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The Victim of Revenge-----On Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
I The Brief Introduction
The Brief Introduction to the Author
The Wuthering Heights is the only novel of English woman writer Emily Bronte. It was published in 1848.①And the writer Emily Bronte was born on July 30,1818, at Thornton in Yorkshire, the fifth of six children of Patrick and Maria Bronte. Two years of her birth, her father was appointed curate of Haworth, an isolated village on the moors. In 1821, shortly after Emily’s third birthday, her mother died of cancer. In 1824, Emily and her three sisters were sent to Cowan Bridge School, a school for daughters of impoverished clergymen. The conditions were harsh and an epidemic soon broke out, taking the life of her two elder sisters. Charlotte became very ill as well, and she and Emily were sent home. During the following years at Howarth, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, along with their brother Branwell, had a great deal of freedom to explore the surrounding countryside. The lonely purple moors became one of the most shaping forces in Emily’s life. And her father’s bookshelf offered a variety of reading.
In 1835, Emily went to the Roe Head School where Charlotte was then teaching. Emily managed to stay only three months before her nerve became too frazzled and she had to go home. Emily found a teaching job at Law Hill School in September 1838. Though she managed to do all right in her first term, her health broke under the stress and she returned home around April 1839. In 1842, Charlotte dragged Emily to a school in Brussls. Emily did well but made no friends, as was typical for her. She went back home as soon as she possibly could. Emily begins writing poems at an early age and published twenty-one of them, together with poem by Anne and Charlotte, in 1846. The slim volume was title pomes by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Only two copies were sold, and the failure led all three to begin work on novels, Emily on Wuthering heights. In 184