Raw Naturalism

The Independent publishes a (not very good) review of the Wuthering Heights 2011 DVD:

Andrea Arnold's bleak interpretation of Wuthering Heights is certainly a bold one. It cuts off the story halfway through the book, and it shows everything from Heathcliff's point of view: if he overhears a snatch of conversation, then a snatch of it is all we hear, too. It's less of a stand-alone film than an intriguing, Emily Brontë-inspired video art installation that will mean very little unless you've read the novel. (Nicholas Barber)

The DVD is also reviewed - much more favourably - by the Guardian:

Owing more to Andrew Kotting's This Filthy Earth than to any previous screen adaptations of Emily Brontë's sacred text, Andrea Arnold's earthy reinvention of Wuthering Heights (2011, Artificial Eye, 15) has the ambience of a long, muddy walk over a wet and windy moor. At its best when dealing with the rough and raggedy edges of tormented young love (rather than its adult aftermath), this builds upon the promise of Fish Tank, as the director coaxes painfully believable performances from her adolescent leads, who exude a raw naturalism and spontaneity. The location of Heathcliff's roots amid the legacy of the slave trade (an interpretation long suggested by literary critics) is both radical and reasonable, and true to the source material. (Mark Kermode)

And The Mirror reports that the Jane Eyre 2011 DVD is the third on the UK Top 10.

This columnist from the Daily Kos tells about her high school reading ambitions:

After the initial thrill of discovery, I was determined to find more works by women, especially one who had lived unconventional lives. it wasn't as if my high school library didn't have plenty of fiction and poetry by women, but with the exception of classics like Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, a handful of books by Andre Norton and Madeline L'Engle and some historical fiction with strong female characters, most of the selections were distressingly ordinary. (Ellid)

This obituary published in The Prescott Daily Courier includes a Brontë-related anecdote. Arclight Archives reviews Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights and Don Darms Blog writes about the original novel. Chroniques d'une lectrice writes in French about Jane Eyre and Musings from a Modern Bluestocking and Cinemaniac post about the 2011 adaptation. Never without a book writes about watching the Brontë Sisters Night on TCM. Sarah Walden shares on Flickr an image of her recently-acquired silhouette of Joseph Branwell (distant cousin and uncle to the Brontë siblings) and compares it to Branwell's silhouette.