Like a Brontë Sister in a Box at the Opera

Donaukurier reviews the solo production  Wuthering Heights-Sturmhöhe in Ingolstadt:

Sturm der Gefühle
Großes Solo für Adelheid Bräu: Viel Applaus für "Wuthering Heights" im Altstadttheater Ingolstadt.
Ingolstadt (DK) Ihr einziger Roman machte Emily Brontë weltberühmt: "Wuthering Heights" ("Sturmhöhe") ist nicht nur so wild und düster wie die Landschaft, in der das Buch spielt, die Stürme, die hier toben, sind vor allem gesellschaftlichen Ursprungs: Standeskonkurrenzen, Liebe und Rachsucht, Gewalt und (verdrängte) Sexualität. (Anjia Witzke) (Translation)

The Telegraph & Argus announces an upcoming Parsonage Unwrapped talk:

The Brontës on Tour is the title of the latest Parsonage Unwrapped evening in Haworth.
As always, staff at the Brontë Parsonage Museum will give a small number of visitors an after-hours insight into the workings of the museum.
This time it will be curator Sarah Laycock as she speaks about an exhibition mounted in 2016 at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York which featured manuscripts and possessions of Charlotte Brontë.
Sarah will share the fascinating details behind the planning of the transatlantic touring exhibition, which was entitled An Independent Will.
Visitors can learn more about the complex preparations undertaken to share the priceless artefacts with an international audience. (David Knights)

Keighley News talks about the upcoming project Stormy House/Arashi no ie:

The walk-in video and audio installation, entitled Stormy House/Arashi no ie, also draws on traditional Japanese ghost stories.
The aim of the installation – in the former school room where the Brontë sisters taught – is to immerse the visitor in the world of Emily Brontë’s famous Gothic novel.
The work is the latest project from Worth Valley-based Whitestone Arts and forms part of the museum’s celebrations for the bicentenary of the birth of Emily Brontë.
Visitors are invited to enter a space inspired by Japanese tea house architecture, created by 59 Productions, the video-design team behind the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Once inside, visitors encounter multiple projections telling stories through shadow play, landscape and sound.
The Stormy House installation explores links between the spirit-world elements of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and ancient Japanese ghost tales or ‘kaidan’, collected and translated into English by 19th century author Patrick Lafcadio Hearn.
Judith Adams, writer of Stormy House/Arashi no ie, said: “There are many fictional and biographical connections between Brontë and Lafcadio Hearn, none stranger than the fact that Emily Brontë sited her imaginary world of Gondal in the North Pacific.
“A lifelong immersive game of acting out personas and imaginary worlds gave birth to Wuthering Heights, the landscape of which is a hybrid of Haworth Moor and unbounded childhood imagination.
“The characters in our Stormy House installation are also playing.”
Judith said the Whitestone team had been particularly inspired by the ghost story, In A Cup of Tea, which explores the probable consequences of ‘swallowing a soul’.
She added: “Lockwood is the only character in Wuthering Heights who sees young Cathy’s ghost in the flesh and then cannot escape her presence.
“At the centre of our teahouse space is a teacup with magical properties, like the Mirror of Many Souls in a Shinto shrine, and where the worlds of Lockwood and Lafcadio Hearn collide.”
Stormy House/Arashi no ie runs at the Old School Room, across the cobbles from the Brontë Parsonage Museum, from November 3 to 11, from 10.30am to 5pm daily. Admission is free.
Stormy House is written and created by Judith Adams, Stacey Johnstone and Simon Warner in collaboration with Misuzo Kosaka, Natsuko Toyoshima, Ima Tenko, Riko Murakami, Ayaka Morimoto, Aaron White and Zoe Katsilerou.
The installation is by Whitestone Arts and 59 Productions, in partnership with the Brontë Parsonage Museum and Theatre in the Mill.
It is supported by Arts Council England, British Council, Bradford Metropolitan District Council, The Japan Society and Wabi Sabi Design. (David Knights)

