Every WUTHERING HEIGHTS Reference in THE FAVORITES

(or should I say WUTHERING ICE, which was my deeply unserious working title)

Hello paid subscribers! Of your own free will, you have opted in to receive the most obsessive deep cuts straight from my unhinged author brain, and I love you for that 🫶 I’m aiming to send an in-depth paywalled post on the 13th of every month (cause I’m a spooky bitch). Today happens to be Friday the 13th and the release of the new Wuthering Heights movie, so I figured why not start with a list of every single Wuthering Heights Easter egg I managed to sneak into The Favorites?

My personal Wuthering Heights collection so far. Should I write a post someday about why I do in fact need each and every one of these copies?

First things first, though: no, I have not seen the movie yet (and I probably won’t go see it until the Olympics are over). Yes, I am still mad about a white dude playing Heathcliff in the Year of Our Lord 2026. The more I’ve heard about this movie, though, the more incensed I’ve become by not just the casting, but filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s total disregard for the themes of the novel.

I love a transformational retelling as much as the next extremely online English lit girlie — I mean, hello, I wrote one — but you’ve got to respect the source material, and Fennell so clearly does not. Whether the characters are in corset stays or skates and sequins, Wuthering Heights is a twisted Gothic tragedy about obsessive love and generational trauma, not a sweaty, kinky bodice-ripper.

Once I’ve seen the movie, you can bet I’ll be sharing my thoughts here. But now, on to the nerdy Easter eggs! I’ve got a YouTube video where I talk through some of these, but this post will be the only source for the complete list.