A character in Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Brontë, Emily
The master of Wuthering Heights at the story's start, father of Hindley and the elder Catherine, who brings the orphan Heathcliff home from Liverpool.
Also known as: the old master, old Earnshaw
Inside the story
Mr. Earnshaw, also called the old master, is the head of Wuthering Heights at the story's outset. He is the father of Hindley and the elder Catherine, and he brings the orphan Heathcliff home from Liverpool.
An ageing, stalwart Yorkshire farmer, kind-hearted but grown grievously irritable and failing in strength in his final illness.
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