The first and only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff... Wuthering Heights is now well-regarded, but contemporaneous reviews were split. The book was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty and for its challenges to Victorian morality, religion, and its social structure.