ganicnlr the moors. Bearing, comparaon, 3h OT ariel 56 cquciey ana. passion and with Shakers tran) $04 re power, Wuthering Heights sands 28 for is imagine erature. D. G. Rosset called ithe fet own in Engh oe a ae, aod he Dest (0 Fegards POW oss found style) for 0 aes vecadere may also find the following books of Rrere Reade the Dronas: The Great Heritage 136!) islam Duronter Wuthering Heights: A Selection of and Emily Boney teawara -chivbarn, A Life of Pm seal as So Trcery Eagleton, Myths of Powe, 2375 Brows GORD) fly Broneé (3992); Winitced Goo Karherine EE Ceoyy lance Geri (es Compre Peer Baily Brome ad ogy Muriel Spas aad DeTek Su oi A Brent Her Life and Work 960% ANF; ford, Emit Rn Symington (eae), The Bromés: Their Wise and aps and Correspondences (3932) PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS WUTHERING HEIGHTS EMILY BRONTE © PENGUIN BOOKSW932 Penouin Porutan Crassics WUTHERING HEIGHTS Enity BRonre (1818-48). Rest known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, anda collection of scvivieg ocr, she remains one of the most intensely original snd Dassionate voices in English lveraturs, “Emily Bronte was born in Thorncon, Yorkshire, in 1818 and moved to Haworth when her father was made Perpetual curate there. "The following year her mother, Maria Branwell, died, leaving five daughters and sor who were looked after by their mother's sister Elizabeth, Emily's father became very solitary and her aunt proved extremely strict, often loaving the children alone for mucs of the time in this somewhat bleak parsonage, Fmily's two tldest sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, died in childhood, Yo lowing a stay at Cowan Bridge School, the model fo Lowood in Charlotte Bronts's Jane Eyre. To emus theese sclves the Bront® children created fantasy worlds based on reading from # wide range of sources, Emily and Anne created Gondal, an imaginary Kingdom for which they wrote annals and journals, which tnforrunately have: not survived. Emily brietly attended the school at Cowan Bridge, but was wretched and homesick for Flaworth sl the Yorkshire moors, and returned home after only three ‘months. She became 4 governess in Halifax but planned with Charlotte to set up & school t Haworth, and cogether they went to the Pensionaat Negeri Brussels 09 meses ‘heir qualifications. Erily returned home on the death of her aunt in 1842 and remained there for the rest of het ite, Her posms were discovered by Charlotte fn the and Published in a joint volume entitled Poems by Curren Et and Acton Bell Icincluded the pieces on which her Feput. ation asa fine poet now rests: "Fo Imagination’, ‘Plead for Me" and ‘Last Lines". Emally Bronte died from fuberca. losis in 1848, only a few monthe after the enth of ber brother, Bramwell, Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 under the ‘preudonym of Elis Well ef uniquely poetic and displays Emily's profound love of the Yorkshire landscapes anc inrgd nent scrote A vows elena ve rapant tii home sentria ae La Raed sce: Haraanaet Muss East sepa 847 ‘pte in enn Foir Ci #904 encima Hy Cys Li Se 00 Be pet Sure Aner tinbnklamst al ey wey of ado tw ed Sac BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE oF ELLIS AND ACTON BELL 1 has been thought that all the works published under the name: ‘of Curter, Elis, and Acton Dell, were i realty, dhe production of Sneperson, This mistake I endeavoured to rectify by afew words ‘oF elcaimer prefixed to the third edition of "Jane Eyre.” These, too, it appears filed to gaia general credence, apd now, on the Sceision of a reprint of" Wathering Heights” I am advised ‘Sissncly to state how the case really stand. Tndeet 1 feel myself that tis me the obscurity attending tose two names-Elle and Acton—was done sway. The litle Imystery, which formerly yielded some harmless pleasure, has lost Iie interes circumerances are changed. Te becomes, then, my Gay to explain briefly the origin and authorship of dhe books ‘woten by Curzer, Ellis, end Acton Bell. "About five years ago, my two sisters and myself, after a some- wliae prolonged period Of separation, found ourselves reunitedy Undathomes Resident in a remote district, where education had madeline progress, and where, consequently, there. Was no Incducement to seek aocial intercourse beyond our own domestic rele, we were wholly dependent on ouraclves and each other, 08 book and smd, forthe enjoyments snd occupations of ife. The highese stimulus, as well ax the liveliest pleasure we had known from childhood upwards, lay in attempts at erary compositions formerly we used to show each othee what we wro%s but of Late yeu thin habit oF comsiunication and consultation had been ‘scontinueds ence it enmved that we were mutualy ignorant of the progress we might respectively have made. ‘One day, in the aumumin of 1845, T accidentally lighted on a MS. volume of vee in my slower Emily's handweiing. Of ‘course, I wat not surprised, knowiag that she could and did ‘write verse’ I looked fe over, and something more than surprise fciaed me-—a deep conviction dat these Were nos common elfar ‘ons, nor ar all ike the poetry women generally wiite. I thoughe