Burn after reading

i-D features a new web series based on Middlemarch which has an LGBTQ theme.

The history of literature is much more queer than your English teachers let on. Shakespeare’s gayness is still glossed over or purposely omitted from textbooks. Homer’s Iliad has been censored since ancient times, with screenwriters still playing down the homosexual relationship between “cousins” Achilles and Patroclus. Possibly-lesbian correspondence was equally suppressed. None of Ellen Nussey’s romantic letters to Charlotte Brontë survive, while Brontë’s 1854 letter to Nussey begs her to burn it after reading. Yale undergrad Rebecca Shoptaw is tackling this erasure of LGBTQ history head-on by adapting classic works into progressive web series. Her opus is the unabashedly queer Middlemarch, which sees George Eliot’s self-described study of Victorian provincial life recreated in a 2017 Connecticut college dorm. (Hannah Ongley)

While some scholars have made a case for a romantic relationship between Charlotte and Ellen, it is a fact that Charlotte's letter asking Ellen to burn her correspondence has nothing to do with this and all to do with her husband worrying about said letters getting in the wrong hands.

Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) reviews the film God's Own Country and considers Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights to be one of its influences.

Tre andra filmer som utspelar sig i Yorkshire som ibland kallats för God's own country (liksom en hel del andra platser i världen): Ken Loachs uppväxtklassiker "Kes - falken" (1969), "Allt eller inget" (1997) om strippande stålverksarbetare och Andrea Arnolds leriga Emily  Brontë-filmatisering "Wuthering heights" (2011). (Helena Lindblad) (Translation)

20 Minutes Montpellier (France) is proud of its first local book tree, which includes a copy of Jane Eyre. A Lady in London recommends '15 Inspiring Books That Will Make You Fall in Love with England', including Wuthering Heights.