"This novel contains undoubtedly powerful writing, and yet it seems to be thrown away. We want to know the object of a fiction. Once people were contented with a crude collection of mysteries. Now they desire to know why the mysteries are revealed. Do they teach mankind to avoid one course and to take another? Do they dissect any portion of existing society, exhibiting together its weak and its strong points? If these questions were asked regarding Wuthering Heights, there could not be an affirmative answer given...
Mr Ellis Bell, before constructing the novel, should have known that forced marriages, under threats and in confinement are illegal, and parties instrumental thereto can be punished. And second, that wills made by young ladies' minors are invalid.
The volumes are powerfully written records of wickedness and they have a moral – they show what Satan could do with the law of Entail."
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"We rise from the perusal of Wuthering Heights as if we had come fresh from a pest-house. Read Jane Eyre is our advice, but burn Wuthering Heights..."
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Ouch! That had to hurt Emily's feelings after she read that. To have someone write a review implying that they read the siblings book instead of their own in the person's review is harsh.
3) The final review that I'll be showing you was written by the Graham's Lady Magazine in July of 1848. Here's what they said:
"How a human being could have attempted such a book as the present without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery. It is a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors..."
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And I thought the last one was mean. To say such things about someone's writing is uncalled for. It's their book, NOT YOURS!!! BUG OFF!
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