Subaltern Echoes in the White Creole: A Postcolonial Feminist Study of Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea"
Subaltern Echoes in the White Creole: A Postcolonial Feminist Study of Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea"
Tanvir Akhtar Khan, Department of English, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan, Pakistan Vol. 3 No. 1 (2025): Southern Journal of Arts & Humanitie
This study has examined the novel Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea" in the context of Postcolonial Feminism, particularly Gayatri Spivak's Subaltern Theory. The novel portrays the marginalization of White Creole women in the British Caribbean after the slavery abolition Act (1833). The novel "Wide Sargasso Sea” was selected as a sample of study and textual analytical techniques were employed to analyze the main themes of the novel. Two main characters, Antoinette and her mother, Annette, embody the subaltern experience. They faced severe hardships due to their racial and gender discrimination in a society ruled by colonialism and patriarchy. The analysis explores how colonial ideology worsens the situation for subaltern women. The interplay of race, wealth, and power maintains social and economic inequalities, leaving Creole women marginalized and dependent. Marriage is depicted as superficial and exploitative, offers no solace, and is driven by factors beyond genuine love or choice.
In conclusion, The study sheds light on the plight of subaltern women in a colonial setting. Through Antoinette and Annette, Rhys exposes the harsh realities faced by White Creole women, their voices lost amidst colonialism and patriarchy. The novel is a powerful critique of unequal power structures in postcolonial societies, resonating with the ongoing fight for global gender equality.
Jane Eyre is set to a score of original compositions and existing work compiled and arranged by composer Philip Feeney. Sets and costumes are designed by Patrick Kinmonth and lighting is designed by Alastair West, whose recent credits include Northern Ballet’s Casanova.Cathy Marston said: “The Brontë’s stories are inspiring to translate into dance because of their intense emotional journeys for the protagonists, the backdrop of landscape and elemental forces that seem to amplify these emotions, and in the case of Jane Eyre particularly, the range of wonderful soloist roles that add texture, depth, and warmth to the central narrative.”Federico Bonelli, Artistic Director at Northern Ballet said: “What do we all love about Jane Eyre? Her resilience, determination and steadfast knowledge of who she is as she navigates a life filled with turmoil. Combined with her love story with Mr Rochester this story is perfect to be told through ballet, and in our Jane Eyre the dancing, sets, costumes and music fully immerse you in Jane’s life. There is so much for any dancer to work with to encapsulate the layered characters and narrative created by Charlotte Brontë and even more for an audience member to enjoy in this beautiful retelling by Cathy Marston”.
Wave of Nostalgia located in Haworth is among nine other finalists across the North of England named in the category, as part of The British Book Awards 2025. (Molly Court)
On February 17, 1978, Kate Bush released her debut album, The Kick Inside. It featured the songs “Oh To Be In Love,” “Kite,” and her No. 1 U.K. hit, “Wuthering Heights,” among other great tracks. She stood out for her imaginative lyrics and imagery, as well as for her unique vocal style. The Kick Inside heralded the coming of Bush’s spectacular talent. (Lauren Boisvert)
Thu 20 Feb, 2:30pm (in person)Thu 20 Feb, 7:30pm (online)The radicalism of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall lies in its extensive critique of the values of the society in which Anne lived. Its themes encompass education, gender norms, and religious belief in an age when marriage was the normal and satisfying end to a story. Instead, Anne dared to dissect a marriage and write about a husband’s abusive conduct.This talk will examine Anne’s novel both in the context of its time and from a modern perspective, to demonstrate its powerful challenge to the accepted ideas of its day, and its remarkable modern relevance.This Thursday Talk will be given by Andrew Stodolny, Learning Coordinator at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. He previously taught History and Politics at the Grammar School at Leeds.
Audiences can join one of literature’s most iconic heroines on a journey of resilience, romance and redemption as Northern Ballet’s critically acclaimed Jane Eyre heads to Leeds Grand Theatre this spring from March 14 – 22.Based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë, Northern Ballet will bring this beautiful love story to life with heart-stirring choreography and live music that captures the essence of her timeless tale.Experience the unexpected twists and turns of one woman’s life from the dreary school room to a towering manor house and the sweeping Yorkshire moors. The ultimate dramatic tale of romance, jealousy and dark secrets, Jane Eyre is the story of one woman’s indomitable spirit overcoming all boundaries.Jane Eyre was originally premièred by Northern Ballet in May 2016 and nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts Award in 2017. Jane Eyre is choreographed by internationally acclaimed British dance maker Cathy Marston whose recent credits include Snowblind for Atlanta Ballet and The Cellist for Ballet Zürich in 2023.Jane Eyre is set to a score of original compositions and existing work compiled and arranged by composer Philip Feeney. Sets and costumes are designed by Patrick Kinmonth and lighting is designed by Alastair West, whose recent credits include Northern Ballet’s Casanova.Cathy Marston said: "The Brontë's stories are inspiring to translate into dance because of their intense emotional journeys for the protagonists, the backdrop of landscape and elemental forces that seem to amplify these emotions, and in the case of Jane Eyre particularly, the range of wonderful soloist roles that add texture, depth, and warmth to the central narrative."Federico Bonelli, Artistic Director at Northern Ballet said: "What do we all love about Jane Eyre? Her resilience, determination and steadfast knowledge of who she is as she navigates a life filled with turmoil. Combined with her love story with Mr Rochester this story is perfect to be told through ballet, and in our Jane Eyre the dancing, sets, costumes and music fully immerse you in Jane's life. There is so much for any dancer to work with to encapsulate the layered characters and narrative created by Charlotte Brontë and even more for an audience member to enjoy in this beautiful retelling by Cathy Marston.” (Claire Lomax)
Tuberculosis may seem like a historic disease: A scourge of overcrowded, unsanitary European cities of the 19th century, a plot point in La Bohème or Jane Eyre, and an inspiration for mournful paintings by Edvard Munch and Claude Monet. But TB is the world’s deadliest infectious disease (after it was briefly displaced by COVID-19). According to the World Health Organization, 1.25 million people died from TB in 2023 and another 10.8 million were infected. (Nick Keppler)
Vampires aren’t new. Derived from Slavic folklore, the vampire as we know it in popular culture today is a human-like creature that feeds on the blood of others for sustenance. Usually emerging as a seductive and mysterious being, it unleashes chaos upon the communities it infiltrates.The most well-known vampire is the titular character in Bram Stoker’s Gothic novel Dracula, which was published in 1897 and gave rise to onscreen adaptations like F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. Dracula was far from the first book in the Gothic canon, built upon works like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Challenging the rational framework of the Enlightenment era, these novels used imagery to explore mystery and terror. (Stacey Nguyen)
This Early Zombie Film Is Still Controversial TodayI Walked With a Zombie (1943), dir. Jacques TourneurIt is generally accepted that the cinematic zombie was born with 1932's White Zombie, in which Bela Lugosi uses voodoo to create Haitian slaves. However, Jacques Tourneur (Cat People) took the same theme and turned it into a controversial masterpiece that still divides viewers to this day. In I Walked With a Zombie, a naive nurse treats a plantation owner's mysteriously afflicted wife, and discovers that her employer has co-opted Caribbean voodoo practices for sinister purposes.I Walked With a Zombie is partially based on the Charlotte Brontë novel Jane Eyre.Tourneur's main zombie is the towering Carrefour (Darby Jones), whose eerie presence anchors this gothic drama. Some critics feel that the film calls attention to the plight of colonized Caribbeans, while others see it as merely reinforcing harmful stereotypes. Whichever side one takes in this debate — and both critiques may be true — I Walked With a Zombie is well worth a look. (Claire Donner)
Qurbonova Nodira Roziqovna, Associate professor of the Department of English literature andtranslation of Bukhara State UniversityAbdullayeva Bikajon Alisherovna, 1st grade master student of History and Philology Department of Asia International Universand ity/Vol. 2 No. 4 (2025): Journal of International ScientificAbstractCharlotte Brontë’s “The Professor” offers a unique lens through which to examine the role and representation of teachers in 19th-century literature. This paper explores the portrayal of educators, particularly the protagonist William Crimsworth, within the novel, focusing on the intersection of gender, class, and pedagogy. By analyzing the teacher-student dynamics and the societal expectations of educators, this study highlights how Brontë critiques and reinforces contemporary educational norms. The findings reveal that “The Professor” not only reflects the challenges faced by teachers in a rigid social hierarchy but also underscores the transformative potential of education.
The Portrayal of the Protagonist in "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Kurbonova, N., & Latipova, R. (2025).
Modern Science and Research, 4(2), 487–491.
won over fans as Jane Eyre's lover Mr Rochester (Hannah McDonald)
Today the station is broadcasting favourite programmes selected by listeners. Among them, Dithering Heights, a black comedy about a Brontë heritage weekend run in a recently closed brothel.February 17, 07:30, 12:30, 18:30February 18 02:30
Dithering Heights
**** This programme was suggested by Mandy Poulton as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s All Request Weekend ****
Theatre impresario Jimmy Trotter is down on his luck, so he decides to run courses for lady culture vultures in an old house he's rented on the Yorkshire Moors
But when the wrong party turns up, strange things start to happen.
The wind howls, Mrs Rochester howls, and when he finds that he has lost his trousers, even the Bishop of Skipton howls...
Comedy drama written by Ken Whitmore.
