Ill Will
Michael Stewart (fiction, HQ)
What’s Heathcliff’s side of the story? With “Ill Will,” fans of “Wuthering Heights” will find out. As he travels across the moors in search of his past, a second look at the sulky Brontë villain. (MacKenzie Dawson)
1. Kate Bush, "Wuthering Heights" (1978)
Inspired by Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847)
Kate Bush has admitted that her initial inspiration for "Wuthering Heights" was not Emily Brontë's only novel, but William Wyler's film adaptation of it. Bush said she later read the novel to ensure the accuracy of her lyrics. It's hardly surprising that Brontë's tale of doomed romance on the "wiley, windy moors" would appeal to Bush, who at the time was an 18-year-old girl from an artsy family who had attended a convent school and taught herself to play the organ in the family's barn. What is surprising is that her label didn't want to release "Wuthering Heights" as her debut single. The brass at EMI were determined to put out "James and the Cold Gun" instead. Showing considerable chutzpah for an artist so young, Bush insisted that "Wuthering Heights" would be the single, and it would be hard to make a case that she was wrong: the song went to number one in five countries and remains Bush's most successful release. (John Lucas)
Salisbury Post recommends cosying up to a book from a library:
If you’d rather read an engrossing narrative than watch one, Emily Brontë’s 1847 “Wuthering Heights” is a classic. Originally published under the pseudonym “Ellis Bell,” the gothic tale has inspired countless critical studies. Whether you’re looking for an analysis topic or a story to pass the time, “Wuthering Heights” offers a complex narrative structure, supernatural elements, mystery and complicated, controversial characterizations. You can find the novel and several film versions, including the 2009 adaptation starring Tom Hardy, in RPL’s circulating collection. (Laurie Lyda)
We try to stay away from the Marie Kondo cult-like phenomenon (may God protect our mess) but
Bookriot quotes
Jane Eyre on a post about it and.. well, here it is:
No matter how much a book is loved, I’d agree with Kondo’s assertion that very few of them will ever be re-read, no matter how much I intend to.
But there are some books that demand multiple readings. Stories that simple take more than one consumption to fully digest. Or that mean different things to me at different points in my life.
For example, no matter how many times I read Jane Eyre, the story always seems to change as much as I have since the last time I picked it up, each of the characters almost new in how I interpret them.
So on my shelf it will stay. (Emily Wenstrom)
Edinburgh walks on the
Edinburgh Evening News:
Distinguished visitors agreed. Queen Victoria thought the view ‘quite enchanting’, while Charlotte Brontë considered London prose but Edinburgh poetry, describing it as “mine own romantic town”. (Euan MacInnes)
The
Liverpool Echo recommends romantic cabins and cottages where:
You can re-enact scenes from Wuthering Heights on the wild moors or just snuggle up in front of the fire. (Ellen Kirwin)
From books to movies and back again in
The National Review:
Dickens and the Brontës joined the line-up in middle school, and I can still recap the plots of all the Sherlock Holmes stories for you, if you’d like. (Ruth Dailey)
MensXP (India) and gothic mysteries:
As we progressed from 'Famous Five' to 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Sherlock Holmes', we became more aware not only of the mysteries present in the books but the ones surrounding our lives as well.
Gothic mystery has been a celebrated genre for centuries now. (Shayan Chatterjee)
NBHAP discusses the new visual album by Special-K. Talking about the song Hide Your Crazy:
The chords are inspired by Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush and the video was shot by Jóhanna Rakel in Barcelona. (Austin Maloney)
El Correo Vasco (Spain) reviews a concert by Sarah McKenzie in Bilbao:
[E]n 'The Secrets Of My Heart' fue femenina y dramática como las hermanas Brontë[.] (Óscar Cubillo) (Translation)
La Tribuna de Salamanca (Spain) and a project at the local library:
La profesora de Lengua y Literatura Carmen Blázquez sustituye a José Luis Sánchez Rodríguez en el proyecto Los Fundamentales de la Biblioteca de Peñaranda de Bracamonte desde el 25 de enero de 2019. El rincón, situado en la sala de adultos de la Biblioteca de Peñaranda, está decorado por la propia Carmen Blázquez y gira en torno a aquellos personajes femeninos de la literatura universal que, por algún motivo, se han erigido en unos referentes importantes en su devenir personal.
Así, ha seleccionado obras en las que la mujer se erige por uno u otro motivo en voz con personalidad propia como Las mil y una noches, Cumbres borrascosas, La casa de Bernarda Alba, Mafalda o La voz dormida. Los Fundamentales de Carmen Blázquez se podrá visitar desde el 25 de enero de 2019. Además, algunos escolares de centros educativos de Peñaranda de Bracamonte visitarán este rincón varios días con actividades preparadas especialmente para la ocasión. (Isabel Andrés) (Translation)
Quadratín (México) has discovered the wheel when says:
Emily Brontë – Cumbres borrascosas. Emily Brontë pudo haber sido el genio sobresaliente de su talentosa y extraordinaria familia literaria. En nuestra opinión, esta es la mayor novela de Brontë. Heathcliff es un personaje fascinante, Byronic, y Catherine, una mujer tan interesante y apasionada, que pocas novelas embalan tanto rompecabezas romántico como este clásico. (Carlos Ravelo Galindo) (Translation)
Mujer es Más (México) interviews the poet Asmara Gay:
Sobre este mismo tema, quien lamenta no haber sido la autora de la novela Cumbres Borrascosas, épica historia de la Inglaterra victoriana, expresa que el tema central de sus poemas es la meditación filosófica, la existencia misma. (...)
Confiesa que Conan Doyle y Emely Brontë fueron los autores que la marcaron más para tomarle gusto a la literatura. Ahora Aristóteles y Edgar Allan Poe son sus preferidos. (Cut Domínguez) (Translation)
The
Herald-Times contains a quiz of literary men created by women which features the three Brontë sisters.
Paradise will be a kind of library discusses the influence of
Wuthering Heights on
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Beforewegoblog reviews
Jane by Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón Pérez.
Jorie Loves a Story posts about
Jane Eyre and Juliet Bell's
The Other Wife (and also interviews the team behind Juliet Bell).
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