Hindley Earnshaw
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Hindley Earnshaw is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Hindley is the brother of Catherine Earnshaw, father of Hareton Earnshaw, and the foster brother and sworn enemy of Heathcliff. He descends into a life of drunkenness, degradation, and misery after his wife Frances dies from consumption, shortly after childbirth. This enables Heathcliff to seek revenge on him for his cruelty towards him in his childhood years.
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Hindley Earnshaw | |
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Wuthering Heights character | |
Created by | Emily Brontë |
Portrayed by | Hugh Williams André Morell Robert Brown William Marlowe Julian Glover John Duttine Jeremy Northam Burn Gorman |
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Family | Catherine Earnshaw (sister) Catherine Linton (niece) Mr. Earnshaw (father) |
Spouse | Frances |
Children | Hareton Earnshaw (son) |
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