Wuthering Heights, A Longman Cultural Edition

Alison Booth, Professor of English at the University of Virginia with a Ph.D. from Princeton (1986), specializes in Victorian studies, the novel, and women writers, while her teaching and research also range broadly--across the Atlantic and up to contemporary cultural studies--to encompass narrative theory, biography and autobiography, and celebrity.  Her numerous articles and essays have appeared in distinguished journals and collections.  She is the author of two acclaimed critical books: the prize-winning How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (2004),  and Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (1992), and co-editor of the Norton Introduction to Literature (now in its ninth edition). Her current research, reflected in the Longman Cultural Edition of Wuthering Heights, involves the popular genre of "homes and haunts" of famous people, literary tourism, and the character of famous writers' houses.

• List of Illustrations  Top WithinsHigh Sunderland"Gun Portrait" from Marion HarlandPortraitSeveral illustrations from Bronte Society Transactions:Main Street, HaworthHaworth Old ChurchThe Birthplace of the Bronte Sisters, ThorntonThe Black BullBranwell Bronte's ChairThe Waterfall on the MoorHaworth ParsonageEmily Bronte, drawing of KeeperHaworth Parsonage  Facscimile Title Page of First Edition  About This Edition  Introduction  Chronologies  Text of Wuthering HeightsNotes  Contexts             BiographicalEmily and Anne Bronte, "Diary Note"Charlotte Bronte, "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell""Editor's Preface"Ellen Nussey on EmilyElizabeth Gaskell, The Life Of Charlotte Bronte on EmilyEmily Bronte, Poems  Historical, Social, and Legal  Inheritance, Law, and WomenFrom Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important LawConcerning Women (London: Chapman, 1854) Class, Urban Culture, and MobilityUrban Slums and Street ChildrenSelf-HelpHouses, Home Decor, and Consumer GoodsFrom Charles Eastlake, Hints on Household TasteFrom John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice  Regional and InternationalIrelandFamily HistoryWilliam Wright, The Brontes In IrelandThe Great HungerYorkshireDialectFrom Richard Blakesborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the Nortern Riding of Yorkshire, 1898ReligionLiteracy: Summary and Quotation from J. Paul Hunter, Before NovelsHaworth and VicinityOriginal LocationsMemoirs and PilgrimagesC. Holmes Cautley, "Old Haworth Folk Who Knew the Brontes," 1910Virginia Woolf, from "Haworth, November 1904"Sylvia PlathMuriel SparkThe Bronte Society and Parsonage MuseumFrom Claude Meeker, "Haworth: Home of the Brontes," 1895  Critical and Artful ReviewsEarly CriticismSequels, Adaptations, Films  Further ReadingWeb materials