Wuthering Heights was the only novel written by the complicated fifth Brontë sibling who grew up at Haworth Parsonage on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors. She published the book under a pseudonym in 1847, and died one year later of a fever for which she refused medical intervention. No one really knows much about her: she must be extrapolated from her disturbing prose. Writing in the preface, in 1850, her sister Charlotte described the writer as reclusive: “except to go to church or take a walk on the hills, she rarely crossed the threshold of home.”