Critical Responses to Wuthering Heights and 200 Years of Emily Brontë

An alert at the Brontë Parsonage Museum for today, October 2:

Brontë 200 - Critical Responses to Wuthering Heights
Monthly Tuesday Talk
October 02nd 2018 11:30am - 02:00pm

Contemporary critical reactions to Wuthering Heights expressed bewilderment, shock and horror. Very few critics were entranced, but all were mesmerised. After the initial flurry of fascination, however, interest appeared to die down, and it seemed that the American critic who claimed the novel would ‘live a short and brilliant life and then die and be forgotten’ would be proved right. Why was the early response to Wuthering Heights so extreme, and what caused opinion to change so much in later years that by the end of the nineteenth century, Emily was seen to be the true genius of the family?

The talk will be delivered twice, at 11:30am and 2.00pm.
Free with admission to the Museum.

And at the Ilkley Literature Festival:

200 Years of Emily Brontë: Sally Shuttleworth 7th Annual British Academy/LAHRI Lecture
Tuesday 2nd October, 6:00 pm
University of Leeds - Conference Auditorium 2

Marking the 200th anniversary
of Emily Brontë’s birth, Professor Sally Shuttleworth FBA (University of Oxford), discusses the brief life and work of the writer who gave us Wuthering Heights, her place in the literary canon and the enduring legacy of the Brontë sisters.

University of Leeds Conference Auditorium 2, Willow Terrace Road, Leeds, LS2 9DA FREE but places must be booked here.