Premium Content Charlotte's Error: Isolationism in Wuthering Heights
By Jordan Reid Berkow - December 18, 1998
Charlotte Bronte's greatest error in her preface to Wuthering Heights is her striking underestimation of Emily Bronte's understanding of the world and human nature. Charlotte writes that her sister had little knowledge of the practicalities of the world, due to her lifestyle of secluded, quiet observation. Undeniably Emily's isolationist lifestyle…
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