However, there was an element of suspicion in early readings of the text as the text was published under a male pseudonym: Ellis Bell, which made it perceived as a highly masculine text and for more than a century, women avoided this text under the threat of getting identified with the fate of Catherine Earnshaw and It was only after coming up of Freudian theory that this novel was seen as a female’s quest for self-consciousness. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth –Century Literary Imagination (1979) by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, however brought the decisive change in the realm of interpretations of the novel as they assert that this novel is ‘a Bildungsroman about a girl’s passage from “innocence” to “experience”’.
