Chekhov wrote the play soon after reading a biography of the Brontë sisters: three sophisticated young women and their useless brother, trapped in small-town dreariness. (John Peter)Origins that are also referenced in The Observer's review:
John Lightbody boldly plays the lover Vershinin as a flashy interloper; Paul Woodson is a persuasive irritable shambles as the disappointing brother (as Branwell to the Brontës, so is Andrei to his sister) but the three sisters, though all nimbly, sympathetically acted, are intermittently underpowered; the evening crackles with unachieved possibilities. (Susannah Clapp)Vick Mickunas in the Dayton Daily News chooses Wuthering Heights as a timeless classic:
The Washington-Centerville Public Library is celebrating their 200th anniversary this year. The folks at the library asked me to compile a list of some of my favorite books - so I did.AustenProse interviews Beth Pattillo (Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart: A Novel) who talks about her next project (more information on this previous post):
One of my choices was the timeless classic Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. It was recently re-issued in a very fine new version by Oxford Univeristy Press.
My next novel from Guideposts will be The Truth About Jane Eyre (Winter 2011). I’m switching to the Brontes for this one and it’s a nice change of pace. I don’t think I’m done with Jane Austen quite yet, though, but it’s too soon to spill any beans.Associated Content publishes a couple of articles with the Brontës as topics: 'Interesting Facts About the Brontë Sisters' by Shelly Barclay and 'Charlotte Brontë Poems - Audio Poems by the Author of Jane Eyre' by Tal Boldon which contains readings of The Autumn Day Its Course Has Run and On the Death of Anne Brontë. Mission accomplished: Jane Eyre has been re-read in The Desert Sun and is discussed on Au fil des livres et des pages (in French) and English Literature. The 1944 film adaptation is reviewed on Let us go in, the fog is rising (in Spanish). Finally, A grand and one briefly talks about Wuthering Heights 1939 as compared to the book.
The recent Brontë fiction begins to be translated to other languages:Charlotte Brontë salajased seiklusedSyrie James's The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë in Hungarian:
Laura Joh Rowland
Eesti Raamat, 2010
ISBN: 9789985657669
Translator: Maia Planhof
Charlotte Brontë, „Jane Eyre’i“ autor, elab vaikset eraelu oma isa Yorkshire’i koguduses. Kui teda alusetult süüdistatakse kirjastamislepingu murdmises, sõidab ta Londonisse, et oma nimi puhtaks pesta. Näinud kogemata pealt mõrva, satub Charlotte ülimalt keerulisse ja ohtlikku sündmusteahelasse. Ta sukeldub seiklustesse ja kirglikku romantikasse, mis viib ta Londoni kuritegudest kubisevatele tänavatele ja kuninganna Victoria lossi. Kas suudab Charlotte peatada salalikku nähtamatut kurjategijat, kelle plaanid ähvardavad ta elu, perekonda ja riiki? (Google translation)
Charlotte Bronte titkos naplójaA review can be read on Könyvek és Én.
Syrie James
Kelly Könyvkiadó
ISBN: 9789639943308
Translator: Maria Szabo
Kedves Naplóm, ez a leánykérés, amely néhány hónappal ezelőtt érkezett, óriási kavarodást idézett elő családunkban, sőt az egész faluban. Ki ez az ember, aki meg merészelte kérni a kezem? Miért van annyira ellene az apám? A leánykérés óta egyetlen éjszakát sem aludtam végig.
Syrie James, a Jane Austen naplójának szerzője új regényében hasonlóan erőteljes és lenyűgöző képet rajzol Charlotte Brontё szenvedélyes, nyugtalan életéről.
Mindenkinek vannak titkai. Ez alól Charlotte Brontё, akinek a világirodalom legromantikusabb és legidőtállóbb regényeinek némelyikét köszönhetjük, sem volt kivétel.
Életéről sok mindent tudhatunk a róla szóló életrajzok és a fennmaradt levelek jóvoltából, de mint a Brontё család minden tagjának, neki is volt a szó szoros értelmében vett magánélete, melyet még legbizalmasabb barátai és rokonai előtt sem tárt föl.
Milyen intim titkokat őrzött szívében Charlotte Brontё? Mik voltak a legbensőbb gondolatai és emlékei? Milyen viszonyban volt öccsével és húgaival, akik mind tehetséges, me?szállottan alkotó és sikerre szomjazó művészek voltak?
Hogy jutott el odáig egy ismeretlen, vidéki lelkész leánya, aki majdnem az egész életét egy isten háta mögötti Yorkshire-i falucskában töltötte, hogy megírja a Jane Eyre-t?
És ő maga rátalált-e az igaz szerelemre? (Google translation)
The director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire, Andrew McCarthy, says people visit for many reasons. "Principally, it's the power of the Brontes' writing, the imaginative potency of their fictions, combined with the extraordinary, compelling story of their lives - and the two do tend to get conflated in people's minds - that appeals," he says.A place that, according to the Financial Times, the Chinese ambassador to the UK, Madam Fu Ying, has visited. And The Times, too, suggests a weekend in Bradford with Haworth as one of the main attractions nearby:
"The museum and the exhibits on display provide a moving physical connection with those stories and their authors. They are the golden thread which give us at least a sense of the Brontes as real, extraordinary but also, like us, ordinary people."
14. Bradford, West YorkshireThe Times also publishes an advance of the upcoming book J.D. Salinger: A Life Raised High by Kenneth Slawenski which happens to mention the Brontës:
Why should I go? A century ago Bradford was one of the richest cities in the world and a grand collection of Victorian structures abound in its centre. The city’s large Pakistani population means that it now has the best curry houses in England. For literature lovers, the Brontës’ home in nearby Haworth, in all its Gothic glory, is within easy reach.
