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Dobriskey's British team-mate Laura Weightman finished 11th in the race 12 years ago but that has risen to sixth as a result of others having their results removed.

Fans of “Wuthering Heights” — not to mention “Jane Eyre,” Charlotte’s equally famous entry in the family’s literary sensation sweepstakes — will instantly recognize Weightman as a leading man lifted directly from the Brontë mold: initially forbidding, judgmental and withholding, only to succumb to helpless adoration once the superior character of his beloved and the windswept romance of the Yorkshire moors have their desired effect.

Brontë fundamentalists might object; Weightman, for one, was real, the affair apparently not, alas.

In their passionate intensity and in some narrative particulars — there are outdoor rendezvous and some spying through windows — Emily’s relationships with both Branwell and Weightman suggestively evoke that between Catherine and Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights.”

Although historians concur that Anne Brontë — and possibly Charlotte — fancied Weightman, there is no evidence that Emily did.