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Introduction Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Bronte, is one of the greatest curiosities, as it is one of the greatest masterpieces of literature. However, upon the first appearance of the novel, “it was much neglected and regarded as a naive fantasy by a young writer.” Not until 1950s did it begin to be highly valued and recently the western critics have exalted it as the greatest novel of the Victorian age. Emily Bronte is an English novelist. She was born in 1818, and shared one parsonage with her elder sister, Charlotte, her brother Branwell, her younger sister, Anne, her father, the Reverend Patrick Bronte, and her aunt, who raised the Bronte children after their mother died. The Brontes lived in Haworth, a Yorkshire village in the midst of the moors. These wild, desolate expanses — later the setting of Wuthering Heights — made up the Brontes’ daily environment. Emily Bronte was perhaps the greatest writer of the three Bronte sisters, and she also was the most solitary member of a unique, tightly knit. Her sister Charlotte Bronte once commented on her: “Stronger than a man, Simple than a child, her nature stood?alone.” At the beginning, Emily Bronte writes some pomes and which were come across by Charlotte Bronte. At her sister’s urging, Emily’s poems were published along with Charlotte’s and Anne’s in 1846. In order to avoid the social prejudice of women, they used pseudonym Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. An almost complete silence greeted this volume, but the three sisters, buoyed by the fact of publication, immediately began to write novels. Emily’s effort Wuthering Heights appeared in 1847, but at that time it was not well received by the reading public, many of them condemned it as a book full of paganism thought and mental abnormality, and they also condemned it as a sordid, vulgar, and unnatural novel which should be renamed “Withering Heights”. Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure. It was not until 1850, w