While in London, Salinger purchased a Hillman car that he used to explore Britain. He drove through England and Scotland, visited Ireland, and the Scottish Hebrides. He was enthralled and his letters and postcards sparkle with enthusiasm and child-like delight. At Stratford-upon-Avon, he paused before the theatre and debated with himself between paying homage to Shakespeare or boating with a young lady. The lady won out. In Oxford, he attended Evensong at Christ Church. In Yorkshire, he swore that he saw the Brontë sisters running across the moors. He was delighted by Dublin, but fell in love with Scotland most of all, and actually wrote of settling down there.Not the only article linking the Brontës and Salinger. Another mention appears in El Norte de Castilla (Spain) and the Wall Street Journal:
The Brontës spent their childhoods making up stories about the land of Angria—but that was before inventing "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights." Salinger, uniquely among major writers, seemed to go in the opposite direction, from public storytelling to private, until he reached the point where it was unnecessary to admit any readers into his fictional universe. (Adam Kirsch)Also in the Wall Street Journal there's a review of The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine begins like this:
Although the image is contrary to Jane Austen's unassuming nature, I like to contemplate the "Pride and Prejudice" author in paradise, ruining eternity for the dour Brontë sisters and George Eliot by issuing smug daily updates about the mini-industry of Austen knock-offs that her work has inspired. (Joanne Kaufman)Some years ago Jonathan Rhys-Myers was attached to Angela Workman's biopic project Brontë (he was going to play Branwell). It seems that the shadow of the Brontës still lingers on him:
"I've got a very kind of bony face, and I've got big lips, and sometimes I can look kind of snarling ... kind of Heathcliff-y."The Webster-Kirkwood Times reviews Agnes Grey (although the title of the article americanises it to Agnes Gray):
Aside from that touch of Brontë animalism, he admits that he's also quite good at accents. (Amy Biancolli in the San Francisco Chronicle)
When thinking of a Brontë novel, most will remember Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" or Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre." However, the younger sister, Anne, set England back on its literary ear with a realistic first novel relating the harsh realities of the life of a governess. (...)We read in The Independent this enigmatic Brontë reference by Howard Jacobson:
Anne paints a true picture of what life was like for young women in the 1800s which goes to say they did not have a lot of options. While her writing can get bogged down in minutiae, one has to appreciate her eye for detail, and her dogged intent to make sure the reader knows exactly what is going on and why.
While Anne's writing differs in tone and style from that of her sisters, her story does tell a vivid (in its own way) story of a young girl's life. (Linda Jarrett)
You could have mistaken my flat in Wolverhampton for Wuthering Heights on South Bank Show nights, so tempestuous were the altercations, a succession of Cathies disappearing in the direction of Walsall, calling "Heathcliff, Heathcliff!" though whether they meant me or Melvyn I had no idea. But this I did know: they weren't going to find him in Walsall.Le Figaro (France) reviews La Tache aveugle by Emmelene Landon with a brief Brontë mention:
Comme les Brontë, elles sont trois. Trois sœurs inséparables en ce début de XXIe siècle. Trois élèves de l'École des beaux-arts, à Paris. (Thierry Clermont) (Google translation)Il Clandestino (Italy) interviews the author Guillaume Musso (a known Brontëite):
Quali personaggi letterari l’hanno aiutata a superare le difficoltà?Il Corriere della Sera (Italy) puts Emily Brontë on a curious list:
Primo su tutti “Le Hussard Sur Le Toit” di Jean Giano, e poi Cyrano de Bergerac di Rostand, i caratteri di Emily Bronte e Albert Cohen: sono personaggi che aiutano durante un lutto, dopo la fine di un amore, su una scelta professionale da fare, in momenti nei quali ci sentiamo smarriti, pensando al tempo che passa, quando prendiamo coscienza che alcune cose oramai sono dietro di noi. (Giovanni Zambito) (Google translation)
Difficile domandarsi, con Giorgio Gaber: «Perché fare l’amore quando non è necessario?». Non è strano che uno si riscopra romantico fino all’asexuality: almeno il 3 per cento della popolazione, con numi tutelari del calibro di Coco Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Jorge Luis Borges, Emily Brontë. E perfino il Dr. House: l’avete visto concludere qualcosa? Un po’ di nausea, dopo un quarantennio di sbornie. (Marina Terragni) (Google translation)Victor Català and the Brontës are compared in a Kultiversum article about the German translation of her novel Solitud:
Wie bei den Brontë-Schwestern oder bei Emily Dickinson führt die existenzielle Abgeschiedenheit, die Distanz zur Gesellschaft, zu besonders großer und eindrucksvoller Menschenkenntnis. (Manuela Reichardt) (Google translation)Wicked Local Rockport recommends Wuthering Heights as a Valentine reading (yes, it's that time again!), the New York Times quotes Charlotte Brontë using the much-quoted: happiness-is-not-a-potato in an essay about the concept of happiness, Jane Eyre and feminism in a letter published in Tracce (Italy). And Suite101 discusses 'Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Bertha Mason. How does the Madwoman in the Attic Relate to the Docile Heroine?' by Shvetal Vyas.
A couple of recent links concerning that unlikely combination: the Brontës and fashion. The designer Alan Hannah has pictures of 'real brides' wearing his bridal dresses and one of them is Chloe Ridsdale:"I got married in 2008 in St Paul's Cathedral, London wearing my dream dress 'Bronte'. The first bridal shop I visited was Miss Bush in Ripley and the staff had just received a new Alan Hannah dress as I arrived. The lady in the shop asked me to try the new 'Bronte' dress on so they could see what it looked like. I knew the moment I tried it on that it was the dress for me. It was everything I had imagined and hoped my wedding dress to be!"What we don't really know if the 'Bronte' name is really anything to do with the Brontë sisters.
s, though, having been sort of coined by Emily Brontë is easy to connect, though sometimes the relation is quite intriguing all the same. Wear Palettes in its Street Color section names calls this combination of colours (blue, brown, grey, red) Wuthering Heights.It has been my good fortune to have produced many motion pictures which the public has established among its all-time favorites — such as Wuthering Heights, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Bishop’s Wife, Pride of the Yankees, and, of course, The Best Years of Our Lives," boasted Samuel Goldwyn in a trade ad. "Now I have made My Foolish Heart [based on the short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" by J.D. Salinger]. I am genuinely convinced that the public will add My Foolish Heart to the roster of the finest of Goldwyn productions." (Andre Soares)The other mention is not quite so flattering. It comes from a comment to an obituary written by Stephen King for Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life. One Dusty writes,
Any of Stephen’s books are superior to anything ive read by Salinger. Catcher in the Rye is as overrated as Wuthering Heights.We won't comment on Stephen King's 'superiority', but in our opinion neither Wuthering Heights nor The Catcher in the Rye are at all overrated. And as a very humble tribute we have added an additional weekly quote to our sidebar where J.D. Salinger mentions Emily Brontë as one of the writers he loves.
