Becoming Cathy and Heathcliff: Edna Clarke Hall’s Wuthering Heights drawings
Dive into the strange, magnetic drawings of Edna Clarke Hall (1879-1979), whose drawings inspired by Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights offer a glimpse into the way one woman found solace in the story of Cathy and Heathcliff. Clarke Hall, a friend of Gwen John’s, drew hundreds of drawings, and eventually made dozens of etchings, inspired by Wuthering Heights.
For the first time in 2026, a selection of these works will be published in a new edition of Brontë’s novel by Eiderdown Books, with a new introduction by art historian Eliza Goodpasture. In this talk, Goodpasture will introduce Clarke Hall’s story of early success, her subsequent unhappy marriage, and her Brontëmania.
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