Breathing Room

Daily Express lists some Christmas book gifts for young adults:

Helena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo’s Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (Particular Books, £20) is a collection of 100 potted histories of women who have helped their fellow females to travel one step further along the path to equality.
Each biography is accompanied by a stunning full-page portrait and alongside the household names (Elizabeth I, the Brontë sisters, Hillary Clinton) are a 19th century warrior called Lozen, Japanese empress Jingu and Italian Formula One racer Lella Lombardi. Parents will learn nearly as much as their offspring. A simple idea, brilliantly executed. (Emma-Lee Potter & Charlotte Heathcote)

Best Books read by Irish writers in 2017 in The Irish Times:

I love how Lyndall Gordon thinks and I love the clarity and reach of her writing, combining imaginative audacity with scholarly scruple. Her Outsiders, a collection of portraits of George Eliot, Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf, Olive Schreiner and Mary Shelley, builds into a lucid meditation on how certain writers become lighthouses for each other. (Joseph O'Connor)

[My] highlights were Another Country by James Baldwin, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz, Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. (John Kelly)

New Republic reviews The Collective Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick, selected by Darryl Pinckney:

Hardwick gave herself some breathing room, herself arguing about the available published evidence of literary greatness, and not necessarily women’s abstract capacity to achieve it, though her dismissiveness of Austen, the Brontës, and George Eliot is unequivocal. (Michelle Dean)

The Village Voice talks about the film series Goth(ic) at the Metrograph in New York:

From Frankenstein to Heathcliff, the monthlong “Goth(ic)” portrays the movies’ handling of the sinister literary genre. (...)
Instead of writing a “realistic” novel, or an unserious fantastical romance, Walpole tried to do both: How, he wondered, would real people react to ludicrous or fantastic events? Countless authors, from Mary Shelley to the Brontë sisters to Bram Stoker, spent the next 150 years attempting to answer that question. (...)
Indeed, the Gothic movement on the page was largely pioneered by women (Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Charlotte and Emily Brontë), and has always been concerned with marginalized people. (Morgan Leigh Davies)

Wuthering Heights 1939 will be screened on December 23 and December 24.

Daily Beast talks about Elsa Gidlow and transforms Emily Brontë in a lesbian pioneer:

Shortly thereafter, she purchased five acres in Marin County that had been a chicken ranch. Honoring her friend the Irish folklorist Ella Young who often dressed like a robed Celtic Druid, and another lesbian writer, Emily Brontë of Wuthering Heights, Gidlow christened this neglected property below the Muir Woods National Monument, Druid Heights. (Gil Troy)

Real Simple recommends the Classical Comics take on Wuthering Heights:

John M. Burns' beautiful watercolor artwork tells the heart wrenching story of Heathcliff and Catherine in this visual retelling of Wuthering Heights. Though the book was shortened to fit, it uses much of Brontë's original text and dialogue. (Hannah Norling)

Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) chooses books for children:

Men ibland saknar man de vanliga människorna, och jag tänker allt oftare på Charlotte Brontë som skrev ”Jane Eyre” för att visa att en bok kunde ha en hjältinna som inte var strålande vacker.  (Lotta Olsson) (Translation)

Le Point POP (in French) talks about Alfred Hitchcock and Rebecca 1940:

Signé par la romancière britannique Daphne du Maurier (dont Hitchcock a déjà transposé au cinéma La Taverne de la Jamaïque, édité l'an passé en vidéo par Carlotta), ce récit gothique, dans l'esprit des sœurs Brontë, baigne dans une atmosphère victorienne. (David Mikanowski) (Translation)

9Colonne (in Italian) reviews Vite che sono la tua. Il bello dei romanzi in 27 storie by Paolo DiPaolo:

A volte, anche solo una visione o un gesto. Altre volte, una storia che somiglia alla tua. Da Tom Sawyer al giovane Holden, da Jane Eyre a Raskòl’nikov e ai personaggi di Roth, la magia dei grandi libri, guide strane, insolite, spiazzanti: tutto questo in “Vite che sono la tua. Il bello dei romanzi in 27 storie” di Paolo Di Paolo (Laterza). (Translation)

Las Provincias (Spain) talks with some writers about their first readings:

Además de los cuentos de toda la vida, incluía relatos más desconocidos que pertenecían a la tradición rusa, a la nórdica... Tenía también cuentos de hadas, de 'Los Cinco', 'Los Hollister'... Recuerdo la ocasión en que me regalaron 'Estudio en escarlata'. Y luego estaban todos los libros de mi madre de la colección Reno: 'Rebeca', 'Cumbres borrascosas', 'Jane Eyre'... En mi casa no había una gran biblioteca, pero todo lo que había, lo leía. (Pilar Adón) (Translation)

Twilight Time reviews Wuthering Heights 1970. Quirky Cat's Fat Stacks reviews the Manga edition of Jane Eyre.