How Emerald Fennell Captured the Transgressive Power of Wuthering Heights
Published: February 12, 2026
Duration: 55:34
On Sunday afternoon—just hours before the Super Bowl—members of the Vogue Book Club gathered at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea for a special preview screening of Wuthering Heights, followed by an insightful conversation between director Emerald Fennell and Chloe for The Run-Through.
Drawing on literary scholarship and her own teenage memories of the book, Fennell chose to lean into its sadomasochistic undercurrents. As she explained, “There’s a quote from Daphne du Maurier in which she describes Wuthering Heights as a kind of sexless book. But I’ve never experienced it that way. That’s part of the...