Wuthering Heights — Chronicle

Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir.

c. 1801

Heathcliff reveals Catherine Linton married his son, who is now dead.

Ch. 2 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

“Mrs. Heathcliff is my daughter-in-law,” said Heathcliff, corroborating my surmise. ... “we neither of us have the privilege of owning your good fairy; her mate is dead. I said she was my daughter-in-law: therefore, she must have married my son.”

c. 1801

The young man identifies himself as Hareton Earnshaw and demands respect for his name.

Ch. 2 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Hareton Earnshaw

“My name is Hareton Earnshaw,” growled the other; “and I’d counsel you to respect it!”

c. 1801

Two dogs attack Lockwood at the exit, knocking him down and extinguishing his lantern.

Ch. 2 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · that night

Lockwood Heathcliff Zillah

On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down, and extinguishing the light;

c. 1801

Zillah intervenes, treats Lockwood after the attack, and ushers him to bed.

Ch. 2 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · that night

Lockwood Zillah

With these words she suddenly splashed a pint of icy water down my neck, and pulled me into the kitchen.

c. 1801

Lockwood becomes ill and is compelled to accept overnight lodging under Heathcliff’s roof.

Ch. 2 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · that night

I was sick exceedingly, and dizzy, and faint; and thus compelled perforce to accept lodgings under his roof.

c. 1801

Lockwood discovers Catherine Earnshaw's annotated books and the names Catherine Heathcliff and Catherine Linton.

Ch. 3 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Lockwood Catherine Earnshaw Catherine Linton

This writing, however, was nothing but a name repeated in all kinds of characters, large and small—Catherine Earnshaw, here and there varied to Catherine Heathcliff, and then again to Catherine Linton.

c. 1801

Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff begin rebelling against Hindley Earnshaw's authority.

Ch. 3 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · this evening

Catherine Earnshaw Heathcliff Hindley Earnshaw

Hindley is a detestable substitute—his conduct to Heathcliff is atrocious—H. and I are going to rebel—we took our initiatory step this evening.

c. 1801

Hindley Earnshaw excludes Heathcliff from family life and threatens to expel him.

Ch. 3 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Hindley Earnshaw Heathcliff Catherine Earnshaw

Poor Heathcliff! Hindley calls him a vagabond, and won’t let him sit with us, nor eat with us any more; and, he says, he and I must not play together, and threatens to turn him out of the house if we break his orders.

c. 1801

Heathcliff pleads for Cathy to return, exposing his enduring grief.

Ch. 3 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

He got on to the bed, and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as he pulled at it, into an uncontrollable passion of tears. “Come in! come in!” he sobbed. “Cathy, do come. Oh, do—once more! Oh! my heart’s darling! hear me this time, Catherine, at last!”

c. 1801

Heathcliff’s son dies, leaving Catherine Linton a widow.

Ch. 4

“He had a son, it seems?” “Yes, he had one—he is dead.” “And that young lady, Mrs. Heathcliff, is his widow?” “Yes.”

c. 1801

Heathcliff married Mr. Linton’s sister.

Ch. 4

“Yes; and her husband was her cousin also: one on the mother’s, the other on the father’s side: Heathcliff married Mr. Linton’s sister.”

c. 1801

Mr. Earnshaw brought the orphaned Heathcliff home from Liverpool and ordered the household to care for him.

Ch. 4 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · one fine summer morning

Mr. Earnshaw Heathcliff

Not a soul knew to whom it belonged, he said; and his money and time being both limited, he thought it better to take it home with him at once, than run into vain expenses there: because he was determined he would not leave it as he found it. Well, the conclusion was, that my mistress grumbled herself calm; and Mr. Earnshaw told me to wash it, and give it clean things, and let it sleep with the children.

c. 1801

Ellen Dean was expelled from the household after placing Heathcliff outside the children’s rooms.

Ch. 4 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Ellen Dean Heathcliff

Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house.

c. 1801

The family christened the orphan Heathcliff, giving him the name permanently.

Ch. 4 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · a few days afterwards

This was Heathcliff’s first introduction to the family. On coming back a few days afterwards (for I did not consider my banishment perpetual), I found they had christened him “Heathcliff”: it was the name of a son who died in childhood, and it has served him ever since, both for Christian and surname.

c. 1801

Mrs. Earnshaw died, intensifying Hindley’s hostility toward Heathcliff.

Ch. 4 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · in less than two years after

[[MrsEarnshaw]] Hindley Earnshaw Heathcliff

So, from the very beginning, he bred bad feeling in the house; and at Mrs. Earnshaw’s death, which happened in less than two years after, the young master had learned to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a friend, and Heathcliff as a usurper of his parent’s affections and his privileges; and he grew bitter with brooding over these injuries.

c. 1801

Hindley yielded his colt Gipsy to Heathcliff after violently attacking him.

Ch. 4 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Mr. Earnshaw Hindley Earnshaw

“Take my colt, Gipsy, then!” said young Earnshaw. “And I pray that he may break your neck: take him, and be damned, you beggarly interloper! and wheedle my father out of all he has: only afterwards show him what you are, imp of Satan.—And take that, I hope he’ll kick out your brains!” Heathcliff had gone to loose the beast, and shift it to his own stall; he was passing behind it, when Hindley finished his speech by knocking him under its feet, and without stopping to examine whether his hopes were fulfilled, ran away as fast as he could. I was surprised to witness how coolly the child gathered himself up, and went on with his intention; exchanging saddles and all, and then sitting down on a bundle of hay to overcome the qualm which the violent blow occasioned, before he entered the house. I persuaded him easily to let me lay the blame of his bruises on the horse: he minded little what tale was told since he had what he wanted.

c. 1801

Mr. Earnshaw agreed that Hindley Earnshaw should be sent to college.

Ch. 5 · At last

At last, our curate ... advised that the young man should be sent to college; and Mr. Earnshaw agreed

c. 1801

Mr. Earnshaw died quietly in his chair by the fire-side.

