What Gothic novel was written by Emily Brontë?

The Gothic novel written by Emily Brontë is 'Wuthering Heights'. It was first published in 1847 under Brontë's pen name, Ellis Bell, and is her only novel.

Set among the Yorkshire moors, the story centres on the Earnshaw and Linton families and the turbulent relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. Its atmosphere of isolation, revenge, social conflict, emotional extremity, and possible supernatural presence gives it strong Gothic qualities, although it also draws on Romantic fiction and tragedy.

The novel originally appeared in a three-volume set: 'Wuthering Heights' occupied the first two volumes, while Anne Brontë's 'Agnes Grey' filled the third. Emily and Anne used the pseudonyms Ellis Bell and Acton Bell partly because women writers faced prejudice in the nineteenth-century literary marketplace.

Readers often confuse the Brontë sisters' novels. 'Jane Eyre' was written by Charlotte Brontë, while 'Agnes Grey' and 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' were written by Anne. Emily's novel is distinctive for its layered narration, especially the accounts given by Lockwood and Nelly Dean.