Jimmy Trotter .... Aubrey Woods
Oswald .... Nigel Anthony
PC Fanshaw .... Sam Kelly
Mrs Ablett .... Meg Johnson
Jane .... Joanne Zorian
Dr Malloy .... Bonnie Hurren
Arthur Tattersall .... Ronald Baddiley
Dr Skull .... Ronald Herdman
Mrs Tattersall .... Heather Stoney
Director: Alfred Bradley
First broadcast in Saturday Night Theatre on BBC Radio 4 in September 1985.
Out on the wily, windy moors—or, just the snowy Berlinale International Film Festival—Jacob Elordi has debuted another hair transformation. Gone is the impressively bushy beard that the Saltburn actor sported at the Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco back in December: now, it’s all about the 17th century mutton chops. (...)Elordi showcased a serious set of sideburns, likely grown for his next part as the brooding anti-hero Heathcliff in director Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation. His mutton chops reach down to the curve of his jaw, and the rest of his dark hair is kept long and tousled. (...)As production reportedly continues, Jacob Elordi looks every bit of the Yorkshire Moors man. (Anna Cafolla)
The piano trio category finals of the 12th Franz Schubert and Modern Music International Chamber Music Competition took place on 12 February at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria. The trios performed either Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio no.1 in B-flat major D.898 or his Piano Trio no.2 in E-flat major D.929, as well as a contemporary work written after 1978 of the trio’s choice.The Trio Brontë won the €13,500 first prize, which includes career consulting and guidance. The group also won the special prize for CD Production & Promotion. This prize goes to only one of the ensembles in the entire competition, which also includes piano duos and piano-voice duos.
Lima News reviews Catherine the Ghost by Kathe Koja:
Cathy Earnshaw. Catherine Linton. Mother. Daughter. They never saw each other alive. In Catherine the Ghost these two young women confront loss, captivity, and the dark edge of eternity itself, to claim their full existence and share their power. With hauntings that escape the page and passion that bleeds them red, Koja crafts a tale that transcends the material plane as an eerie comfort that ghosts keep loving long past the grave. This modern gothic punk remix of Emily Brontë’s classic “Wuthering Heights” is a ghost story told from the point of view of Catherine Earnshaw’s restless spirit from beyond the grave.Air Mail News quotes the actress Aimee Lou Wood saying:
“I didn’t want to be an actor when I was younger,” says Aimee Lou Wood. “I wanted to be a writer, like Emily Brontë.” (Jeanne Malle)
“Divorce can be a journey in itself, not unlike its literary predecessor and contemporary companion, the marriage plot,” muses journalist Haley Mlotek in the latest entry in this burgeoning canon, “No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce.” She is the only one in her cohort to explicitly conceive of her story as an homage to an older form, the marriage plot, though she is not alone in seeking to subvert the tropes of the traditional narrative. “No Fault” is a nonlinear rebuke to the tidy ordering of the classics, which start with a meet-cute and conclude with a wedding. “Reader, I married him,” is the famed first line of the last chapter of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre.” (Becca Rothfeld)
“Good Tidings,” a UCLA alumnus-written play presented by Los Angeles Theatre Initiative, is hosting its three LA previews Feb. 15 and Feb. 16 at Thymele Arts: Shirley Dawn Studio in East Hollywood. The play, which draws from inspirations such as “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights,” is an original work featuring students from both UCLA and Loyola Marymount University and tells the story of a commune that must perform a ritual to find a new spiritual leader after its previous medium dies. (Bettina Wu)
Grapefruit Lab has the freedom to perform whenever it has the resources to perform, then retrench until it has enough resources to perform again. From Jan. 17-Feb. 2, it remounted “Jane/Eyre,” a queer adaptation of the classic goth novel set to live music by local indie-rock icons Teacup Gorilla and Dameon Merkl.The Lab paid $2,400 to rent Buntport Theater’s warehouse space for six weeks and sold about 375 tickets for its eight performances. The company has adopted the “pay what you feel like paying” model, and audiences offered up about $6,800 in revenue, or about $18-$20 each. “Our goal is to just break even,” said Suzanne. And with private donations, they just about did.The company, founded in 2009, has never received grant or government money, and its two leaders don’t pay themselves. They did pay everyone involved with “Jane/Eyre,” which came to about $7,000. Musician parents Dan Eisenstat and Sondra Eby didn’t want to be paid, so the company covered their child-care costs instead. (John Moore)
