Refusing to break into her own precious study time, she insisted on receiving her pupils only once the school day was over. The result, reported the oldest sister Laetitia, was the sight of three girls ranging from six to 10 years old emerging from the music room in tears at having lost so much of their playtime.
Wuthering Heights
Fifty years later Laetitia Wheelwright was still recalling Emily matter of factly: I have never understood the cult of St Emily of Haworth. Indeed, I have spent a reading lifetime struggling to get to the end of Wuthering Heights , the screechy melodrama about two families living on the Yorkshire Moors who inter-marry, squabble, die, buy land, lose land, beat each other up and have children to whom they give bafflingly identical names.
In this bafflement I am in good company. Virginia Woolf who, along with Sylvia Plath, thought it a sacrilege to scribble in her books, broke her rule with Wuthering Heights , sketching out a family tree on a blank page, in a desperate attempt to sort out how all those multiple Catherines, Heathcliffs and Lintons fit together.
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Part of the problem, of course, is that they all sound the same, speaking at a hysterical pitch, as if straining to make themselves heard over a permanent gale. This abiding feeling that Wuthering Heights makes too much noise and not enough sense was woven into my first encounter with the book. Long before I was old enough to read it, I watched the Monty Python sketch in which Catherine and Heathcliff exchange passionate declarations of adulterous love across the moor tops using semaphore.
Again, I turn out to be in good company. The reviews, when they appeared following publication in December , comprised the sort of chorus of disapproval that would send most debut authors into a funk. This was also the publication that wondered if the author, at this time still known as Ellis Bell, had simply been eating too much cheese. Just five years later Charlotte was dead too, but her characterisation of Emily as a freak of nature would gust down the decades, gathering sound and fury as it went.
What she was trying to get at was the sense that Emily was both mythic and a shape-changer, unbound by the physical laws of the universe. At that point a new wave of revisionary scholarship suggested that, far from being a remote and primitive hovel as Gaskell suggested, Haworth was a busy cultural centre with a keen curiosity about and attachment to what was going on in the world. There were newspapers, concerts and lectures.
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The bookshelves held an expansive range of literary classics. Another, complementary, set of references came from the mystery and horror of German Romantic literature, which she read in the original.
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For while the little Wheelwrights were crying their eyes out, Emily was busy poring over her German grammar and reading spooky gothic tales by the likes of ETA Hoffmann. If Wuthering Heights struck contemporary critics as unrecognisably strange, it was only because then, as now, people had very short literary memories. This, after all, is the girl who, on the evidence of Wuthering Heights , seems to have considered hanging a small dog an act of sexy foreplay.
If you want to find a way of redeeming her I would suggest that it lies not in explaining away her raging unlikability but in thinking of it as a kind of performance art situated within a very particular social and economic context. A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveller the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. This is a film about domestic violence, racism, cycles of abuse. It contains many scenes involving the infliction of pain. This is quite apart from the love story. So why did it leave my partner and I so unemotionally affected, apart from the rush of relief at leaving the cinema?
Wuthering Heights started well for me; I thought I was going to enjoy the experience of wild moorland, naturalism, authentic dirt, etc. Unfortunately, too little attention seemed to be paid to the quality of some of the cast's acting some of which was, frankly, embarrassing and after the nth roll on the wet moorland grass I began to lose patience with the lack of attention to the narrative detail. Yes, the moors looked fantastic.
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Yes, we got that life was grim. But the affectation of the hand-held camera is a metaphor for the film as a whole. It wobbles about and makes you feel a bit nauseous.
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