His own children he neglects, especially after his wife dies. Earnshaw treats the boy as his favourite. Returning from a trip to Liverpool, Earnshaw brings home a young orphan whom he names Heathcliff. Thirty years earlier, the Earnshaws live at Wuthering Heights with their children, Hindley and Catherine, and a servant-Nelly herself. While he recovers, Lockwood's housekeeper Ellen 'Nelly' Dean tells him the story of the strange family. Lockwood later returns to Thrushcross Grange in heavy snow, falls ill from the cold and becomes bedridden. Awakened by Lockwood's fearful yells, Heathcliff is troubled. Snowed in for the night, Lockwood reads the diary of the former inhabitant of his room, Catherine Earnshaw, and has a nightmare in which a ghostly Catherine begs to enter through the window. There he meets a reserved young woman (later identified as Cathy Linton), Joseph, a cantankerous servant, and Hareton, an uneducated young man who speaks like a servant.

In 1801, Mr Lockwood, the new tenant at Thrushcross Grange in Yorkshire, pays a visit to his landlord, Heathcliff, at his remote moorland farmhouse, Wuthering Heights. It has inspired an array of adaptations across several media, including English singer-songwriter Kate Bush's song of the same name. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights, which was published in 1850. Wuthering Heights was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey before the success of their sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, but they were published later. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, including domestic abuse, and for its challenges to Victorian morality and religious and societal values. Wuthering Heights is now widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, but contemporaneous reviews were polarised. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. 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. Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under her pen name 'Ellis Bell'.

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