The Brontosaurus is named for the first woman to depict it in fiction, Emily Brontë. Her novel Wuthering Heights was an epic adventure through a lost world of dinosaurs and took advantage of the recent discovery of a massive skull fossil to inspire its largest beast, what would become known as the Brontosaurus, which she simply called “Heathcliff.” Heathcliff’s rampage through Victorian England horrified and amazed readers who were at the time used to the dull and dinosaurless works of Jane Austen, whose name went on to inspire the word “Austere.”
The only post that has made me want to read Wuthering Heights.
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