Angry but heroic

The Dayton Daily News has found another artist inspired by Wuthering Heights, although we think that this time it is via Kate Bush: Bridgette Bogle. Color Extension is the name of the exhibition at the Gallery 510:

“Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights,” is another painting with loads of texture when viewing up close. This water-soluble oil on canvas is embellished with cutout pieces that create depth and shadowing. This is one of three paintings that are actually done on colored canvas; this one on dark blue, the other two on orange and tan. (Pamela Dillon)

North vs South (in Britain) in The Times:

The north has Wuthering Heights, which is angry but heroic. The south has Jane Austen, all flirtations and ballgowns. (Jonathan Leake and Kevin Dowling)

The Independent describes the landscape seen from the A169 Malton-Whitby road:

Although undeniably pretty in the bright summer sunshine, these chocolate -box villages feel worryingly out of place amid such a flat landscape. They seem almost southern. While I must declare an interest - I am a Yorkshire lass, albeit one who has decamped to London - they bear no resemblance to the dramatic wilderness which provided the backdrop to Emily Brontë's passionate love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. (Rachel Shields)

The Edinburgh Guide reviews the Edinburgh Fringe performance It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later by Daniel Kitson:

Kitson crafts his comedy with a very literate lust for the beauty and appositeness of the vocabulary he deploys to such considerable effect – he does, after all live in West Yorkshire, Brontë, Hughes and Plath country. (Bill Dunlop)

This Daily Express journalist joins the ranks of those who cannot think of Toby Stephens without remembering his Rochester in Jane Eyre 2006:

The memory of his Mr Rochester in the BBC’s 2006 Jane Eyre still causes spontaneous swooning, while his powerful role in Danton’s Death at the National Theatre is winning rave reviews and follows well-received turns as Hamlet and Coriolanus.

My Love-Haunted Heart presents a 1967 paperback edition of Wuthering Heights; Free Feelings... posts her thoughts about Wuthering Heights 2009 (in Romanian); Déjà Loin reviews The Professor (in Spanish); Turetromusic posts a video with some pictures of the 1976 Venezuelan soap opera adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Finally, you might be interested to know that there's a new section at the foot of our sidebar devoted to Brontë-related books auctioned on eBay (via Gutenberg).

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