Notes for this side chat
On Wuthering Heights, Lily calls it ‘a study in unhappiness’ and ‘obsession without desire’
Did Emily Bronte have any relationship?
Research:
Dorothy Porter – Australian poet and writer – said Somerset Maugham speculated Emily Bronte had a disastrous love at boarding school and ‘fed off it for the rest of her life’
Irish Times said of Emily: ‘no, never married, seemed not to have had any romantic attachments’
Correction: Charlotte Bronte did marry: the church’s assistant curate Arthur Bell Nicholls
Jenny question: was Heathcliff a character based on Bramwell?
Heathcliff, according to the New York Times, was based on Welsh Brunty, Patrick Bronte’s adoptive grandfather. (Patrick Brunty/Bronte was Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Bramwell’s father)
Elizabeth Gaskell – arguably the foremost authority on the Brontes, said ‘Bramwell was model for Heathcliff, Rochester and Huntingdon’ (The Conversation)
Correction: Jenny says she thinks some people think Heathcliff exhumed Catherine's body and had sex with her, but she Googled and could find no references to this. She will keep trying because she's sure she ‘saw it somewhere’...
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