THE HANOVERS
Before becoming Kings of England, the Hanovers ruled over a small province in this country.
Germany
It's Rule #1 in Miss Heimlich's class: Nothing is this in literature.
accidental
This disease wiped out multiple members of the Brontë family, including authors Emily and Anne.
tuberculosis
The novel Wuthering Heights begins with Mr. Lockwood paying a visit to the Heights where he has a creepy encounter with this character's ghost.
Catherine Earnshaw-Linton
Princess Victoria's uncle, King William IV, earned this frivolous nickname.
Silly Billy
No need to be a poetry snob! If it's a square, it's this.
a sonnet
The Brontë sisters spent most of their lives living in this English county.
Yorkshire
Hindley warns the newly-married Isabella to bolt her door each night, because he visits her husband's door each evening with this.
a gun
This germanic tribe sacked Rome in 410 A.D. Centuries later, their name would be applied to novels like Wuthering Heights.
The Goths
At one point, King George III's sons had given him 57 grandchildren, but this many were illegitimate.
56
Good readers pay attention when characters go in the water. In Thomas Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor, he uses the maxim: If he comes up, it's this.
baptism
It's the name given to a house owned by a church for the use of the pastor and his family. The Brontës grew up in one.
Thrushcross Grange
It's the city where old Mr. Earnshaw found the orphaned Heathcliff.
Liverpool
Leopold, Princess Charlotte's widower, went on to become king of this country.
Belgium
Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires, and this author should know! He penned the novel Dracula.
Bram Stoker
This artist and only son of the Brontë family painted the only surviving image of his famous sisters.
Branwell Bronte
It's the name inscribed above the entrance to Wuthering Heights.
The American-British writer Henry James wrote this novella that we'll be reading next.
The Turn of the Screw
It's the term for a male midwife, like Richard Croft, who committed suicide after Princess Charlotte died in childbirth.
accoucher
Good readers look for patterns. These settings, plot devices, characters, and symbols have been showing up in literature all over the world for millennia.
archetypes
Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights under this pseudonym.
Ellis Bell
It's the closest town to Wuthering Heights.
Gimmerton
In 1978, this unusual British singer/song-writer wrote a song inspired by the novel Wuthering Heights.
Kate Bush