Los personajes femeninos en la narrativa de Anna L’Estrange: la evolución de Margaret Earnshaw y Jessica Temple en Return to Wuthering Heights (1977)

Abstract

The English writer Emily Brontë has been the subject of significant research. Many aspects of her life and work have been studied. Wuthering Heights has inspired all kinds of artistic manifestations, such as painting and drawing, and there are numerous theatrical and television versions, operas and ballets. The reader sometimes becomes a new creator, completing a circular creation process that, in this section, will refer to sequels within the same discursive spectrum: the textual. Four novels based on Emily Brontë's novel contemplate different aspects from a thematic and temporal point of view. These four works are Heathcliff (1977) by Jeffrey Caine, Return to Wuthering Heights (1978) by Anna L'Estrange, Catherine, her book (1983) by Geoffrey Wheatcroft and The Story of Heathcliff's Journey Back to Wuthering Heights (1992) by Lin Haire-Sargeant. In 1977, Anna L'Estrange, as a reader of the Brontëan narrative, published a sequel to Wuthering Heights (1847). L'Estrange introduces aspects of the plot that are much more contemporary and unthinkable in Emily Brontë's narrative. The main aim of this paper is to analyse the themes of L'Estrange's work and, specifically, to analyse the evolution of two characters in Anna L'Estrange's narrative: Margaret Earnshaw and Jessica Temple.