Questions tagged [emily-bronte]
Questions about the English novelist and poet Emily Jane Brontë (1818 – 1848) and her works. She used the pseudonym Ellis Bell and is best known for her novel Wuthering Heights.
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"sud more likker" - how to parse this?
I recently had a non-native English speaker ask me for help understanding this passage from Wuthering Heights:
'Have you found Heathcliff, you ass?' interrupted Catherine. 'Have you been looking for ...
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Paragraph from Wuthering Heights: "Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold..."
Wuthering Heights, beginning of chapter 2.
Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend
it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to
Wuthering Heights. On ...
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What was the ethnicity of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights?
Though he was brought home by Mr. Earnshaw following a journey to Liverpool, there is no definitive answer to his ethnicity. Liverpool by 1740 had surpassed Bristol and London as the slave-trading ...
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What is the metre of "High Waving Heather" by Emily Bronte?
I really like "High Waving Heather" by E. Bronte:
High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending,
Midnight and moonlight and bright shining stars,
Darkness and glory rejoicingly blending,
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Complicated name features in Wuthering Heights
In Wuthering Heights, Catherine Earnshaw and her daughter Catherine Linton constantly change their names and created confusion as to who is who. And you would all have read the part where Lockwood ...
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Was Heathcliff intentionally made a Byronic Hero?
It is often said that Heathcliff makes for the perfect example for a Byronic Hero. Did Emily Brontë purposely write him that way?
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