Wuthering Heights Pt 3

A lot of the documents and pictures that we've looked at have been interesting to me. Honestly, I think I like them better than I like the novel itself. It's always interesting to be able to look into the back story of a novel even if it's not directly. What I mean is, the documents that I've read and the pictures in the book help give me more of an idea about the setting of the novel and possibly why the novel touched on some of the issues that it did (like a woman's rights in marriage for an example). It's easy to understand from the novel alone that the law was a very big deal in those days, but to see a real life petition from women demanding their own rights really helped put it in perspective for me. These issues weren't just things that certain families had to deal with, it was an almost universal law and all women were effected by it in some way (some more than others of course, but it's still something that all women of the time were able to relate to and I'm sure a good chunk of them had to be frustrated by their lack of say so in the marriage at least from a legal stand point). That document alone was probably what stuck out to me most, because it helped give a better understanding of the novel since the law in general played such a huge role in Wuthering Heights.