"Hiking to Wuthering Heights & eating rabbits"

The Weekly Standard discusses if Wuthering Heights is a love story:

Love story or not? There is no denying that the passionate, doomed, death-transcending relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw Linton forms the core of the novel, and animates it even when Catherine is gone except as Heathcliff’s obsession. It is certainly the stuff of tragic romance, from the early glimpse of Heathcliff desperately grieving for the long-dead Catherine (who may or may not be a wandering ghost) to the subsequent revelations about their past: The powerful attachment between the adopted foundling and the daughter of country gentlefolk, raised together and torn apart by a brutal reassertion of class barriers; Catherine’s decision to marry an upscale suitor despite her abiding love for Heathcliff; Heathcliff’s disappearance and return with mysteriously acquired wealth; and the ensuing turmoil that leads to Catherine’s violent illness and death and Heathcliff’s undying anguish. (...)
Of course, if Wuthering Heights is a love story—however dark and strange—it is also much more. It is a story of power struggles and class conflict in which the oppressed strikes back at the oppressors and himself becomes the oppressor. (The conflict can be interpreted as partly racial as well, since Heathcliff is almost certainly, in modern parlance, a “person of color”: he is described as dark-skinned and repeatedly called a gypsy, and there are clues that he may look Arab or Indian.) It is a story of wild freedom versus restraint, and wild nature versus civilization. It is a masterful portrayal of a world out of joint where disorder and degradation rule; in particular, Isabella’s harrowing accounts of life at Wuthering Heights with Heathcliff, the drunk and raving Hindley, and the surly self-righteous manservant Joseph paint an almost Dostoyevskyan picture of a house of horrors.
Of all the original reviewers, perhaps the one who came closest to the truth was the anonymous critic who described Wuthering Heights as “a strange sort of book—baffling all regular criticism; yet, it is impossible to begin and not finish it; and quite as impossible to lay it aside afterwards and say nothing about it.” All these years later and it’s still worth talking about. (Cathy Young)

Whatsonstage (and we) are excited by the upcoming London premiere of Wasted:

Southwark Playhouse, 6 September to 6 October
A brand new rock-documentary (rockumentary?) musical about the Brontë siblings has its premiere at Southwark Playhouse next month, featuring a crack cast of Natasha Barnes, Siobhan Athwal, Molly Lynch and Matthew Jacobs Morgan. Why have In The Heights when you can have Wuthering Heights? (Alex Wood)

Many newspapers cover the death of the dancer, mime artist and choreographer Lindsay Kemp (1938-2008). Several of them mention he mentor the dancing progress of Kate Bush. A Journal of Musical Things adds:

In the 1970s, he was called to mentor a teenaged Kate Bush. The choreography for videos like “Wuthering Heights?” Pure Kemp. (Glen Buchanan)

The Daily Mail publishes some excerpts (heavily edited according to Peter K. Steinberg, editor of the upcoming The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II, 1956-1963) of newly uncovered letters by Sylvia Plath. This one too Marcia B. Stern, an American friend since college days, is interesting to us:

Saturday, December 15, 1956
Well it is great & beautiful. We will always no doubt be very poor, but we had a Mediterranean summer on just nothing, vomiting back across the choppy channel without a shilling to stay with Ted’s dear parents in the Yorkshire moors, hiking to Wuthering Heights & eating rabbits, wild rabbits.

Knutsford Guardian announces a Gaskell-Brontë talk at the upcoming Knutsford Promenades Festival:

“Fans of Mrs Gaskell will really enjoy events such as Mrs Gaskell’s Picnic at Tabley House; a special talk at Brook Street Chapel on how Mrs Gaskell’s famous biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë came about, supported with artefacts from the Whitfield Collection; a rare opportunity to visit her childhood home; the chance to see where she got married – and a copy of her marriage certificate – at St John’s Church; and Miss Matty’s Tea and Talk. (...)
One of the highlights of the festival is the specially-commissioned performance piece From Station to Station.
Developed in collaboration with Mid-Cheshire Community Rail Partnership’s Amazing Women by Rail project, the play imagines a meeting between Elizabeth Gaskell and Alison Uttley in the modern world, interwoven with ‘appearances’ by other Amazing Women such as Mary Fildes, Elizabeth Raffald, Helen Allingham, Charlotte Brontë and Emmeline Pankhurst. (Ian Ross)

Arizona Republic reviews the film The Bookshop:

