Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Bronte, initially published in 1847 under her pen
name "Ellis Bell". 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. The novel was
influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.
Wuthering Heights is now widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, but
contemporaneous reviews were polarised. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty,
including domestic abuse, and for its challenges to Victorian morality, religion, and the class system.
After Emily's death, Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights, which was published in 1850.It has inspired an array of adaptations across several media, including English singer-songwriter Kate Bush's song of the same name.