Talking about feelings and Heathcliff all day

The Daily Beast's Book Beast takes a look at the British Library exhibition Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands:

If “Rural Dreams” represents Britain at its most picturesque, then “Dark Satanic Mills”—a phrase from William Blake’s “Jerusalem”—shows one of the ugliest periods of the nation’s history. Industrialization wrought massive changes upon England, and its legacy still haunts parts of the country. Contemporary writers were shocked at the squalid conditions of factory towns, whose fiery furnaces churned out “thick sulphureous smoke, which spread like palls,” in the words of one 18th-century poet. Frances Trollope penned the first industrial novel, about Lancashire cotton factories where starving children scavenged from pigs’ troughs. Charlotte Brontë set her Shirley in the “soot-vomiting mills” of the Yorkshire textile industry, and Charles Dickens invented the wretched fictional mill town Coketown for Hard Times. (Katie Baker)

Shortly after that exhibition closes on September 25th, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights will be premiered in the US, on October 5th. The New Yorker and The Star-Ledger include it in their fall roundups.

RP Online (Germany) reports on Krefeld's Classic Saturday where

Die Thalia-Buchhandlung hatte keine Schwierigkeiten, das Thema Klassiksamstag im Schaufenster umzusetzen. Sie warb für Emily Brontës wunderbaren Roman "Sturmhöhe" von 1847 und andere berühmte Bücher von Jane Austen, Schiller, Hölderlin sowie Thomas und Heinrich Mann. (Heribert Brinkmann and Thomas Lammertz) (Translation)

This Independent (Ireland) columnist makes a resolution:

So, from now on, I resolve not to give a fig if he hasn't read Wuthering Heights 14 times, wears a baseball cap occasionally, or puts smiley faces in texts, I am going to embrace the mantra of the late, great Gore Vidal, who said: "I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television." (Katy Harrington)

While this is how Autostraddle captions a picture of girl students in an article discussing same-sex classrooms:

I am a young lady and I could just sit in this big circle of sisterhood with my legs daintily crossed and talk about feelings and Heathcliff all day. (Laura)

Têtue (France) announces the forthcoming broadcast on Jane Eyre 2006 on Arte TV:

Jeudi 6 septembre
A 20h50, Arte lance la belle adaptation en quatre épisodes du chef-d'œuvre de Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (2006). Orpheline très jeune, la petite Jane Eyre est élevée par sa tante Reed, avant d'être envoyée dans un pensionnat pour jeunes filles pauvres... Un très beau portrait de femme avec, dans le rôle principal, l'actrice britannique Ruth Wilson qui sera au générique du très attendu The lone ranger avec Johnny Depp (sortie en août 2013). (Béatrice Catanese) (Translation)

Books, Tea time & Sweet apple pie (in French) recommends it, by the way.

And La Nueva Provincia (Argentina) reports that Jane Eyre 2011 is to be screened today at Cooperativa Obrera, Bahía Blanca.

Continúa una nueva edición del ciclo de cine inglés, con programación y presentación del crítico especializado Agustín Neifert.
     En la segunda entrega se proyectará el filme Jane Eyre (2011), de Cary Fukunaga, y protagonizada por Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender y Judi Dench.
     Esta versión de la novela de Charlotte Bronté [sic] no es un sombrío melodrama gótico, sino un intenso drama romántico, que recrea con fidelidad la obra original. Y a su vez presenta a la protagonista como una joven dotada de una llamativa conciencia feminista, por cuanto se manifiesta como una mujer libre, segura de sí misma y dispuesta a seguir su destino.
     Hoy, a las 17.30, en el salón de actos de la Cooperativa Obrera (Zelarrayán 560), con entrada libre y gratuita. (Translation)

Wuthering Heights is the subject matter on Revista Fantástica (in Portuguese) while Moewies (in Afrikaans) gives a 8/10 to Andrea Arnold's adaptation. Carl Gaynor has uploaded a Wuthering Heights-inspired photograph. And Jane Eyre is discussed by A Tree Grows in Delano, Sur mes brizées (in French), The Story Goes On and Popularna Klasyka (in Polish). Kamarade Fifien gives 3 out of 5 stars to Cary Fukunaga's adaptation of the novel. Katharine Cambridge posts about a trip to Haworth and National Trails Walk 2012/13 has uploaded a picture taken near Brontë country.

 And finally, would you like to know how Wuthering Heights influenced Victoria Hislop in the writing of The Island? Listen to this week's BBC Radio 4 Bookclub.