Heathcliff and the E-Reader screen

Slowly, slowly small tidbits regarding the Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre projects are becoming known, which is always a good sign that the production is alive. According to Variety, Wuthering Heights has already got a distributor in Spain:

Alta Films, Spain's arthouse distribution-exhibition company, has nabbed all Spanish rights to British helmer Andrea Arnold's adaptation of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights."
Pic was sold at the European Film Market in Berlin last week by London-based sales agent HanWay Films.
Alta is continuing its relationship with Arnold. Last year it took Spanish rights to her sophomore film, "Fish Tank," winner of Cannes 2009's jury prize; Alta will release it in April. Produced by Blighty's Ecosse Films, "Heights" will go into production in the spring. (Emiliano de Pablos)

And we really don't know why they are bothering casting a new Heathcliff when they have a ready-made one at 10 Downing Street. The Financial Times endorses it too:

This week’s charges of bullying staff are neither substantiated nor surprising. The prime minister’s fits of anger are long a matter of public record. When he ascended to the premiership, even his admirers compared him to Heathcliff, the vengeful, haunted hero of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.

The Bangalore Mirror seems intent on just looking at the gloomy aspects of Emily Brontë's life:

Emily Bronte who penned the searing Wuthering Heights that continues to inspire adaptations across the world was surrounded by death, disease and despair ever since she was born. The Bronte sisters lost their mother and two older siblings before their novels saw the light of the day. And predictably Emily died too at the ripe old age of thirty! (Vijay Nair)

The Atlanta INTown interviews Margaret Atwood and asks her about her opinion of e-readers.

Do you think readers are getting the same experience by reading books on the fly rather than sitting down with a physical book?
I think people who are using E-readers are picking books they can read quickly. If the text is dense you have to pay closer attention and I don’t think people want to sit with a computer screen trying to digest a more challenging book. I think E-readers have the potential to enhance students’ experiences, especially when it comes to searching text. They could, for example, instantly look up all references to the moors in Wuthering Heights. (Collin Kelley)

To each their own, but just for the record: most e-readers use e-ink, meaning that it's nothing like looking at a computer screen.

The Wichita Eagle has a long post on Jane Austen which includes a small Brontë mention.

No place evokes the English country manners and dispositions of Austen's characters better than Chawton. To see Chawton is to understand Austen's world, just as the bleak Yorkshire moors of Haworth shaped the Bronte sisters. (Gary A. Warner)

Wuthering Heights is discussed by Linda Loves Books and Some Flowers in Our Head (in Portuguese). Mormon Mommy Writers includes a post on The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë by Syrie James. Finally flickr user Like_The_Song has embroidered a quote from Wuthering Heights.

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