Formative Influences

Decatur Daily reviews Claire Harman's biography Charlotte Brontë. A Fiery Heart:

I admit the Brontë family’s relationships leave me livid, as well as the contemporary attitude toward women that made the sisters publish under pseudonyms. This new biography of Charlotte only adds to the irritation I feel when I learn more of the accomplishments of this brilliant woman. There are illustrations of her drawing skills and newfound novelettes and letters that only make it more of a travesty that she was denied her rightful place as a woman of letters. (Jane Davis)

Stuff (New Zealand) quotes author Min Jin Lee and her 2007 book Free Food for Millionaires:

"It really was such a hard book to write because I was trying to write a 19th century-style narration, because those are the kinds of books I love to read," says Lee, who counts George Eliot and the Brontë sisters amongst her formative influences. (Stephen Jewell)

Diario de León (Spain) presents Santiago Posteguillo's new book, El Séptimo Círculo del Infierno:

La inspiración para su obra la busca en grandes nombres de la literatura mundial, como el ruso León Tolstói o las británicas Jane Austen y Charlotte Brontë. (Nayara Batschke) (Translation)

Deadline Hollywood on the film Beast:

Unusually for a genre movie of this kind, the lead character is a woman, which was [Michael] Pearce’s goal from the outset. “I’ve always been struck by how many anti-heroes we have in cinema,” he said, “like Travis Bickle or Michael Corleone. But I can’t think of many anti-heroines, and the ones that we do have come from literature, whether it’s Gone Girl, Cathy from Wuthering Heights, Carrie or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I really struggled to think of a genuine film anti-heroine, and I thought, ‘That’s really weird.’ (Damon Wise)

Greenwich Time traces a profile of new author Finn Murphy:

Murphy's late father, John Cullen Murphy, produced the "Prince Valiant" strip for many years until his death in 2004 and his brother, Cullen Murphy, also wrote for the series.
"It wasn't, say, like the Brontës, where the siblings created an incredibly complex fantasy world,” said sister Caitlin Murphy of Manhattan earlier this year.
“But my parents did value reading. There were always lots of books around, and television viewing was limited. Trips to the library were a regular event. Finally, both my parents were themselves enthusiastic readers, so we grew up in that kind of atmosphere," she said. (Alexandra Villarreal)

A podcast by Proyecto Grado Cero (México) on Wuthering Heights.