The savagery of Heathcliff

The Guardian discusses adaptations of children's books:

But isn't there a risk that all the bells and whistles take away from the original book, restricting the limits of the young reader's imagination – especially with films? "There can be the danger that the visual impact takes over," says Elv Moody, the editorial director of Classic Puffin. "But sometimes it can work the other way. Film can be a great way into a book that might have seemed too grown-up to read." She thinks this autumn's films of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Three Musketeers will attract a new audience to those books, and points out that Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland prompted a massive uplift in sales of Lewis Carroll's original book – even the Puffin edition, which had no film tie-in. (Michael Hann)

It doesn't look like the new Wuthering Heights is addressed to children, though.

The Sunday Times reviews the performances of The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien in the Imagine Arts Festival (Wateford, Ireland):

A century earlier, Mr Rochester was a martyr for locking his unstable wife in the attic (unbeknownst to Jane Eyre) instead of casting her aside. (...) The best stage adaptations — such as Jane Eyre and A Christmas Carol — are those that risk disappointing readers. (Eithne Shorthall)

The Pilot reviews The Ballad of Tom Dooley by Sharyn McCrumb:

In her notes afterward, McCrumb says she fashioned the book on Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights.” She has captured the mystical feel of that classic and the events and characters continue to stir the reader, long after the novel has been put back on the shelf. A remarkable book from a writer at the top of her game. (Anne Barnhill)

Fredericksburg.com reviews Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot (and adds a bit of a spoiler):

Madeleine ultimately decides that she's going to go to graduate school and study the great novels of Austen and Brontë, because, unlike real life, they almost always have a marriage plot and a happy ending. (Drew Gallagher)

One more Coronation Street Wuthering Heights reference, this one reported in the New Zealand Herald:

For example, Norris plays Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights as he sets off to the West Yorkshire moors. (Deborah Hill Cone)

The Playlist reviews Michael Winterbottom's Trishna (an adaptation of Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’Ubervilles set in India):

It’s a flip of the coin to another film bowing tonight at the BFI London Film Festival —Andrea Arnold‘s “Wuthering Heights.” Arnold takes a similar approach to Winterbottom, a bold reinvention of a classic that places just as great an emphasis on its environment as its characters. But where Arnold uses it as an extension of the savagery of Heathcliff and co, here you feel like you’re watching Winterbottom’s holiday video, that happens to have some actors wandering in and out of it.  (Oliver Lyttelton) 

Bella Online mentions the male pen names of the Brontës; Let's Read posts about The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; notes to my muses writes about Jane Eyre; kişisel depresyon anları film (in Turkish), The Numbers and Miracles & Madness review Jane Eyre 2011.