She was raised in Colne, a small market town in Lancashire. Colne itself is little known, but it’s a short walk from the manor that inspired the setting of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, a town over from where John Simm and Lee Ingleby took their first drama course, and one of many sites once on watch for witchcraft during the Pendle witch trials. It also happens to house the largest paving slab on record. (Megan Hullander)
Plans to expand a sandstone quarry in Bradford's Brontë country have been blocked by a Government inspector for a second time after a land swap offer was rejected. (Aisha Iqbal)
Nick HollandThe History PressISBN: 9781803999067February 2025Emily Jane Brontë was born in July 1818; along with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, she is famed as a member of the greatest literary family of all time, and helped turn Haworth into a place of literary pilgrimage. Whilst Emily Brontë wrote only one novel, the mysterious and universally acclaimed Wuthering Heights, she is widely acknowledged as the best poet of the Brontë sisters – indeed as one of the greatest female poets of all time. Her poems offer insights to her relationships with her family, religion, nature, the world of work, and the shadowy and visionary powers that increasingly dominated her life.Taking twenty of her most revealing poems, Nick Holland creates a unifying impression of Emily Brontë, revealing how this terribly shy young woman could create such wild and powerful writing, and why she turned her back on the outside world for one that existed only in her own mind.
Brontë's MoorsThe Yorkshire Moors, a character in their own right in Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' are as hauntingly beautiful in reality as they are in the novel. Visitors to Haworth, the Brontë family home, can roam these wild, windswept landscapes, imagining Heathcliff and Catherine's tumultuous romance.
by Sedighesadat Meghdari, Shirin SaghiJournal of Linguistics and Khorasan Dialects, In Press (Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 22 February 2025)Today,the importance and necessity of translation in improving the intellectual, cultural, scientific, and social lives of humans is no secret to anyone.ُ So in this research, we aimed to quantitatively and qualitatively analyze the translation of grammatical metaphors in two translations of the novel "Wuthering Heights" as one of the most notestanding and widely studied novels in alarge number of languages written by Emily Brontë and two translations of it by Reza Rezaei and Noushin Ebrahimi. Halliday and Matthiesen's Functional- Systematic grammar (2004) was as the research theoretical framework. Grammatical metaphor use was studied in the text of the original novel and its two translations. The obtained results show that in the translations of Ebrahimi and Rezaei, less grammatical metaphor is used than the original text of the novel. The comparison of translations also shows that more grammatical metaphors are used in Ebrahimi's translation than in Reza'i's translation.
Kirklees Council said the demolition of Reverend Patrick Brontë’s former home was “unavoidable.”The council has approved an application for the partial demolition and rebuilding of the former home of the Brontë sisters’ father in Liversedge.The site – located at Thornbush Farm on Miry Lane, Hightown – is in “a derelict state following years of neglect and vandalism” and comprises a single storey agricultural building and two small derelict curtilage listed buildings.The application – submitted by Jan Capital Ltd in May 2024 – proposes a partial demolition and rebuilding of the derelict listed cottages to form two dwellings, and the construction of a two-storey extension on the footprint of the south wing – which was demolished in 2006. It also proposes building a single storey lean-to on the northern gable and converting an outbuilding to be used for storage. (...)A separate application for listed building consent was submitted at the same time.In the same document, the council said: “The almost complete demolition of the listed building leads to substantial harm to this designated heritage asset.“It has been demonstrated that the building is at the point of collapse and is beyond reasonable and viable in-situ repair and therefore it is accepted that the demolition is now unavoidable.“The application proposes to rebuild it to replicate its historic form and architectural detailing, with the use of reclaimed materials from the demolition where possible and the reinstatement of the previously demolished wing.“The submitted justification for demolition is, on balance, reluctantly accepted by KC C&D, with the proposed rebuilding of the cottages going some way towards mitigating the substantial harm.“Once rebuilt, the cottages will be brought back into use with the reconstruction providing some legibility of the historic form and vernacular architecture.” (Catherine Gannon)
User commentsType of comment: An objectionDo you wish your comments to be published on the website anonymously? YesThe original application was for a 'Bronte Centre' due to the links to the Bronte family. However over the last 18 months the company applying for permission have allowed the grade 2 listed building to fall into disrepair. The building was left unprotected & local children have been allowed to demolish the building & set fires. We personally have had to telephone the police & fire brigade to try & protect the building. A security company was employed to protect the building & scaffolding erected & we have even contacted them to advise that the security fencing had been breached. One Sunday the scaffolding company came & removed the roof covering protecting the building & part of the scaffolding. This again was reported to the police as we thought someone was stealing the scaffolding & metal sheets of roof covering. It is my opinion that there was never any intention to build a Bronte Centre & that the applicants have purposely left the building to deteriorate to the extent that it needed demolishing & then would render the application to be amended to be used for living accommodation.