St Louis Post-Dispatch recommends some films to be seen in next week's St Louis Film Festival:

The Drunkard's Lament
OK, English-majors and other lit types, this one’s for you. Native St. Louisan Jim Finn made this experimental film imagining what “Wuthering Heights” would be like if the Bronte sisters’ alcoholic brother Branwell had written the story. In this version, the drunken character based on him is the hero — and it’s a musical. The 40-minute film will be paired with a role-playing game with the audience. (Daniel Neman)

The New York Times explores new horror fiction:

Bearing witness, watching, remembering — it is incredible how terrifying the simple act of seeing a crime can be. And, like a Brontë sister in a box at the opera, [Sarah] Perry [in Melmoth] observes the drama from an omniscient perch, examining her characters as if through a lorgnette. (Danielle Trussoni)

More Halloween-related things. The Daily Mail quotes from Robert Grenville's Haunted Places book:

The inspiration for the character of Mrs Rochester in Charlotte Brönte's (sic) Jane Eyre, according to legend, is a mad woman was kept locked in this room at Norton Conyers in North Yorkshire during the 18th century. The spirit of 'Mad Mary' is supposedly still in residence. (Jennifer Newton)

Financial Times reviews Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J.D. James:

Bram Stoker wasn’t the first to write about vampires — they appear, fangs bared, in the work of Byron, Dumas, in penny-dreadfuls and Wuthering Heights. (Zoë Apostolides)

Franklin County Times recommends books for the autumn season:

 “Wuthering Heights,” by Emily Brontë
Gothic literature is a must-read in autumn, and Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” is a staple of the genre. The dark tale of Heathcliff and Catherine will transport you to a world of creaking windows, old diaries and wild moors. If you can get past the Old English writing, then you’re in for a treat – even if this isn’t your usual cup of tea. 

And Bustle specifically for Halloween:

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers by Taisa Kitaiskaia, illustrated by Katy Horan
This lovingly illustrated book is a compendium of women writers who had the magic touch, from Emily Brontë to Yumiko Kurahashi. As Pam Grossman writes in the foreword, “the witch […] is a woman who stands entirely on her own. She is more often than not an outsider, and her gift is transformation.” The women featured in this book are rebels and outsiders, but their books always carry the power to change both the reader and the world they live in.  (Verena Hutter)

The Telegraph explores how to teach children how to be 'biliterate':

In my own case, explaining to Clio that there is such a thing as two types of reading has helped. By reading books together, I have been able to show her that, while the gratification of a 500-page novel is delayed, if she takes her time she will soon realise there's more to Jane Eyre than a story about a miserable girl with a bad boss. (Tanith Carey)

Reading and depression in The Guardian:

Books have been used by many, consciously or not, as a form of therapeutic relief. I plunged into them as desperately as I usually seek my morning coffee. Each Christmas, I have a habit of returning to old favourites that complement the mood, such as Jane Eyre. (Raifa Rafiq)

We have to admit that we find these 'gender difference' studies quite boring and uninteresting. The Sydney Morning Herald has one more:

Studies of gender difference in readers' habits have thrown up some surprising results. One survey reports a startling difference in completion rate: men make a quick decision about a novel and will give up on reading it sooner than women. Another survey asked readers to nominate the novels they felt to be most significant: men mostly nominated "books of alienation and indifference", like Albert Camus' The Outsider and J.D Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, while most women chose "books of passion and connection": novels by the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen. Women liked books about domestic realities and families, while men preferred books about social dislocation and solitude. (Kerryn Goldsworthy)

Statistics without real models are nothing more than playing with numbers.

