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Article: The Birth of "Wuthering Heights": Emily Bronte at Work.(Review)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- June 22, 1999
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CHITHAM, EDWARD. The Birth of Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte at Work (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998). 232 pp. $49.95.
Editing a second edition of her late sister's novel and responding to various early reviewers, Charlotte Bronte claimed that Wuthering Heights had been "hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials." Earlier in the preface she had described her sister's (and, implicitly, her own) creative gift as "something that at times strangely wills and works for itself." Nothing Emily thought or said about her novel and its composition survives, and we are left only with her poetry, a few diary passages and letters, and various ...