"In danger of loving you too well"

The Guardian analyzes the case of the news presenter James Partridge, who has a disfigured face and Rochester makes an appearance:

It was pointed out, perhaps reasonably enough, that Partridge, who must once have been very handsome, was not the most challenging case imaginable. Some viewers may even have responded to his performance in the way Jane Eyre did, to the spectacle of scarred Mr Rochester: "One is in danger of loving you too well for all this; and making too much of you." (Catherine Bennett)

The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) publishes an article about the actress Suranga Ranawaka. Apparently,

She has also made two short films – ‘Jane,’ based on the Jane Eyre story and ‘To be Filled,’ a story about women forced into prostitution to feed themselves.

Regrettably we have been unable to find more information about this short film.

The same newspaper interviews the author Louise Doughty:

Is there a book you’ve found yourself wishing you had authored?
There isn’t really one individual book but there are certain writers whose oeuvre I really envy. Margaret Atwood is one, Hilary Mantel (this year’s Man Booker winner) is another. ‘Wolf Hall’ is a masterpiece. If I could die knowing I had written something that good, I would be happy. If I don’t get to write a sprawling masterpiece that, I would like to achieve something small and perfect like Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’.
When was the last time a book had you laughing out loud? When was the last time one made you cry?
I can’t remember the last time I laughed out loud at a book! That’s a bit sad, isn’t it? I clearly don’t read enough comedy. I don’t cry much either, though. The scene from the whole of literature that has really made me sob is the bit in ‘Wuthering Heights’ when Heathcliff begs Cathy’s ghost to haunt him in whatever fiendish shape she cares to take, anything rather than leave him. I cried buckets over that.

A A Gill makes a Wuthering Heights reference in his Food & Wine section in The Times:

If I had to pick out the most important and influential restaurant of my life as a food writer, actually, just as a hungry person, it would be Marco Pierre White’s first solo restaurant. The one that made his reputation. The one he stalked around like Heathcliff in a butcher’s apron, throwing out bankers and producing some of the best food in the world. No hyperbole. No overoeufing his boudin.

The Albany Times-Union talks about the writer Kate Walbert:

It's cautionary stuff that echoes such early feminist tales as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," about a frustrated housewife gone mad, and Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre," in which a feral gentlewoman gets locked in the attic. (Susan Comninos)

And now for BrontëBlog's very own Twilight zone:
Geeks of Dome recommends watching Wuthering Heights 1939 on Hulu (just US viewers though) after knowing it is Bella's favourite book.

The black and white film, directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starred Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Catherine. Both the film and the book are worth checking out, but this film takes some liberties, not surprisingly. In the novel, it really comes across that Heathcliff and Catherine are selfish, horrible people, while the movie plays on the star-crossed lovers theme. (Empress Eve)

New Zealand Herald:

Twilight's been compared to a modern day Wuthering Heights, but please.
There's more passion and fire in Cathy's flickering grate than there is in the entire Twilight series. (Kerre Woodham)

The Philippine Star:

They are the people who read Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights, not because they’re classics, but because they’re Bella’s favorite books. (Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but these books are now being marketed in this exact manner, and it is horrifying.) (Regina Belmonte)

A reader in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune picks up Wuthering Heights as a holiday reading, TG Daily makes the bizarrest Brontë reference of the day, Ms Eckert's Blog recommends Jane Eyre and Risolvi Problemi (in Italian) does the same with Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights