Information about High Sunderland Hall
High Sunderland Hall was a manor house, built circa 1600 just outside Halifax, West Yorkshire and demolished in 1951 after falling into dereliction
[1]. The house is perhaps most notable for being said to have provided Emily Brontë with her description for Wuthering Heights[2], although this is a matter for some debate[3]; the building stood just a few miles from Law Hill House, Southowram, where she spent some time as a school mistress
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The building was noted for its elaborate and grotesque carvings and her description of Heathcliff's wild moorland home has unmistakable echoes of the old house.
Emily Brontë wrote [5]:
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The building was noted for its elaborate and grotesque carvings and her description of Heathcliff's wild moorland home has unmistakable echoes of the old house.
Emily Brontë wrote [5]:
| Before passing the threshold I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front and especially about the principal door, above which, among the wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date 1500 ...| |
References
1. ^ Halifax Today article on Local Sites with Bronte associations
2. ^ A reader's guide to Wuthering Heights
3. ^ IngentaConnect Article about Everard Flintoff's book, The Geography of Wuthering Heights
4. ^ Halifax Today article on Local Sites with Bronte associations
5. ^ Halifax Today article on Local Sites with Bronte associations
2. ^ A reader's guide to Wuthering Heights
3. ^ IngentaConnect Article about Everard Flintoff's book, The Geography of Wuthering Heights
4. ^ Halifax Today article on Local Sites with Bronte associations
5. ^ Halifax Today article on Local Sites with Bronte associations
manor house or fortified manor-house is a country house, which has historically formed the centre of a manor (see Manorialism). The term is sometimes applied to relatively small country houses which belonged to gentry families, as well as to grand stately homes,
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15th century - 16th century - 17th century
1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s
1597 1598 1599 - 1600 - 1601 1602 1603
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Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
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1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s
1597 1598 1599 - 1600 - 1601 1602 1603
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Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
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Halifax
Halifax, West Yorkshire ()
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
1948 1949 1950 - 1951 - 1952 1953 1954
Year 1951 (MCMLI
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1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
1948 1949 1950 - 1951 - 1952 1953 1954
Year 1951 (MCMLI
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Emily Jane Brontë
Portrait by her brother
Born: July 30 1818
Thornton, Yorkshire, England
Died: November 19 1848 (aged 30)
Haworth, Yorkshire, England
Occupation: Novelist, Poet
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Portrait by her brother
Born: July 30 1818
Thornton, Yorkshire, England
Died: November 19 1848 (aged 30)
Haworth, Yorkshire, England
Occupation: Novelist, Poet
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Wuthering Heights
Title page of the first edition
Author Emily Brontë
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Thomas Cautley Newby
Publication date 1847
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Title page of the first edition
Author Emily Brontë
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Thomas Cautley Newby
Publication date 1847
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The village of Southowram stands on the hill top to the east of Halifax, West Yorkshire, and is roughly equidistant from Halifax and Brighouse.
Southowram stands on the south side of Shibden valley.
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Southowram stands on the south side of Shibden valley.
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