The big question: Did Cathy and Heathcliff actually have sex?

The Brontë Parsonage Blog publishes an account of the recent talk given in Haworth by Lyndall Gordon, The World Within: The Brontës and Emily Dickinson:

Mrs Gordon came to Haworth to speak of how the lives and characters of the Brontës, most especially Emily, and Emily Dickinson follow a very similar pattern. There are so many similarities between the Brontës and the Dickinsons, for example strong fathers, both imbuing their children with a demand for learning. (...)
Lyndall Gordon delivered an informative and enjoyable lecture a few hundred yards away from where Emily Brontë lived and wrote one of the greatest works of literature in the English Language and I am sure the lecture left those who had heard it wanting to learn more about the parallel of these two writers, separated in age by a decade and in location by the Atlantic and thousands of miles, but whose lives ran in parallel courses from childhood to death both trying to put the ‘unsayable’ into language. (Isobel Stirk)

The San Francisco Chronicle briefly mentions Rosanna Gamson's performances of Ravish at the Litquake Festival:

The shame about "Page to Stage" was that it ran only one night, with JoAnn Selisker's one-woman show "Off Leash" opening the Off Book festival Wednesday, and Los Angeles choreographer Rosanna Gamson's "Ravish," about the Brontë sisters, closing out the weekend (and repeating tonight and Sunday). ODC Theater Director Rob Bailis should trust more in his commissioned talent. (Rachel Howard)

Valerie Martin's Trespass use to be a frequent visitor on BrontëBlog's newsrounds. It's no suprise then that she includes Wuthering Heights among her favourite books as can be read in The Week:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Penguin, $7). Rich, innocent Edgar Linton pays the price for putting himself in the line of fire between the famously passionate Catherine Earnshaw and her beloved Heathcliff, the revenge-driven prototype of the romantic hero. The big question: Did Cathy and Heathcliff actually have sex?

The Age talks about the the shortlist for next Tuesday's Man Booker Prize. One of them is Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole which is described like this:

Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole, which came charging out of the great unknown to collect quite a critical cheer squad during the months since the longlist was first announced, is regularly described as "anarchic" or compared to John Kennedy O'Toole's modern classic of the marginalised, A Confederacy of Dunces. A lover of Victorian swashbucklers would, however, find plenty here to warm the cockles.
Martin Dean is a conflicted young misfit obsessed with his missing uncle, a psychotic murderer and local folk legend. The story is told, pace Wuthering Heights, in a series of impossibly detailed diaries kept by Martin and his madly erratic father, relating their picaresque adventures. (Stephanie Bunbury)

Also in The Age, Andrew Stephens talks about connections both personal and creative and the concept of otherness. Cathy and Heathcliff make an appearance:

It is an intriguing aspect of humanity: our desire to "only connect", as E.M.Forster's epigraph announced in Howard's End. Some lovers misconstrue this desire as a need to be "as one", to take union - coital or emotional - to its extreme and to actually merge. I think of Cathy and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights or the medieval myth of Tristan and Isolde.

Los Angeles Times highlights some recent paperback reissues. Including House of Mist by María Luisa Bombal:

"Wuthering Heights" and "Jane Eyre" are both recalled, although the style isn't gothic, but mesmerizingly clear. The jacket of this new edition reworks George Salter's original cover art from 1948 -- appropriately haunting and dream-like. (Richard Rayner)

The New York Times has an article about parrots (!) in literature. And there's a Brontë (via Rhys) connection:

And in “Wide Sargasso Sea,” Jean Rhys’s prequel to “Jane Eyre,” the life of Rochester’s first wife is saved by the death of her parrot. (Anthony Gottlieb)

Casting Call Pro is looking for a Cathy and a Heathcliff for a still photos session.

A Sort Of Homecoming posts about Jane Eyre in Italian, books I done read reviews The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, flickr user Tall-Guy post a very beautiful picture of Anne Brontë's tomb in Scarborough, el blog de Wayne posts about Emily Brontë (in Spanish).

Categories: Brontëana, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Dance, References, Talks, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights