In
The Irish Times, writer Hazel Gaynor discusses 'heroes, heroines, she-roes' (oh my!). And the list includes:
Charlotte and Emily Brontë
I’d never really thought about the authors of books until I discovered Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre in my teens. When I read Lynne Reid Banks’ Dark Quartet, the lives of the Brontes became as fascinating to me as those of their characters. A family trip to Haworth Parsonage made an impressionable young Yorkshire girl a lifelong fan of Charlotte and Emily, and their work.
Too bad she left Anne out, though. And coincidentally,
Madison Park Times has an article on 'the lesser-known but equally special sibling', although it really is about a type of tree, the Fragrant Snowbell.
History is full of stories about siblings, one whose fame eclipsed the other. Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII come to mind, or Kate and Pippa, Anne Brontë in the shadow of her sisters, Emily and Charlotte, little-known Edwin and his brother John Wilkes Booth. (Steve Lorton)
The Times is more on the autumn fashion side:
12 The new boot
It’s the fact that boots are made for walking that explains why they are not going anywhere this season, or — I suspect — for ever more. Aside from the aforementioned boot-as-tights conceit, our beloved ankle boot has been revisited too with a kitten heel — and in this Charlotte-Brontë-meets-Blondie take — with laces. £225, whistles.com (Anna Murphy)
College Magazine helps readers 'Break Up with Someone According to Literature'.
3. Make Sure Your Significant Other Overhears You Trash Talking Him or Her: Wuthering Heights:
If you identify Catherine Earnshaw from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as your spirit character (interesting choice, but we’re not judging), her inadvertent and soul-crushing yet highly effective technique of repelling Heathcliff may fast track your break-up. You’ve decided to marry your super cute, rich neighbor despite your extremely strong connection to your broody soulmate (slightly understandable given social restrictions of the nineteenth century). How do you let the love of your life know that you no longer vibe with his tarnished rep? Simply make sure he overhears you bemoan how marrying him would “degrade” you. This method boasts a 100 percent effective rate (if your goal consists of causing the love of your life to run away for three years). (Kelsey Llewellyn)
Yorkshire Life features Brighouse.
Brighouse is a magical place – why, even a phantom hound is said to stalk the hills. The so called Guytrash is the local name for what was a familiar spectre assuming various monikers in different parts of the county (it’s Barguest in North Yorkshire). The beastly mutt is mentioned in Jane Eyre as well as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles taps into the spooky tradition. Such stories evoked real fear in the past, although a Brighouse man’s description of the guytrash as a malevolent cow suggests alcohol may well have been involved in the sighting.
Actualidad Literatura (Spain) reviews Anne Jacobs's novel
Die Tuchvilla.
Todos los personajes son reconocibles, con ecos también de clásicos como Jane Eyre, sobre todo en los orígenes de la protagonista, Marie. (Translation)
A couple of references to
Wuthering Heights in
La Hora (Guatemala) and
L'Orient. Le Jour (France).
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