Today marks the 170th anniversary of the death of Emily Brontë, when she turned 'her dying eyes reluctantly from the pleasant sun', as Charlotte put it rather intriguingly. She had penned one of the greatest novels in world literature and wrote hundreds of memorable poems. If you haven't been yet, the exhibition
Making Thunder Roar at the Brontë Parsonage Museum (as this year also marks the bicentenary of her birth) is the closest you will be to her sphynx-like personality.
Entertainment (Ireland) recommends not missing Lily Cole's
The Secret World of Emily Brontë to be broadcast on December 29th on Channel 4.
Two hundred years after the author's birth, Lily Cole - an admirer of Brontë's work - explores her world and the groundbreaking novel she produced, Wuthering Heights. Given that Brontë had to publish her book under the androgynous pseudonym Ellis Bell, Cole goes on to consider the parallels in terms of contemporary women's ongoing struggle to achieve equal pay, recognition and opportunity in their chosen profession. (David O'Shaughnessy)
Coincidentally,
Libreriamo (Italy) has selected a few of her poems translated into Italian.
PrimaTivvù (Italy) posts on Emily's death anniversary (with the wrong picture, though).
Tatler lists 'The most loved nannies in fact and fiction', such as
Jane Eyre
The fictional heroine of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel finds herself to be the governess at Thornfield Hall, where she quickly becomes romantically acquainted with her employer. Jane Eyre is an example of a governess who, despite constantly being described as plain and weak, is in fact one of the strongest characters in the novel. She is known by generations past and present as a headstrong woman who defies the characteristics of the traditional Victorian woman. (Eliz Akdeniz)
Autostraddle has a rather puzzling remark:
What was your first encounter with shorn women? Perhaps it was through literature. Who can forget Jo in Little Women, surely the queerest ostensibly straight girl in the English canon (aside from maybe Jane Eyre), lopping off her hair out of a sense of duty: “Your one beauty!” cries golden-curled Amy. (Jennifer Thorp)
However, there is also a scene of a girl having her hair 'lopped off' in Jane Eyre.
Todo Literatura (Spain) tells about a book called
Diccionario en guerra by Aixa de la Cruz.
Es un diálogo entre el ensayo y la ficción a través de veintisiete palabras de la A la Z, una por cada letra de este diccionario alternativo a la RAE. [...] De un relato lésbico insertado en pleno Jane Eyre al cuento de una hacker que se venga de su trol misógino. (Briseida Cidoncha) (Translation)
In Your Area has 'The complete guide to winter walks across the UK', including
Yorkshire
The-complete-guide-to-winter-walks-across-the-UK-13Top Withens, the farmhouse mentioned in Wuthering Heights.
Where: Brontë Walk, Haworth and Top Withens Walk, West Yorkshire
Explore the dramatic scenery on offer as you an 8.3 mile walk through the valleys and hills lived and loved by the Brontë sisters.
Walk through dramatic moorlands, immerse yourself with the stories spun by the sisters and feel inspired.
Part of the hillside and landscape is Brontë Waterfall about a mile from Stanbury, below the falls is an old stone bridge called Brontë Bridge, rebuilt in 1990 after a flood destroyed the original. (Khadija Taboada)
AnneBrontë.org tells about 'The Kindness And Charity Of Charlotte Brontë'.
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