Dorothy & William Wordsworth vs Catherine & Heathcliff

A couple of reviews of The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson mention a similarity with Wuthering Heights in the relationship between Dorothy and William Wordsworth:

One of the most intriguing of Frances Wilson's insights concerns the way in which Dorothy and William's relationship can be better understood through considering the portrayal of Emily Brontë's Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, who are so much a part of one another that they cannot be separated. The other Brontë parallel is with Charlotte's violently insane Bertha Rochester. (Virginia Rounding in The Guardian)

Such was their closeness that Wilson suggests Dorothy and William may have been the inspiration for Emily Brontë’s Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. Although this may seem a little farfetched – particularly the Heathcliff element – Dorothy in her youth certainly embodied all the wildness of the heroine of Wuthering Heights. As described by de Quincey, she was a pagan goddess with “a gipsy tan”, and “an impassioned intellect”. (...)
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Could Dorothy and William Wordsworth really be the models for Catherine and Heathcliff in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights? “Fraternal love,” claimed Dorothy, “has been the building up of my being, the light of my path.” Brontë, Wilson speculates, might have been inspired by Thomas de Quincey’s 1839 account of the Wordsworths’ life, in which Dorothy, suntanned, untamed and androgynous, is described as “beyond any person I have known . . . the creature of impulse”. It’s a wonderful theory, but alas, impossible to prove. (Miranda Seymour in The Times)

The influence of Wordsworth on Emily Brontë's poetry has been discussed several times (for instance in Wordsworth, Jonathan, 'Wordsworth and the Poetry of Emily Brontë', Brontë Society Transactions, 16/82 (1972) 85-100). De Quincey's Lake Remininiscences were first printed in the Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1834-1840). Later he revised them for his Collected Works in 1853.

Sometimes the reviewers introduce Brontë references in a way that James Tully would have loved. This is from the Palm Beach Post review of Kim Edwards' The Memory Keepers's Daughter:

Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter is built on a plot that Charlotte Bronte would have killed for, that Nathaniel Hawthorne would have betrayed his wife for. (Scott Eyman)

Ashci talks about Wuthering Heights in Turkish. Rant-A-Book reviews a Graphic Novel version of Jane Eyre from 2003 (Philip Page & Marilyn Pettit , Limewire Graphic Novels)

The drawings aren't really that good, the text is flat and they miss out too many important parts. Yes I know it's claim is : "Using a carefully-edited text and a unique cartoon-strip format to link important passages, the Livewire Graphics series brings to life the great classics, making them accessible to students of all abilities.". I knew it was a young adult book going in, and I expected an abbreviated version, but, well, ug. No. I really didn't like it at all.

Finally, Ramblings of a Biscuit posts the first entry of a review of Jane Eyre 2006.

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