Ch. 5 · one October evening

Mr. Earnshaw

He died quietly in his chair one October evening, seated by the fire-side.

c. 1801

Hindley returned from absence with a wife, astonishing the household and neighbours.

Ch. 6 · on the very day of his return

Hindley Earnshaw

Young Earnshaw was altered considerably in the three years of his absence.

c. 1801

Hindley degraded Heathcliff, removing his education and forcing him into hard outdoor labor.

Ch. 6

Catherine Earnshaw Heathcliff

He drove him from their company to the servants, deprived him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labour out of doors instead; compelling him to do so as hard as any other lad on the farm.

c. 1801

Catherine and Heathcliff’s excursion ended when the Grange bulldog seized Catherine’s ankle.

Ch. 6 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · One Sunday evening

‘Run, Heathcliff, run!’ she whispered. ‘They have let the bull-dog loose, and he holds me!’

c. 1801

The Lintons removed Heathcliff from the Grange while Catherine remained for treatment and hospitality.

Ch. 6 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · that night

Hindley Earnshaw Heathcliff Catherine Earnshaw

I recommenced cursing—don’t be angry, Nelly—and so Robert was ordered to take me off. I refused to go without Cathy; he dragged me into the garden, pushed the lantern into my hand, assured me that Mr. Earnshaw should be informed of my behaviour, and, bidding me march directly, secured the door again.

c. 1801

Mr. Linton’s visit prompted restrictions: Heathcliff faced dismissal, while Catherine was placed under restraint.

Ch. 6 · on the morrow

Heathcliff received no flogging, but he was told that the first word he spoke to Miss Catherine should ensure a dismissal; and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister-in-law in due restraint when she returned home; employing art, not force: with force she would have found it impossible.

c. 1801

Catherine returns after five weeks with her ankle cured and her manners greatly improved.

Ch. 7 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · By that time

Edgar Linton Isabella Linton Catherine Earnshaw

Cathy stayed at Thrushcross Grange five weeks: till Christmas. By that time her ankle was thoroughly cured, and her manners much improved.

c. 1801

The Lintons accept an invitation to Wuthering Heights, provided they remain apart from Heathcliff.

Ch. 7 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · the morrow

They had invited them to spend the morrow at Wuthering Heights, and the invitation had been accepted, on one condition: Mrs. Linton begged that her darlings might be kept carefully apart from that “naughty swearing boy.”

c. 1801

Heathcliff throws hot apple sauce at Edgar, injuring and humiliating him during the visit.

Ch. 7 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · that day

Heathcliff Edgar Linton

He seized a tureen of hot apple sauce, the first thing that came under his gripe, and dashed it full against the speaker’s face and neck; who instantly commenced a lament that brought Isabella and Catherine hurrying to the place.

c. 1801

Hindley confines Heathcliff to the garret after the assault.

Ch. 7 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · that day

Catherine Earnshaw Heathcliff

Catherine, with dry eyes and an indifferent air, commence cutting up the wing of a goose before her. ... Heathcliff, who had been locked up by the master

c. 1801

Catherine secretly reaches Heathcliff’s confinement and brings him into the kitchen.

Ch. 7 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · In the evening

When she did come, Heathcliff came with her, and she insisted that I should take him into the kitchen

c. 1801

Heathcliff declares his determination to retaliate against Hindley.

Ch. 7 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · In the evening

Heathcliff Hindley Earnshaw

I’m trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last.

c. 1801

Hareton Earnshaw was born as the last of the ancient Earnshaw stock.

Ch. 8 · On the morning of a fine June day

Hareton Earnshaw

On the morning of a fine June day my first bonny little nursling, and the last of the ancient Earnshaw stock, was born.

c. 1801

Frances died shortly after giving birth to Hareton.

Ch. 8 · one night

Frances Hindley Earnshaw

one night, while leaning on his shoulder, in the act of saying she thought she should be able to get up to-morrow, a fit of coughing took her—a very slight one—he raised her in his arms; she put her two hands about his neck, her face changed, and she was dead.

c. 1801

Hareton fell wholly into Ellen Dean’s care after his mother’s death.

Ch. 8

Hareton Earnshaw Ellen Dean

As the girl had anticipated, the child Hareton fell wholly into my hands.

c. 1801

Hindley abandoned himself to reckless dissipation, leaving only Joseph and Ellen to remain.

Ch. 8

Hindley Earnshaw Joseph Ellen Dean

For himself, he grew desperate: his sorrow was of that kind that will not lament. He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation. The servants could not bear his tyrannical and evil conduct long: Joseph and I were the only two that would stay.

c. 1801

Heathcliff lost his education and completely abandoned attempts to remain Catherine’s equal.

Ch. 8

Catherine Earnshaw Ellen Dean Hareton Earnshaw Edgar Linton

He struggled long to keep up an equality with Catherine in her studies, and yielded with poignant though silent regret: but he yielded completely

c. 1801

Catherine violently struck Ellen, shook Hareton, and struck Edgar while he intervened.

Ch. 8 · that afternoon

She stamped her foot, wavered a moment, and then, irresistibly impelled by the naughty spirit within her, slapped me on the cheek: a stinging blow that filled both eyes with water.

c. 1801

Catherine and Edgar abandoned their friendship’s disguise and confessed themselves lovers.

Ch. 8

I saw the quarrel had merely effected a closer intimacy—had broken the outworks of youthful timidity, and enabled them to forsake the disguise of friendship, and confess themselves lovers.

c. 1801

Catherine Earnshaw accepted Edgar Linton’s proposal of marriage.

Ch. 9 · To-day

To-day, Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him, and I’ve given him an answer.

c. 1801

Catherine Earnshaw confirmed she had accepted Edgar Linton despite believing the decision was wrong.

Ch. 9 · that afternoon

I accepted him, Nelly. Be quick, and say whether I was wrong!

c. 1801

Heathcliff overheard Catherine’s admission that marrying him would degrade her and left without being noticed.

