Heathcliff goes to the hairdresser

Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale continues collecting reviews, two more here and here.

Critics have invoked Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca," Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" and the works of Wilkie Collins in describing the style of the dark and disturbing story that unfolds about writer Vida Winter's dysfunctional family.

Still with books but changing to Wuthering Heights, The New York Times reviews The Yale Book of Quotations by Fred R. Shapiro. And Wuthering Heights appears, albeit via Ben Hetch, the adaptor of the 1939 film version:

Two hundred famous “film lines” are deliciously collected:(...) “Go on, Heathcliff, run away. Bring me back the world!” from Ben Hecht’s screenplay for “Wuthering Heights.” (William Safire)

The San Francisco Gate makes a list with The 12 Sexiest Men Who Were Never Alive. Heathcliff is there:

Heathcliff (antihero, "Wuthering Heights"): Tall, dark, handsome, tormented. Wronged by the woman he loved and bent on revenge at any cost. Merciless. In sum, perfection. (Neva Chonin)

His company is...well, heterogenous: Lucius Malfoy, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Spock, Darth Maul... or even, Miyazaki's Totoro!

The weirdest Brontë mention of the day comes from this article covering an art-exhibition on Akron's Summit Artspace: Kaleidoscope 2006.

In the representational category, awards were given to Judith Carducci, first place for her pastel painting Wild Mane; (...) Carducci's winning work is a portrait of a young woman with ``exuberant'' long hair that she painted while on a workshop in New Hampshire. (...)

The work is characteristically Carducci, complete with liberal uses of Cardoro and touches of her other trademark color, turquoise. The skin tones are luminous and pearly, the hair is as wild and romantic as a Bronte heroine's and she does have a really great nose, long and sensitive and not at all pert. (Dorothy Shinn in The Beacon Journal)

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