When it was first published in 1847, “Wuthering Heights” was scathed by the critics as “savage,” “animal-like” and “clumsy in construction.” Since then, “Wuthering Heights” has overcome these initial reactions to achieve the posthumous adoration of the public. The unlikely ascendancy of Emily Bronte’s only novel has recently been crowned by a surprising victory in a poll for the greatest British love story, ahead of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers and Austen’s Lizzie and Mr. Darcy. But don’t be mislead by this poll — “Wuthering Heights” is not a conventional love story and is certainly not chick lit. It is as tormented and disturbed as its closest competitors are charmed and fated. It is this tragic romance that is the subject of Elizabeth Barrett Groth’s play.Another adaptation is the one supposedly starring Gemma Arterton and Ed Westwick and for which Andrea Arnold was recently chosen as new director. The Irish Times comments on it.
What differentiates Groth’s adaptation from any other version of “Wuthering Heights” is its unequivocal focus on the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff. There is no backdrop, no costume changes, minimal props … no other actors, even, with the exception of the nurse, Nelly. Moreover, the tables are arranged in a way that the audience is literally close enough to smell the actors’ sweat, as they say; close enough to see the chests heaving, to feel the emotions of tormented love. Groth wanted her retelling to be “intimate,” so that her audience might truly experience the love between the two unfortunate lovers. There is nothing to distract from the quality of the acting and even the slightest changes in gesture and expression are perceptible to the eye.
Groth evidences her immense passion for the story by acting as both the playwright and as Catherine Linton herself. As the lights turn off, her piercing scream penetrates the darkness to open the play. A soft light illuminates Nelly (Shannon Sullivan GRD ’11), who is calmly knitting and sitting on a rocking chair. A second scream mirrors the first and is quickly revealed to belong to Heathcliff (Sam Lasman ’12). In the midst of the audience’s confusion, Nelly begins to retell the tale of their love, beginning from childhood.
Haughty, selfish and headstrong, Catherine is not immediately likeable, as she ought to be. Her behavior is questionable, her antics obnoxious and her treatment of Heathcliff is, above all, “abominable.” Catherine was never meant to be a sympathetic character and Groth is both accurate and compelling as the consummate anti-heroine. At the same time, when she finally does admit her love for Heathcliff, the interruption of her overwhelming abrasiveness with a sudden vulnerability is both believable and well-executed, especially when she whispers, “But Nelly, I am Heathcliff.” Her understanding of Catherine’s psyche is inimitable and the versatility of her emotions signifies her command of her own play and her beloved character.
Although a little overshadowed by the wild strength of Groth’s character and performance, Heathcliff, is nevertheless, a persuasive character. Because the play does not delve into the intricacies of his revenge, Heathcliff is a little more likeable and a lot less wicked than the book portrays him to be. Heathcliff is, as ever, the indefatigable lover, consumed and possessed by his love for his childhood love, successful in eliciting the sympathy of the audience for his misunderstood love.
The most likeable character of all is Nelly, the only source of benevolence and reason. She is the vital character that fills in all the gaps between the stories. Groth’s ingenious use of Nelly allows her to achieve her minimalist vision, defying a traditional understanding of the work by siphoning the romance from the novel and forgoing everything that is nonessential to her interpretation of their relationship. Not only is she resourceful with the characters, but also with the very few props that they have, re-appropriating various objects to define their setting. Proving that the impossible can be plausible, in this case, is not only effective, but imperative. Even with its drastic reductions of the original plot, the play ran for about an hour and a half, in an extremely intimate setting. Sometimes, however the play seemed to gloss over important points of the novel’s plot, but this is to be expected of an adaptation.
“Wuthering Heights” is a novel about the destructive love between two tragic lovers and how their utter disregard for everything but each other brings about their ultimate demise. In many ways, Groth’s play is also a literal adaptation of a love in which nothing else matters. So don’t go if you are a stickler for textual accuracy, but do go if you want to be absorbed by exemplary acting in a no-frills affair. Even for those who have not read Emily Bronte’s masterpiece, keep in mind that it is not an easy feat to do what they have done with the novel. (La Wang)
Wuthering gets a third directorThe South County Independent praises Fritz Eichenberg's wood engravings of Wuthering Heights.
A strangely troubled adaptation of Wuthering Heights has, after two directors vanished, ended up in the safe hands of the singular Andrea Arnold. John Maybury, director of Love Is the Devil, was originally behind the megaphone before dropping out last summer. Then Peter Webber, the Girl with a Pearl Earring bloke, was in charge for a while.
On balance, Arnold seems like a good choice. The director of Red Road and Fish Tank should bring some grit to a story that is too often tidied up by the cinema. (Donald Clarke)
The same is true with Eichenberg's illustrations of classic literature. One example was a wood engraving made for a 1943 Random House edition of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights."We do indeed think it might be the most iconic image of Heathcliff there is.
"When you look at the way he presented Heathcliff, you say 'That is Healthcliff [sic],' " Wyant said, referring to the iconic print showing the forsaken lover leaning rigidly against a gnarled tree on a cold, windy night, with a tormented expression, gazing up at the dark sky. "There's nobody else who could have captured that." (Doug Norris)
Last summer the veteran artist Les Rogers sent me a jpeg of one of his new paintings from his New Jersey studio. The minimal image thrilled me, a kind of Wuthering Heights brown cloud on a cliff, called Large There, which seemed to be a take on that old vaudeville joke about the white picture that is really a polar bear in a blizzard. (Charlie Finch)And The McCreary County Record uses Wuthering Heights to illustrate the current economic lookout.
But for many Americans, the domestic scene is bleaker than the moors in Wuthering Heights. (Peter S. Ferrara)The East Hampton Star has now published the complete article on Sheila Kohler which we mentioned yesterday.
“When my sister died a violent death 25 years ago in apartheid South Africa, my writing took a new turn. I was driven to explore the reasons for violence within intimate relationships, in particular, the abuse of power and privilege,” writes Sheila Kohler on her Web site. “Since then I have published seven novels, three collections of short stories, and several others not yet collected, all of which focus in some way on this theme. They represent my attempt to delve into the mysteries of hate and anger, and of love and compassion, as well.”The New Zealand Herald quotes from Jane Eyre on an article about morality.
Ms. Kohler’s latest book, “Becoming Jane Eyre,” a fictionalized biography of Charlotte Bronte, from which she will read at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 6 p.m., fits her exploration of those mysteries as she unfolds the story of the Bronte sisters and the disasters visited upon the family.
At the novel’s center are Charlotte Bronte and the writing of “Jane Eyre.” Ms. Kohler delicately unravels the connections between one of fiction’s most indelible heroines and the remarkable woman who created her.
Ms. Kohler, who was born in Johannesburg, is the author of 10 books, including “The House on R Street,” “Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness,” “Crossways,” and “Cracks,” which was just released as a feature film. Ms. Kohler lives in New York City and Amagansett. (E.D.H.)
A new production of Wuthering Heights is going on at the Yale Cabaret:Wuthering HeightsCategories: Theatre, Wuthering Heights
Adapted by Elizabeth Barrett Groth
from the novel by Emily Brontë
JANUARY 28-30
08:00 PM
CAST
Nelly Shannon Sullivan
Catherine Elizabeth Barrett Groth
Heathcliff Sam Lasman
CREW
Co-Directors Elizabeth Barrett Groth & Brad Tuggle
Dramaturg Anne Seiwerath
Movement Consultant Charlotte Brathwaite
Set Design Nora Hyland
Sound Design Katherine Buechner
Costume Design Aaron Mastin
Lighting Design Brad Tuggle
Technical Director Kellen McNally
Stage Manager Brad Tuggle
Associate Producer Martha Jurczak
Can love survive death?
The classic story of passion and obsession comes to the Yale Cabaret!
Almost two decades after Catherine's death, Heathcliff teeters on the brink of madness--still in thrall to his last love, he searches for her ghost on the lonely moors, not knowing if her spirit still wanders.
But their old friend and servant Nelly has found her diary, and the crumbling house atop Wuthering Heights sees strange occurrences. As the veil between life and death grows thinner, can the two lovers be reunited?
"I have a strong faith in ghosts: I have a conviction that they can, and do, exist among us!"
The Telegraph and Argus reports that the recently-acquired Brontë items have arrived in the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Two of the most expensive items acquired by Bronte guardians have arrived at the Parsonage Museum in Haworth.Coincidentally, Yorkshire has just launched a marketing campaign targeting potential tourists in Singapore and Hong Kong. As The Northern Echo says, these countries will now receive a few gifts from Yorkshire including:
Emily Bronte’s artist’s box and a miniature poetry manuscript, written by Charlotte as a child, cost the Bronte Society more than £60,000.
The mahogany box which still contains some of Emily’s watercolour blocks and quill pens, was bought at auction in Sotheby’s in London for £32,000 and the miniature work cost 50,000 dollars at a New York auction.
Ann Dinsdale, Bronte Parsonage Museum collections manager, said: “I can’t remember spending that kind of money. But these items are so rare.
“Anything related to Emily is especially collectable and so costly because so little of her things survived.
“Unlike Charlotte, she was not famous until after her death. Charlotte was a celebrity in her own lifetime.
“We must also thank the Victoria & Albert Museum for helping us with a grant from its purchasing fund towards the manuscript and some members of the Bronte Society who gave donations.
“We went to a lot of trouble to acquire these items and it has hit our own acquisitions fund – but it was worth it.”
The treasures go on show at the museum – the former home and shrine to the work of the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne – on Monday when it opens to the public for the new season. They will take pride of place in the revamped exhibition rooms. The box is believed to have been bought for Emily, author of Wuthering Heights, as a girl aged about nine in 1827, and the museum has some of the work she made with the equipment.
Charlotte’s manuscript was an “iconic” piece and reflected the imaginative and creative nature of the children when they lived at the museum, Mrs Dinsdale said.
The two poems, written in a minuscule hand, are signed UT, meaning “us two” which Charlotte, who wrote Jane Eyre, and her brother Branwell referred to themselves as.
“We believe it was written so small so that if their father or aunt came across it, they wouldn’t be able to read it,” she added.
The museum opens on Monday from 11am to 5pm, seven days a week, with longer opening hours from April. (Clive White) (Picture source)
As part of the trip, he will present gifts such as Taylor’s Yorkshire Tea, Grandma Wild’s Yorkshire Biscuits and an 1877 edition of Wuthering Heights.Travel Daily has additional info:
The rare 1877 edition of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights* has been given permanently to Singapore as an emblematic gift from Yorkshire and will be housed for public review at the National Library of Singapore, Level 7, from 1 February to 28 February.** The symbolic gift - a key mainstay in both the Singapore and British school curricula today - was chosen to represent Yorkshire as it embodies the county’s rich heritage, wide open spaces and love for food. [...]
“We would like to thank the historic Brontë Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire, which celebrates the lives and novels of the Brontë Family, for working with us to present this rare copy to Singapore”, concluded [Gary Verity, Chief Executive of Welcome to Yorkshire].
"The National Library Board is delighted to receive this antique novel. Singaporeans with an acute interest in literature classics will certainly appreciate this rare collector’s edition. As we know, the story itself has given rise to numerous adaptations and inspired works in the arts field, so this gift will be treasured by Singaporeans. I would like to thank Welcome to Yorkshire for facilitating this generous gift from the Brontë Parsonage Museum,” said Dr N Varaprasad, Chief Executive, National Library Board, Singapore.
* Steeped in history and set in Yorkshire, Wuthering Heights is possibly one of the county’s most famous books and has earned its place in the canon of English Literature. The book’s striking visual narrative of the brooding Yorkshire countryside promises readers a glimpse of Yorkshire’s people and its everlasting beauty.
We are thankful to these two websites, because if it had depended on Channel News Asia we would have thought that they had just conned poor Singapore: The rare 1877 edition of Charlotte Bronte's Wuthering Heights. . . (Picture source)The Guardian has an editorial in praise of Bradford, and Haworth is obviously included among its wonders.
