"Loving" these men often equalled death or insanity

First, we have a selection of Brontë references not particularly positive.

OCRegister talks about greed and Wuthering Heights comes to mind:

Greed is not a word used frequently any more. Tending to be associated with quaintly prim eras and Victorian novels, the sooty world of Charles Dickens comes to mind with its pickpockets and severe judgments. Envision Emily Bronte's floridly romantic character, Heathcliff, grasping for riches and power in Wuthering Heights. (Mauri-Lynne Heller)

The Broadway premiere of Jill Santoriellos's A Tale of Two Cities reminds the reviewers of Jane Eyre:

Do you think Les Miserables stands as the greatest accomplishment in the history of musical theater? Would you argue that the musical version of Jane Eyre that plodded onto Broadway in 2000 never got the respect it deserved? (Elysa Gardner in USA Today)

Producers keep gambling on these bloated, blustery epics, hatched out of literary or historical sources, which is puzzling since most of them have failed to gain traction on either side of the Pond. Broadway has seen its share of unmemorable '80s-style period pulp in the past decade or so, including "Jane Eyre," "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "Jekyll & Hyde," "The Woman in White" and "The Pirate Queen," while two singing tomes have already come and gone without bumping into an audience in London this year, "Gone With the Wind" and "Marguerite." (David Rooney in Variety)

The Milford Daily News informs that

Fair entertainment director Beth Nolan Conners, a theater aficionado, is bringing in the cast of West Acton-based Theater III’s production of “Jane Eyre, The Musical,” to perform on Saturday. (Nan Shnitzler)

The premiere of this production will be next November, 7.

More theatre, the Australian ABC-Brisbane blog publishes a review of Polly Teale's Brontë:

The production of Bronte currently running at Metro Arts will undoubtedly be of interest to those with an interest in the work of the Bronte sisters and, under the direction of the very able Sue Rider the ensemble cast do a creditable job of the material provided. There are indeed some keenly interesting moments in the unfolding story of these women but all too often the script descends into self-important philosophizing and pontificating about life and the process of writing. (Read more) (Nigel Munro-Wallis)

CinemaBlend begins the review of The Duchess (2008) with a (very) misinformed statement:

The Duchess is a sobering look at the darker side of pre-Victorian life, the side that the Austens and Brontes of the world would have you believe never existed. (Stuart Wood)

And Catherine Townsend makes another Heathcliff+Rochester reference in her Love & Sex section in The Independent:

As I grew up, I learned that the women in classical literature didn't fare much better. I was always drawn to the tortured types like Heathcliff and Mr Rochester, despite the fact "loving" these men often equalled death or insanity.

Several Spanish newspapers publish interviews and profiles of Itsaso Lozano Madariaga, winner of the Circulo de Lectores Novel Award for La Vida Privada de los Seymour, who happens to be a Brontëite:

«Soy muy norteña, me encanta la lluvia, el frío y la forma de vida de la campiña inglesa», por eso la novela está ambientada allí y en los bucólicos parajes del valle del Loira, los escenarios del imaginario de la gran novela del siglo XIX (Jane Austen y las hermanas Brönte [sic]) de las que se declara admiradora. (El Correo Digital)

«Soy del norte. Adoro Inglaterra, su clima, su paisaje, el té y las novelas de Jane Austin o las hermanas Brönte [sic]. No me molestan ni el frío ni la lluvia» aclara esta narradora que escribe «exclusivamente por placer». (El Norte de Castilla)

¿Cuáles son sus referencias en las letras?
Las hermanas Brontë, Ame Tam o Jane Austen. Y también la literatura oriental, la de India o de Pakistán. Tienen una sensibilidad especial, incluso los hombres que escriben. (La Gaceta)

Another well-known Spanish writer and Brontëite is Espido Freire, author of Querida Jane, Querida Charlotte, who has visited for the third time Haworth (with pictures).

On the blogosphere, Flickr user Renaud Camus publishes a July picture of the Brontë Falls and Reading, Writing, Working, Playing has seen the last episode of The Brontës of Haworth (1973)

Categories: Brontëites, Haworth, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights