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Article: Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights.' (Emily Bronte)
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- The Explicator
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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Katherine Frank, in A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Bronte, asserts that Bronte was particularly interested in birds: "Emily copied illustrations from Thomas Bewick's British Birds with remarkable patience and fidelity" (89). Rather than being repelled by the viciousness of birds of prey, Emily Bronte kept one as a pet, a "large merlin hawk," which she admired enough to name "Hero" (90). Emily Bronte's interest in birds spilled over into her novel, for Wuthering Heights is full of references to birds, bird hunting, fowling pieces, bird dogs, and nests. Catherine Earnshaw Linton is able to identify different species of birds by examining the feathers in her pillow (160). ...
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