Ch. 9 · that night

He had listened till he heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he stayed to hear no further.

c. 1801

Catherine Earnshaw developed a dangerous fever after remaining outside overnight in the storm.

Ch. 9 · the next morning

It proved the commencement of delirium: Mr. Kenneth, as soon as he saw her, pronounced her dangerously ill; she had a fever.

c. 1801

Mrs. Linton contracted Catherine’s fever and died.

Ch. 9 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · within a few days of each other

Mrs. Linton

But the poor dame had reason to repent of her kindness: she and her husband both took the fever, and died within a few days of each other.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton married Catherine Earnshaw.

Ch. 9 · 📍 [[Gimmerton Chapel]] · three years subsequent to his father’s death

Ellen Dean Catherine Earnshaw Hareton Earnshaw

Edgar Linton, as multitudes have been before and will be after him, was infatuated: and believed himself the happiest man alive on the day he led her to Gimmerton Chapel, three years subsequent to his father’s death.

c. 1801

Ellen Dean left Wuthering Heights to accompany Catherine, leaving Hareton behind.

Ch. 9 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Much against my inclination, I was persuaded to leave Wuthering Heights and accompany her here.

Chapters 10–17

c. 1801

Heathcliff returns after three years and seeks Catherine.

Ch. 10 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · On a mellow evening in September

Heathcliff Hindley Earnshaw

What! you come back? Is it really you? Is it?

c. 1801

Heathcliff reappears transformed into a tall, dignified, well-formed man.

Ch. 10 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]]

Heathcliff Ellen Dean

Now, fully revealed by the fire and candlelight, I was amazed, more than ever, to behold the transformation of Heathcliff. He had grown a tall, athletic, well-formed man; beside whom my master seemed quite slender and youth-like.

c. 1801

Heathcliff wins money from Hindley and accepts an invitation to return.

Ch. 10 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · in the evening

Heathcliff joined them; my brother lost some money to him, and, finding him plentifully supplied, he requested that he would come again in the evening: to which he consented.

c. 1801

Isabella develops a sudden, irresistible attraction to Heathcliff.

Ch. 10

Isabella Linton Heathcliff Catherine Earnshaw

His new source of trouble sprang from the not anticipated misfortune of Isabella Linton evincing a sudden and irresistible attraction towards the tolerated guest.

c. 1801

Isabella openly declares that she loves Heathcliff and believes he might love her.

Ch. 10

I love him more than ever you loved Edgar, and he might love me, if you would let him!

c. 1801

Edgar discovers Isabella’s attraction and blames Heathcliff for deliberately designing it.

Ch. 10

Edgar Linton Heathcliff Isabella Linton

for the minute he discovered its existence he laid the blame on Heathcliff’s deliberate designing.

c. 1801

Heathcliff responds to Isabella’s attraction with contempt rather than affection.

Ch. 10

Heathcliff Isabella Linton

And he stared hard at the object of discourse, as one might do at a strange repulsive animal

c. 1801

Hareton reveals Heathcliff has forbidden the curate from teaching him.

Ch. 11 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Hareton Earnshaw Heathcliff

“No, I was told the curate should have his —— teeth dashed down his —— throat, if he stepped over the threshold—Heathcliff had promised that!”

c. 1801

Heathcliff embraces Isabella Linton during a visit.

Ch. 11 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · The next time Heathcliff came

Heathcliff Isabella Linton

and supposing himself unseen, the scoundrel had the impudence to embrace her.

c. 1801

Heathcliff learns Isabella Linton’s secret and vows to exploit it.

Ch. 11

Catherine Earnshaw Heathcliff Isabella Linton

Meantime, thank you for telling me your sister-in-law’s secret: I swear I’ll make the most of it.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton permanently denies Heathcliff admission and orders his immediate departure.

Ch. 11

Edgar Linton Heathcliff

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous: for that cause, and to prevent worse consequences, I shall deny you hereafter admission into this house, and give notice now that I require your instant departure.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton strikes Heathcliff in the throat after Heathcliff pushes his chair.

Ch. 11

Edgar Linton Heathcliff

my master quickly sprang erect, and struck him full on the throat a blow that would have levelled a slighter man.

c. 1801

Heathcliff smashes the inner-door lock and escapes when the servants arrive.

Ch. 11

Heathcliff, on the second thoughts, resolved to avoid a struggle against three underlings: he seized the poker, smashed the lock from the inner door, and made his escape as they tramped in.

c. 1801

Catherine confines herself upstairs and refuses food through several meals.

Ch. 11 · next morning

Edgar Linton Isabella Linton Heathcliff

As she never offered to descend to breakfast next morning, I went to ask whether she would have some carried up. “No!” she replied, peremptorily.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton warns Isabella Linton that encouraging Heathcliff will dissolve their family ties.

Ch. 11

adding, however, a solemn warning, that if she were so insane as to encourage that worthless suitor, it would dissolve all bonds of relationship between herself and him.

c. 1801

Catherine locks herself in a room, refuses food, and develops delirium after quarrelling with Edgar.

Ch. 12 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · Monday evening

it commenced in a quarrel. She was struck during a tempest of passion with a kind of fit. That’s her account, at least: for she flew off in the height of it, and locked herself up. Afterwards, she refused to eat, and now she alternately raves and remains in a half dream

c. 1801

Isabella elopes with Heathcliff, leaving Thrushcross Grange.

Ch. 12 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · not very long after midnight

Edgar Linton Isabella Linton

There’s somebody gone after ’em, I guess?’ I stared. He saw I knew nought about it, and he told how a gentleman and lady had stopped to have a horse’s shoe fastened at a blacksmith’s shop, two miles out of Gimmerton, not very long after midnight!

c. 1801

Edgar declares Isabella has disowned him and will thereafter be his sister only in name.

Ch. 12 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]]

Hereafter she is only my sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

c. 1801

Catherine Earnshaw survives brain fever and is declared out of danger.

