Choose the Brontës

Did you know that one of Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) main influences were the Brontës? Spoonfed interviews him:

Your style of writing has evolved since Trainspotting, what have been the major stylistic influences since the success of your first book?
Age. It always has an influence, for better and worse. My literary influences: Brontë, Austen, Dostoyevsky, Burroughs, Selby, Waugh, Orwell, Kelman, Gray, McIlvanney, have remained pretty constant. (Naima Khan)

Who doens't keep mementos in books? Abby Wong in The Star (Malaysia) does:

Books are things with a particular power to hold memories, and that power only increases because of the many small mementos I love to tuck into them. Among the pages of my copy of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains Of The Day, there are two EuroTrain tickets from London to Amsterdam, two entry passes to the Louvre Museum in Paris, and a receipt of a dress bought in Greenwich, London – all memorabilia from my honeymoon when I was, for the first time, intoxicated by Ishiguro, D.H. Lawrence, and Emily Brontë. 

The Times interviews  the actress Rebecca Night:

As Catherine Linton in ITV’s 2009 Wuthering Heights — one of her favourite jobs — she played opposite Tom Hardy’s moody Heathcliff, the actor still pumped up for his role as the prisoner Charles Bronson and physically threatening. “That was great, because I had to fight back at this massive Heathcliff. There was a scene when I was sitting on a stool and he comes in and says, ‘What are you doing?’ and I flinched for real.” (Lesley White)

Dixie Sun is a bit reductionist when it says:

Teenage angst is the stuff great literature is made of: "Romeo and Juliet," "Wuthering Heights," and, of course, "Twilight." (April Jackson)

The Charleston Movie Examiner reviews the film Mulberry Child:

Quyen Tran's cinemtography gives the audience a China possessing the stark beauty of a polished skeleton.  Wuthering Heights with political wall posters and the Red Guard. (Michael Wolff)

GoErie announces a screening of Jane Eyre 2011 in Mercyhurst College (Erie, PA) and Somos Marbella another one in Marbella, Spain; Filmy i cała reszta... (in Polish) and Simmy & Herstory review the film;  Expressions – Bhagwad Jal Park and Eight Bookcases post about the original novel; Bookshelf Confessions posts about Margot Livesey's The Flight of Gemma Hardy; George Galloway MP (Bradford West Member of Parliament) states his opposition to the windfarm project in Brontë country (more on the windfarm controversy in the Daily Mail); Encore's World of Film & TV reviews Wuthering Heights 2011; A Postcard a Day talks about the 1980 PHQ Cards which featured the Brontës.