“Only give it a happy ending, love”

The Huddersfield Examiner has an article on time-travelling. Most Brontëites will have fantasised with the idea of calling on the Brontës, we are sure.

Come on, everybody must have had the occasional dream about time travel. Going back to witness great moments of history like the Battle of Hastings – “Keep your head down, Harold” – or to visit Haworth in 1846 and suggest to Emily Brontë that Wuthering Heights would be a good title for a novel. “Only give it a happy ending, love.” (Denis Kilcommons)

Well, the actual ending of the novel is quite ambiguous. We take it the columnist means a happy ending to the Cathy-Heathcliff story.

A 'customer review' on Female First signed 'cathy earnshaw (Berlin, Germany)' says about the film Two Lovers:

James Gray speaks on the director's commentary about trying to reach a "poetic truth" by using thunder and wind as pathetic fallacy. These are stock tropes for conveying the idea of conflict and disruption (e.g. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights); it would have been interesting to explore new ways of demonstrating something unsettling without the usual sudden arrival of poor weather.

And two news outlets use both the Brontës and Jane Austen as examples of stereotypical things such as:

The British landscape on JoongAng Daily (South Korea):

Descriptions of the moors in the works of the Brontë sisters and the pastoral scenes shown in films based on Jane Austen's novels have lured many a traveler to the British countryside. (Moon So-young)

And music in books on NewsTime (South Africa):

However, music is also a central part of most small-scale residential situations. In other words, music is the language of the home. Think back as far as the days of the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen. Where-oh-where would their intricate works of fiction be without the predictable family-and-friends gatherings around the household piano? The young female protagonist is either beautiful, admired, and performing one of Mozart’s very best, or “rather unfortunately endowed” and plonking on a couple of miscellaneous keys, all to the cringing embarrassment of the over-involved patriarch. This role of the piano was eventually handed on to the “wireless”, the gramophone, and, currently, the communal family iTunes.
Thank you, dear music, for creating for us this communication evolution. In so many situations, music is the only solution. (Jessica Dix)

Two Brontë-related new or forthcoming books are reviewed on the blogosphere: Anna del C. Dye's Blog posts about Joan Soward's Chocolate Roses and An Addicted Book Reader writes about the forthcoming (October 2010) Jane by April Lindner, giving it 5 out of 5 stars. Be Loyal & True to the Royal Within You! is reading and loving Jane Eyre. The 30 Day Journey......For Hope discusses Heathcliff.

Finally, Brontëana1 has uploaded to YouTube a couple of videos showing the Branwell family house in Penzance and the Brontë Society plaque there.

Categories: Books, Brontëana, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights