Heathcliff isn't the only thing racing across the moors

The Brontë Society's events to celebrate Emily Brontë's 200 anniversary are discussed in The Telegraph & Argus:

The weekend will run from July 27 to 30. Some of the activities are free with admission to the museum, while others are paid-for and need booking in advance.
Activities will begin on the Friday with the monthly Brontë Treasures talk, offering a unique opportunity for visitors to go beyond the security cord into the Parsonage Library for a close-up viewing of priceless items not on display.
A member of the museum’s curatorial team will share facts and stories about carefully-selected objects, offering a specialist insight into the lives and works of the Brontë family.
I Am Heathcliff, on Friday at 7.30pm, is the launch of a special commission for Emily’s bicentenary year, featuring 16 short stories inspired by Wuthering Heights.
A spokesman said: “These beautiful and arresting tales from some of the stars of modern fiction re-examine a character who lives in infamy as a tortured romantic hero – the unforgettable Heathcliff.
Kate Mosse, who has curated this collection, will be joined by fellow contributors Joanna Cannon, Juno Dawson and Louise Doughty to read from the anthology.
Painting in the Parsonage will be on the Saturday from 11am to 4pm, a drop-in workshop giving visitors a chance to join artist Vic Buta in recreating Branwell’s iconic portrait of his sisters.
Making Your Mark Online is a workshop for anyone wanting to know more about blogging, vlogging and podcasting, on Saturday from 10am to noon.
Lucy Powrie, Brontë Society Young Ambassador and acclaimed YouTuber, will lead participants through the world of online content, with tips for creating content, building a following and developing a brand.
Women, Gothic and Emily, on Saturday at 3.30pm, will look at the imposing houses, eerie doubling of names and wandering of unquiet spirits within Wuthering Heights.
The spokesman said: “Emily’s only published novel continues to cast a looming shadow over Gothic writing up to the present day.
“Novelist Katherine Clements and Beth Underdown discuss the impact of Wuthering Heights on their own writing, and how their work contributes to a continuing Gothic tradition.”
Katherine Clements is a critically-acclaimed novelist whose latest novel, The Coffin Path, is a ghost story set in the West Yorkshire moors.
Beth Underdown’s first novel, The Witchfinder’s Sister, last year won the Historical Writer’s Association Debut Crown Award, and was selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club.
This, That, and ‘The Other’, the headline event on Saturday at 7.30pm, is curated by Melanie Abrahams and features poets, musicians and wordsmiths offering their personal response to the themes central to Wuthering Heights and pertinent to Emily.
The spokesman said: “Join us to experience the thrill of performance, perfectly pitched speech, rousing wordplay and the art of Trinidad-style liming. “
The event features Patience Agbabi, John Siddique, Jay Bernard, Will Harris and Tobago Crusoe.
Sunday begins with Sketching Out Of Doors, workshops at 11am, 1pm and 3pm. Participants should meet outside the museum shop.
In Emily’s Footsteps begins at 9.30am, and is a challenging but invigorating walk through the “unforgiving landscape” of the Haworth moors.
The walk will be led by Michael Stewart, author of Ill Will, a new novel about Heathcliff, and the 14-mile route ties in with the Brontë Stones project.
Poetry at the Parsonage offers an Open Mic session from noon till 4pm, compered by Mark Connor and Gill Lambert.
Mark’s debut poetry pamphlet, Life is a Long Song, was published by OWF Press in 2015, and his first full-length poetry collection, Nothing is Meant to be Broken, was published in 2017 by Stairwell Books.
Gill Lambert is a poet, teacher, and creative writing facilitator from Yorkshire.
SMJ Falconry return to the Brontë Parsonage Museum with their birds of prey, on the Sunday from 10am to 4pm, in an event recalling Emily’s love of hawks.
On the Sunday, Lucy Powrie will repeat her workshop entitled Making Your Mark Online, but this time aimed at under 25s.
Lily Cole, the Brontë Society’s creative partner of 2018, will unveil her new film Balls at 7.30pm on the Sunday.
On display at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, and also at the Foundling Museum, London, Balls takes as its starting point Heathcliff, the foundling character central to Wuthering Heights, and explores links between the Foundling Hospital story and the much-loved novel by Emily Brontë.
To accompany the film, the Brontë museum will display objects from the Foundling Museum Collection. At the event on July 29, Lily will discuss her commission alongside Caro Howell, Director of the Foundling Museum.
On Monday, July 30, Emily’s actual 200th birthday, will be the event Emily Speaks, at 2pm.
Personal responses to Emily’s life, poetry and prose will be read by Bidisha, Hannah Lowe and Melanie Abrahams.
Their work spans journalism, poetry and oratory, and they share a common interest in social mobilisation through literature, explore Emily’s independence and self-determination in relation to the broader racial, cultural and social histories of the 19th century.
What Emily Means to Us is billed as a celebration of Emily’s work and legacy.
Lily Cole, Patience Agbabi and other guests perform readings of Emily’s work.
Folk group The Unthanks will announce details of their forthcoming Emily-inspired work and give a short performance from their repertoire. (David Knights)

Another upcoming event will take place at Bradford Literature Festival. In Keighley News:

The Brontë Society has teamed up with Bradford Literature Festival for Anne & I, beginning at 4pm in Parsons Field behind the Bronte Parsonage Museum, then moving to the nearby Old School Room.
Writer Jackie Kay will unveil her work commemorating Anne Brontë, which was specially commissioned by the festival as part of the Brontë Stones project.
Jackie will read her work in Parsons Field, the site of Anne’s stone, then she will join journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed to explore the inspiration for Jackie’s work, her affinity with Anne Brontë, and what participating in the iconic project means to her. (David Knights)

Messenger News reviews the performances of We Are Three Sisters in Wilmslow:

Jennifer Brooks’ Anne, Isabelle Greensmith’s Emily and Melanie Beswick’s forthright Charlotte, reflect well the differences and similarities of the sisters.
Their contemplation is knocked flat by the carryings-on of Lydia Robinson, Bramwell’s (sic) married mistress, played with erotic liveliness by Abby Cross. Her sexual energy bears down uncomfortably on the three literary sisters.
Her man appeal is only excelled by her cruelty.
The acting skills in this well-directed piece excel. Those who play the Brontë sisters illustrate well their captured, frustrated existence and, although three men cross their lives, they don’t succumb to love.
Whilst Branwell (Ted Walker) is freer than them, he turns to the bottle so that his life is also ruined.
Blake Morrison’s script is a bit wordy and his inclusion of the alcoholic doctor, well illustrated by Ian Fensome, affects the impact of Bramwell’s inebriation. (Matthew Calderbank)

Scarborough is the place to be this summer, according to The Telegraph:

Dominating the view is St Mary’s Church, whose graveyard houses the wind-weathered gravestone of Anne Brontë. The church, incidentally, serves excellent teas and coffees (and toasted teacakes) through the summer. (Stephen McClarence)

The Times revies A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips:

Gwen, after a stalled career as a chorus girl, a nauseating whirl of “gentlemen” who pick her up and cast her aside when her “exoticism” bores them, prostitution, an abortion, a succession of squalid boarding house rooms, a failed marriage and increasing amounts of alcohol, will adopt the name Jean Rhys and eventually write Wide Sargasso Sea. But that pseudonym and literary success are not mentioned in Caryl Phillips’s downbeat fictional reconstruction of the author’s early life. (Siobhan Murphy)

Andrew Bolt's column in the Herald Sun deals with Heathcliff:

Rereading Wuthering Heights for a "great books" series of podcasts I'm recording with the IPA. That so many women respond so strongly to the love of Heathcliff and Cathy is fascinating given that it is a love so annihilating. It's actually a morbid love, it seems to me, of self. I wish Nietzsche had written about it - a love that trashes all of the rules that civilisation demands and which he believed made us sheep. It is a love that destroys even the conventional accommodations that simply living with someone requires if you not to drive each other mad.

Refinery29 recommends books for July:

Two hundred years ago this month, Emily Brontë was born in a tiny village in West Yorkshire. If you haven't read Wuthering Heights, what better opportunity to dive in and discover why it's a classic of English literature (if anyone's got that BDE, it's Heathcliff).  (Elizabeth Kiefer and Katy Thompsett)

Star2 reviews the YA novel The Queen's Rising by Rebecca Ross:

The opening pages of The Queen’s Rising bring to mind something the Brontë sisters might have written over a century ago – a genteel period piece about a young lady called Brienna who blossoms into womanhood through her studies, all under the tutelage of a master and a dowager. (D.L. Philips)

Birmingham Express & Star interviews Caitlin Moran:

I went to Wolvo a couple of months ago - we always go and see if the person is in our old house to see if we can go in the garden.
“But they weren’t so we just took selfies outside. I go back quite freely; I stand outside like Cathy from Wuthering Heights.”
She added: “And we went down to this pub, that used to be the Bikers pub, and it was so rough. But now it’s selling oysters and champagne. (Rebecca Stanley)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution explores the work of the artist Lola Brooks:

But it is Brooks’ museum-quality, more conceptual pieces that plumb the depths of her obsessions, from the Napoleonic Wars, the Arts and Crafts movement and Victorian mourning jewelry to fairy tales, the gothic literature of Charlotte Brontë and the postmodernist Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Her work explores the fascinating dips and bends in culture that — consciously or unconsciously — inform how we think about beauty and romance, death and love. (Felicia Feaster)

Daily Pakistan talks about the Chinese TV drama Legend of Fuyao (扶摇) which apparently is very successful in Pakistan:

In order to believe and love, she embarked on a journey of adventure in five continents. Fuyao is a very brave smart girl and is like Jane Eyre or Cinderella in certain ways.

