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John Mullan chooses for The Guardian the ten best books of women writing as men:

The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
Brontë may be known as a great recorder of female experience, but her first completed novel (published posthumously) is narrated by a man. William Crimsworth is a northern lad who becomes a teacher in a girls' school in Brussels. Before he finds love with a pupil-teacher at the school, he has to survive the flirtatious mockery of all those teenage girls.

The performances of the Northern Ballet Theatre's production of Wuthering Heights in Sheffield are reviewed in The Sheffield Telegraph:

Wild passions on the windswept moors leading to tragedy – it could only be the story of Heathcliff and Cathy from Northern Ballet Theatre.
And passions are on show in no uncertain manner ­– never again will you think of ballet as being a sedate art form after watching Heathcliff seduce poor Isabella on the kitchen table and then treat her like dirt afterwards.
The famous story is beautifully told, with traditional ballet and more contemporary moves portraying the difference between the wild world that Cathy and Heathcliff inhabit on the moors and the sophisticated society of the big house where Cathy meets Edgar, whom she marries, having fallen in love with the luxury of his home more than the man.
Heathcliff takes out his revenge by using Edgar's sister Isabella and also pays back Cathy's cruel brother Hindley (Martin Bell) for former slights when he entices him to gamble away his home on a drunken evening.
He and Cathy can't stay apart and tragedy ensues.
Guest dancer Artjom Maksakov – hampered by a strange mullet wig – and Martha Leebolt really make the sparks fly and dance beautifully together.
However, they are almost in danger of being upstaged by Pippa Moore and Ashley Dixon, portraying the couple as youngsters and dancing beautifully together.
Hironao Takahashi is wonderfully elegant as Edgar, as is Julie Charlet, playing Isabella.
All the supporting cast acquit themselves well and the set piece dance scenes are enchanting. The dancers playing the servants bring some much-needed comic relief. (Julia Armstrong)

The Chicago Tribune reviews The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood:

Looking for a new set of books with a tone almost like "Lemony Snicket"? Maryrose Wood is beginning just such a trip, as readers journey with 15-year-old Penelope Lumley, "a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females," to her first job interview. There's a mysterious howling in the background as she converses with her future employer. Well, unlike Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, there's no Bertha Mason in the attic, but Penelope has her own set of challenges as a governess, including her charges' "tragic encounter with taxidermy." (Mary Harris Russell)

Another book review with Brontë mentions is The Guardian's on Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom:

The paired novellas each chronicle an illicitly founded relationship over a longish period, each unfolding in the context of wider family ties, each fairly heavy on the autumnal erotics of love in late middle-age, with its naps and arthritis and Viagra, and each culminating in a death. In one, the cast is largely white; in the other [Lionel and Julia], largely black, though in both the milieu is cultured, cosmopolitan and affluent (Jane Eyre and Smithfield hams cede to Marion Williams and smothered pork chops as points of reference, but the tone remains substantially the same). (James Lasdun)

La Tercera (Spain) interviews singer and composer Miguel Bosé whose latest album, Cardio, includes a song inspired by Wuthering Heights: ¿Hay?

¿La inspiración? "Pues es muy variada, hay una canción que se llama ¿Hay? y apareció cuando estaba releyendo Cumbres borrascosas (Emily Brontë, 1847). El personaje de la canción está inspirado en el protagonista de la novela. (Manuel Maira) (Google translation)

The Cincinnati Enquirer reviews Paul Gordon's latest musical play, Daddy Long Legs and includes a Jane Eyre reference:

The pleasing score is by Paul Gordon, who wrote the musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma” that Playhouse produced a couple of seasons back. It pleases, but it all sounds alike. Like “Anne of Green Gables,” “Long Legs” isn’t high drama, it’s about a girl’s everyday life a century ago. Jerusha may love reading “Jane Eyre,” but she isn’t living it. (Jackie Demaline)

The Irish Times makes the following passing comment when discussing Irish fiction:

Few of us go to Wuthering Heights out of the desire to become better acquainted with the meteorological fluctuations of 19th-century Yorkshire. (Joseph O'Connor)

Catherine Ostler describes John Galliano's outfit in a recent Dior show in the Financial Times:

I was at the Dior show in Paris. These days, of course, it’s John Galliano who is the ringmaster there.
After a beautiful equestrian-meets-ethereal show, he arranged himself at the end of the catwalk while dramatic bolts of lightning crackled around him – the mighty showman as part naughty stable boy, part Heathcliff on the moors.

Welcome to Yorkshire has launched a new tourist campaign addressed to the Spanish market: 1,2,3 tu escondite inglés:

REVIVIENDO CUMBRES BORRASCOSAS.
Heathcliffe [sic] y Catherine, los protagonistas de Cumbres Borrascosas, la inmortal novela de Emily Brontë, huyeron juntos al inmenso páramo de Los Peninos para vivir allí, alejados de todos y de todo, su apasionado amor. No sorprende que eligieran precisamente este enclave, dado la belleza del entorno. En los Peninos, conocidos como la espina dorsal de Inglaterra, los cerros están siempre a mano, esperando a ser explorados, y dispuestos a ofrecer la ubicación perfecta para tu próximo escondite.
IMPERDIBLES: - Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, Red House Museum and Salts Mill in Saltaire.

Also in Spain, El País-Babelia talks about the recent examples of monsters meeting classic novels. Mentioning Sarah Schmelling's Ophelia join the group: maidens who don't float one Jean (sic) Eyre is named:

No es el único caso. Sarah Schmelling es la autora de Ophelia join the group: maidens who don't float, que reinterpreta en formato Facebook desde La Odisea hasta Lolita, pasando por Jean Eyre. (Carmen Mañana) (Google translation)

The Contra Costa Times uses Wuthering Heights as a way to talk about digital readers in education, bookstores with Brontë books in the Monterey County Weekly, A Literary Odyssey is reading Wuthering Heights and A New (York) Frame of Mind and Lucybird's Book Blogs discuss Emily Brontë's novel, Gifts of Dawn reviews Melanie M. Jeschke's Jillian Dare, Oregonreader Reviews posts about Rachel Ferguson's The Brontës Went to Woolworths, TwiHard reviews Dame Darcy's Jane Eyre on YouTube, Труд (Russia) reviews the film An Education with the compulsory Jane Eyre reference and de Verdieping Trouw (Netherlands) presents the Artemis Theatre's Wuthering Heights production now in Utrecht:

20 March, 19:30 TweeTakt Festival, Akademietheater, Utrecht
28 March, 19:30 TweeTakt Festival, Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht

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