Ch. 13 · in those two months

he knew no limits in gratitude and joy when Catherine’s life was declared out of danger

c. 1801

Isabella Linton announces her marriage with Heathcliff.

Ch. 13 · some six weeks from her departure

Isabella sent to her brother, some six weeks from her departure, a short note, announcing her marriage with Heathcliff.

c. 1801

Isabella Linton arrives at Wuthering Heights after marrying Heathcliff.

Ch. 13 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · last night

I came last night to Wuthering Heights

c. 1801

Hindley Earnshaw repeatedly plans to kill Heathcliff if he finds his door unlocked.

Ch. 13 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · every night

Heathcliff Isabella Linton Edgar Linton

I cannot resist going up with this every night, and trying his door. If once I find it open he’s done for

c. 1801

Heathcliff threatens to make Isabella suffer as Edgar’s proxy.

Ch. 13 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

promising that I should be Edgar’s proxy in suffering, till he could get hold of him.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton refuses Isabella Linton’s request for correspondence and ends communication between their households.

Ch. 14

Edgar Linton Isabella Linton

My communication with Heathcliff’s family shall be as sparing as his with mine. It shall not exist!

c. 1801

Isabella Linton reveals that Heathcliff married her to gain power over Edgar Linton.

Ch. 14 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Isabella Linton Heathcliff Edgar Linton

he says he has married me on purpose to obtain power over him; and he sha’n’t obtain it—I’ll die first!

c. 1801

Heathcliff forcibly removes Isabella Linton from the room and orders her upstairs.

Ch. 14 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff Isabella Linton

He seized, and thrust her from the room

c. 1801

Heathcliff compels Ellen Dean to carry his letter and secretly facilitate his meeting with Catherine Linton.

Ch. 14 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff Ellen Dean Catherine Linton Edgar Linton

I engaged to carry a letter from him to my mistress; and should she consent, I promised to let him have intelligence of Linton’s next absence from home

c. 1801

Ellen delivers Heathcliff’s letter to Catherine and asks her to read it.

Ch. 15 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · The fourth was Sunday

Ellen Dean Catherine Earnshaw

“There’s a letter for you, Mrs. Linton,” I said, gently inserting it in one hand that rested on her knee.

c. 1801

Heathcliff enters Catherine’s room and embraces her after receiving her letter.

Ch. 15 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · The minute after

Catherine Earnshaw Heathcliff

With straining eagerness Catherine gazed towards the entrance of her chamber. He did not hit the right room directly: she motioned me to admit him, but he found it out ere I could reach the door, and in a stride or two was at her side, and had her grasped in his arms.

c. 1801

Catherine and Heathcliff forgive one another during their emotional reunion.

Ch. 15 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]]

“Let me alone. Let me alone,” sobbed Catherine. “If I’ve done wrong, I’m dying for it. It is enough! You left me too: but I won’t upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!” “It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,” he answered. “Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me.

c. 1801

Edgar discovers Heathcliff with Catherine and receives her unconscious body from him.

Ch. 15 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · In the midst of my agitation

Edgar Linton Heathcliff Catherine Earnshaw

Edgar sprang to his unbidden guest, blanched with astonishment and rage. What he meant to do I cannot tell; however, the other stopped all demonstrations, at once, by placing the lifeless-looking form in his arms.

c. 1801

Edgar and Ellen restore Catherine to consciousness, but she remains bewildered and recognizes nobody.

Ch. 15 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · after resorting to many means

Catherine Earnshaw Edgar Linton Ellen Dean

Mr. Linton summoned me, and with great difficulty, and after resorting to many means, we managed to restore her to sensation; but she was all bewildered; she sighed, and moaned, and knew nobody.

c. 1801

Heathcliff leaves the house but vows to remain nearby and return if Ellen breaks her promise.

Ch. 15 · in the morning

Heathcliff Ellen Dean

“I shall not refuse to go out of doors,” he answered; “but I shall stay in the garden: and, Nelly, mind you keep your word to-morrow. I shall be under those larch-trees. Mind! or I pay another visit, whether Linton be in or not.”

c. 1801

Catherine Linton was born prematurely as a seven-months’ child.

Ch. 16 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · About twelve o’clock that night

Catherine Linton

About twelve o’clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at Wuthering Heights: a puny, seven-months’ child;

c. 1801

Catherine Earnshaw died after giving birth, without regaining consciousness.

Ch. 16 · two hours after

and two hours after the mother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss Heathcliff, or know Edgar.

c. 1801

Heathcliff secretly visited Catherine’s corpse and replaced her locket contents with a lock of his hair.

Ch. 16 · on the Tuesday, a little after dark

Heathcliff had opened the trinket and cast out its contents, replacing them by a black lock of his own.

c. 1801

Catherine Earnshaw was buried in an isolated corner of the kirkyard, later joined by Edgar Linton.

Ch. 16 · the Friday following her decease

It was dug on a green slope in a corner of the kirkyard, where the wall is so low that heath and bilberry-plants have climbed over it from the moor; and peat-mould almost buries it.

c. 1801

Isabella Linton escapes Heathcliff and permanently leaves the neighbourhood.

Ch. 17 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

She was driven away, never to revisit this neighbourhood: but a regular correspondence was established between her and my master when things were more settled.

c. 1801

Heathcliff violently attacks Hindley Earnshaw, leaving him badly wounded and unconscious.

Ch. 17 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · last night

Isabella Linton Linton Heathcliff

The charge exploded, and the knife, in springing back, closed into its owner’s wrist. Heathcliff pulled it away by main force, slitting up the flesh as it passed on, and thrust it dripping into his pocket. He then took a stone, struck down the division between two windows, and sprang in. His adversary had fallen senseless with excessive pain and the flow of blood, that gushed from an artery or a large vein.

c. 1801

Isabella Linton gives birth to a son, christened Linton.

Ch. 17 · 📍 [[London]] · a few months subsequent to her escape

there she had a son born a few months subsequent to her escape. He was christened Linton, and, from the first, she reported him to be an ailing, peevish creature.

c. 1801

Isabella Linton dies before Heathcliff can claim her son.

