Wuthering Heights Reading Group

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If you read it on the kindle app I think you can bookmark it?
I think when looking through this thread I came across a previous post by Isabella saying the characters all have similar names/sounds on purpose to mystify the reader. If that's true it certainly works, lol.

Here's a brief summary of the characters (thinking if we get confused we can just refer back to this ):

Lockwood: First character we meet, new tenant of Thrushcross Grange.

Heathcliff: Landlord of Thrushcross, orphan that Mr. Earnshaw brings home from Liverpool and raises alongside his own children, Isabellas husband. Linton’s father

Catherine Earnshaw/Linton: Daughter of Mr Earnshaw, sister of Hindley, wife of Edgar, Catherine’s mother.

Hindley Earnshaw: Son of Mr Earnshaw, brother of Catherine, Husband of Frances, Father of Hareton

Mr Earnshaw: Father of Hindley and Catherine

Edgar Linton: Brother of Isabella, husband of Catherine, father of Cathering (younger)

Isabella Linton: Sister of Edgar, wife of Heathcliff, mother of Linton

Frances Earnshaw: wife of Hindley, mother of Hareton

Hareton Earnshaw: son of Frances and Hindley, cousin of Catherine (younger)

Linton Heathcliff: Son of Isabella and Heathcliff, cousin and husband of Catherine (younger)

Catherine (younger/jnr): daughter of Catherine and Edgar, wife (widow) and cousin of Linton, cousin of Hareton

Joseph: Servant that’s worked at WH for a long time, speaks in Yorkshire dialect

Nelly Dean: Servant first of WH and later Thrushcross

The descriptions of the hand are very creepy aren't they?

That's such a fitting and atmospheric photograph. Ponden Hall is brilliant
(Ponden is the setting of a recent book, too- 'the girl at the window' by Rowan Coleman. It sounds brilliant and a bit spooky too, I plan to read it soon )

Anyone feel like reading WH ?