In a novel, this woman relays the story of how she found the skeletons of dead baby birds because her lover set a trap that dissuaded the older birds from returning to the nest. Seeing a lock of this woman’s hair on the floor, a man mixes strands of his hair with hers, and fits them into her locket. The narrator of a novel sees this woman’s name scrawled several times on a mildewy ledge, each time with a different (*) surname. A different man is distraught when that narrator shuts the window the former believes this woman’s ghost is attempting to slip through. This woman isolates herself while pregnant with the baby of Edgar Linton, regretting how she told a low-class orphan that she couldn't marry him. For 10 points, name this woman who haunts her love interest Heathcliff from beyond the grave in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. ■END■
ANSWER: Catherine Earnshaw [or Catherine Linton; or Catherine Heathcliff; accept Catherine’s ghost or equivalents; prompt on Linton before mention; prompt on Earnshaw; reject “Cathy Linton”; reject "Heathcliff" alone]
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