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Wuthering Heights

  • ‘The Two Children’ by Emily Bronte Poem Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings!   Today’s blog post is an analysis of The Two Children by Emily Bronte.   The Two Children is one of my all-time favorite poems by Emily Bronte, as you can easily see the echoes of what would become Wuthering Heights later!   This will be…

  • The Two Catherines of ‘Wuthering Heights’

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about both of the Catherines from Wuthering Heights, one of my favorite novels of all time!   As I have recently been re-reading Wuthering Heights, I just had to write about new insights I am gaining about both…

  • Re-Reading the Classics for My Birthday!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   For today’s post, I have decided to discuss a tradition that I have had for many years around my birthday.    As tomorrow is my birthday, I wanted to write about this today.    I always re-read at least one of my favorite works of…

  • My Top 5 Favorite Gothic Villains and Anti-Heroes

    For today’s post, I have decided to share a list of my five favorite male characters in Gothic literature.   These characters are all villains or at least anti-heroes.   They are the most fun male characters in these types of novels, after all!   Without further ado, here is my list. Number 5: Mr.…

  • My Top 5 Favorite Gothic Romance Couples

    For today’s post, I have decided to do a countdown of the top five Gothic Romance couples that I adore! Number 5: Lestat & Louis ~My number five choice is the main couple of The Vampire Chronicles.   Lestat and Louis were certainly always meant to be a couple, but could easily be sanitized as…

  • Catherine Earnshaw, A Faery Changeling?

    For today’s post, I have decided to do a discussion of an interesting alternate interpretation of the character of Catherine Earnshaw based on close reading of the novel and folkloric research.   This is something that has been on my mind since my most recent re-read of Wuthering Heights.   My favorite theory about Catherine…

  • Emily Bronte’s Impact: Kate Bush, the Music Videos, and The Unthanks

    For today’s post, I would like to take a look at the lasting impact of the works of Emily Bronte.    Wuthering Heights is my favorite novel of the nineteenth-century, and that says a lot given I do love nineteenth-century literature!    While this was the only novel that Emily Bronte ever wrote, it is…

  • Wuthering Heights, A Happy Ending?

    For today’s post, I have decided to take a look at the ending of my favorite novel of the nineteenth century, and one of my favorite books of all time.   Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is one of the great novels of the English language and has long been accepted as a masterpiece of…

  • Heathcliff as Byronic Hero

    Anyone who knows me knows that I adore classic literature, and my favorite classic novel is Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights!    In honor of this today’s post is devoted to the character of Heathcliff.   Heathcliff is often named as a Gothic Villain, and he does bare many markers of the term, but he better…