Jean Marc Ah-Sen: What fictional character would you like to be friends with?S.C.: Jane Eyre. I read the Victorian novel in my late teens, first in Chinese and then in English, and was so struck by her strong-mindedness and stubborn individualism. I’d walk around repeating her words in my head, rehearsing to become my own woman. I loved that she was plain-looking, unlike conventional heroines, and that she fended off life’s cruelty with intelligence and integrity. Even as a naïve adolescent, I thought that powerful speech she gave in response to Rochester’s proposal was the sexiest bundle of words a woman could pass on to her lover.
Jane Eyre is also the favourite book by Renee Lai, artist and contributor to Glasstire.
With Wuthering Heights, her startling, singular voice – which people either loved or loathed; there was no indifference – threw her into the spotlight and under the gaze of a whole nation. Within days of its release, everyone in Britain was aware of Kate Bush – or at least ‘that voice’, and its startling, wailing delivery of the name ‘Heathcliff’. Kate was on her way. (Harry Doherty)
Sharing a name with the book that it briefly relays the story of, Wuthering Heights is an ample, yet rudimentary, example of many of Bush’s stylism and conventions that can be found throughout her work- mainly the immense theatrical sense. (Jude Marsh)
Her work as the tragic heroine Cathy Earnshaw in William Wyler’s Wuthering Heights, arguably her most famous film, transfixed me. At the time, there were few South Asian faces in Hollywood, and the fact that Oberon had managed to break through more than 50 years earlier beggared belief in my young mind. (...)In this regard, Wuthering Heights was perhaps her most demonstrative showcase. As Cathy, she toggled among moods—stubbornness, determination, heartbreak—with fluency. Today, one might read irony into the fact that Oberon played a character whom Emily Brontë had conceived as canonically white, while Oberon’s white co-star, Laurence Olivier, played Heathcliff, a man of indeterminate racial origin. (References to his potential South Asian heritage abound in Brontë’s text and the 1939 film, which explains some of the resistance to director Emerald Fennell’s announcement last year that she would adapt the novel with Jacob Elordi, who is white, as Heathcliff.) But the honesty Oberon brought to that character’s torment proves that she was the right actor for the part, irrespective of color. (Mayukh Sen)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysThis prequel to 'Jane Eyre' gives voice to Bertha Mason, the Creole woman locked away by Mr. Rochester. Antoinette, as she was once known, fights against colonial prejudice, forced marriage, and betrayal. Struggling to maintain her identity, she descends into madness—a victim of patriarchy and racial injustice. Rhys redefines heroism as a fight for self-ownership in a world determined to erase individuality. (Girish Shukla)
La regia di Badiluzzi riesce a coniugare fedeltà al testo originale con una visione innovativa, offrendo una prospettiva fresca su un classico intramontabile. Cime Tempestose al Teatro Piccolo Bellini è un'esperienza teatrale che invita lo spettatore a confrontarsi con le proprie passioni e i propri demoni interiori, attraverso una rappresentazione che unisce tradizione e modernità in modo magistrale. (Gianpiero Pagano in Napoli al Teatro) (Translation)
Trasportando gli spettatori al centro dell’universo tormentato di Catherine e Heathcliff, attraverso il racconto dei giovani Hareton e Catherine, la cui relazione è uno dei temi centrali del romanzo, l’adattamento di Martina Badiluzzi offre un punto di vista del tutto originale, inedito finora, capace di calare nella contemporaneità questo classico, così complesso e simbolico, scritto nel 1846. (Napoli Today) (Translation)
Restando fedele al romanzo vittoriano scritto nel 1846 ma al contempo portando sulla scena temi attuali, la trasposizione di questo classico senza tempo parte dalla relazione amorosa di Cathy e Hareton, che si ritrovano a tornare per puro caso a “Cime Tempestose”.
È emblematico che i protagonisti non siano Catherine e Heathcliff, da sempre considerati tra le coppie più romantiche e passionali della letteratura ma in realtà simbolo di un amore distruttore: nella mise-en-scène di Badiluzzi è la seconda generazione essere protagonista, Cathy, la fotocopia della madre Catherine, e Hareton, figlio non desiderato. (Francesca Arfè in Eroica Fenice) (Translation)
Finally, in striking contrast with the news that opened this post, the Brontë Birthplace renovation is nearly complete with photographer Matt Gibbons capturing the freshly restored spaces, including the parlour where the sisters were born. After dedicated work by volunteers and specialists to restore historical features, the birthplace will open to visitors in March/April 2025.
Interdiscipline innovation and scientific research conferenceEgamnazarova RushanaVol. 3 No. 28 (2025): Interdiscipline Innovation and Scientific Research ConferenceAbstractCharlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre remains a seminal work in feminist literary discourse, offering a nuanced critique of gender roles in Victorian England. This article examines the portrayal of gender roles in the novel and how Brontë embeds feminist ideologies within Jane’s character development and narrative progression. The study highlights Jane’s struggle for autonomy, her rejection of traditional female subjugation, and her assertion of self-worth within a patriarchal framework. By analyzing key interactions between Jane and male figures, as well as her journey towards self-realization, this paper underscores Jane Eyre’s contribution to early feminist thought. The novel’s progressive stance on women’s independence, education, and equality resonates with contemporary feminist ideals, making it a critical text in gender studies.
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New fully-accessible visitor toilets and changing provision have opened at Haworth's Brontë Parsonage Museum.Included are four individual self-contained cubicles, and an accessible toilet for people in wheelchairs or with prams, which also features baby changing facilities.The provision includes a Changing Places toilet, which offers extra space and equipment such as a hoist, moveable changing bed and wash down facility.There's also a sedum-planted roof to promote biodiversity.Funding for the project was received from Arts Council England’s Capital Investment Programme. And the museum was one of 21 organisations across the district to benefit from the £3m Bradford 2025 Cultural Capital Fund. [...]Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, says: "We're so pleased to finally be able to provide our visitors with the facilities expected of a world-class museum. Our previous lack of toilets was a significant barrier to access, and we are immensely grateful to Bradford Council, Bradford 2025 and Arts Council England for the funding to make its removal possible."Dan Bates, executive director of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, says: "The Cultural Capital Fund was created by Bradford Council and Bradford 2025 to invest in cultural infrastructure across the district, improving amenities so that visitors and communities can have access to – and participate in – activities during our time as UK City of Culture and for many more years to come."The Brontë Parsonage Museum is one of the jewels in Bradford’s cultural crown, and we are extremely happy to have played a part in bringing these new facilities to Haworth."The scheme received £100,000 through the Arts Council England Capital Investment Programme.Pete Massey, for Arts Council England, says: "I’m delighted we were able to award this funding towards the creation of enhanced visitor facilities at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. These environmentally-friendly improvements will increase accessibility to the building for everyone, and in particular for disabled and older people and those with young children, meaning that more visitors can experience everything that the museum has to offer.”Councillor Sarah Ferriby, Bradford Council's portfolio holder for healthy people and places, says: "It's good to see that the investment in City of Culture is having practical benefits at a local level, as well as supporting our tourism offer." (Alistair Shand)
Soon Oberon was in Hollywood under a shared arrangement with the producer Samuel Goldwyn, garnering an Oscar nomination for “The Dark Angel” (1935)—making her in retrospect the first Asian actor to be so honored—and working her way up to the career peak of “Wuthering Heights.” During the production of the William Wyler film, Oberon’s co-star Laurence Olivier subjected her to constant verbal abuse on the set. He’d hoped the role would go to his girlfriend Vivien Leigh. (Ty Burr)
La idea de partir de una obra canónica y volver a contarla desde otro punto de vista, dejando al descubierto los puntos ciegos del original, no es nueva, y ha producido obras que ya son a su vez canónicas. En 1964, una anciana y enferma Jean Rhys, que llevaba décadas desaparecida del mundo literario y estaba viviendo en una barraca precaria en el Sur de Inglaterra, publicó El ancho mar de los Sargazos. Esta precuela de Jane Eyre toma el personaje de Bertha Mason, la ex mujer de Rochester encerrada en el desván de la casa, una mujer a la que tienen por loca y peligrosa, y le da un pasado y unas razones. Bertha, en la versión de Jean Rhys, ni siquiera se llamaba Bertha, sino Antoinette, y es una jamaicana blanca, descendiente de los propietarios de esclavos (como la propia Rhys, que nació en la isla caribeña de Dominica), a los que llamaban cucarachas blancas, con una historia de desgracias a sus espaldas, y marcada por el trauma. Trauma a secas y trauma intergeneracional, el que se hereda debido a sucesos históricos. Puestos a leer a Antoinette con los ojos de la actualidad hasta podríamos decir que ha sufrido luz de gas a manos de Rochester. Hay una línea recta entre la paranoia obsesiva de esa mujer y el ninguneo al que le somete su marido.El ancho mar de los Sargazos sirvió, a la corta, para aliviar los últimos años de su autora, que falleció en 1979, con 88 años que contaban casi como 288 por la intensidad con la que vivió y las veces que la dieron por muerta. Y, a la larga, para reformular un tropo novelístico, la loca del desván, y señalar a la vez un camino que seguirían otros autores, la revisión feminista y poscolonial de un texto victoriano. (Begoña Gómez Urzaiz) (Translation)
Emma Cohen-EdmondsEdinburgh Student Literary Journal 7 (A/W 24-25):1-9 (2025)AbstractThis essay follows how three different texts (one prose, and two poems) each reflect the narrative arc of St. Paul's struggle with sin and his overcoming of it. It begins by following a parallel between the experience of Paul's conversion in the biblical book of Acts with the anagnorisis of Charlotte Bronte's protagonist, Jane Eyre. I compare how both literary agents wrestle with inner conflicts and arrive to a united conclusion that where humankind fails, God always represents the solution. Following this, in light of analysing Paul's religious experience, I turn to Seamus Heaney's poem 'Miracle.' In this, the effect of sin, interpreted as death and suffering is underscored in the same way that Paul underscores it in his letters. Finally, I conclude by deepening an understanding of Paul's anthropology in analysing Edwin Muir's poem, 'Adam's Dream.'
Ian Griffiths, the British creative director of Max Mara, starts with what real women wear and builds fashion out from there, rather than the other way around. This season, he wanted to do big skirts.“So I thought: what story do I attach to this, to give it drama? We all have our dramas going on inside, so our clothes should, too.” A weekend in Yorkshire led him to the Brontë heroines Catherine Earnshaw and Jane Eyre, and a collection of rustling greatcoats, hardy layers with bellow pockets, chunky boots, stiff tweeds and grand velvets.There was nothing Victorian about the clothes on the catwalk. “I’m not doing costume drama,” Griffiths said backstage. On his moodboard, an image of a woman looking out of a plane window was pinned next to a portrait of the Brontë sisters, “because I never forget that the woman I’m designing for is more likely to be getting on a plane to New York or marching through the corridors of power than marching across the moors. She’s probably a corporate lawyer.” (Jess Cartner-Morley)
“I was trying to balance between Jane Eyre and her demure self control and Catherine Earnshaw and her untrammeled wild passion in order to find a woman who’s somewhere in between controlling these two polar emotions.” This was Ian Griffiths’s pre-show preface to a Max Mara collection that sought to sublimate the contrasting romantic essences of the Brontë sisters’s famous protagonists: heroine chic. (Luke Leitch)
Max Mara's newest collection is for the woman in touch with her inner self and for the woman who dreams through enmeshing herself in literature, according to Creative Director Ian Griffiths. "We are living in a particular moment, there is a threatening world that we are dealing with and I believe that clothes help you to face it better. More generally, an elegant look makes you feel good. This morning, for example, I wore my three-piece suit and I was happy to start the day," he wrote in show notes.For the Fall/Winter 2025 collection, he has a very clear idea of the type of woman he is dressing: she who is "refined, strong, cultured, intelligent, capable of living even her most emotional side, a woman who reads," show notes read for the show presented during Milan Fashion Week.Specifically, he is passionate about two great classics of English literature, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights by Charlotte and Emily Brontë, respectively, where the protagonists are indomitable heroines. To outline the look of the season, Griffiths also looks at the portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron, great-aunt of Virginia Woolf, a rare female photographer of the Victorian era who specialized in dreamy female portraits. (Cristina Manfredi)
That all changed in 1977 when she got tuberculosis and was confined to Merlin Park Hospital.“I found the days long and miserable. One day I had a visit from friends, Anne and Mark Kennedy, and they brought up a skinny little book called Animal Farm. I loved it, I loved the revolution in it. I went on to read Wuthering Heights. I could see Catherine and Heathcliff on the moors.”
by Tom MarshGrosvenor House Publishing LtdISBN: 978-1836150596December 2024Bronte Falls is a crime story like no other. Exciting, suspenseful and intensely funny it follows the brutal crimes of a copycat serial killer, punctuated by the amusing goings-on of a very odd Yorkshire precinct.Detective Inspector Charles Brontë, long-suffering, irreverent but effective is on the case along with tough-cookie, Sergeant Jennifer Pepper.Brontë, ready for retirement is most certainly not ready for a vicious psychopath moving onto his beloved patch, slaying locals Willy-Nilly whilst posing and displaying their dead, mutilated bodies in the villages of the Yorkshire Moors.Initially Brontë and Pepper struggle to make a connection between the murderer and the victims, making the likelihood of a successful arrest out of reach. It is only with the help from unexpected quarters: an outlaw biker gang, a coven of witches and an American newspaper hack, that Bronte and Pepper can get anywhere near to the gruesome truth...and gruesome is what the truth really is. You will really enjoy this book it is a good fun exciting thriller with a twist and turns and certainly unexpected ending.
