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The Brontës' Scribble Mania

"…scarcely one chapter had escaped a pen-and-ink commentary."

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Jillian Hess
Feb 09, 2026
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You’d be forgiven for thinking Wuthering Heights is a great love story if you only experienced it as a film.

If, however, you read Wuthering Heights—Emily Brontë’s novel—you will know that it is something else entirely: haunting, gruesome, and terribly violent—I can’t imagine a more dysfunctional and unsatisfying romance than the one shared by Brontë’s …

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