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëFor many students, 'Wuthering Heights' was simply an overly dramatic love story. But in reality, it’s a novel about obsession, revenge, and the destructive nature of passion. Heathcliff and Catherine’s turbulent relationship isn’t just romance—it’s a study of human flaws, unfulfilled desires, and how love can turn into something dark and consuming. The novel’s emotional complexity makes it a fascinating reread as an adult, where its themes take on new layers of meaning. (Girish Shukla)
Cumbres Borrascosas (1847) – Emily BrontëEn los últimos años, las hermanas Brontë han cobrado gran relevancia en el mundo literario. Si bien esta obra es la más famosa (y única) de Emily, durante mucho tiempo estuvo opacada por el trabajo de Jane Austen. Hoy, Cumbres Borrascosas es un referente del género gótico. En esta historia se narra un amor que trasciende el tiempo de forma sobrenatural, pero no así los prejuicios que rigen la sociedad. (Diana Oliva) (Translation)
Cumbres Borrascosas de Emily Brontë Un clásico de la literatura inglesa que nos sumerge en una historia de amor apasionada, tormentosa y llena de venganza entre Heathcliff y Catherine. Su relación es destructiva pero innegablemente intensa, con un amor que desafía el tiempo y la muerte. (Samantha Ivana Lamas Ramírez) (Translation)
In the mid-19th Century, authors such as Charlotte Brontë and Ann Radcliffe made the sub-genre of gothic romance popular – these typically had dark, foreboding settings with mysterious male leads who had a “softer side” for the plucky, but virtuous, heroine. (Arushi Bhaskar)
Disfrutaba de la lectura, especialmente la relacionada con literatura medieval. Recuerda haber leído varias veces Cumbres Borrascosas, porque le envolvía la forma en que estaba escrita y como describía la naturaleza humana. (María Judith Rosales Andrade) (Translation)
The House of Brontë vindicates Branwell Brontë.
Sarah E. MaierPalgrave MacMillanISBN: 978-3-031-47295-4Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives examines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction-specifically addressing the themes of authorship, sexuality, and criminality in the context of the Victorian age in British and American cultures. This book explicates the complicated relationship between the Victorian past and the turn to Victorian modes of thought on literature, history, and morality. Additionally, Sarah E. Maier aims to determine if the appeal of neo-Victorian young adult fiction rests in or resists nostalgia, parody, and revision. Given the overwhelming prevalence of the Victorian in the young adult genres of biofiction, juvenile writings, gothic, sensation, mystery, and crime fiction, there is much to investigate in terms of the friction between the past and the present.
Sarah E. Maierpp 83–107Neo-Victorian young adult biofictions like The Glass Town Game (2017) by Catherynne Valente and Worlds of Ink and Shadow (2016) by Lena Coakley explore the fascinating Brontë family in fiction that collapses the space between their actual lives in Howarth and their imaginative lives in their juvenilia worlds. Two recent graphic novels—Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre (2009) by Glynnis Fawkes and Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës by Isabel Greenberg (2020)—further explore the conflation of juvenilian narratives with biographical suppositions. These biofictions enact a double perspective wherein the representation of the Brontës and their worlds inspires the young adult reader to consider their contemporary environment and the drive to create worlds that provide escape.Sarah E. MaierISBN: pp 109–135There is a paradoxical contrast between the quiet life of Emily Brontë and her passionate fiction offers no complete picture of the young woman in spite of the myriad biographies, legends, and myths about her life or the crushing number of critical responses to her fictions. Into this gap, neo-Victorian (re)visionings of and a (re)voicing of personal history allow for a reconsideration of Emily Brontë’s interests. To that end, Chap. 5, “The Odd(est) Brontë: Portrait(s) of Emily as a Young Author,” considers Always Emily (2014) by Michaela MacColl and The World Within: A Novel of Emily Brontë (2015) by Jane Eagland. Both biofictional narratives reconstruct an image of Brontë despite the scant archival evidence because, like adult readers, adolescents are interested in the who and why of writers’ lives; in addition, readers seek a greater insight into the famous characters that such an author may have invented in their texts.
