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Female writers and readers have been challenging the patriarchy for more than 200 years

Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation of Wuthering Heights has been pulling in the crowds recently, which is quite a feat in troubled times for cinema. Published in 1847, Emily Brontë’s tale of psycho-sexual power dynamics is just one of many enduring female-authored 19th century novels exploring female sexuality and desire for…

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Fans flock to Brontë home after release of Wuthering Heights

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New Wuthering Heights film sparks fresh tourism boom in Yorkshire village: ‘It’s been quite mindblowing’

A new wave of Brontëmania has swept through Haworth

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Why women are ignoring the critics and embracing this unapologetically sexy Wuthering Heights

What Emerald Fennell's bold adaptation reveals about how women want to be represented on screen

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Brontë’s Heathcliff wasn’t white. Jacob Elordi is. Is that a problem?

The race of Heathcliff, the brooding antihero of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, is a much-discussed element of the classic tale.

The Conversation

Wuthering Heights Fans Have Messages For The Movie Newbies Who Are Finding Out Heathcliff And Cathy Are 'Bad People'

They're pretty toxic, really.

Cinemablend

In Emerald Fennel’s Wuthering Heights, domestic abuse has been recast as consensual kink

Much has been done, by way of interviews and Instagram reels, to market Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights as a tale of ferocious passion and untameable desire. The question of precisely whose passion we see play out onscreen is a crucial one.

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Wuthering Heights is the first movie of 2026 to pass the $100 million mark at the box office

The film is driving moviegoers mad

Total Film

In the age of the ‘rough sex defence’, Emerald Fennell’s treatment of Wuthering Heights’ Isabella Linton is grotesque

By portraying the young woman Heathcliff abuses as a sexily willing participant in her own degradation, Fennell’s adaptation betrays the book, and her audience

The Guardian - UK

The 26 books you must read in 2026, curated by an unapologetic literary obsessive

From the source material to on-screen epics, Stephen King’s latest, tales of Medieval women and more, Saskia Kemsley presents the must-read titles to add to your 2026 reading stack

Evening Standard

Wuthering Heights looks lush – but it’s a bad film and a worse adaptation

Emily Brontë died of tuberculosis 177 years ago, yet this adaptation is still the worst thing that has ever happened to her.

The Conversation

Charli XCX turned Wuthering Heights into a sonic gothic masterpiece

When the album dropped at the stroke of midnight on February 13, I found myself lying in the dark listening to Charli XCX’s Wuthering Heights. As her second soundtrack album (after Bottoms in 2023), this record was made for Emerald Fennell’s 2026 film adaptation of Wuthering Heights. But this collection…

The Conversation

How Wuthering Heights was shaped by Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry

Wuthering Heights initially baffled readers who dismissed it as “a strange book”.

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7 best 'Wuthering Heights' movie and show adaptations, ranked

A definitive guide to the greatest Catherine and Heathcliff pairings in cinema history, including Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.

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Evening Standard

Fifty Shades of Earl Grey Tea: Wuthering Heights is more Bridgerton bodice-ripper than BDSM

What’s a Gothic romance without the ghosts?

The Independent UK

‘Unique’ Wuthering Heights prop used by Margot Robbie up for sale for £100k

The piece of film memorabilia dates back to 1890

The Independent UK

‘It works on its own terms’: Literary experts give verdict on Wuthering Heights

Emerald Fennell’s new ‘Wuthering Heights’ sparked a familiar fight about book adaptations, but some Brontë experts say it still works

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Why Wuthering Heights has left Brontë superfans outraged: ‘It was disappointing and upsetting’

The Margot Robbie-starring adaptation has divided critics and book enthusiasts alike

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Cinemablend

Margot Robbie Knows People Have Polarizing Opinions About Wuthering Heights. Her Take?

Fans have had a lot to say about this book adaptation.

The Independent UK

A movie that takes liberties with 'Wuthering Heights'? Scholars are OK with that

Emerald Fennell’s new “Wuthering Heights” sparked a familiar fight about book adaptations, but some Brontë experts say it still works

The Mary Sue

“Wuthering Heights” Is Criticized For How Different It Is From the Book. So What Are Those Differences?

There were a lot of liberties taken.

The Independent UK

Wuthering Heights has torn the Independent’s culture desk apart

OFFICE POLITICS: Are you currently distrusting your friends and loved ones due to their feelings about Emerald Fennell’s garish bodice-ripper? Then you are not alone! Here at ‘The Independent’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ has left us more divided than ever. So, in the interest of healing, we asked eight of our writers…

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering Heights is at its heart a story of class and race. Emerald Fennell has got it all wrong

By turning the novel into just a corset-heaving love story, the director has stripped it of what made it so boundary-pushing, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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Wuthering Heights Earned Back Its $113M Budget In 48 Hours & That’s On Horniness

Critics, be damned, I guess!

The Guardian - UK

Every generation gets the Wuthering Heights it deserves. And Emerald Fennell’s is for the always-online

Packed cinemas testify to the allure of Emily Brontë’s tale, even if this latest retelling is not to everyone’s taste, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami

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