Isabella Linton

Isabella Mr. Edgar Linton is the gentle, refined younger sister of Mr. Edgar Linton, a charming young woman of eighteen whose kind nature and keen emotions make her vulnerable to deception. Sheltered within the genteel world of Thrushcross Grange, she possesses keen wit and a keen temper despite her infantile manner—making her both attractive and unpredictable. When Mr. Heathcliff returns to the neighborhood as a seemingly reformed gentleman, Isabella's affections are captured irresistibly, a preference that horrifies her protective brother and his wife. Mr. Edgar Linton recognizes that Mr. Heathcliff's exterior has altered while his mind remains unchanged and dangerous, yet Isabella's attachment rises unsolicited and is bestowed where it awakens no genuine reciprocation. Mr. Heathcliff, coldly calculating, views her as a tool in his revenge against the Mr. Edgar Linton family and as a means to claim property and position. Her subsequent elopement with him leads to a brief, brutal marriage marked by his contempt and her growing horror at his true nature. She escapes to the south, near London, where she bears Mr. Heathcliff's son, Mr. Edgar Linton, in isolation and exile, maintaining a regular but sorrowful correspondence with her brother until her death.