The fact that one could confuse the new photo’s violent eroticism for cannibalism is likely intentional. We already knew that the tone of this film was likely to be capital-E Edgy. “There’s a scene in Wuthering Heights after Cathy dies when Heathcliff digs down to her coffin and tries to get to her. It’s very clear what he’s intending to do, which is to, at the very least touch her, kiss her. So it’s part of the Gothic tradition that sex and death are kind of intertwined,” the director previously told Time of her inspiration for a similar scene in Saltburn, months before Wuthering Heights was announced. It’s unclear how she’ll differentiate her actual Wuthering Heights from its more modern copy (it doesn’t help that Jacob Elordi stars in both), but we all knew she wasn’t going to do it by dialing back the sick-and-twisted factor.Warner Bros. didn’t provide any new info to go with the image, but it kind of says it all already. What we do know as of this writing is that the film stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as tragic lovers Healthcliff and Catherine respectively, with Shazad Latif, Hong Chau, and Alison Oliver rounding out the cast. You may want to grab your copy of the Emily Brontë classic from the bookstore before the movie tie-in versions pop up. Or wait! We won’t judge (too hard). (Emma Keates)
February 14, 2025: You have exactly one year to prepare yourself. Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation is set to release on February 14, 2026. To celebrate what’s coming next Valentine’s Day, Warner Bros. has handed us a very zoomed-in first-look image of a finger and some blades of grass in a mouth. Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie are starring as Heathcliff and Catherine, and the full cast also includes Shazad Latif, Hong Chau, and Alison Oliver. Whose finger is it anyway? (Jason P. Frank)
Anyone looking to spice up their Valentine’s Day “viewing material” might want to look at the first image from Emerald Fennell’s upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights. The simple yet sensual image shows a close-up of someone’s mouth with blades of green grass caught between extended fingers. While you could be wondering, “What’s so sexy about grass?” let me remind you that botanophilia, referring to a sexual attraction to plants, exists. Imagine how many gardeners see this image and suddenly need to excuse themselves for an extended bathroom break. You know it in your heart to be true. (Steve Seigh)
Simple yet sensual is what Fennell’s going for here as we see a close-up of someone’s mouth with blades of green grass caught between extended fingers. Earlier in the week, the film started production in the UK.No coincidence, Warner Bros has set up a Valentine’s 2026 release for “Wuthering Heights.” Although that date doesn’t spell awards, don’t be surprised the film gets a very short awards qualifying run in late 2025.We don’t know if Fennell’s version of “Wuthering Heights” is set in the present day, or maintains the novel’s 17th Century English setting. What seems to be the lure here, and the reason why Warner Bros acquired it for $80M, is Fennell — she ‘a coming off having directed “Promising Young Woman” and “Saltburn.” (Jordan Ruimy)
Warner Bros. has now released the first official image from Wuthering Heights adaptation. The sensual still frame is an extreme closeup of fingers tangled up with grass, one of which is inside an open mouth. It is unclear if the fingers belong to the person whose mouth is shown or another character, though the angle of the hand seems to imply that they are one and the same.With this image, it already seems as though Wuthering Heights will take on the tone of Emerald Fennell's Saltburn rather than a more traditional, staid adaptation of the material. Her 2023 black comedy thriller, which followed a young man (Barry Keoghan) seducing, manipulating, and murdering his way through the rich family of his college friend (Elordi), was full of sensual moments like the one captured in this still frame, which promises a more modern take on the period-set drama. (Brennan Klein)
Rita Ann Higgins, poet and playwrightThe book that changed my lifeWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. I started reading it when I was 22 and it was one of the first books I had ever read. I loved that I could see what was written in every page. Imagery became very important to me as a reader. I needed to be able to see what the words said. (Gillian Nelis)
Wide Sargasso SeaBy Jean Rhys (1966)5. Readers of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” will remember that Rochester’s first wife, Bertha, lives locked in the attic of Thornfield Hall. In Jean Rhys’s “Wide Sargasso Sea,” Rochester is never mentioned by name; most of the story unfolds in the years long before Jane arrives. We come to see Bertha (who goes by her middle name, Antoinette) as a three-dimensional character whose instability and violence are a response to her own parents’ mental illnesses, her abandonment as a child and her forced marriage to Rochester. It would be an oversimplification to describe Antoinette as sympathetic, but even the parts of “Wide Sargasso Sea” told from Rochester’s perspective paint a complex portrait of a woman isolated, alone and ignored. Rhys imagines that Antoinette’s early life wasn’t so different from Jane’s. Both girls were treated cruelly, left in the care of violent guardians and spent their childhoods longing to feel safe. While Jane’s terror and loneliness give way to a life of modest stability once she arrives at Thornfield Hall, the opposite is true for Antoinette. (Amanda Parrish Morgan)
2. My West End idol is…Monica Dolan. I saw her play Kate in The Taming Of The Shrew in Barrow-in-Furness as a child, and in the curtain call I could have sworn she smiled at me. Later I saw her play Jane in Jane Eyre – and I still have the programmes for both plays in a box under my bed! Watching her on stage and screen is always exciting and mesmerising. (Jennifer Dickson-Purdy)
Dickinson, like many girls of her social class, spent a year away from her home in Amherst, Mass., boarding at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Mass. Its principal, Mary Lyon, had the students divide themselves into three categories: those who believed they were saved, those who had hope of such, and those who had no hope. (In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë satirizes this high-minded, Calvinist brutality in the figure of St. John Rivers.) (Jayme Stayer, S.J.)
The Brontë Sisters YouTube channel explores "the fascinating story of William Weightman and the Valentine’s cards he sent to the Brontë sisters."
