1847 edition
The original text as published by Thomas Cautley Newby in 1847 is available online in two parts.[8] The novel was first published together with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey in a three-volume format: Wuthering Heights filled the first two volumes and Agnes Grey made up the third.
1850 edition
In 1850 Charlotte Brontë edited the original text for the second edition of Wuthering Heights and also provided it with her foreword.[9] She addressed the faulty punctuation and orthography but also diluted Joseph's thick Yorkshire dialect. Writing to her publisher, W. S. Williams, she said that
It seems to me advisable to modify the orthography of the old servant Joseph's speeches; for though, as it stands, it exactly renders the Yorkshire dialect to a Yorkshire ear, yet I am sure Southerns must find it unintelligible; and thus one of the most graphic characters in the book is lost on them.[10]
Irene Wiltshire, in an essay on dialect and speech, examines some of the changes Charlotte made.[3]