‘Tales of a Monstrous Heart’ by Jennifer Delaney, published by GollanczTaking inspiration from Jane Eyre, Tales of a Monstrous Heart is a relatively new release but it had an immediate impact on us. Delaney’s debut blends gothic fantasy with romance, in turn making this a book and a story that could easily have slotted into quite a few other categories in this list. It also flips what tends to be the traditional understanding that fey/fae (the mythical beings) are one of the highest and most respected, as, here, they are continually prejudiced against. Romance or romantasy fans will appreciate the slow burn between the two main characters, Kat and Emrys, but it is the take on traditional gothic and dark academia that really worked for us. (Ellis Cochrane)
A 'eureka moment' in a Haworth cafe led to the creation of a fictional detective.Detective Inspector Charles Brontë was born.And now he is heading up an investigation into brutal murders, in Tom Marsh's crime thriller Brontë Falls."The idea for the main protagonist was a delightful breakthrough and eureka moment," says Tom."One miserable day sat in a cafe staring down at an empty notebook I realised it would soon be time to climb back on my motorbike for the short but cold ride home."The bell on the cafe door rang to signify its opening, and in walked a police officer. Eureka! Everything fell into place at that moment – a motorcycling Haworth police detective working the villages and moors in Brontë country, an inspector with the same surname as the three famous sisters."In Brontë Falls, murder victims' bodies appear in usually-quiet villages and on the moors around Haworth. (Alistair Shand)
Were you drawn to any particular types of roles in those early years? With Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, I wondered if you were already interested in playing the darker side of a leading man.Yeah, but that was a difficult one because the audience was not expecting that. They were expecting a 35-year-old man, i.e. Laurence Olivier, who was fully grown in [his 1939 film.] In the book, they were teenagers—and he was a bastard. (Anthony Breznican)
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Searsport District High School presents
Being Brontë
by Grace ScharlackenWith Bay Nadeau, Connor Courtney and Aiden Boyd, Keira Saball, Dilyla Brown, Morgyn Cornell, Joslyn Merithew and Selina Cantres.Thursday, Feb. 27, 6:30 p.m. at Mount View High School in ThorndikeFriday, Feb. 28, 6:30 p.m. at Troy Howard Middle School, BelfastSaturday, March 1, 6:30 p.m. at Searsport District Middle/High School in Searsport. All shows begin atRegional festival at Medomak Valley High School in Union on Friday, March 7, at 7 p.m.
Thu 27 Feb, 7:30pmJoin us for our first 2025 soirée in the Brontë Lounge! Our host Helen Meller will be talking to author, BookTuber and C
hair of the Brontë Society’s Board of Trustees, Lucy Powrie.A proudly autistic writer currently working on a new neurodivergent YA romance novel, Lucy is the youngest Chair to be appointed to the Board of Trustees and has over 45,000 subscribers to her book-centred YouTube channel, lucythereader. We’ll hear from Lucy about her YA series, The Paper & Hearts Society, with a chance to ask questions throughout the event.This is an online talk. If you can’t attend the live event, a recording will be sent out afterwards.