Ch. 17 · some thirteen years after the decease of Catherine

Isabella Linton Linton Heathcliff

Fortunately its mother died before the time arrived; some thirteen years after the decease of Catherine, when Linton was twelve, or a little more.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton resigns as magistrate and withdraws into complete seclusion.

Ch. 17 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · On the day succeeding Isabella’s unexpected visit

Heathcliff Hindley Earnshaw Hareton Earnshaw

Grief, and that together, transformed him into a complete hermit: he threw up his office of magistrate, ceased even to attend church, avoided the village on all occasions, and spent a life of entire seclusion within the limits of his park and grounds

c. 1801

Hindley Earnshaw dies after deliberately drinking himself to death.

Ch. 17 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · one morning

Hindley Earnshaw Kenneth

Hindley Earnshaw! Your old friend Hindley,” he replied, “and my wicked gossip: though he’s been too wild for me this long while. There! I said we should draw water. But cheer up! He died true to his character: drunk as a lord.

c. 1801

Heathcliff takes possession of Wuthering Heights, reducing Hareton to unpaid servitude.

Ch. 17 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · now

The guest was now the master of Wuthering Heights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorney—who, in his turn, proved it to Mr. Linton—that Earnshaw had mortgaged every yard of land he owned for cash to supply his mania for gaming; and he, Heathcliff, was the mortgagee. In that manner Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father’s inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages

Chapters 18–25

c. 1801

Edgar Linton takes Catherine Linton’s education entirely upon himself, and she becomes an eager, accomplished scholar.

Ch. 18

Catherine Linton Edgar Linton

He took her education entirely on himself, and made it an amusement. Fortunately, curiosity and a quick intellect made her an apt scholar: she learned rapidly and eagerly, and did honour to his teaching.

c. 1801

Isabella Linton summons Edgar Linton during her final illness and asks him to take custody of Linton Heathcliff.

Ch. 18

Isabella Linton Edgar Linton Linton Heathcliff

She wrote to inform her brother of the probable conclusion of a four-months’ indisposition under which she had suffered, and entreated him to come to her, if possible; for she had much to settle, and she wished to bid him adieu, and deliver Linton safely into his hands.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton leaves home to attend Isabella Linton, entrusting Catherine Linton to Ellen Dean’s vigilance.

Ch. 18 · He was away three weeks

Edgar Linton Catherine Linton Ellen Dean

My master hesitated not a moment in complying with her request: reluctant as he was to leave home at ordinary calls, he flew to answer this; commending Catherine to my peculiar vigilance, in his absence

c. 1801

Catherine Linton reaches Wuthering Heights and encounters Hareton Earnshaw there.

Ch. 18 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

I entered, and beheld my stray lamb seated on the hearth, rocking herself in a little chair that had been her mother’s when a child.

c. 1801

Catherine Linton learns that Hareton Earnshaw is her cousin, upsetting her profoundly.

Ch. 18 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Isabella Linton Edgar Linton

Though Mr. Hareton, there, be not the master’s son, he’s your cousin: and I was never hired to serve you.

c. 1801

Isabella Linton and Edgar Linton die after prolonged illnesses.

Ch. 18 · above a dozen years after quitting her husband

What her last illness was, I am not certain: I conjecture, they died of the same thing, a kind of fever, slow at its commencement, but incurable, and rapidly consuming life towards the close.

c. 1801

Isabella Linton dies.

Ch. 19

Isabella Linton

Isabella was dead;

c. 1801

Edgar Linton returns home after Isabella Linton’s death.

Ch. 19 · The evening of their expected arrival

Linton Heathcliff Edgar Linton Catherine Linton

The evening of their expected arrival came.

c. 1801

Linton Heathcliff arrives and is received at Edgar Linton’s home.

Ch. 19 · The evening of their expected arrival

This is your cousin Cathy, Linton,” he said, putting their little hands together.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton agrees to send Linton Heathcliff to Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights.

Ch. 19 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · to-morrow

Edgar Linton Linton Heathcliff Heathcliff

Tell Mr. Heathcliff,” he answered calmly, “that his son shall come to Wuthering Heights to-morrow.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton refuses to surrender Linton Heathcliff immediately and ejects Joseph.

Ch. 19 · To-night

Edgar Linton Linton Heathcliff Joseph

You shall not to-night!” answered Linton decisively. “Walk down stairs at once, and repeat to your master what I have said.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton orders Ellen Dean to escort Linton Heathcliff away and conceal his destination from Catherine Linton.

Ch. 20 · early

Edgar Linton Ellen Dean Linton Heathcliff Catherine Linton

Mr. Linton commissioned me to take the boy home early, on Catherine’s pony; and, said he—“As we shall now have no influence over his destiny, good or bad, you must say nothing of where he is gone to my daughter: she cannot associate with him hereafter, and it is better for her to remain in ignorance of his proximity; lest she should be restless, and anxious to visit the Heights.

c. 1801

Heathcliff reveals to Linton Heathcliff that he is his father.

Ch. 20 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Linton Heathcliff Heathcliff

You are my son, then, I’ll tell you; and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed.

c. 1801

Linton Heathcliff is confined at Wuthering Heights after protesting that he will not stay.

Ch. 20 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

“Don’t leave me! I’ll not stay here! I’ll not stay here!” Then the latch was raised and fell: they did not suffer him to come forth.

c. 1801

Heathcliff reveals that Linton Heathcliff is intended to inherit Thrushcross Grange.

Ch. 20 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff Linton Heathcliff Ellen Dean

my son is prospective owner of your place, and I should not wish him to die till I was certain of being his successor.

c. 1801

Heathcliff prepares private accommodation and hires a tutor for Linton Heathcliff.

