Heathcliff Redounding
David Trotter: Emily Brontë’s Scenes, 9 May 2024
Emily Brontë: Selected Writings
edited by Francis O’Gorman.
Oxford, 496 pp., £95, December 2023,978 0 19 886816 3 Show More
edited by Francis O’Gorman.
Oxford, 496 pp., £95, December 2023,
“... It takes Emily Brontë the best part of three chapters to get to the moment everyone remembers, whether they’ve read Wuthering Heights or not: a man in bed, a dream, the insistent tap-tap of a branch at the window, a broken pane, the man’s fingers closing on an ‘ice-cold hand’, a woman wailing ‘Let me in – let me in!’ Hollywood, however, was in a hurry ... ”