Local schools have been contacted and are invited to enter poster, writing or poetry competitions in advance of the Festival with the winners announced in June. Events will be held in Chandler’s House and, in association with ABC Council, Drumballyroney Church and the Brontë Homeland Interpretative Centre.Margot Groves from the organising committee said, “We have a rich heritage of writing in the area given the connection to the Brontë family and we wanted to celebrate this. We also want to showcase many of the talented writers that live locally and also inspire the younger generations too with the schools’ competition.“We chose to incorporate Rath in our title to pay tribute to the history of the town and the stories that have been carried down through generations. Rathfriland was the chief citadel for the territory of Iveagh which covered about half of Co Down. The Magennis Clan were lords of Iveagh for 500 years up until the mid 1600s. They ruled from their castle base, which was protected by a rath, a type of walled enclosure.“We will be shortly announcing the various events taking place during the Festival, including the artists and details on how to get tickets. For now, we want everyone to look forward to the weekend and save the date in their diaries!” (Columba O'Hare)
La Jane Eyre escrita por Charlotte Brontë no tuvo una vida fácil: en sus años de institutriz soportó el desprecio de las familias y cuando se enamoró de un hombre y este le pidió matrimonio, ella tuvo que rechazarlo, puesto que él estaba casado con otra mujer. Desde este jueves 27 de febrero y hasta el próximo domingo 2 de marzo, Jane tendrá la oportunidad de recordar su juventud en el Teatro del Mercado con el estreno del espectáculo ‘Jane B’, en el que se unirá el teatro y la música.En una época en la que las mujeres eran subestimadas, Charlotte Brontë tuvo que utilizar el pseudónimo masculino de Currer Bel [sic] para que los editores tuvieran en consideración su obra. Una novela que presenta a una mujer capaz de decidir por sí misma y de alejarse del camino marcado por la sociedad para ella. En ’Jane B’, será su protagonista quien a través del paso del tiempo descubrirá que el miedo a la libertad se puede vencer cuando dejas atrás aquello que te hizo creer que nunca podrías ser libre. (H.A.) (Translation)
Written and Directed by Miguel Ángel MañasMusic by maríaconfussionTeatro del Mercado, ZaragozaJueves, 27 de febrero, 20,00 horasViernes, 28 de febrero, 20,00 horasSábado, 1 de marzo, 20,00 horasDomingo, 2 de marzo, 19,00 horasWith María PérezPianist ... Faustino CortésJane B. es la historia de Jane Eyre, contemplando y reviviendo aquellos momentos en los que decidió seguir sola su camino. En la soledad de una casa construida en las tierras altas de Escocia, rodeada de viento y nieve, Jane dará vida con su voz y sus canciones a una parte de su vida: los recuerdos de sus años como institutriz soportando el desprecio de las familias que le dejaban a sus hijos a cargo de su educación y que la señalaban como extraña, como si no perteneciera a ese mundo.Y luego el amor, el amor por un hombre que no dudó en pedirle matrimonio siendo aún marido de otra mujer, lo que la obligó a decir no, a preferir estar sola antes que traicionarse a sí misma a pesar de estar profundamente enamorada.Sólo el paso del tiempo, este tiempo que veremos transcurrir, la anclará a un puerto seguro donde nuestra protagonista ha decidido ser ella misma y descubrir que el miedo a la libertad se puede vencer cuando dejas atrás aquello que te hizo creer que nunca sería libre.
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There she is, reclining on the pink fainting sofa. Naked. A MacBook is on her lap. Her gaze meets ours. Hanging from the Tiffany Baroque floor lamp is a pink bra. The clock says it’s 8 o’clock. On the console table in French Provincial style—romantic like the Victorian, but not as dramatic as to render itself unapproachable—sit Mama Mary, a pile of books including Jane Eyre, a Himalayan salt lamp, and a vase with delicate flowers. (Amanda Juico Dela Cruz)
The [book] that made you want to become an author: Wuthering Heights (Elise Dumpleton)
Heathcliff: A Human or a Demon? An Exploration of the Complexities of Character in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
Dr.A.Narayanan Assistant Professor/English, SRM TRP Engineering College,
Narayanan /Star International Journal, Volume 12, Issue 11(1), November(2024)
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights presents a character of profound complexity, Heathcliff. This research article examines whether Heathcliff should be interpreted as a human or a demon, analyzing his actions, motivations, and relationships within the novel. By exploring Heathcliff's behavior, his interactions with other characters, and the novel's gothic elements, this study aims to illuminate the dubious nature of him and the ways in which Bronte’s characterization challenges conventional boundaries between the human and the supernatural. In this context, Arnold Kettle examines how Heathcliff rebels against the capitalist temperaments of the bourgeois family, like those of Lintons and Earnshaws. He emerges as an evil element due to the cruel treatment meted out to him by Hindley and Edgar Linton, the members of the high born society (Kettle, 1951). However, He, being the wild outcast is fortunate enough to gain the company of Catherine who shows him a kind of human understanding and goodwill. She joins him in his rebellion against the hegemony and tyranny of Hindley and Frances, an upper class people
When you were 10 years old, what was your favourite book?I was obsessed with "Jane Eyre." Completely, totally, absolutely obsessed. This was probably an early warning sign of some sorts, but at least it eventually led me to "Wide Sargasso Sea" and Jean Rhys.