Rizwan Safdar,Khadija,Shah Fahad,Noureen WaqarVol. 8 No. 1 (2025): Journal of Applied Linguistics and TESOL (JALT)This study aims at investigating the Foucauldian shades of power and resistance through the test case of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. It contemplates the dynamic mechanism of power and resistance as both these are the intimate terms in the work of Foucault working in a social relation. Power is seen everywhere in society, and its mechanism can only be replaced or changed through the process of resistance. Foucault’s power does not have a negative connotation to exercise against someone to take the life of people. His power has resistance in itself. This study emphasizes on the resistance of Jane Eyre in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Despite her nonconformist thinking, actions, and attitude, and bold character, she seems to resist the power of patriarchy and religion. She finally gets success in proving that Jane resistance is more powerful than the power that lies in society everywhere. This study adopts the textual analysis of the novel and has much scope to find out the impact of resistance in the character of Jane Eyre from a Foucauldian point of views.
As a teenager, before I was ever in love, I basked in the melodrama of Charlotte Bronte’s intense love poems, but since experiencing melodrama in actual love, I find I now prefer the more reserved professions of Sir Thomas Wyatt, who wrote some of the first sonnets in the English language. (Martin Doyle)
“Wuthering Heights” by Kate BushIf you’re either a fan of 19th-century novels or looking to feel angsty this Valentine’s Day, Kate Bush’s 1978 song “Wuthering Heights” is the one for you. The song is based on Emily Brontë’s novel “Wuthering Heights” and takes inspiration from the intense, emotional and, frankly, dark relationship between the novel’s central characters Cathy and Heathcliff. In the song, Bush wails, “Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy/I’ve come home, I’m so cold/Let me in your window.” Further in the song, she continues, “I’m coming back love/cruel Heathcliff/My one dream, my only master.” These lyrics highlight melodramatic, complicated relationships filled with yearning, and if you’re into that sort of thing, give this song a listen. (Natalia Ferruggia)
English Literature – The Walking Love LettersStarting off strong, you’d imagine English students are effortlessly poetic, their minds shaped by a lifetime of delusional, lovey-dovey novels. Hopeless romantics at heart, they move through life as if they’re living in their own tragic love story.You’ll find them with a battered copy of Pride and Prejudice in their tote bag, ready to quote poetry at a moment’s notice. They’ll write you a love letter so heart-wrenching it could make even the coldest soul weep, all while brooding over a black coffee and passionately debating whether Wuthering Heights is a love story or just deeply unhinged. (Ellie Ashton)
The book that... [...] ...I read in one sitting; it was that good:Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. It’s a prequel to Jane Eyre, set in the Caribbean. Couldn’t put it down. (Riza Cruz)
In the novel the author weaves a metafictional narrative that reimagines the Brontë legacy through the lens of literary conspiracy. Central to the story is a book within the book, Brother Brontë, written by Jazzmin Monelle Rivas, which challenges traditional accounts of authorship by suggesting that Branwell Brontë, rather than his sisters, was the true genius behind Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.A NovelFernando A. FloresMCD BooksISBN: 9780374604165February 2025The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of its mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick’s pockets.Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Prosperina and Neftalí—the latter of whom, one of the town’s last literate citizens, hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas, whose last novel, Brother Brontë, is finally in Neftalí’s possession. But after a series of increasingly violent atrocities committed by Crick’s forces, Neftalí and Prosperina, with the help of a wounded bengal tigress, three scheming triplets, and an underground network of rebel tías, rise up to reclaim their city—and in the process, unlock Rivas’s connection to Three Rivers itself.An adventure that only the acclaimed Fernando A. Flores could dream up, Brother Brontë is a mordant, gonzo romp through a ruined world that, in its dysfunction, tyranny, and disparity, nonetheless feels uncannily like our own. With his most ambitious book yet, Flores once again bends what fiction can do, in the process crafting a moving and unforgettable story of perseverance.
Olivia Laing: She [Lucy Snow[e]] has this very strange way of telling you things where she tells you a fantasy and then she says, “you can believe that.” And you go, “Oh, okay, Lucy. So it wasn’t like that at all, but you’re not gonna let me know.” She forces you to become a detective. And I think the reason I love this book, one of the many reasons, is it forces you to be a very active reader. You have to, all the time, weigh up everything everyone tells you, everything she tells you, and work out whether it’s true or not.
