Frances Earnshaw plays a secondary role in the novel. She is Hindley's wife, Harter's mother, who is soft and fragile. She died after the childbirth. She is a slender and painful girl, but the birth of her son undermined her poor health. In the summer of the next year, Frances gives birth to a son, Hareton, but she dies before the year is out. This leads Hindley to descend into a life of drunkenness and waste. Mentally and a physically weak woman causes a men’s sympathy, and they always want to help and to do everything possible for her, and sometimes even impossible. She is exhausted, tired and weak in health.
Frances Earnshaw in the Essays
Author: Craig Brown