Pagans in a Romantic landscape

The New Statesman reviews Frances Wilson's The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth and the author's hypothesis about Emily Brontë seeking inspiration in the Wordsworths for Heathcliff and Catherine is mentioned again:

On the question of incest, Wilson suggests that the bond between the Wordsworths was deeper than desire, and darker. "They were more concerned with the effects of pen on paper than with anything expressed by the body," she writes, but is far from suggesting that theirs was a sober working companionship. Instead, she finds a model for their closeness in the love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. Emily Brontë could not have read Dorothy's journals but Wilson makes a persuasive case for her having been familiar with Thomas De Quincey's essays about the Wordsworths. These essays, first published in 1839, gave a moving picture of brother and sister as careless pagans in a Romantic landscape, before one marriage gave way to another: her fire dampened by desertion, his vision clouded by celebrity. (Claudia Fitzherbert)

More references. A tiny mention to the Brontës in a review of the film Brick Lane (2007):

Chanu (Satish Kaushik) is an educated man of generous girth and great hopes. He has read the Brontes and Thackeray as well as Tagore, which is more than he can say for most Englishmen. "People here are by and large ignorant," he says without malice, but we can see he is a tragic buffoon and dreamer. (Paul Byrnes in The Sydney Morning Herald)

And an even tinier one. The title of this article about the new book Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies by Mallory Young and Suzanne Ferriss:

'Jane Eyre,' 'Emma' and ... 'Legally Blonde?' (Angelia Joiner in Abilene Reporter-News)

Another writer who confesses her Brontëiteness (or sort of). Catherine Delors is interviewed on The Dark Phantom Review:

Who are your favorite authors? Why?
In addition to the authors I loved as a child, and still love today, I am a great admirer of Jane Austen, and also the Victorians: Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Trollope. And the great Americans: Poe, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Styron. (...)
What attracts me to these writers? They make me laugh, cry, think. I am heartbroken when I finish one of their books, because I would want it to go on forever.

And Trashionista interviews Lee Harrington:

Your favourite female heroine (if different from above!), and why?
I love Bridget Jones. I wish I could be more like her, but I don’t smoke or drink (all that much). I also love Elizabeth Bennett and Jane Eyre, but you better believe I would never have left Mr. Rochester the way she did.

City Nature Blog continues posting about the Brontës. This time, among other things, it's Shirley's turn.

Finally, some very bizarre fanfic. A Snakes 'n' Barrels meets Wuthering Heights story. Don't ask:

Summary: Basically, the history of Snakes n' Barrels, Wuthering Heights style. If you've never read the book, that's your problem ;D
Authors' note: Okay, here's the deal. This fic is very (very) loosely based on Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The story is told through interchanging points of view-- mainly first-person flowing into third-person omniscient and back again. As such, it might get a little confusing from time to time, and may seem like the guy telling the story knows way more than he ever possibly could. Whenever you feel that happening, it's switched to third-person omniscient. We'll try and make it as clear as possible where and when it changes perspective. (lessxthanxthree and iheartjrock)

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, References, Shirley, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights