Brontë references (1)

New Brontë references that we trace for our readers in the recent editorial novelties:

Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher Mysteries) by Kerry Greenwood.
Poisoned Pen Press

The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia's Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set without explanation, and the parlour maid is found strangled to death. What with the reappearance of mysterious funerary urns, a pair of young lovers, an extremely eccentric swagman, an angry outcast heir, and the luscious Lin Chung, Phryne's attention has definitely been caught. Her search for answers takes her deep into the dungeons of the house and into the limestone Buchan caves. But what will she find this time?

Brontë reference:

"Sometimes I feel that I am in touch with the other side-with other great writers who long to be reincarnated.'' "Oh? Who?" Miss Medenham settled down for a cosy gossip about herself, automatically leaning back to emphasise her unfashionable bosom and crossing her long, slim legs. She was wearing a red jersey dress under the red coat, and champagne-coloured silk stockings. Her fair hair was shoulder length and straight as a drink of water. `Emily Brontë, of course. Didn't you notice the fire and passion of my last novel, the depth, the wind blowing through it?' Phryne wondered whether to admit that she had stuck fast three pages into the dense prose of Earth, Miss Medenham's latest offering."

The World Is a Waiting Lover : Desire and the Quest for the Beloved by Trebbe Johnson.
New World Library

Johnson explores the concept of the Beloved — the elusive, alluring force that beckons us forth to passionate engagement with the world — and shows how our sense of love is often linked to something far greater than ourselves. She explains that mistaking a human lover for the inner, eternal Beloved is the first step in any romance, yet the ability to distinguish between the two ultimately holds the key to our quest for personal freedom and fulfillment.
Steeped in Western and Eastern myth and romantic imagery, The World is a Waiting Lover guides us through story and thought in order to discover passion, Eros, and our authentic selves. It is a personal story and, at the same time, an invitation to explore our individual yearnings to live with fearless authenticity as we find more passion and meaning in our work, relationships, and view of the future.

Brontë reference:
John Lennon appeared immediately, and right after him came Albert Camus, followed by Emily Brontë, W. B. Yeats, Dante Alighieri, and Virginia Woolf, all members of the literary pack I'd adored for many years. (...)
Emily, when I read Wuthering Heights, I was fifteen years old and feeling different and lonely and unliked. You taught me that a woman can love the land passionately, that human emotions can be as wild and grand as storms and English moors. You taught me that strangeness and longing and sorrow are the very blood of writing and that and that they can save a woman's life.

Categories: References, Emily_Brontë, Wuthering_Heights
Categories: References, Books, Emily_Brontë