Mother Nature Network in an article about wildfires:

Heathcliff isn't the only thing racing across the moors.
Since June 24, wildfires have blazed across Saddleworth Moor, a hilly area that reaches up to 1,312 feet above sea level. CNN reports that the fire has destroyed 2,000 acres of moorland northeast of Manchester as of June 27. In the photo above, a full moon rises behind the burning moorland as the wildfire sweeps across the moors earlier this week in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England. (Noel Kirkpatrick)

Mondo Sonoro (in Spanish) interviews singer Javiera Mena:

Álex Jerez: Se trata de un álbum más introspectivo pero a la vez has aprendido a hablar menos de ti y más de los temas comunes a todo ser humano.
Bueno yo creo que obviamente tengo más edad, como dicen ustedes “una edad” (risas), y David Lynch dice que no hay que tener una mente súper perturbada para hacer películas de gente súper perturbada. No hace falta ser un monstruo para crear un monstruo. Siempre perseguí esa capacidad de abstraerse de escritores como Emily Brontë que no llegó nunca a enamorarse y pudo escribir sobre el amor. Así que es eso, poder hablar de determinados temas sin necesariamente caer en la auto-biografía. (Translation)

Le Devoir (in French) talks about the film Le retour du héros. Quoting the director Laurent Tirard:

« L’une de mes premières inspirations, c’est Jane Austen, notamment le roman Orgueil et préjugés. Je suis passionné par cet univers anglais avec ses personnages féminins très forts. Il y a aussi les sœurs Brontë et leurs personnages féminins à l’énergie débordante. Dans le film, il y a un côté Frankenstein ; le monstre devient plus gros qu’elle et la menace. Quelque part, Le retour du héros est sans doute le plus proche de mon premier film, Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités, qui parlait déjà de ce rapport entre créateur et créature, comment le premier était complètement dépassé par son personnage. » (Manon Dumais) (Translation)

Observator Cultural (in Romanian) quotes from the novel Il corso dei destini incrociati by Marcello Caprarella:

"Dintre femei − da, le citesc şi le recomand elevilor şi elevelor şi pe acestea − îmi plac Irène Némirovsky şi Natalia Ginzburg, dacă vorbim de autoare din secolul al XX-lea. Dintre clasicele romantice, am o predilecţie pentru Jane Austen şi Madame de Staël. O ador pe Emily Brontë. Dar nu le suport pe Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf şi Susan Sontag, motiv din care merit cu siguranţă lapidarea. " (Lavinia Similaru) (Translation)

El espectador (Uruguay) interviews the writer Felipe Polleri:

"Qué libro Cumbres Borrascosas. Siempre envidié ese libro." (Translation)

La voce di New York (in Italian) interviews another writer, Emanuela Canepa:

Isabella Zuppa: Quale romanzo ha segnato la tua vita? E quale tramanderesti alle nuove generazioni se potessi salvarne uno soltanto?
“Oddio, non posso farcela… Non riesco ad assumermi la responsabilità di sceglierne uno solo ed eliminare il resto, sia pure solo come gioco letterario. Posso rispondere alla prima parte della tua domanda però, perché indicare un romanzo che ha segnato la mia vita non implica che ce ne sia stato solo uno. Scelgo il primo in ordine di tempo, avrò avuto quattordici anni o giù di lì: Cime tempestose. Da allora quel paesaggio, quel clima, quel senso desolato di egoismo feroce e di tempesta, li porto dentro come corollari irrinunciabili dell’amore. Credo sia stato un vero imprinting”. (Translation)

Several Barcelona newspapers announce the return of the successful Jane Eyre production by Carme Portaceli next January at the Teatre Lliure-Gràcia. Prole Art Threat reviews Villette. No Strings Attached posts about Wuthering Heights. Książkowir (in Polish) reviews Shirley. Il Regno dei Libri (in Italian) reviews The Three Brontës by May Sinclair. AnneBrontë.org publishes the post '29th June: A Life Changing Date For Charlotte Brontë'.

Wuthering Heights 2009 is being aired today (1:45PM) on Drama UKTV.