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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Bronte, Emily

Bronte, Emily
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Wuthering Heights: Chapters 1 - 7

Chapter One

The date at the beginning of the novel is 1801. In this year, Mr.
Lockwood, a fashionable gentleman, rents a house in a lonely and desolate
corner of northern England owned by a Mr. Heathcliff. Wuthering Heights,
written in the form of Lockwood's diary, is the story of Heathcliff, and of
his two houses - Thrushcross Grange, which Linton rents, and Wuthering
Heights, where he himself resides.

The desolation of this northern landscape suits Lockwood perfectly, for
he likes to think of himself as proud and ...

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