The
Daily Mail Retro Reads selection includes
Wuthering Heights:
Macmillan £9.99, 416 pp
Two hundred years ago, the enigmatic Emily Brontë was born. Her only novel, everyone’s favourite depiction of obsessive passion, still sells in its thousands.
This gorgeous, gilt-edged pocket edition will transport you to the desolate moors of Yorkshire, where the doomed love of two wild teenagers, Cathy and Heathcliff, leads to death, disaster and the transformation of Heathcliff into a sadistic fiend. (Val Hennessy)
Kitsap Sun highlights some local actresses who will be in the Book-It
Jane Eyre performances next month:
Two actresses familiar to Kitsap audiences, Keiko Green and Jazzlyn Bleil-Geiselman, have been cast together in Seattle production for the second time in less than a year.
Both will appear in multiple roles in director Julie Beckman's stage adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre," running Sept. 13-Oct. 13 in the Center Theatre at the Armory on the Seattle Center grounds. (...)
"Jane Eyre," which was adapted by Beckman and previously performed at Book-It in 1999, opens the company's 2018-19 season. Book-It performs exclusively adaptation of novels not previously adapted for the stage. In the Gothic mystery, Brontë explores classism, personal agency, and feminine spirituality in this Gothic mystery.
Waterfalls in Leeds on
Leeds List:
The Brontë Waterfalls are a series of small stepped falls on South Dean Beck, rumoured to have inspired parts of the sisters’ most famous novels. Described as “a perfect torrent racing over the rocks” by Charlotte Brontë, why not watch the water roar past from nearby Bronte’s Chair? This chair-shaped stone mound is said to be where Emily Brontë sat to gaze at the waterfall and gather her thoughts to write. The waterfalls are part of a 43-mile trail from Haworth if you fancy exploring more of Brontë Country afterwards, and it leads up to Top Withens – the house from Wuthering Heights. (James Tweddle)
The novelist Patrick DeWitt has a confession to make in
The Boston Globe:
Amy Sutherland: What in the canon is still on your to-read list?
P. dW.: There are huge gaping holes [in my reading]. I always mean to go back to the Brontë sisters. I never read Edith Wharton or Proust. I could go on and on.
Bibliophilic books on
Fine Books & Collections:
Next is Susan Harlan and Becca Stadtlander’s Decorating a Room of One’s Own: Conversations on Interior Design with Miss Havisham, Jane Eyre, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Bennet, Ishmael, and other Literary Notables. Harlan, a humorist and professor of English at Wake Forest, spoofs decorating culture and English literature in a series of imagined interviews of famous fictional homes and their residents and plays skillfully with literary history. Who wouldn’t want to know Lady Macbeth’s favorite room in the castle? (A.N. Denvers)
Optician on Scarborough's wonders:
Anne Brontë, pictured, is buried in St Mary's churchyard in Scarborough where she died, instead of in Haworth with the rest of her family. The memorial slab that marks her grave originally stated she died a year younger than she did. (Zoe Wickens)
Daily Tribune (Philippines) reviews the film
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society:
The movie has its small charms and slightly quirky characters. The club’s eccentric and lovelorn Isola (Katherine Parkinson), for one, is an amusing self-confessed virgin who compensates her lack of love life with a copy of Wuthering Heights. (Stephanie Mayo)
Evening Standard Magazine has a list of current trends:
At Jonathan Anderson’s AW18 Loewe show the designer left cloth-bound copies of literary classics from Wuthering Heights to Dracula on each guest’s seat. Said tomes quickly became the week’s most in-demand accessory. Now the house has published a limited-edition box set for fashionable bookworms everywhere. (Katrina Israel)
PureTrend (in French) also mentions Loewe's classic editions.
Rachel Sutcliffe has posted a couple of Anne Brontë-related posts.
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