SOURCE: Law, Alice. “Wuthering Heights—by Branwell?” In Patrick Branwell Brontë, pp. 141-84. London: A. M. Philpot, Ltd., 1923.

In the following excerpt, Law argues that Branwell, not Emily, wrote Wuthering Heights, citing the masculine tone of the novel among other evidence to support her claim.

We must now examine the evidences of Branwell's actual known literary power and achievements, and the particular reasons for believing that he was the author of Wuthering Heights.

It will be necessary to turn back again to the year 1845, and to the close of the month of July, when Branwell, summarily dismissed from his tutorship, had returned home, because it was during the months immediately following his return that his literary activities, already alluded to, have a special significance in connection with our enquiry.

During the time when so many of Branwell's critics suppose that he was giving his entire leisure to drink...