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Timeline of Wuthering Heights (04_timeline_of_wuthering_heights.doc)

[edit]Timeline of Wuthering Heights

1500

 The stone above the front door of Wuthering Heights, bearing the name of Hareton    

 Earnshaw, is inscribed, possibly to mark the completion of the house.

 

1758

 Nelly is born.

 

1762

 Edgar Linton born

1764

Heathcliff born

1765

Catherine Earnshaw born

1766

Isabella Linton born

1771

Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights by Mr Earnshaw (late summer)

1773

Mrs Earnshaw dies

1774

Hindley is sent off to college by Mr. Earnshaw

1777

Hindley marries Frances; Mr Earnshaw dies; Hindley comes back (October); Catherine goes to stay at Thrushcross Grange (November), then returns to Wuthering Heights (Christmas).

1778

Hareton is born (June); Frances dies (autumn); Hindley begins his slide into alcoholism.

1780

Heathcliff runs away from Wuthering Heights; Mr and Mrs Linton both die; Catherine becomes engaged to Edgar Linton

1783

Catherine marries Edgar (April); Heathcliff comes back and arrives at Thrushcross Grange in September

1784

 Heathcliff marries Isabella (January); Catherine becomes ill with brain fever and  

 dies; Cathy is born (20 March); Linton Heathcliff is born (September)

1785

 Early in the year, Isabella flees Wuthering Heights and settles in London; Hindley

 dies; Heathcliff inherits Wuthering Heights

1797

Isabella dies; Cathy visits Wuthering Heights and meets Hareton; Linton is brought to Thrushcross Grange and is then taken to Wuthering Heights

1800

Cathy meets Heathcliff and sees Linton again (20 March); Cathy stages her romance with Linton in the winter.

1801

Early in the year, young Catherine is imprisoned by Heathcliff and forced to marry Linton (August); Edgar Linton dies (September); Linton dies (October); Heathcliff assumes control of Thrushcross Grange; Late in the year Mr.Lockwood goes to Thrushcross Grange and visits Wuthering Heights, beginning his narrative; in a winter storm, Lockwood takes ill and begins conversing with Nelly Dean who narrates her story for him

1802

Mr. Lockwood goes back to London (January); ; Catherine and Hareton fall in love; Heathcliff dies (May); Mr.Lockwood returns in September and hears the end of the story from Nelly

1803

Cathy marries Hareton

 

Chronology

 

The story of Wuthering Heights is told through flashbacks recorded in diary entries, and events are often presented out of chronological order – Lockwood’s narrative takes place after Nelly’s narrative, for instance, but is interspersed with Nelly’s story in his journal. Nevertheless, the novel contains enough clues to enable an approximate reconstruction of its chronology, which was elaborately designed by Emily Brontë. For instance, Lockwood’s diary entries are recorded in the late months of 1801 and in September 1802; in 1801, Nelly tells Lockwood that she has lived at Thrushcross Grange for eighteen years, since Catherine’s marriage to Edgar, which must then have occurred in 1783. We know that Catherine was engaged to Edgar for three years, and that Nelly was twenty-two when they were engaged, so the engagement must have taken place in 1780, and Nelly must have been born in 1758. Since Nelly is a few years older than Catherine, and since Lockwood comments that Heathcliff is about forty years old in 1801, it stands to reason that Heathcliff and Catherine were born around 1761, three years after Nelly. There are several other clues like this in the novel (such as Hareton’s birth, which occurs in June, 1778).