Ch. 20 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Catherine Linton Heathcliff Linton Heathcliff

I have a room upstairs, furnished for him in handsome style; I’ve engaged a tutor, also, to come three times a week, from twenty miles’ distance, to teach him what he pleases to learn.

c. 1801

Catherine Linton enters Wuthering Heights and reunites with her cousin Linton Heathcliff.

Ch. 21 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Linton, don’t you recall your cousin, that you used to tease us so with wishing to see?

c. 1801

Heathcliff reveals he intends Catherine Linton and Linton Heathcliff to marry and inherit together.

Ch. 21 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Edgar Linton Catherine Linton Heathcliff Isabella Linton

That the two cousins may fall in love, and get married. I’m acting generously to your master: his young chit has no expectations, and should she second my wishes she’ll be provided for at once as joint successor with Linton.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton explains Heathcliff’s hostility and reveals how Heathcliff acquired Wuthering Heights.

Ch. 21 · Next day

My master, perceiving that she would not take his word for her uncle-in-law’s evil disposition, gave a hasty sketch of his conduct to Isabella, and the manner in which Wuthering Heights became his property.

c. 1801

Catherine Linton and Linton Heathcliff begin exchanging secret correspondence that develops into love letters.

Ch. 21 · Weeks passed on

Catherine Linton Ellen Dean Linton Heathcliff

I was still surprised to discover that they were a mass of correspondence—daily almost, it must have been—from Linton Heathcliff: answers to documents forwarded by her.

c. 1801

Ellen Dean burns Catherine’s letters and ends her secret correspondence with Linton Heathcliff.

Ch. 21 · Next morning

Master Heathcliff is requested to send no more notes to Miss Linton, as she will not receive them.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton catches a severe cold that confines him indoors for nearly the entire winter.

Ch. 22 · throughout the whole of the winter

my master caught a bad cold, that settled obstinately on his lungs, and confined him indoors throughout the whole of the winter, nearly without intermission.

c. 1801

Heathcliff reveals that he possesses Catherine’s letters and claims Linton is dying from her rejection.

Ch. 22 · Two or three months since

I’ve got your letters, and if you give me any pertness I’ll send them to your father.

c. 1801

Heathcliff pressures Catherine to visit Linton, claiming only she can save him from death.

Ch. 22

Catherine Linton Ellen Dean Linton Heathcliff

I swear, on my salvation, he’s going to his grave, and none but you can save him!

c. 1801

Catherine decides to verify Heathcliff’s claims and travels with Ellen to visit Linton.

Ch. 22 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · next day

but next day beheld me on the road to Wuthering Heights, by the side of my wilful young mistress’s pony.

c. 1801

Catherine Linton resumes her intimacy with Linton Heathcliff during her visit.

Ch. 23 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · a misty morning

Linton Heathcliff Catherine Linton Isabella Linton Edgar Linton Heathcliff

“It has been revived,” muttered Cathy, sulkily.

c. 1801

Linton Heathcliff claims Catherine’s mother hated Edgar Linton and loved Heathcliff.

Ch. 23 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · a misty morning

“Your mother hated your father: now then.” “Oh!” exclaimed Catherine, too enraged to continue. “And she loved mine,” added he.

c. 1801

Linton Heathcliff proposes marriage, but Catherine Linton rejects loving him above her father.

Ch. 23 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · a misty morning

Linton Heathcliff Catherine Linton

“But papa says you would love me better than him and all the world, if you were my wife; so I’d rather you were that.” “No, I should never love anybody better than papa,” she returned gravely.

c. 1801

Catherine Linton secretly agrees to return to Linton Heathcliff despite Ellen Dean’s prohibition.

Ch. 23 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · to-morrow

Catherine Linton Linton Heathcliff Ellen Dean

“You won’t go to-morrow, recollect, Miss!” I commenced, when we were out of the house. “You are not dreaming of it, are you?” She smiled.

c. 1801

Ellen Dean becomes incapacitated for three weeks after returning soaked from Wuthering Heights.

Ch. 23 · On the succeeding morning

Ellen Dean

On the succeeding morning I was laid up, and during three weeks I remained incapacitated for attending to my duties

c. 1801

Catherine revealed that she had secretly visited Wuthering Heights nearly every day.

Ch. 24 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Catherine Linton Ellen Dean

I’ve been to Wuthering Heights, Ellen, and I’ve never missed going a day since you fell ill

c. 1801

Hareton violently ejected Linton, who suffered a coughing fit and collapsed bleeding.

Ch. 24 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Hareton Earnshaw Linton Heathcliff

At last his cries were choked by a dreadful fit of coughing; blood gushed from his mouth, and he fell on the ground.

c. 1801

Catherine and Linton reconciled after she confronted him about his false accusation.

Ch. 24 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Edgar Linton Catherine Linton

We were reconciled; but we cried, both of us, the whole time I stayed

c. 1801

Ellen betrayed Catherine’s confidence by telling Edgar about her secret visits.

Ch. 24 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]]

Ellen Dean Edgar Linton

I thought it over aloud, in my master’s presence; walking straight from her room to his, and relating the whole story

c. 1801

Edgar ended Catherine’s secret visits to Wuthering Heights despite her protests.

Ch. 24 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · In the morning

her secret visits were to end. In vain she wept and writhed against the interdict

c. 1801

Edgar promised Linton could visit the Grange, though Catherine could not visit Wuthering Heights.

Ch. 24 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · In the morning

Edgar Linton Linton Heathcliff

all she got to comfort her was a promise that he would write and give him leave to come to the Grange when he pleased

c. 1801

Edgar Linton failed to regain strength and continued declining.

Ch. 25 · Spring advanced

Spring advanced; yet my master gathered no real strength, though he resumed his walks in the grounds with his daughter.

c. 1801

Heathcliff prevented Linton Heathcliff from visiting Edgar Linton at Thrushcross Grange.

Ch. 25 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]]

Edgar Linton Linton Heathcliff

being instructed, he returned an answer, intimating that Mr. Heathcliff objected to his calling at the Grange

c. 1801

Edgar Linton refused Linton Heathcliff’s request to meet at Thrushcross Grange.

Ch. 25 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · in summer

Edgar, though he felt for the boy, could not consent to grant his request; because he could not accompany Catherine.

c. 1801

Heathcliff censored Linton Heathcliff’s correspondence by requiring every letter to be shown.

Ch. 25

Catherine Linton Linton Heathcliff Ellen Dean

but his father kept a sharp watch over him; and, of course, insisted on every line that my master sent being shown

c. 1801

Edgar Linton permitted Catherine Linton and Linton Heathcliff to meet under Ellen Dean’s guardianship.

Ch. 25 · once a week

they at length persuaded my master to acquiesce in their having a ride or a walk together about once a week, under my guardianship

Chapters 26–31

c. 1801

Edgar permits Catherine and Ellen to visit Linton.

Ch. 26 · Summer was already past its prime

Edgar Linton Catherine Linton Ellen Dean

Edgar reluctantly yielded his assent to their entreaties

c. 1801

Linton is revealed to have become severely ill and morose.

Ch. 26 · that morning

Linton Heathcliff Catherine Linton Ellen Dean

An indefinite alteration had come over his whole person and manner.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton’s condition rapidly worsens, and he is dying.

Ch. 27 · Seven days glided away

Linton Heathcliff Catherine Linton Heathcliff

my master is dying

c. 1801

Linton reveals Heathcliff’s plan to force his marriage with Catherine.

Ch. 27 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · in the morning

Papa wants us to be married

c. 1801

Heathcliff locks Catherine, Ellen, and Linton inside Wuthering Heights.

Ch. 27 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff Catherine Linton Ellen Dean Linton Heathcliff

He shut and locked it also.

c. 1801

Heathcliff violently strikes Catherine after she tries to seize the key.

Ch. 27 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Catherine Linton Linton Heathcliff Heathcliff

he seized her with the liberated hand, and, pulling her on his knee, administered with the other a shower of terrific slaps

c. 1801

Catherine agrees to marry Linton if Heathcliff allows her to return to Thrushcross Grange.

Ch. 27 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · within this hour

I’ll marry him within this hour, if I may go to Thrushcross Grange afterwards.

c. 1801

Heathcliff removes Catherine and confines Ellen separately, extending their imprisonment.

Ch. 27 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · At seven o’clock

Heathcliff Catherine Linton Ellen Dean

he turned the lock again. I demanded my release.

c. 1801

Ellen remains imprisoned, receiving food only from Hareton each morning.

Ch. 27 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · Five nights and four days

Ellen Dean Hareton Earnshaw

Five nights and four days I remained, altogether, seeing nobody but Hareton once every morning

c. 1801

Catherine Linton remained confined at Wuthering Heights, forbidden to return home.

Ch. 28 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

she’s my wife, and it’s shameful that she should wish to leave me. He says she hates me and wants me to die, that she may have my money; but she shan’t have it: and she shan’t go home! She never shall!

c. 1801

Heathcliff struck Catherine and crushed her portrait during the confinement.

Ch. 28 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · yesterday

Edgar Linton Catherine Linton Linton Heathcliff

He took the one I had away, and ordered her to resign hers to me; she refused, and he—he struck her down, and wrenched it off the chain, and crushed it with his foot.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton altered Catherine’s inheritance into a protected trust, preventing Linton from receiving it.

Ch. 28 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]]

instead of leaving Catherine’s fortune at her own disposal, he determined to put it in the hands of trustees for her use during life, and for her children, if she had any, after her.

c. 1801

Catherine escaped Wuthering Heights through her mother’s window.

Ch. 28 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · before break of day

Catherine Linton

Catherine stole out before break of day. She dared not try the doors lest the dogs should raise an alarm; she visited the empty chambers and examined their windows; and, luckily, lighting on her mother’s, she got easily out of its lattice, and on to the ground, by means of the fir-tree close by.

c. 1801

Edgar learned Catherine was alive and returning, then collapsed in a swoon.

Ch. 28 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]]

Edgar Linton Catherine Linton

“Catherine is coming, dear master!” I whispered; “she is alive and well; and will be here, I hope, to-night.” I trembled at the first effects of this intelligence: he half rose up, looked eagerly round the apartment, and then sank back in a swoon.

c. 1801

Edgar Linton died peacefully after Catherine returned and joined him at his deathbed.

Ch. 28 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]]

Edgar Linton Catherine Linton

He died blissfully, Mr. Lockwood: he died so. Kissing her cheek, he murmured,—“I am going to her; and you, darling child, shall come to us!” and never stirred or spoke again; but continued that rapt, radiant gaze, till his pulse imperceptibly stopped and his soul departed.

c. 1801

Mr. Green assumed authority at the Grange and dismissed nearly all its servants.

Ch. 28 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · at dinner-time

Mr. Green

Mr. Green took upon himself to order everything and everybody about the place. He gave all the servants but me, notice to quit.

c. 1801

Heathcliff compels Catherine Linton to leave the Grange and return with him to Wuthering Heights.

Ch. 29 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff Linton Heathcliff Hareton Earnshaw Joseph

I’m come to fetch you home; and I hope you’ll be a dutiful daughter and not encourage my son to further disobedience.

c. 1801

Heathcliff punishes Linton Heathcliff by confining and terrifying him, leaving him fearful and weakened.

Ch. 29 · the day before yesterday

I brought him down one evening, the day before yesterday, and just set him in a chair, and never touched him afterwards.

c. 1801

Heathcliff has Catherine Earnshaw’s coffin opened and disturbs her remains.

Ch. 29 · yesterday

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it.

c. 1801

Heathcliff attempts to open Catherine Earnshaw’s grave, then abandons the effort after sensing her presence.

Ch. 29 · The day she was buried

Catherine Linton Heathcliff

I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might—it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands;

c. 1801

Catherine Linton leaves the Grange with Heathcliff despite resisting his control.