Add the Brontë village of Haworth, Ilkley Moor, the National Media Museum and the best curries in Britain, and relocating should be a no-brainer for other firms, especially those watching the pennies post-recession and fed up with London costs.Tiffany Murray picks Wuthering Heights as one of her 'top 10 rock'n'roll novels' also in the Guardian.
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëWriter Jackie Dolamore talks about her inspiration for her book Magic Under Glass on Trashionista.
OK, bear with me here, but to me – or perhaps the teen-me – the ultimate rock star was Heathcliff. He's flinty, elemental, feral, beautiful, violent, mad, gothic, and so very, very rock n' roll. I picture Jack White, although Jack is perhaps too nice. Brontë's narrative structure – with the two outsiders, Lockwood and Nelly, telling the story – gives it the air of an exposé: the common man and woman, watching, reporting. You could call it a 19th century Almost Famous. This is why Wuthering Heights haunts Diamond Star Halo.
What inspired you to write Magic Under Glass?Bay Area Reporter reviews several 'male-male romances' in an article entitled 'Jane air'.
A lifelong fascination with the Victorian era, and novels set in creepy old houses full of secrets, most notably Jane Eyre. The structure of Jane Eyre was certainly an inspiration for the structure of Magic Under Glass, although it takes some very different turns. Also The Secret Garden and A Little Princess. The automata aspect of the book, on the other hand, was inspired by an exhibit of Japanese automata I saw at a museum, and an exhibit of mechanical music. (Elle Symonds)
The required ingredients of the male-male romance novel are one part Jane Eyre, one part E.M. Forster, one part softcore erotica, and a grand helping of faux-retro syntax. [...]The Boston Phoenix also mentions Jane Eyre in an article featuring the website 60 Second Recap.
An important aspect of the historical romance is the avoidance of anachronistic text. With a heavy dose of ghostly mysticism that politely cribs the Gothic romances of Charlotte Bronte, Lovers' Knot takes a decidedly pagan turn toward its finale, and even includes a sort of gay marriage. While also borrowing a bit from E.M. Forster's Maurice, Hardy deftly avoids cliché and melodrama while retaining the repressed passion that charges works in this genre. (Jim Provenzano)
And with Jane Eyre, [Jenny] Sawyer puts a focal point on Bronte's feminist themes, infusing every decision Jane makes with a gender perspective. (Marianna Faynshteyn)Associated Content also refers to Jane Eyre on 'How to Decorate a Luxurious and Elegant Victorian Bedroom', which would be okay if they didn't go on to turn Oscar Wilde into a fictional character as well:
If you are attempting to visualize the time period, then just reflect on famous literary characters like Jane Eyre and Oscar Wilde. (Kristine Tucker)And here go a few alerts for today:
Classic Book Club @ Wainfleet Township Public LibraryBrian Dillon, author of Tormented Hope, will be on the NPR programme On Point today at 3pm ET
For adults. 2-3 pm.
Where:
Wainfleet Township Public Library
19M9 Park Street, P.O. Box 118
Wainfleet
L0S 1V0
When:
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Web:
http://www.wainfleetlibrary.ca/
Join us for afternoon tea on the last Thursday of the month as we discuss the works of the Bronte sisters. This month's selection is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Please register as a book club member.
At 9 pm on 26 January several Brussels Brontë Group members braved the cold to see Jacques Rivette's Hurlevent (1985) at the Cinematek (Film Museum). Renate Hurtmanns wrote the impressions below (translated into English by Sherry Vosburgh). Many thanks to Franklin for letting us know the film was showing.Popped Density discusses another adaptation of Wuthering Heights, that of 1978. And both Lella and Zee and Chuckle59 write about the novel. 50 Books in 2010 reviews Jane Eyre and Brontës.nl (Google translation) warns that the time to win tickets for Jane the Musical in Amersfoort, next February 1st, is running out. The post includes a video of the production as well.
This was a faithful adaptation of the first part of Wuthering Heights, set in the 1930s in Haute-Provence - which in its way is just as wild and convincing as the Yorkshire moors and an excellent background for the violent and dramatic emotions of the main characters. (Read more) (Renate Hurtmanns (translated by Sherry Vosburgh))
Branwell in Bradford
Written by Bruce Barnes
Directed by June Russell
Branwell .... David Peel
Margaret Kirby ... Debra Haigh
Bradford Playhouse Studio
January 28, 7:30 PM
Categories: Brontë Parsonage MuseumREFURBISHED BRONTË MUSEUM SET TO RE-OPEN
The Brontë Parsonage Museum is preparing to reopen on Monday 1 February following a redevelopment project which has been supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The project began with a series of events aimed at encouraging local people in and around Haworth to find out more about the museum and its collections and contribute their ideas on how its presentations might be improved. This included a free local residents’ day and several open evenings for representatives of local community groups and local residents. The open evenings included guided tours of the museum and library, and an opportunity to see items from the museum’s collection relating to the history of Haworth and its nineteenth-century community.
The work that has been done in the museum following this public consultation includes new interpretation, which will help tell visitors the Brontës’ story and the story of their home. There will also be new object casing and displays around the house, which will include some remarkable new acquisitions to the museum’s collection including Emily Brontë’s mahogany artist’s box and her geometry set recently bought at auction in London. The box contains ceramic mixing dishes, remnants of paint, quill nibs, a paint tray, sealing wax with miniature envelopes and a glass bottle. The museum has also purchased a special miniature poetry manuscript by Charlotte Brontë. The two microscopic poems written by Charlotte in 1829 are signed “U. T” (“us two”) which suggests that they were jointly produced by another Bronte sibling, possibly Branwell. Neither of these items have been on public display before.
The museum also appealed to local people to get in touch if they believed they had items that may once have been owned by the Brontë family. As a result several intriguing items came to light which will also feature in the new displays. These Include a hymn sheet from Haworth church dating from the Brontë period and three bound volumes of the Family Economist once owned by Tabitha Brown, former Brontë domestic assistant and sister to Martha Brown – former Brontë servant.
We’re delighted with the improvements to the Parsonage and sure that these will enhance the experience of visiting. The new casing and displays are allowing us to show more of the treasures of the museum’s collection and more of the collection that relates to the Haworth community in which the Brontës lived. It’s wonderful to be able to exhibit new items which have come to us through the generosity of local people. We’ve also tried to create the new displays in such a way as to make the Parsonage feel even more like a domestic home and so we hope people will come along and see the new look and enjoy some of the wonderful new displays.
Andrew McCarthy
Director, Brontë Parsonage Museum
The museum reopens on Monday 1 February.
The Telegraph and Argus turns its attention to the (hopefully) forthcoming Wuthering Heights. The article doesn't say anything particularly new, but the cartoon is quite funny, although closer to reality than they might have expected as Emily Brontë could actually shoot a pistol and was taught to by her own father. Bond Girl and St Trinian’s actress Gemma Arterton is to star in yet another adaptation of Emily Bronte’s iconic novel Wuthering Heights.The Guardian also talks about this project:
The 24-year-old is to take on the tragic role of Cathy Earnshaw in the latest cinema version of the classic story.
Oscar-winning British film-maker Andrea Arnold is to direct this fifth film adaptation of the novel – the first version was shot in Haworth in 1920. Lawrence Olivier and Merle Oberon starred in the 1939 Hollywood version.
The announcement has been welcomed at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, where Emily penned her tale of heartbreak, set on the bleak moorland.
Museum director Andrew McCarthy said: “Film versions of the novels are always good news for us because it encourages visitors to the museum.”
The film’s producer Robert Bernstein said: “Andrea has previously said that the only book she would ever direct would be Wuthering Heights, because of the passionate, impossible love story at its centre and its elements of class divide.”
Arnold will direct from Olivia Hetreed's adaptation of the novel – a first for the director, who wrote the hard-hitting scripts for both her acclaimed feature films.This is how the Financial Times explains where Keighley is:
Explaining the hiring yesterday, producer Robert Bernstein said: "Andrea has previously said that the only book she would ever direct would be Wuthering Heights, because of the passionate, impossible love story at its centre and its elements of class divide," he said. "It's a very lucky coincidence for us that we've found each other."
Arnold, who won an Academy Award for best live-action short for her film Wasp in 2005, takes over from Peter Webber, director of Girl With a Pearl Earring. He left the project in December, having stepped in to replace The Edge of Love's John Maybury, who dropped out of the project last summer. Natalie Portman, Abbie Cornish and Gemma Arterton have all been linked to the part of Brontë's heroine, Cathy Earnshaw.
Speaking to the Guardian last year, Bernstein acknowledged that the film success of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga – itself heavily indebted to Brontë's enduring story – had played a part in the project getting off the ground. "The Twilight factor is extremely helpful to Wuthering Heights," he said. "It's clearly in the zeitgeist. Why is anybody's guess, but people are absolutely obsessed with this doomed, romantic love that can only be achieved beyond death, or in the case of Twilight, by becoming a vampire." (Ben Child)
Keighley lies in Brontë country, where the moorland landscape inspired Wuthering Heights. . . (Andrew Bounds)The Daily Cardinal has an article on the band Los Campesinos!
While their peers barked about the best party ever or meetings in treehouses, LC! warned us not to read Jane Eyre and whether or not a band’s synthesizer was anything more than a crutch. (Kyle Sparks)Click here to see what that 'warning' was really about.
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If Jane Austen or the Brontes were alive today, Jane Eyre might have failed to see beyond Rochester's crusty exterior and Elizabeth Bennet could have overlooked cold, arrogant Darcy altogether, in the misguided hope that the perfect man was just around the corner.The things is, though, that the last line of 'Charlotte Brontë's great novel' isn't the famous 'Reader, I married him', which is actually the opening line of the last chapter of the novel. The actual last line of the novel
The last line of Charlotte Bronte's great novel might have read, 'Reader, I should have married him.' If it's a conventional happy ending you want, as opposed to the prospect of a life alone, then I urge you to take heed of what Lori Gottlieb has to say. (Charlotte Metcalf)
Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!is not very useful for that article as it is about St John Rivers, but it might be for the article in The Telegraph:
This is not the viewpoint of a spoiled, demanding 21st-century woman. It is the way women have felt since their love lives were first recorded. In Jane Eyre, the worthy, reserved St. John Rivers proposes marriage to Jane because he believes she'd make a good missionary's wife. In a move that Gottlieb would consider foolish, Jane turns him down flat, saying, "I scorn your idea of love … I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer … and I scorn you when you offer it." [...]Apart from the cringeworthy union of Jane Eyre and Carrie Bradshaw in such a short space, we must point out that even though Jane is honest with St John, she doesn't - at least not initially - 'turn him down flat', as she seriously considers marrying him after all.
Like Jane Eyre and Carrie Bradshaw, most women would rather wait for Mr Right, and risk ending up alone, than settle for dependable, passionless Mr Second Best. A single friend of mine who recently hit 30 insists: "You know what, maybe Mr Right won't ever come along, and maybe some of us will live out our years as spinsters. For some people, it doesn't happen at all. Is that thought so awful?" (Becky Pugh)
Earlier, Charlotte Brontë naively set London literary tongues wagging when she dedicated the second edition of Jane Eyre to William Thackeray. This was by way of a thank you for his enthusiastic review of the book, but readers saw only parallels between Mr Rochester and Thackeray, whose own wife was insane and who had just published a novel about a governess who tried to seduce her employer (Lizzie Enfield)The Independent also mentions Jane Eyre, in this case as an example of a 'historical novel', as it's (slightly) set back in time.
Man Booker judge John Mullan explains the preponderance of historical novels on the latest shortlist: "Historical novels were once seen as genre-fiction and not taken seriously, but now most literary novelists are interested in writing about the past. But then, most great Victorian novels – Jane Eyre, Middlemarch – were set earlier than when they were written." (Mark Piggott)The Guardian has read Angelica Garnett's The Unspoken Truth so that you don't have to (?) and digests it for you.
I was 16 when my parents sent me abroad to perfect my French. Justin had gone to China and I was like the tiniest chick on the edge of the nest when I became friends with Juliana and Gilles in Paris. I felt out of my depth with people who were older than me, so I didn't say very much, though I did imagine myself to be Jane Eyre. (John Crace)A couple of websites are looking forward to future films: WWD wants to see Mia Wasikowska play Jane Eyre (which is due in 2011 according to them) and Movies.ie 'can't wait' to see Andrea Arnold's take on Wuthering Heights.
Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte's Early American HeroinesThe article goes on but, really, can it be taken seriously after such a frightful beginning?
Early American women writers, such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, often focused on female heroines who defied the social norms of their time. Ultimately, however, these heroines reformed to societal demands through marriage to a handsome suitor. In Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, readers will find two prime examples of this style of heroine in Jane Eyre and Marianne Dashwood. Each woman travels through three stages: youthful passion, somber adolescence, and a secure adulthood. (Stephanie S. Haddad)
January 26 at 11 am The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëIn Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada
Wilton Library Association, 137 Old Ridgefield Road, Wilton, CT
Discussion Leader: William Zeigler
Published in 1848, this novel written by the youngest of the Brontë sisters has been described as a “powerful feminist testament.” The story, told by two narrators in two literary forms, is concerned with two periods of time. It is both a romantic-domestic social comedy and the story of a tragic relationship. Charlotte Brontë is said to have expressed the wish that the book had never been written as the life of Arthur Huntingdon, one of the main characters, reflected too closely the life of Branwell Brontë, the degenerate Brontë brother.
January 28Categories: Alert, Talks
Classic Book Club at the Wainfleet Township Public Library from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Join the afternoon tea on the last Thursday of the month and discuss the works of the Bronte sisters. This month's selection is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Call 905-899-1277 to register as a club member. (The Welland Tribune)
At this crucial moment, "Lullaby" could go several ways: It could become a feminist-inflected legal thriller. (Jess yanks a Lucian Freud off a nearby gallery wall and bludgeons Mickey to death for his male insensitivity. After a tense trial, she's exonerated by a jury of lactating mothers.) It could mutate into a crime noir. (As she guzzles Slim-Fast and sheds pounds, Jess begins larding Mickey's meals until he's the one who's pudgy and depressed.) Or it could lope off, as it does, in the promising direction of Daphne du Maurier's grandmother of all marital suspense stories, "Rebecca" (which itself paid homage to that great-grandmother of all premarital suspense stories, "Jane Eyre").Another Brontëite writer can be found on Salt Lake City Romance Novels Examiner: Tina Donahue.
Do you remember the first Romance novel you read? Do you have a favorite that remains your guiding star?And there's even more Brontë love for today coming from a column in The California Aggie.
I guess the first romance novels I read were in school and the classics: Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights. Amazing stories. (Fran Lee)
Yes, the fact that I'm only 20 and already thinking about love and forever does register, but that's just how manipulated I've been. My favorite genre of film is the romantic comedy. Austen and Brontë dominate my bookshelf. I've officially appointed Taylor Swift as the narrator of my life. See, I'm a hopeless romantic - emphasis on the hopeless. (Mario Lugo)The Guardian features several artists who simply have to have a day job apart from their artistic side in order to live. One of them is young actress Lainy Scott:
Scott is getting work; her CV is loaded with parts in fringe theatre and short films, including lead roles in recent productions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. But with £11,000 in fees to repay for her postgraduate acting course at Birmingham School of Acting, she has also had to take on day jobs. (Laura Barnett)Click here to read more about that Jane Eyre production.
Because Rock & Chips (BBC1) is to Only Fools and Horses what The Wide Sargasso Sea is to Jane Eyre – ie, a prequel. (Sam Wollaston)The New York Times Travel section has an article on the National Portrait Gallery and the Brontës - 'residents' there as you know - are mentioned. Big Hollywood chooses William Wyler, director of Wuthering Heights 1939, as one of the 'top ten greatest directors of all time'.
The London Production Company (now Dreampark) is touring around Europe with a production of Jane Eyre addressed to students (16+) learning English as a foreign language: (Picture Source.)'Jane Eyre'
by Charlotte BrontëWe are delighted to be bringing this famous novel on tour for the first time. We have condensed the story into less than 1½ hours with use of imagery, music, narration but most of all fine acting.
Jane is obviously the main character but we encounter many others along the way in a flowing story in which all the characters come to life. With vibrant and strong language Charlotte Bronte takes us on a magical journey through which we see Jane Eyre's life. In thrilling and descriptive text Bronte clearly describes Jane Eyre's tragic journey. Growing up she has a sad life, from the death of her parents to her abusive cousin. Her influential school years both as a student and teacher then onto Thornfield, a Manor House, where she meets Mr. Rochester. She falls in love with him and is to marry but her life takes a rapid turn. Can this be Jane's chance for happiness or is she set for another fall?
The adaptation (by Mark Jowett) can be downloaded here. Rochester is played by Ryan Jones. These are some of their past and future performances:
Lycée Chanzy, Charleville-Mézières, France (Novembre 2009)Categories: Jane Eyre, Theatre
Les élèves étaient nombreux, ils ont apprécié le spectacle et ont applaudi le baiser de Jane Eyre. Le moment d’échange avec producteur, metteur en scène et acteurs fut fructueux.
Several images of the performance here.
Lycée Boucher de Perthes, Abbeville, France (December 1, 2009)
Un petit vent de romantisme est passé au lycée ce mardi avec la représentation en anglais, de Jane Eyre, une pièce adaptée de l'oeuvre célèbre de Charlotte Brontë.
Ryan, Sarah et Lorna respectivement du Pays de Galles, de Sheffield et Birmingham ont offert une représentation de qualité aux quelques 200 élèves rassemblés dans l'auditorium. Une heure trente d'anglais et une petite plongée dans l'Angleterre Victorienne pour des élèves attentifs et intéressés.
La troupe de la London Production Company venait de St Omer et se dirigeait vers Dinan dans l'après-midi. Leur tournée couvre la France, la Suisse et l'Italie et nous leur souhaitons autant de succès dans ces différents pays qu'à Abbbeville. (Biface)
Centre Culturel de Pont-du-Cassel, (January 13, 8:30 PM)
Le mercredi 13 janvier, à 20h30, la Maison de l'Europe avait programmé, au centre culturel de Pont-du-Casse, une très belle pièce «Jane Eyre», tirée du livre de Charlotte Brontë, publié le 16 octobre 1847 en Angleterre. Le centre culturel était au trois-quarts rempli pour admirer cette pièce interprétée par des acteurs et actrices anglais, ce qui est une grande réussite.
Les spectateurs avaient pris la précaution, pour la plupart, en lisant la pièce en anglais, afin de mieux s'imprégner, non seulement, de l'atmosphère de la pièce, mais aussi du vocabulaire, de l'accent et du timbre de ces comédiens pleins de talent.
Vraiment une formidable soirée offerte par la Maison de l'Europe, aussi bien culturelle que linguistique. (La Depeche). Also on Sud Ouest.
Montbéliard Espace Victor Hugo, Montbéliard, France (January 22, 7:45 PM)
Les Amis du mai anglais proposent, demain vendredi à l’Espace Victor Hugo, une pièce tirée du roman de Charlotte Bronté : « Jane Eyre ». À la fois roman d’amour et histoire gothique, cette pièce autour d’une histoire d’éducation a connu en grand succès dans l’Angleterre de la moitié du XIX e siècle. Cette pièce sera donnée dans la langue de Shakespeare. (L'Alsace)
Cité Scolaire de Briey, Briey, France (January 26, 2010, 2:00 PM)
Herderschule, Gießen, Germany (February 19 ?)
Es ist schon Tradition, dass englische Tourneetheater das Schulleben der Herderschüler bereichern. Nach den Aufführungen des "White Horse Theatres" für die Mittelstufe, hatten die Oberstufenschüler Gelegenheit, einen Klassiker der englischen Literatur auf der Bühne zu erleben, als die London Production Company unter der Leitung von Chris Alders mit einer Bühnenadaption von Charlotte Brontës Roman "Jane Eyre" die Zuschauer beeindruckte.
Mit großem Interesse verfolgten die Schüler und ihre Englischlehrer das Geschehen um das Schicksal der Gouvernante Jane Eyre (hervorragend gespielt von Sarah Scott), dem düsteren, geheimnisvollen Gutsbesitzer Mr. Rochester (Ryan Jones) und der Haushälterin Mrs.Fairfax (Lorna Jones, die souverän mehrere Rollen übernahm).
Den drei Schauspielern gelang es durch ihr eindrucksvolles Spiel und der verständlichen Sprache, ihr Publikum zu begeistern. Musik und Videoeffekte, das Bühnenbild, trugen dazu bei, das Leben im viktorianischen Zeitalter, in dem gesellschaftliches Ansehen, Standesunterschiede, schwierige Liebesbeziehungen, düstere Anwesen, hinter deren dicken Mauern sich Geheimnisse verstecken, den Zuschauern näher zu bringen. Im Anschluss an die Aufführungen gab es die Gelegenheit, mit den Schauspielern ins Gespräch zu kommen. Die Thematik des Stückes kam zur Sprache, aber die Schüler erfuhren auch einiges über den Werdegang und Berufsalltag eines Schauspielers, über die Schwierigkeiten, monatelang auf Tournee zu sein. Beeindruckt zeigten sich die Gäste über das große Interesse und die sehr guten Englischkenntnisse der Herderschüler. (Google translation) (Gießener Anzeiger)English Speaking Circle, Düsseldorf, Germany (February 26, 7:00 PM)
WBZ Saal 1
THEATRE EVENING – ‘JANE EYRE’ by Charlotte Bronte, performed by Dreampark, formerly the London Production Company of Middlesex, U.K. This dramatisation of the famous Bronte classic novel condenses Jane’s sad life and its many influences, from the abusive cousin to the school years as student and teacher and to meeting Mr. Rochester.
IN COOPERATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CENTER OF THE VHS “DIE BRÜCKE“
The dominant sea captain becomes more than a man with a job to do, and something of a metaphor for those dominant men who cannot listen to anyone, man or woman. He therefore will suffer the consequences of his pride, just as Mr. Rochester does in Jane Eyre, just as all those dark brooding men do in women’s romantic fiction. (Katherine Govier)Simon Heffer's enthusiasm for second-hand bookshops and Victorians is portrayed in this article in The Telegraph. A mention of the Brontës is unavoidable:
Once a writer is adopted by television and given the "interpretative" early 21st-century treatment (as the Dickens brand so often is, and as from time to time happens with George Eliot, Mrs Gaskell and the Brontës), he or she becomes just about comprehensible, in a superficial sort of way.The Argus Leader writes about memories associated to objects:
On a personal level, items from thrift stores and flea markets have more sentimental value: the copy of Jane Eyre I found at the Guildhall Market in Bath, England, a butterfly pin from a thrift store, a black-and-white cat figurine my grandpa bought at an auction sale. (Bryann Becker)And the Times & Transcript talks about a teen rebellion act:
Before you commence your gasping and tutting and huffing, let me assure you that this heinous act of revolt was purely accidental. Well, in a sense. In fact, in order to strengthen my assurance that this act was indeed fortuitous, keep in mind that this is coming from a girl whose biggest acts of rebellion in her life have involved eating a Popsicle before supper-time or staying up late to read another chapter of Wuthering Heights. (Tess Allen)The New York Post's Meet market features
Megan is a 22-year-old college grad who loves Victorian literature. She’s looking for romance that'd make even Catherine of “Wuthering Heights” jealous. (Calla Salinger)Rabid Doll reviews the latest episode of The Vampire Diaries (S01E11: Bloodlines):
Starting right back where the show left us two months ago, we witnessed the aftermath of Elena’s (Nina Dobrev) car accident. Just as the shadowy figure began to approach, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) arrived in the nick of time. It was a Heathcliff-ian rescue as he ripped off the door of Elena’s car and took her sweepingly into his arms checking anxiously to see if she was okay. (Tiffany Vogt)Not a charade but a bal masque celebrated in New Orleans featured a Jane Eyre (!):
"Those Famous Words" was the theme of the Krewe of Cleopatra's 37th annual Rendezvous Bal Masque, staged Saturday evening in the Grand Ballroom of the New Orleans Marriott. (...)The Boston Globe mentions Michael Fassbender's attachment to the Jane Eyre project directed by Cary Fukunaga, Caitlin Moran runs with Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights music in The Times, Bookish Banter posts about the original novel and Ballet News interviews Hannah Bateman, First Soloist of the Northern Ballet Theatre still touring the UK with the Nixon/Schönberg Wuthering Heights ballet.
Royal Jewels of the court were Ms. Jessie D. Carle, representing "Jane Eyre"[.] (The Times-Picayune)
