On the Trail of England's Victorian Literary Ladies Book-Loving Tourists Visit the Settings Used by Three Famous Novelists

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I didn't meet Heathcliff coming over a rise on Emily Bronte's moors. But the imagined landscape of "Wuthering Heights" did come alive as I walked a well-worn track into the Yorkshire hills.

The weather - appropriately blustery and damp - intensified the "you are there" feeling. A fictional setting became fact. Emily and her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, wrote the famous novels that both shocked and captivated their Victorian readers in the village of Haworth nearby. The parsonage in the English midlands where they grew up looks much as it did in the 1850s, after Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" had achieved its great success.

Within an easy drive of the small cobblestone …