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Saturday, December 01, 2018

Country & TownHouse lists 'Famous Writers’ Homes You Can Visit in the UK':
The Brontë Sisters: Haworth Parsonage, West Yorkshire
‘My room was really beautiful in some lights, moonlight especially’, Charlotte Brontë said.  The Brontë Parsonage Museum library contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of Brontë manuscripts, letters, early editions of the novels and poetry, and secondary material on the famous family and their work. (Bella Lewis)
Parker City News reviews the biography Anthony Powell by Hilary Spurling:
Biographies written by a friend of the subject have warmth and immediacy — often a sparkling immediacy. Think of Boswell on Johnson, or Elizabeth Gaskell on Charlotte Brontë. (Claire Hopley
Hackney Citizen reviews the theatre play A Hero of Our Time, at the Arcola Theatre in London:
Stage adaptations of nineteenth century novels have been popular in recent years, with deft tricks enabling directors to condense hundreds of pages of dense prose by Charlotte Brontë or Victor Hugo into an hour or two of dialogue.
Oliver Bennett and Vladimir Shcherban’s production of Mikhail Lermontov’s 1839 classic A Hero of Our Time, currently showing at the Arcola, is an exemplary instance of this genre. (Sarah Birch)
The New York Times interviews the writer, and new Booker Prize winner, Anna Burns:
Milkman tells the story of “Middle Sister” who stands out in her neighbourhood for her habit of reading while walking (“Are you saying it’s OK for him to go around with Semtex but not okay for me to read Jane Eyre in public?” she asks at one point). (Alex Marshall)
Entertainment Weekly recommends the latest book by Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River:
Setterfield’s prose feels lifted from another era, a gothic lyricism resembling old classics like Jane Eyre. [Once Upon aRiver is no different, transporting readers to a U.K. river village circa 1870 and unfurling a mystery from the return of a girl presumed dead. (David Canfield)
BookPage interviews the writer Oyinkan Braithwaite:
Braithwaite’s references to social media are so seamless that it’s a surprise to know she grappled with including them. “It felt so new and different,” she says. “I was hesitant at first. I grew up on the great books—my favorite novel is Jane Eyre, and obviously none of [those books] had social media in them. I don’t know, it almost seemed unrefined. But once I got into it, I realized how well it helped tell the story.” (Lauren Bufferd)
Witness reviews the theatrical concert Gothic in Melbourne:
Kate Bush’s classic Wuthering Heights is performed with dark fleeting romance and delivers a gorgeous moment of nostalgia within this show’s dark repertoire. (Carissa Lee)
The Daily Californian reviews the latest episodes of Riverdale:
Subtly, Betty gathers the Hot Parents of Riverdale™ and accuses them all of murdering Principal Featherhead. Penelope Blossom (Nathalie Boltt), whose Brontë-esque background no one seems to question, accuses Daryl Doiley of poisoning the chalices. Conveniently, Mr. Doiley committed suicide a few years back so he can’t defend himself.
Reading and visions of gender in Bookriot:
Diving into the works of Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, and the Brontë Sisters shaped my understanding of history and feminist writers immeasurably. (Danielle Bourgon)
Babygaga lists names like Heathcliff for children:
According to Behind the Name, “The name means ‘from the heath cliff,’ or ‘from the cliff with heath’. It was created by Emily Brontë for her novel, Wuthering Heights. Composed literally of the words heath and cliff. Heath is a shrubland consisting of open, low growing, woody plant life and is found on mainly infertile acidic soils.” (Cynthia Levy)
Christmas advice from The Independent (Ireland):
I know I probably sound like the killjoy Nell from 'Wuthering Heights', but fun doesn't have to come with financial ruin and Santa is working hard enough to keep everyone happy. (Barbara McCarthy)
Wired recommends the film God's Own Country:
This stunning debut from writer and director Francis Lee, who himself grew up in Yorkshire before turning to acting, won the Sundance Film Festival's world cinema directing award, and recalls the rugged intensity of Andrea Arnold's 2011 Wuthering Heights.
Glamour (Romania) talks about the poet and activist Medea Iancu:
Medeea Iancu este poetă, regizoare, feministă și activistă. A crescut cu basme auzite de la bunicul ei și a început să scrie spunând povești. Le datorează hotărârea de a se apuca de scris lui Charlotte Brontë, pentru cartea Jane Eyre, și lui Donald Bisset, pentru poveștile citite în copilărie. (Translation)
Il Libraio (in Italian) reviews the new adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House:
Storia a parte fa la figura del fantasma, lo spettro che più che temuto è evocato da chi è in grado di vederlo. Pensiamo a Heatcliff in Cime Tempestose che implora la sua Cathy di tornare anche in forma di fantasma per tormentarlo, tutto pur di non rimanere da solo in quello che è diventato un deserto terreno senza di lei. (Ilenia Zodiaco) (Translation)
The Spanish touring Jane Eyre production comes to Córdoba and Diario de Córdoba and Cordópolis have articles about it. Diario de Cádiz talks about the YA novel Una Sonata de Verano by Belén Martínez:
La imagen de una mujer que se despeña desde un acantilado, una imagen que puede ser real o la de una novela que ob sesiona la protagonista de la trama, ofrece el sabor de un ritmo de suspense que nos puede llevar a Hitchcock, claro, o a secretos sacados de las hermanas Brontë. pero a día de hoy. (Pedro Ingelmo) (Translation)
Boersenblatt describes some of the talks at the recent 10th Europäische Literaturtage in Wachau, Austria:
Die Präsidentin der "Writers‘ Guild of Britain" Olivia Hetreed erklärte, wie sie aus einem einzelnen Satz in Emiliy Brontës "Sturmhöhe" eine Schlüsselszene ihrer hochgelobten Neuverfilmung von 2011 machte, in der erstmals ein schwarzer Schauspieler, James Howson, die Rolle Heathcliffs übernahm. (Nicola Bardola) (Translation)
A quote by Emily Brontë in Travel+Leisure and another by Charlotte in The Bridge (India); UKTV's Drama channel announces for this Christmas season:
Get caught up in Elizabeth & Mr. Darcy’s affairs in ‘Pride and Prejudice’, or relive the passions of ‘Wuthering Heights’ among many other romantic period dramas 

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