Wuthering Heights official photographer

First of all, we must thank an anonymous commenter who left this tidbit concerning Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights:

Agatha A. Nitecka has finished shooting the promotional photos [for] Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights:
http://www.lettresalou.com/wh.htm
http://www.facebook.com/lettresalou

No Wuthering Heights pictures on any of those sites as yet, but the photographer herself comments on the job:

just finished working with Andrea Arnold on her adaptation of Wuthering Heights, look out for pictures in the papers/magazines/posters etc in 2011, a DVD will feature my photographs too

We are looking forward to seeing them.

The American Spectator suggests Wuthering Heights, the novel, for young readers:

If your child appears lovesick, throw some quality writing and social commentary -- and romance -- in his direction with Wuthering Heights or Pride and Prejudice. These novels have one thing in common: They're readable from a young age and they engage children in the magical world of fiction while imploring them to develop moral character for the real world. (Nicole Russell)

And The Hour thinks that the Connecticut shoreline would have been the perfect backdrop for Wuthering Heights last week:

The torrential rain, balmy breezes, and churning seas that Mother Nature brewed up would have been perfectly at home as the backdrop of such classic literary pieces as Wuthering Heights or, perhaps, as an appropriate precursor to the Perfect Storm.

Brendan Keenan from The Independent (Ireland) takes a look at the economy and can't help but think of the Victorians in general and of Villette in particular:

Victorians were terrified of debt because inability to pay meant one could lose everything -- even one's liberty. Ireland maintains a touching collection of Victoriana, including letter boxes, the Dublin Custom House coats of arms, and laws which prescribe prison for not repaying loans.
Literary critics say Charlotte Brontë's novel 'Villette,' is really about the dangers of Victorian life, before the invention of limited liability. One commentator notes the frequent use of the words crisis, panic, dread, terror, fever, frenzy and peril in the book.
The ups and downs of the financial cycle cause the heroine's family to suffer, "shocks and repulses... humiliations and desolations." Ah yes, indeed.
We may be entering a more Victorian world, where people's spending will be more in line with their incomes, and exposure to debt on mortgages and purchases of expensive consumer items will be more limited. For the time being at least, they are likely to receive every encouragement in this approach from the banks.

We are quite puzzled by the following statement made by a supposedly 'voracious reader' on YourTango:

As a voracious reader, I appreciate the idea of bringing book-lovers together. But I certainly don’t expect men to love Charlotte Brontë or Sophie Kinsella! (Susan Johnston)

Well, we won't go into Sophie Kinsella territory (except to say that Charlotte Brontë and Sophie Kinsella's writings have nothing in common) but we will say that - expected of them or not - some men do love Charlotte Brontë. (And - surprise! - some women do love sci-fi too!).

According to Greater Kashmir,

apparently answering questions on turmoil and stone-pelting in an English paper is much easier for us medieval, academically challenged Kashmiris than writing about Dickens and Brontë. Through that rationale, I’m not sure if I as a Kashmiri should feel proud or insulted and stereotyped. (Junaid Azim Mattu)

Silverdale is one of the Guardian's Top ten UK winter walks:

On your left at the end of the road is Lindeth Tower (not National Trust). In the 19th century, the tower was used by Elizabeth Gaskell, the Victorian author. Gaskell wrote the first biography of Charlotte Brontë, as well as a number of novels, some of which have recently been turned into television series. (Stephen Bradley)

Silverdale also has a more direct Brontë connection, as the Rev. Carus Wilson had a home there where several Cowan Bridge pupils - among them Charlotte and Emily Brontë - were sent when typhus broke out at the school.

There's a post on their recent Christmas lunch (and subsequent fun) on the Brussels Brontë Blog. Reading Thru The Night posts about Jane Eyre and Fantástica fábrica de Anna writes in Portuguese about Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Brontëana, Movies-DVD-TV, Victorian Era, Villette, Wuthering Heights