You could saythe Emily Bronte's career as a writer started on June 5, 1826, when her father returned from a trip with a set of wooden soldiers intended as a present for Emily's brother BranweU. Instead, what happened was that each of the four Bronte children chose soldiers for their own, gave them names and personalities, and began inventing plays about them. Over the years these grew into complicated serial stories, and though at first all four children collaborated they later split into two factions, with Charlotte and Branwell writing one tale while Emily and Anne worked on another.
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The dark, wild gypsy orphan Heathcliff loved only one person on earth, beautiful, willful Cathy Earnshaw. But Cathy"s brother Hindley--the cruel, drunken master of Wuthering Heights--hated and abused the orphan; their rich neighbors at Thrushcross Grange, Edgar Linton and Isabella Linton, reviled the boy. They all conspired to force Heathcliff and Cathy apart, first as playmates, then as lovers, and at last to drive Heathcliff away.
Years passed. Heathcliff returned a rich man--and found Cathy had married Edgar. Like a sullen demon, the gypsy vowed to rule Wuthering Heights and the Grange, to plague his tormentors, to relentlessly hound and ruin the Earnshaws, the Lintons, even their children--until he won back the woman he loved.
Which would never be.
For Cathy was dead.
