The Victorian era isn't single, simple or unified is it something encapsulated across many literary working accros a long period of time. Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte under the pseudonym Ellis Bell in 1847, is a perspicacious critique on Victorian family, society and legality following first the observations of Lockwood in the North England estate, Wuthering Heights, and then Nelly Dean retelling the heart-breaking story involving Heathcliff, the Earnshaw’s and the Lintons.
An understanding of patrilineal law is vital to contextually inform a fastidious analysis of Wuthering heights as primogeniture plays an important role not only in the structure of the text but also the Gender roles and family structures in Victorian England. |