Wuthering Heights: tragi-porn?

The Telegraph mocks a mistake in an essay from an 'essay mill' by making an even bigger mistake.

At one point, the essay referred to Mr Brocklehurst, the sadistic boarding school teacher in Jane Austen’s Jane Eyre, as ‘Mr Blocklehurst’, and labelled Oliver Twist as ‘Oliver Twists’. (Luke Mintz)

It's a bad day for fact-checking over at The Telegraph, as it lists Emily Brontë as an insomniac who walked in circles to conjure up sleep.

Emily Brontë
19th century British writers evidently suffered with their sleep, and there was no shortage of strange methods to combat sleep deprivation. For the author of Wuthering Heights, the best way to beat insomnia was to continuously walk in circles until tiredness kicked in. (Tomé Morrissy-Swan)

And this is how an 'English major' sums up Jane Eyre humorously on The Peak.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
700 out of the book’s 800 pages are detailed descriptions of curtains. The rest is about a narcissist who locks his wife in the attic and hits on a girl who is 20 years younger than him. Spoiler alert: a burning house falls on him so he ends up looking like Mad-Eye Moody. (Natasha Tar)

Historian Antony Beevor is not a fan of Wuthering Heights according to an interview in the Daily Mail.

[What book] ... left you cold? Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. I hated the place, I hated the shouting and over-the-top emotions, in fact, I felt no sympathy for any of the characters. I also hated the bleak and windswept countryside, which was even worse than Thomas Hardy’s Egdon Heath, and that really is saying something. All in all, the book struck me as tragi-porn, and the product of an obsessive and very unhappy mind, which is perhaps no surprise when reading of the Brontës’ family life.

The Nation looks back on Rachel Cusk's bibliography.

In these years [mid-1990s], she also wrote a comic novel, The Country Life, which drew on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. (Maggie Doherty)

My Random Musings interviews writer Riana Everly.

9 Who is your favourite author? This is like asking a parent which is her favourite child. Um… all of them?  Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Ngaio Marsh, Isaac Asimov, A.S. Byatt… and that’s not getting into the playwrights like Shakespeare, Sheridan, Shaw, Wilde… there too many brilliant writers out there to choose. (Debbie)

This is how The Student Life begins an article on The Book of M. by Peng Shepherd.

I have come to realize that a lot of great literature plays with figurative shadows. William Shakespeare infringes on his reader’s chaste loyalty in “The Winter’s Tale” by brewing a shadow plot of incest underneath the direct story, while Brontë thought it best to blunt a facet of Jane Eyre’s psyche — her passion — and light it ablaze in her ‘character double,’ Bertha, who lives literally and figuratively in Jane’s shadow.
Shadows, reflective of the obvious, are perhaps the essence of literature, conveying precisely what should be read between the lines. (Tarini Sipahimalani)

The Spectator has a lovely article on Hebden Bridge.

One day we drove over the moors to Oxenhope, and caught the steam train to Oakworth, where they filmed The Railway Children. On the way back we stopped off at Haworth to see the parsonage where the Brontë sisters lived and the church where their father preached. Back in Hebden Bridge we had a slap up meal in the Tibetan Kitchen. My son and I both had bellyache, but only because we ate so much. (William Cook)

Paul Butler Novelist tells about the influence of Wide Sargasso Sea on his novel The Widow’s Fire. Net Noticias (Mexico) reviews To Walk Invisible. Autostraddle shares a short story which includes quotes from Wuthering Heights.