Wuthering Heights
March 2026

A series of illustrations for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights .

Explorations into analogue photographic printing processes were made to help capture the eerie 19th century atmosphere of the novel.

Chapter 3: “Let me in! Let me in!”

Chapter 9: “Heathcliff [...] looked up to discover the author of the incident”

Chapter 12: “Her mind had strayed to other diversions”

Chapter 15: “I love my murderer— but yours! How can I?”

Chapter 16: “He was there, leant against an old ash tree”

Chapter 17: “Blest as a soul escaped from purgatory, I bounded, leaped and flew”

Chapter 29: “In the evening I went to the churchyard. It blew bleak as winter - all round was solitary”

“ And [I] wondered how anyone could ever image unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth”

Proposed dust jacket design

Chapter 3 - Photo etching

Chapter 17 - Photo etching

Chapter 29- Photo etching

Models: Alice Amalir, Erin Beresford, Polly Martin, Madeleine Rose, Emme Rees, Ben Shepherd
© Melissa Amalir 2026