Sometimes she is a governess, hired by a mysterious, rich man, to educate his ward as in the case of Jane Eyre, or to look after his strange children like the nameless protagonist of “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James. In the case of the former, the attraction between governess and employer is complicated not only by the power dynamic between them, but the secrets Rochester is concealing. [...]One crucial thing many Gothic heroines share is her tragically terrible taste in men.Heathcliff. Edward Rochester. Maxime de Winter.Mad, bad, and dangerous to know, they are the Byronic hero: Dark, tortured, and haunted by their past yet possessed by a magnetic charisma that draws the heroine in, igniting her repressed sexual desire and yearning to escape the narrow confines of her family and society’s expectations. They are often older, worldly, and wealthy, an irresistible combination for young, impressionable women and she is as equally irresistible to him: her melancholic beauty is a balm for his troubled soul and her love is his redemption, whether he is deserving of it or no. Their romance is doomed from the start, but it is woven into the very fabric of the flowing nightgowns the heroine wears as she flees from almost certain death, and even though she would be better off leaving his windswept figure far behind, we cannot help but fall under their spell, and hope that they escape the clutches of the past and horrors of the present.
4. Wuthering Heights, 1992The action takes place somewhere on the West Yorkshire moors in the 19th century. Mr. Earnshaw, the father of two teenagers, Hindley and Catherine, brings home a hungry tramp, Heathcliff. He decides to take the boy into his care and asks the children to think of him as a brother.Catherine and Heathcliff grow up and fall in love. However, the difference in social status and her brother's envy prevent them from being together. In the end, the woman becomes the wife of a wealthy neighbor. But Heathcliff is willing to do anything to be with her.In the film adaptation of Emily Bronte's famous novel, Fiennes played Heathcliff – a rude and bitter man obsessed with his passions. It was his first leading role. (Tobias Rivera)
Direction and dramaturgy by Martina BadiluzziStarring Arianna Pozzoli and Loris De LunaDramaturg: Giorgia ButtarazziDramaturgy collaboration: Margherita MauroSet design: Rosita VallefuocoCostume design: Giuditta VerderioSound and music: Samuele CestolaLighting: Fabrizio CiceroMovement dramaturgy: Roberta RacisSet construction: Alovisi AttrezzeriaProduction photos: Laila PozzoProduced by Cranpi, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Fondazione Teatro di Napoli - Teatro Bellini, Romaeuropa FestivalWith the contribution of MiC - Ministry of CultureWith the support of Teatro Biblioteca QuarticcioloTeatro Bellini, Napoli, ItalyFebruary 25, 27, 28, March 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 21:00hFebruary 26 18:00 hMarch 1 19.30 hMarch 2, 9
18.30 hCime tempestose è un lavoro che vuole essere un omaggio al potere catartico della letteratura, alla magia dell’arte e del teatro e che prosegue il processo di riscrittura di figure femminili della drammaturga e regista friulana.Interpretato da Arianna Pozzoli e Loris De Luna, Cime tempestose è il quarto capitolo di una quadrilogia che, assieme a Penelope (co-prodotto da Romaeuropa Festival 2022), Cattiva sensibilità e The making of Anastasia (vincitore del bando Biennale di Venezia Registi Under 30 nel 2019), porta avanti un discorso sul corpo femminile attraversando i temi dell’identità, dell’amore e dell’educazione delle giovani donne. I quattro lavori sono interpretati alternativamente dalle stesse cinque attrici: Barbara Chichiarelli, Viola Carinci, Federica Carruba Toscano, Arianna Pozzoli e Martina Badiluzzi, a cui si aggiunge Loris De Luna.In Cime Tempestose, trasportando gli spettatori al centro dell’universo tormentato di Catherine e Heathcliff, attraverso il racconto dei giovani Hareton e Catherine, la cui relazione è uno dei temi centrali del romanzo, l’adattamento di Martina Badiluzzi offre un punto di vista del tutto originale, inedito finora, capace di calare nella contemporaneità questo classico, così complesso e simbolico, scritto nel 1846.
