A Huge Visual Impact

More newspapers echo the growing opposition against the windfarm project in Brontë country. The Telegraph talks about "fears over wind turbine plans" (regrettably the article consistently misspells Haworth):

Plans to build a £12 million wind farm on the "wild and wonderful" moorland that inspired Wuthering Heights have enraged conservationists and locals.
Thornton Moor at Howarth was a source of inspiration to all three Bronte sisters who enjoyed its breath-taking views during their frequent walks from the Parsonage.
Now the Brontë Society and local villagers have been devastated by moves to build four 328ft high wind turbines on the beauty spot - flanking both sides of the Brontë Way tourist trail.
Bradford councillors are due to vote on an application to install a data-gathering mast next week and objectors fear the full £12m scheme could go to planning by September and be built within 12 months.
Thornton Moor is less than five miles from Howarth and the Brontë Parsonage Museum where the Brontës spent most of their lives and part of landscape steeped in literary history.
Sally McDonald, chairman of the Brontë Society board of trustees, said: "These moors should continue undisturbed for generations to come and for the swathes of visitors from the UK and overseas drawn to Haworth and Yorkshire by their interest in the lives and works of the Brontës.
"We are concerned it is more skyline pollution in an area of international historical interest.
"Howarth is regarded as a heritage at risk area in its own right. The Brontës were passionate about the landscape and the moorland hugely influenced the writing of all three sisters.
"Wuthering Heights was set in and around that area. You cannot see the moor from the parsonage window but it would be a view they knew from their walks.
"They thought nothing about scampering out for a seven or eight mile on the moor.
"Four one hundred meter tall turbines will have a huge visual impact. Preserving the nature of the moor is very important.
"The heather is beautiful, and the wild flowers are lovely to see. It would be awful if they were lost. There is also birdlife such as lapwings.
"The moorland is undulating, providing a wonderful open vista of unbroken landscape which sweeps up and down in beautiful banks and falls.
"It is wild and wonderful place. It is a very special part of the Yorkshire landscape which draws a huge number of visitors to Yorkshire every year including visitors who want to see what is represented in the writings of the Brontës - and I don't think that includes wind masts." 

The Independent uses Jane Eyre instead of Wuthering Heights:

The opening line of Jane Eyre – "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" – has been savoured over and over again by fans of the Brontë sisters. Now, locals in the literary family's home village of Haworth are concerned about their own hikes being spoiled by a very modern hazard.
Anger has erupted over plans to build a £12m wind farm in the middle of the "wild and wonderful" moorland that inspired all three sisters. Thornton Moor at Haworth was a source of inspiration to Emily, Charlotte and Anne, who enjoyed its exceptional views during their frequent walks from the Parsonage, where they lived. (Mark Branagan)

And the Daily Mail talks about Wuthering Frights (and includes a cartoon):

With its wild and windswept beauty, it was the perfect setting for Wuthering Heights’ story of doomed romance.
‘Make the moors never change and you and I never change,’ Cathy begs Heathcliff in a declaration of love for both him and the untamed landscape against which their passion is played out in Emily Brontë’s novel.
Now furious campaigners are echoing her cry for preservation with equal fervour as they battle plans to place four 328ft high turbines right next to a hugely popular tourist trail through the rugged moor which so inspired Emily. (David Wilkes and Naza Parveen)

If you don't recognize the phrase it's normal because it doesn't belong to Emily Brontë's novel (the Daily Mail does not check its sources, how shocking!), it comes from the 1939 film version, written by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht.

The Independent publishes a lukewarm review of the Wuthering Heights 2011 DVD:

This brutish Wuthering Heights doesn't match their intensity but the handheld camerawork yields a menacing atmosphere and it's an astute move to have a black Heathcliff who is incessantly abused. Solomon Glave plays a young Heathcliff, taken in by a Christian family, and Shannon Beer is a young Cathy, and their virtually dialogue-free scenes feel fresh and authentic. However, it's the older versions (James Howson and Kaya Scodelario) that don't quite gel. A strong first half but it becomes an ordeal by the end. (Ben Walsh)

The f word blog talks about recent women (British) filmmakers, including Andrea Arnold:

Wuthering Heights explodes the romantic misapprehensions around Emily Brontë's classic novel to create a stirring cry for freedom by casting two black actors as Heathcliff and thus putting images of slavery at the heart of the Eng. Lit. canon. (Sophie Mayer)

Lorna Bradbury recommends Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and other classics to young readers in The Telegraph:

If you've made your way through Twilight, says Lorna Bradbury, you can set your sights on some classic novels such as Wuthering Heights.

The Chicago Sun-Times reviews the local production of The Turn of the Screw we mentioned yesterday:

Think “The Exorcist” meets “The Bad Seed” meets Jane Eyre’s mad woman in the attic and you’ve got some small idea of just how deliciously disturbing things have gotten at First Folio.  (Catey Sullivan)

The Jane Eyre View is reading (obviously) Jane Eyre;  A Tale of Three Cities reviews Agnes Grey; Susan Coventry and ma petite bibliothèque (in French) review Wuthering Heights.