Birth of Wuthering Heights

EDWARD CHITHAM, Education Consultant for the National Association of Gifted Children, and Assistant Staff Tutor, Open University. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Jesus College, Cambridge. His previous work includes local history, The Black Country, a children's novel, Ghost in the Water, and many works on the Bront?s. He was for three years editor of Bront? Society Transactions and is also engaged in research into the life and work Felicia Hemans.

• Acknowledgements PART 1: EMILY BRONTE AND THE CRAFT OF LITERATURE Introduction Physical Conditions of Work Learning's Golden Mine Inspiration and Labour in Emily Brontë's Poetry Drafting, Correction and Fair Copy: Emily Brontë at Brussels Organisational Skill: the Poems from 1844 to 1846 PART 2: WUTHERING HEIGHTS Wuthering Heights : The Problem The First Phase The First Version: Adapting Gondal Autumn and Winter: After the Poem Revision The Development of the First Version Rejection and its Consequences: Return to Fictional Poetry The Development of Part Two The Three Housekeepers of Wuthering Heights Sculpting the Statue: A Proposed Chronology Objections and Implications PART 3: POSTSCRIPT Emily's Second Novel Notes Index

'Anagramatic exploration of names, scouring of maps and locations...a startling dexterity with dates, a breathtaking clarity in complexity are all displayed in what is nothing less than a tour-de-force. For all who continue to be intrigued by the mysteries of Emily Bronte's elusive genius, this is a book to be read at a sitting and then to keep to hand. It is a fine detective book and celebration of a poet-novelist-novelist-poet who, as her sister Charlotte tells us, was never afraid of hard work.' - Brian Wilks, Bronte Society Transactions