The enduring fascination with the Brontë family and the peerless novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne has been attracting visitors to Haworth, where the sisters lived and worked, for well over a hundred years and the Parsonage Museum is this year exploring the ways in which this continuing literary legacy has shaped the village and perceptions of it, beginning with a new exhibition entitled From Haworth to Eternity.The exhibition looks at the different elements that have led to Haworth becoming a global tourist destination and a place of pilgrimage. “Haworth was a hard-working industrial township – it was never considered to be a romantic place until the Brontë novels first appeared in 1847 under the pseudonyms of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell,” says Ann Dinsdale, principal curator at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. “By 1850 people were starting to work out that the novels had been written by three clergyman’s daughters living in West Yorkshire and people began finding their way to Haworth.” (...)The exhibition features a number of selected pieces from the Museum’s extensive drama archive including props, stills photographs, manuscripts and letters, to illustrate the impact of the numerous films and television series inspired by the Brontës and their novels. Recent examples include writer-director Sally Wainwright’s 2016 BBC drama To Walk Invisible and filmmaker Frances O’Connor’s 2022 film Emily. “We definitely notice a boost in visitor numbers each time,” says Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Parsonage Museum. “Particularly after the Emily film, we had a lot of younger people coming. There was some criticism that it wasn’t historically accurate, but it was an artistic response – Frances O’Connor described the film as a reimagining of Emily’s life. I think it is great that each new generation of artists finds inspiration in the Brontës’ lives and work.”The very first film version of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, a silent movie shot on location in and around Haworth, appeared in 1920. The shooting script, annotated by the director A V Bramble, is one of the items on display in the exhibition. It was acquired by the museum back in 2014. “As the film itself didn’t survive, the script is a really valuable resource,” says Dinsdale. “We also have film stills and production notes on costumes and locations.” (...)Dinsdale hopes that visitors to the Parsonage will enjoy taking a closer look at the perceptions of the famous literary family and their home. “The exhibition really delves into why the Brontës continue to be so popular,” she says. “It’s a combination of things – the power and originality of their writing, added to that their tragic life story, all set against the backdrop of this wild countryside. It is a potent mix.” (Yvette Huddleston)
5. Wuthering Heights 2011If you're not familiar with the source material (the famed sole novel by Emily Brontë), Wuthering Heights is a bit of a slog. If you are familiar with the original text, you may get something out of seeing it executed here with the sort of filmmaking style one would typically associate with 21st-century indie cinema. Like, it’s all very handheld camerawork-heavy, shaky, and unstable, which sort of clashes with the look of the film, but might arguably fit with the difficult emotions at the heart of the story. This is, after all, a bleak film about desire, heartbreak, and class, and the characters are often as unstable as the camera capturing their desperate lives.It's a film/story about romance, but it’s not exactly romantic. Passion is explored here in a way that is distinctive. 2011’s Wuthering Heights is trying to do its own thing, and it feels like an Andrea Arnold film, but that is praise of the faint variety. This take on Wuthering Heights is sporadically interesting, but often just too slow and oddly repetitive for a film that runs for two hours while covering a great deal of time narratively. It’s a bit hard to recommend, even if it’s mildly intriguing in fits and bursts. (Jeremy Urquhart)
A husband and wife writing duo from Presteigne are celebrating the launch of their historical Victorian detective novel, described as Charlotte Brontë meets Agatha Christie.Sarah Burton and Jem Poster, who have lived in Presteigne for more than 20 years, are launching their intriguing detective book, Eliza Mace, in paperback on February 27. The story is deeply inspired by the eerie Welsh marshes, with protagonist Eliza’s sense of isolation mirroring the remote surroundings where she grew up. It is the first in a planned series, published with Duckworth. (Jack Strange)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA classic for a reason, I have to imagine Jane Eyre’s twist shocked audiences in the eighteenth century just as much as it shocks modern readers. A twist that inspired an entire spin off novel (read ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ by Jean Rhys afterwards), it will keep you guessing up to the end.Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard.But there is a terrifying secret inside the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall. Is Rochester hiding from Jane? Will Jane be left heartbroken and exiled once again? And what are the dark presences lurking around Thornfield Hall? (Lulu McKenna)
Song: “Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush (1978)During the rainy season, indulging in periodic glances out of the window to watch puddles grow ever larger on the uneven pavement outside is a classic activity enhanced by background music — and “Wuthering Heights” is particularly appropriate. As a retelling of Emily Brontë’s only novel, Kate Bush’s shivering vocals and enigmatic lyrics perfectly represent the Gothic novel’s toxic relationships, its perpetually windy, stormy English moors and my mood while studying for midterms. I also admire how the song manages to fit a remarkable amount of content into four minutes and 29 seconds, given that the novel it’s based on is usually around four hundred pages long. (Julie Huang)
Fact is, Melinda and I have been friends since we were 10-year-olds in Girl Scouts, reading aloud to each other from Wuthering Heights while munching on bags of chocolate covered pretzels.
