Wuthering Heights is at its heart a story of class and race. Emerald Fennell has got it all wrong
- Posted on February 17, 2026
- By The Guardian
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Wuthering Heights is at its heart a story of class and race. Emerald Fennell has got it all wrong

By turning the novel into just a corset-heaving love story, the director has stripped it of what made it so boundary-pushing, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett