Editing Wuthering Heights (section)

===Inspiration for locations===
[[File:High Sunderland Hall 1818.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|[[High Sunderland Hall]] in 1818, shortly before Emily Brontë saw the building.]]
There is no evidence that either Thrushcross Grange or Wuthering Heights is based on an actual building, but various locations have been speculated as inspirations. [[Top Withens]], a ruined farmhouse in an isolated area near the [[Haworth Parsonage]], was suggested as the model for Wuthering Heights by Ellen Nussey, a friend of [[Charlotte Brontë]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Paul |last=Thompson| title=The Inspiration for the Wuthering Heights Farmhouse? |url=https://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/locations/top-withens |date=June 2009 |access-date=11 October 2009 }}</ref> However, its structure does not match that of the farmhouse described in the novel.<ref name="inspirations">{{cite web |first=Paul |last=Thompson |title=Wuthering Heights: The Home of the Earnshaws |url=https://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/locations/wuthering-heights#inspirations |date=June 2009 |access-date=11 October 2009 }}</ref> [[High Sunderland Hall]], near Law Hill, [[Halifax, West Yorkshire|Halifax]] where Emily worked briefly as a governess in 1838, now demolished,<ref name="inspirations" /> has also been suggested as a model for Wuthering Heights. However, it is too grand for a farmhouse.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/locations/wutheringheights.htm#inspirations |title=A Reader's Guide to Wuthering Heights |access-date=13 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005025804/http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/locations/wutheringheights.htm#inspirations |archive-date=5 October 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Ponden Hall]] is famous for reputedly being the inspiration for Thrushcross Grange, since Brontë was a frequent visitor. However, it does not match the description given in the novel and is closer in size and appearance to the farmhouse of Wuthering Heights. The Brontë biographer Winifred Gerin believed that Ponden Hall was the original of Wildfell Hall, the old mansion in [[Anne Brontë]]'s ''[[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]]''.<ref name="Tenantgeo">{{cite book|title=Introductions for The Tenant of Wildfell Hall|year=2008|publisher=Worth Press Limited|isbn=978-1-903025-57-4}}</ref><ref>[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/house-may-have-inspired-wuthering-heights-sale-180971675/ Brigit Katz, "The House That May Have Inspired 'Wuthering Heights' Is Up for Sale". Smithsonian Magazine online, March 12, 2019]</ref> Helen Smart, while noting that Thrushcross Grange has "traditionally been associated with{{nbsp}}... Ponden Hall, Stanbury, near Haworth", sees [[Shibden Hall]], [[Northowram]], in [[Halifax, West Yorkshire|Halifax]] parish, as more likely,<ref>"Notes" to ''Wuthering Heights''. Edited by [[Ian Jack (academic)|Ian Jack]] and Introduction and notes by [[Helen Small]]. Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 340.</ref> referring to Hilda Marsden's article "The Scenic Background of Wuthering Heights".<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1179/030977657796548908 | title=The Scenic Background of Wuthering Heights | year=1957 | last1=Marsden | first1=Hilda | journal=Brontë Society Transactions | volume=13 | issue=2 | pages=111–130 }}</ref>