Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Thornton, Yorkshire, in the family of the Anglican reverend Patrick Brontë and Mariei Branwell, as the fifth of six children. In 1846, together with two other writer-sisters she published a poetry volume under the name Ellis Bell. In the same year, Charlotte wrote the novel The Professor, Emily, Wuthering Heights and Anne, Agnes Grey. The last two are accepted to be published by a publishing house. Charlotte, who was rejected, was invited to write a new novel, which was Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is published in October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co., and in December T.C. Newby publishes Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. At the funeral of her brother, Branwell, in late September 1848, Emily got sick. She passed away on 19 December 1848, at Haworth.

The strange and tragic love story between Catherine and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights is narrated by an eye witness, Nelly Dean, the housemaid, to a careful listener, the tenant from Thrushcross Grange, Mr. Lockwood, who was "wondering" around Wuthering Heights, the main location of the action. The narrator - an intermediary between the Wuthering Heights inferno and the natural life - and her listener deepen the narration, expending the objectivity of the actions, an objectivity so much needed by that universe of extreme passions, by that world of inhuman and abyssal experiences. In order to endure Heathcliff, the climate and the landscape had to be terrible. Love, hate and revenge interlace unbearable in Heathcliff’s soul, lost and abused in wuthering heights, modeled by the savage and impetuous nature. The locals of Wuthering Heights live an intense, deep and disturbed life.