If this were Jane Austen or Charlotte Brontë, that friendship could have developed into something else. But “The Bookshop” is a froth-free zone, and while its ending might not exactly be a happy one, it has a satisfying twist that leaves things on a hopeful note. (Kerry Lengel)

The Chronicle of Higher Education lists some new books, including  Autistic Disturbances
Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe by Julia Miele Rodas

Uses canonical literary works to explore the aesthetics of repetition, monologue, list-making, and other verbal practices characteristic of autism; authors discussed include Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Brontë, Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, and Andy Warhol. (Nina C. Ayoub)

The Guardian previews the autumn drama season:

Jim Broadbent plays Hans Christian Andersen in Martin McDonagh’s new play. But it doesn’t sound like a cosy, Christmas show full of Tommy Steele (who previously played Andersen) jollity. In fact, the suggestion, in a direct echo of Jane Eyre, is that the secret of the Danish fabulist lies in a woman secreted in the attic. (Michael Billington)

USA Today's Happily Ever After asks several writers Who'd be their dream-couple combo from TV film or books:

Tara Brown, author of Fling Club
OMG … this would be a dream job for me. I can’t even lie, I think I might be good at this. My dream couple would of course have to come from my favourite books. I would combine Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights, because I feel like that poor guy never stood a chance in his environment, with Nynaeve al’Meara from The Wheel of Time Series (by Robert Jordan). If anyone could have snapped him out of his self-destructive depression, it would be her. She would have played hard enough to get that he would have been intrigued, too, once he was past all the other nonsense. I really think she could have saved him from himself. (Jessie Potts)

Screenrant lingers on the Twilight saga links with Wuthering Heights:

More interestingly is their parallels with characters from Wuthering Heights. In canon, Stephenie Meyer even names it as Bella's favorite book.
All three main characters (Bella, Edward, Jacob) share a lot of similarities with Wuthering Heights characters (Cathy, Heathcliff, and Edgar).
While Jacob and Edward share Heathcliff-ian traits, they seem to lean more towards Edward-Heathcliff, Jacob-Edgar overall.
Iconic aspects such as Bella's dangerous labor, Edward's professed evil and darkness, and Jacob's tender understanding heavily mirror those of the Wuthering Heights trio. (Stephanie Marceau)

El Cómic en RTVE (Spain) talks about the Spanish edition of Jane by Aline Brosh and Ramón J. Pérez:

Destacar a su protagonista, Jane, una joven fuerte y decidida dispuesta a enfrentarse a lo desconocido para conseguir desentrañar los misterios del enigmático y apuesto señor Rochester. Y es que también pervive el mensaje feminista de la novela original, con un personaje fabuloso que nos conquista desde las primeras viñetas. Y está lo esencial de la historia aunque sus autores consiguen darle un aire fresco y novedoso con nuevos personajes y algunas ocurrencias realmente geniales, que os sorprenderán.
Sin olvidar los bellísimos y expresivos dibujos de Ramón K. Pérez, uno de los mejores artistas de la actualidad. Y que adapta su arte según lo requiera la historia, destacando su uso drámatico del color, desde el blanco y negro al rojo más apasionado. (Jesús Jiménez) (Translation)

Novels set in the Caribbean in Actualidad Literaria (in Spanish):

El ancho mar de los Sargazos, de Jean Rhys
Concebida como precuela de la famosa novela de Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre, El ancho mar de los Sargazos fue publicada en 1966 tras años de ausencia por parte de la escritora nacida en Dominica Jean Rhys. La novela, ambientada en el Caribe poscolonial, cuenta la historia de Antoinette Cosway, una joven blanca criolla atrapada entre las costumbres isleñas de los jamaicanos y un patriarcado europeo al que sucumbe tras casarse y mudarse a Inglaterra. A partir de entonces comienzan a circular diversos rumores acerca de una mujer que se volvió loca y terminó encerrada en un ático. La novela supuso todo un éxito de ventas y recibió el aplauso unánime de una crítica que finalmente reconoció la obra de Rhys. (Alberto Piernas) (Translation)

Daily O (India) is more concerned with Jean Rhys' age when she wrote Wide Sargasso Sea:

Jean Rhys started writing in her twenties and published three slim novels. Then, silence. It would be 27 long years before she would publish Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966. She died 13 years later. Wide Sargasso Sea still sells thousands of copies and is widely prescribed in American schools. (Palash Krishna Mehrotra)

Cairene Librarian reviews Jane Eyre 2011;  Tysiąc Żyć Czytelnika (in Polish) reviews My Plain Jane.