I do, however, have to credit my college English class with connecting me to one of my all-time favorite classics, “Jane Eyre.” Everything about the novel drew me in — the characters, the gothic setting, the unpredictable twists and turns. I can still vividly remember my heart thumping fast as I neared the end and worried about what was in store for our hero and heroine. [...]‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte (1847)I couldn’t compile a list of my favorite love stories without mentioning Jane Eyre and Mr. Edward Rochester. Two more opposite people can’t be found — her poverty and his wealth, her sheltered life compared with his adventures abroad, her youth paired with his maturity. They come from different worlds, but their lives collide in a shower of sparks.Jane’s an orphan, having grown up first with her neglectful, abusive aunt and cousins and then under harsh conditions at Lowood School for Girls. When she decides to embark out on her own, Jane finds herself a job as governess at Thornfield Hall, teaching Mr. Rochester’s ward, Adele. She soon becomes enraptured with the moody master of the house but isn’t prepared for the sharp turns her life is about to take.It’s not until adulthood that Jane finds her true place in the world, among those who love her unconditionally. (Theresa Bourke)
Edited by Taten ShirleyVernon PressISBN: 979-8-8819-0124-0February 2025The main goal of this anthology is to aid Brontë scholars, along with undergraduate and graduate students alike, in their research of Anne Brontë, specifically in regards to the question of her artistry in her own life and the theme of artistry in her novel, 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall', and her poetry. While there have been numerous publications on the Brontë sisters, there is the least amount of scholarship on Anne. Literary criticism of Anne is usually included within commentary on her sisters as a whole, and Anne is always discussed the least in the works. There are few, if any, anthologies on Anne’s writing, especially not one that focuses on artistry specifically. This anthology seeks to reduce the disparity of scholarship on Anne compared to her sisters.The chapters all focus on artistry in some aspect of her life or her writing. The first chapter focuses on Anne’s poetry and how it can be viewed as a therapeutic for her homesickness while at Thorp Green. Chapter two examines the ways in which Anne Brontë demonstrates that Agnes Grey’s pedagogic craft is one steeped in virtue but punctuated by limited authority, thus stressing the inherently artistic nature of education as aesthetic expression that ultimately remains subordinate to the power of individual autonomy. The third chapter examines Helen Huntingdon through the medieval lens of chivalric domestic violence. Chapter four discusses how Anne’s artistry impacted the characters she wrote, illustrating how Helen’s career as an artist relies on the commercial prospects that painting permits to investigate the problems and disagreements that occur when a woman endeavors to construct “a room of one’s own” outside the conventional societal circumstances. The fifth chapter explores how Brontë traces Helen Huntingdon’s moral and emotional development through her art and how characters of both genders interact with that art and how the acts of production and interpretation serve as an important dimension of her social critique and refusal to conform to gendered expectations of her own art. Then the sixth chapter examines Victorian women’s artistic skills and their modest craft of sketching imaginary kingdoms and painting realistic landscapes and (self-)portraits in Anne Brontë’s 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' (1848) and in Charlotte Brontë’s 'Jane Eyre' (1847), as the equivalents of unprofessional female writings expected in the nineteenth century. The seventh chapter explores the use of art as a means of escape from an unvirtuous marriage in 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.' Lastly, the eighth chapter takes a closer look at why exactly Anne is the least-known sister by contrasting the supernatural in Charlotte’s 'Jane Eyre' to the realism in Anne’s 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.'Table of contentsChapter 1: A Study of the Thorp Green Poems of Anne Brontë: Poetic Artistry as a Cure for Her NostalgiaYağmur Sönmez-Demir, Çankaya University, TurkeyChapter 2: The Art of Education in Agnes Grey: Promise and LimitationAndrew R. Jacobs, Faulkner UniversityChapter 3: Chivalric Domestic Violence: The Radical Critique in Wuthering Heights, Shirley, and Tenant of Wildfell HallSamantha Crain, University of MinnesotaChapter 4: The Commercialization of Absent Art in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell HallK. Subramanyam, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, IndiaChapter 5: Artistry and Privacy in The Tenant of Wildfell HallKatie Smith, Independent scholarChapter 6: Women Artists and their Crafts in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane EyreFrancisco José Cortés Vieco, Complutense University of Madrid, SpainChapter 7: A Virtuous Passion: The Use of Art as a Means of Escape in The Tenant of Wildfell HallSavannah Dockins, Faulkner UniversityChapter 8: Rejecting Realism: Charlotte’s Exclusion of AnneTaten Shirley, Faulkner University
Calling Mutely through Lipless Mouth took its title from The Glass Essay by the Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson.“I was rereading it when my mother was dying in August 2022, after six weeks in hospital. [...]This is the passage I read the night of my mom’s passing: ‘It is a hard wind slanting from the north. / Long flaps and shreds of flesh rip off the woman’s body and lift / and blow away on the wind, leaving / an exposed column of nerve and blood and muscle / calling mutely through lipless mouth. / It pains me to record this, / I am not a melodramatic person. / But soul is “hewn in a wild workshop” / as Charlotte Brontë says of Wuthering Heights.’” (Michael Dervan)
Asst. Lect. Mohammed Atta Salman, Wassit University/College of Arts/ Department of Translationمجلة واسط للعلوم الانسانية, 21 (Wasit Journal for Human Sciences) (1/Pt1), 852-836.The research includes a literary analysis of the novel Wuthering Heights by the English writer Emily Brontë, where the details and various human feelings, difficulties and conflicts that the characters went through. In this story, the author narrates in this novel, a mix of reality and imagination for the characters from the arrival of Heathcliff until his death in Wuthering Heights. The characters witnessed all the horrors, slavery and its suffering, as the novel presented to us the lives of the characters from childhood until adulthood and then death, since Heathcliff’s arrival from Liverpool and his relationship with Catherine and Hindley, then moving on to the events of the love relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine, and her decision to marry Edgar Linton to help Heathcliff to obtain freedom, as well as the lives of the characters of the second generation. This novel presents an extraordinary fate of Heathcliff and Catherine, who were in turn prisoners of an imperfect relationship between an adopted person and a girl from an aristocratic family. This study aims to analyze Emily Brontë's characters. The research deals with the different narrative stages in the novel. Which the writer used in narrating the novel. The research also focused on dealing with the phenomenon of mandatory, will, and freedom that Bronte dealt with, taking into account the opinions of Hegel and Sartre.
