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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”
Chapter 29- Photo etching
Models: Alice Amalir, Erin Beresford, Polly Martin, Madeleine Rose, Emme Rees, Ben Shepherd
© Melissa Amalir 2026