Introduction
Emily Bronte's character, Heathcliff was born around 1764 and found abandoned on the streets of Liverpool in around 1771.
Branwell Bronte was born in 1817, & visited Liverpool on two occasions, once in July 1839 when he was 22 years old, and again in July 1845 in a state of despair after a failed love affair.
Emily Bronte published Wuthering Heights in 1847. Her impressions of Heathcliff's Liverpool would certainly have been influenced by her brothers infatuation with this city. None of the sisters ever visited.
I'm a Liverpool & North West Blue Badge Tourist Guide & Beatles Guide with a Heathcliff obsession. The more I read the more intrigued I am about this fictitious street urchin from streets of Liverpool. A million questions, with very few true answers. I can however look at Liverpool through the different eras, and speculate how Branwell Bronte's exuberant ramblings about my home town inspired sister Emily to create this gothic anti-hero. These musings are simply to make some sense of research, synchronicities & extraordinary coincidences linked to people & places in my life, including John Lennon. They are not an in-depth intellectual analysis at all and shouldn't be read as such. I also feel the need to point out that I KNOW Heathcliff was a fictional character. I just need to use his 'dates of birth' etc to discover similar characters of the same era.
Branwell Bronte was born in 1817, & visited Liverpool on two occasions, once in July 1839 when he was 22 years old, and again in July 1845 in a state of despair after a failed love affair.
Emily Bronte published Wuthering Heights in 1847. Her impressions of Heathcliff's Liverpool would certainly have been influenced by her brothers infatuation with this city. None of the sisters ever visited.
I'm a Liverpool & North West Blue Badge Tourist Guide & Beatles Guide with a Heathcliff obsession. The more I read the more intrigued I am about this fictitious street urchin from streets of Liverpool. A million questions, with very few true answers. I can however look at Liverpool through the different eras, and speculate how Branwell Bronte's exuberant ramblings about my home town inspired sister Emily to create this gothic anti-hero. These musings are simply to make some sense of research, synchronicities & extraordinary coincidences linked to people & places in my life, including John Lennon. They are not an in-depth intellectual analysis at all and shouldn't be read as such. I also feel the need to point out that I KNOW Heathcliff was a fictional character. I just need to use his 'dates of birth' etc to discover similar characters of the same era.
