The tragic outcome to the novel is inevitable, but unique imaginative power, was Emily Bronte's only novel, for she died the year after it was published at the age of 30.
The Bronte sisters opened up new possibilities for the term of the English novel; at the same time they provided a basis for which psychological exploration became a key component in the development of the genre of the novel. They also offered new possibilities for the portrayal of women in fiction. Women became even more of a 'foreign land', but increasingly familiar and central as subjects for fiction. .
When the novel Wuthering Heights first published, it found revolting, iredeemably monstrous, and too odiously and abominably pagan to be palatable to the most vitiated class of English readers. Outside of Wuthering Heights, there is no madness in Victorian fiction, so the reader felt fear with a disgust in front of the novel's passion. Charlotte Bronte tried to back off the harsh criticism by saying that Victorian readers has 'certain vivid and fearful scenes banished sleep by night and disturbed peace by day'. The wickedness of Wuthering Heights appals people, because it is pure wickedness, free from any taint of flesh. And, today, novel counts in the Classics of English Literature, and every critic accepts Wuthering Heights as a masterpiece. According to the critic George Sampson, Wuthering Heights is the combination of high imagination with pure ignorance, because Emily never knew what sexuality feels like but still she wrote the love itself instead of a love story. While David Daiches finds a 'stark grandeur' in the novel, G. D. Klingopulos wrote that Wuthering Heights is more of a dramatic poem than a novel in one of his analysis (Scrutiny, 1947).
Readers of Victorian Period had a hard time even in understanding the name of the novel. Because "wuthering" is not a word that using in daily life and it did not take place in dictionaries.