India Today talks about the female voice in literature:

Moving down the line are Mridula Garg, Shashi Deshpande, Anita Desai and many more contemporary Indian women writers who have been voices of the vastness of human emotions, the depths and shades of their life struggles to make a mark in the world of literature and publishing. If we look West, Jane Austen, Brontë sisters, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf went through their struggles to establish their voices. They dealt with the deeper problems of being confined to a designated space in the world of literature which was largely governed by writers who were men. (Mita Kapur)

Wake Forest News reviews Decorating a Room of One's Own by Susan Harlan:

Harlan spoofs decorating aesthetics and celebrity culture by reimagining famous literary characters and their fictional homes. In humorous “interviews” with Lady Macbeth, Jane Eyre, Victor Frankenstein and other literary notables, the characters reveal their true tastes in interior design. (Katie Neal & Moe Rama)

 In El País (Spain), Carlos Granés explores the populist wave all over the western world (centred on the Jair Bolsonaro case in Brazil):

Fue Tocqueville quien advirtió que cuanto era meritorio en un escritor podía convertirse en vicio en un hombre de Estado, y vaya si dio en el clavo. La desinhibición total y la sinceridad radical son virtudes que se esperan del artista. Queremos verlo explorar los abismos del deseo y las tormentas pasionales porque en sus manos esa licencia se traduce en grandes obras de arte, desde las piezas transgresoras de Sacher-Masoch, Bataille o Balthus hasta la exploración de las pasiones más complejas que realizaron, por mencionar sólo un caso, las hermanas Brontë. El vicio surge cuando esta licencia también la hace suya el político. (Translation)

Sky Tg24 (Italy) mentions an upcoming comic release in Italy:

Dalle tinte in bianco nero di Coma Empirico alla storia delle sorelle Brontë raccontata da Manuela Santoni. La vita delle tre scrittrici di Cime Tempestose e Jane Eyre figlie di un padre anziano e alcolizzato che dalla campagna inglese di metà ottocento trasformano la loro passione per la scrittura in libri diventati pietre miliari della letteratura moderna. (Roberto Palladino) (Translation)

Mente Locale (Italy) presents an exhibition in Milan about Romanticism:

Lo sguardo di Caspar David Friedrich si spinge oltre innumerevoli finestre, che come la siepe di Leopardi ostacolano parzialmente la vista ma stimolano l’immaginazione, per poi perdersi nell’assoluto del paesaggio. Le terre spazzate dal vento che Emily Brontë sceglie come ambientazione per gli incontri tra il suo ombroso Heathcliff e l’amata Catherine o le cattedrali della terra di John Ruskin, nella versione nostrana del Moncenisio o degli eremi poco distanti da Torino ripresi dal vero ad acquerello da paesaggisti piemontesi come Angelo De Gubernatis o Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti risvegliano il senso del sublime e rimandano alla caducità della vita. (Giulia Marani) (Translation)

Granada Hoy (Spain) interviews the poet Alejandro Palomas:

Cuando en el último tramo del libro el poeta parece abrirse al amor, en realidad está reafirmándose en su independencia. "Si uno se fija, lo que hago es plantear una serie de desafíos a quien quiera llegar a mí. Es como si le pusiera un foso, los cocodrilos, una cobra, las concertinas, el ejército... Es imposible saltar. Yo lo tengo claro, seguiré solo y estoy encantado. Quien me pretenda tiene que cruzar la naturaleza salvaje de Cumbres borrascosas y no va a saber hacerlo", sentencia. (Braulio Ortiz) (Translation)

Baby names in Bebés y Más (Spain):

Emilia
Emily Brontë, autora de "Cumbres Borrascosas", uno de los clásicos de la literatura más famosos del mundo y que originalmente publicó con un nombre falso masculino. (Lucy Ortega) (Translation)

La Jornada Zacatecas (México) interviews the poet Mikeas Sánchez:

 Las novelas que más recuerdo por una u otra razón son: El Decamerón de Boccaccio, Cumbres borrascosas de Emily Brontë, Madame Bovary de Flaubert, Las partículas elementales de Michel Houellebecq y 2666 de Roberto Bolaño. (Armando Salgado) (Translation)

Paste quotes from Jane Eyre in a list of 'powerful quotes from feminist authors'. Curbed Hamptons rescues the Anne Brontë-related ghost story in Long Island.  Can a jerk change for the better? Princess State of Mind discusses it with the help of Jane Eyre.