Fading in the overwhelming moors

All is pretty quiet on the Brontëan front today with just The Boston Phoenix reviewing Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights and giving it 3 out of 4 stars:

Unlike in her harsh romances set in Britain's urban wastelands, it's nature that rules in British director Andrea Arnold's audacious adaptation of Emily Brönte's [sic] Wuthering Heights. And it's even less hospitable; this is no Merchant Ivory version of the often-adapted classic. The Yorkshire countryside sprawls out like a mossy moonscape, and the mud-choked, ramshackle homestead of the title, where the patriarch Earnshaw takes in the foundling Heathcliff (Solomon Glave), at times looks like a set from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Grim natural beauty abounds, but so does natural cruelty, like the casual slaughter of animals, including puppies hung from a fence. Arnold is equally ruthless with Brontë's prose; little survives her reduction of this epic of doomed love to stark images and fragmented dialogue. Only in casting does her version falter; James Howson as the older Heathcliff and Kaya Scodelario as Cathy fade in the overwhelming moors. (Peter Keough)

And The Huffington Post including the Brontë sisters on a slideshow of 'Female Writers Who Had To Hide Their Gender':

Keeping it in the family, the three talented Brontë sisters published their writing under the surname Bell. Emily published Wuthering Heights as Ellis Bell, Charlotte brought out Jane Eyre as Currer Bell and Anne used Acton Bell to release The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, as well as their joint poetry collections and other works. (Alice E. Vincent)

On the blogosphere the Parramatta City Library comments briefly on Agnes Grey. Fashionandarts discusses Wuthering Heights 2011. Pablo Aluísio reviews Jane Eyre 2011 in Portuguese. And Catching Books comments on Eve Marie Mont's A Breath of Eyre.