A Ghost in the Heights Wild December, Top Withens (detail) (AW70)

Reference code: AW70

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Technique: Cut paper Collage

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The remote, windswept farmhouse known as Top Withens stands high on the moors above Haworth.
Popular belief has it that this was the setting Emily Brontë had in mind when she described the Earnshaw family home, Wuthering Heights.
Whether or not that is the case, Top Withens continues to exert a powerful attraction for vistors to the area and, perhaps, the ghosts which are such a disturbing presence in Wuthering Heights.
The question is, is this particular visitor gliding through the snowdrifts the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw or that of her creator, Emily Brontë?

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