Ch. 29 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff fixed Catherine’s arm under his: though she disputed the act at first evidently; and with rapid strides he hurried her into the alley

c. 1801

Linton Heathcliff dies, and Heathcliff orders Joseph to remove his body.

Ch. 30 · one night

Linton Heathcliff Joseph Heathcliff

He afterwards made Joseph remove the body to his chamber

c. 1801

Linton Heathcliff bequeaths his movable property to Heathcliff under coercion.

Ch. 30 · during her week’s absence

Linton Heathcliff Heathcliff Catherine Linton

He had bequeathed the whole of his, and what had been her, moveable property, to his father: the poor creature was threatened, or coaxed, into that act during her week’s absence, when his uncle died.

c. 1801

Heathcliff claims and retains the lands, leaving Catherine without means to challenge possession.

Ch. 30

Catherine Linton Hareton Earnshaw Zillah

However, Mr. Heathcliff has claimed and kept them in his wife’s right and his also: I suppose legally; at any rate, Catherine, destitute of cash and friends, cannot disturb his possession.

c. 1801

Catherine Linton remains upstairs after Linton Heathcliff’s death.

Ch. 30 · a fortnight

Catherine Linton

Cathy stayed upstairs a fortnight, according to Zillah; who visited her twice a day, and would have been rather more friendly, but her attempts at increasing kindness were proudly and promptly repelled.

c. 1801

Catherine Linton comes downstairs for the first time since her confinement.

Ch. 30 · on a Sunday afternoon

The first occasion of her coming down into the house was on a Sunday afternoon.

c. 1801

Lockwood plans to leave for London and end his tenancy after October.

Ch. 30 · 📍 [[London]] · the second week in January

Catherine Linton Heathcliff

Notwithstanding the doctor’s prophecy, I am rapidly recovering strength; and though it be only the second week in January, I propose getting out on horseback in a day or two, and riding over to Wuthering Heights, to inform my landlord that I shall spend the next six months in London; and, if he likes, he may look out for another tenant to take the place after October.

c. 1801

Catherine reveals that Heathcliff destroyed her books, leaving her without reading material for weeks.

Ch. 31 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

Mr. Heathcliff never reads; so he took it into his head to destroy my books. I have not had a glimpse of one for weeks.

c. 1801

Hareton’s secret literary collection is revealed when Catherine accuses him of stealing and concealing her books.

Ch. 31 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

I came upon a secret stock in your room—some Latin and Greek, and some tales and poetry: all old friends.

c. 1801

Hareton gives Catherine his books, then burns them after she mocks his reading and provokes him.

Ch. 31 · 📍 Wuthering Heights

He afterwards gathered the books and hurled them on the fire.

c. 1801

Lockwood announces he will leave for London and will not retain Thrushcross Grange beyond his agreed year.

Ch. 31 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · next week

Ellen Dean Catherine Linton Heathcliff

I shall set out for London next week; and I must give you warning that I feel no disposition to retain Thrushcross Grange beyond the twelve months I agreed to rent it.

1802 (13 events)

1802

Heathcliff summons Ellen Dean to Wuthering Heights to stay with Catherine Linton.

Ch. 32 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · within a fortnight of your leaving us

I was summoned to Wuthering Heights, within a fortnight of your leaving us, she said; and I obeyed joyfully, for Catherine’s sake.

1802

Heathcliff dies, ending his control over Wuthering Heights.

Ch. 32 · Three months since

Ah! you have not heard of Heathcliff’s death, I see,” she continued.

1802

Hareton Earnshaw suffers a gun accident, injuring his arm and losing considerable blood.

Ch. 32 · at the commencement of March

Hareton Earnshaw

His gun burst while out on the hills by himself; a splinter cut his arm, and he lost a good deal of blood before he could reach home.

1802

Catherine Linton and Hareton Earnshaw reconcile, becoming sworn allies.

Ch. 32 · 📍 Wuthering Heights · On Easter Monday

I did not doubt the treaty had been ratified on both sides; and the enemies were, thenceforth, sworn allies.

c. 1802

Catherine Linton persuades Hareton Earnshaw to clear part of the garden for flowers.

Ch. 33 · On the morrow of that Monday

she had persuaded him to clear a large space of ground from currant and gooseberry bushes, and they were busy planning together an importation of plants from the Grange.

c. 1802

Catherine Linton declares that she and Hareton Earnshaw are friends.

Ch. 33

Heathcliff Catherine Linton Hareton Earnshaw Ellen Dean

Hareton and I are friends now; and I shall tell him all about you!

c. 1802

Heathcliff threatens Catherine Linton, then orders her removed and separated from Hareton Earnshaw.

Ch. 33

You must learn to avoid putting me in a passion, or I shall really murder you some time! Go with Mrs. Dean, and keep with her; and confine your insolence to her ears.

c. 1802

Catherine Linton stops criticizing Heathcliff after understanding Hareton Earnshaw’s loyalty to him.

Ch. 33 · during his absence

Catherine Linton Hareton Earnshaw Heathcliff

She showed a good heart, thenceforth, in avoiding both complaints and expressions of antipathy concerning Heathcliff

c. 1802

Heathcliff abandons his planned revenge against the houses and their representatives.

Ch. 33

Heathcliff Catherine Linton Hareton Earnshaw

when everything is ready and in my power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished!

c. 1802

Heathcliff reveals that his existence is consumed by anticipation of a single wish.

Ch. 33 · Five minutes ago

Heathcliff Ellen Dean

I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it.

c. 1802

Heathcliff is found dead in his chamber after several days of agitation and fasting.

Ch. 34 · The following evening

Heathcliff Hareton Earnshaw Ellen Dean

I could doubt no more: he was dead and stark!

c. 1802

Heathcliff is buried according to his wishes, with Hareton mourning beside his grave.

Ch. 34

We buried him, to the scandal of the whole neighbourhood, as he wished.

c. 1802

Catherine Linton and Hareton Earnshaw plan to marry and move to the Grange.

Ch. 34 · 📍 [[Thrushcross Grange]] · New Year’s Day