.
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Set on the Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights spans two generations of two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, across roughly three decades.
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The novel is narrated primarily through Nelly Dean, a housekeeper, and Lockwood, a tenant, giving it a distinctive frame narrative structure.
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Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847 under the male pseudonym Ellis Bell, as was common for female authors of the era.