Leeds-based Northern Ballet has celebrated "Brontë-land" both with David Nixon’s Wuthering Heights some years ago and also Jane Eyre – first seen in 2016 and toured over the following two years; a fascinating and in some ways unique creation by Cathy Marston.And her Jane Eyre returns to the moors this spring, in a Northern Ballet national tour beginning in Leeds and visiting Nottingham, Sheffield, Sadler’s Wells in London and finally Norwich.The full-length ballet, based on Charlotte Brontë’s novel, was nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts award in 2017, and features music both compiled from the works of Fanny Mendelssohn, her brother Felix and Schubert, and freshly composed, both tasks accomplished by the ever-inventive Philip Feeney. His composite score matches the 19th Century Romanticism of the story really well. There’s the same sense of pent-up passion within the constraints of politeness and convention, occasionally bursting through in mystery, horror and shock.And Cathy Marston knows how to tell a story vividly, which fits perfectly with Northern Ballet’s tradition and expertise: her style is clearly classical in spirit but with freedom to borrow from other inspirations.When I saw it before I particularly liked the way, to express Jane’s intelligence as she verbally spars with that of Rochester, she literally trips him up – and he her, now and again – in a recurring visual motif. And an interpretation of what (in the book) are mysterious unexplained noises from Bertha in the attic – not very practical to reproduce when the music is important – is achieved by showing a dancer in silhouette.This ballet began as one for smaller theatres, with modest staging requirements, and Northern Ballet, which has performed to recorded music in some recent programmes, is going back to the original score with its need for a small number of live players.The company's artistic director, Federico Bonelli, said of the work: “What do we all love about Jane Eyre? Her resilience, determination and steadfast knowledge of who she is as she navigates a life filled with turmoil."This story is perfect to be told through ballet … there is so much for any dancer to work with, to encapsulate the layered characters and narrative created by Charlotte Brontë, and even more for an audience member to enjoy.” (Robert Beale)
Borrowing the claustrophobic atmosphere, use of supernatural elements, feeling of dread, and themes of morality and desire, romantic horror books fit in with Jane Eyre and Dracula. (Courtney Rodgers)
The Brontë SistersThe Brontë sisters were literary rock stars who shook up 19th century fiction from their home in Haworth. Trailblazer Charlotte gave us Jane Eyre, the ultimate DIY heroine who knows her worth and fights for it. Emily’s Wuthering Heights with its stormy romance between Heathcliff and Cathy remains one of the greatest Gothic novels ever written. And Anne? She was tackling social inequities with The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Together, the Brontës flipped the script on how women were portrayed in literature.
A new paper published a few days ago:
Zulfizar Khudoyberdievna Saidova, Nasriyeva Mahliyo Iskandar qizi. Fñinders UniveristyVol. 3 No. 2 (2025): American Journal of Education and LearningThis article explores the problems of female emancipation and the peculiarities of the creation of female characters in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss. While Jane Eyre presents a heroine who seeks independence, self-respect, and economic freedom, The Mill on the Floss portrays Maggie Tulliver as a woman constrained by social and familial expectations. A comparative analysis of these two novels highlights the authors’ feminist perspectives and critiques of 19th-century gender inequality. The study examines the role of education, economic independence, and moral strength in shaping these female protagonists and their struggles for autonomy.
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAnother classic and Emily Brontë’s only novel, the story follows Heathcliff as he tries to seek revenge for being wronged by those closest to him and kept away from his only love, Catherine Earnshaw. (Natalia Pikna)
