According to
Independent (Ireland),
Great literature is strewn with stories of great love. And though the happy-ever-after market has always been fed, it's those stories of the ones that got away that really linger.
Jane Eyre's "Reader, I married him" delivers some justice after her lifetime of misery. But it's the devastating resignation in the last line of Gatsby, "And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past", that haunts us. (Anne Cunningham)
In
The New York Times, writer Eliza McGraw teaches readers 'how to clean up our bookshelves'.
I have too many books. But by sorting them into categories I’ve devised, I can find, read and enjoy each one more. Does one book remind you of another? Shelve them together and you can find — and read — that play you loved at 19, or the Roosevelt biography from your cousin. Your real-life library should match how you imagine your books. No matter how odd your taxonomy may seem to an outsider, you’ll be a happier reader.
For example, my sections include Civil War history, turf writing, mythology, poetry and oversize. Lean in to subjective calls: If you’d like “The Odyssey” in poetry rather than in classics, that’s where it should go. Within divisions, I sort books alphabetically by author’s last name. I like the camaraderie this creates. In short story collections, Saki stands with Damon Runyon, and over in novels Donna Tartt sits by Peter Taylor while Charlotte Brontë is next to James Lee Burke.
The Joplin Globe searches for cozyness.
I’ve been on an Anglophilic adventure all winter, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. When I’m finished with my collection of Jane Austen favorites (”Pride and Prejudice,” “Sense and Sensibility,” “Emma” and “Persuasion” being the best of the best in my unshakable opinion), I plan to move on to the Brontë sisters. Nothing says cozy like the doom and drama of “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights.”
Maybe these novels are perfectly suited to please a hygge-focused me because they’re like old friends. I’ve wandered their pages and stories often enough that picking them up in the dead of winter feels like settling in for a cozy catch-up. (Sarah Coyne)
The Guardian features choreographer Robert Cohan.
The London Contemporary Dance School began with classes in a single studio behind London’s Oxford Street, taking students who went on to become important figures in British dance themselves: Richard Alston, Siobhan Davies, and Anthony van Laast (who choreographed Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights video and Mamma Mia!). (Lyndsey Winship)
The Sydney Morning Herald also mentions the famous
Wuthering Heights video in a review of a Florence and the Machine concert.
Sprinting from one side to the other, whirling and stamping to the surging bassline in a red flowing dress, it was clear that although she has long refused comparisons to Kate Bush, Welch is no stranger to the Wuthering Heights film clip. (Michael Bailey)
The Daily Eastern News has an article on Netflix's
You.
Joe seems like quite the catch at first glimpse; he runs a small bookstore and knows his trade well, throwing references to classics such as “Wuthering Heights” and “The Count of Monte Cristo” into casual conversation. (Logan Raschke)
Onirik (France) reviews the novel
Si j’avais des ailes by Nathalie Stalmans, based on Charlotte's time in Brussels.
Nathalie Stalmans laisse s’exprimer les petites voix : la vieille servante, une élève, madame Héger... Elle s’est appuyée sur la correspondance, mais aussi sur les romans et des ouvrages de référence. Et l’on a véritablement la sensation de lire de vrais témoignages, comme si l’on observait l’histoire par la petite porte. Remarquablement écrit, cet ouvrage apporte un éclairage nouveau et passionnant sur Charlotte Brontë. (Claire) (Translation)
The Book Lover's Boudoir posts briefly about
I Am Heathcliff: Stories Inspired by Wuthering Heights, edited by Kate Mosse.
Brontë Babe Blog discusses the 2016 play
We Wove a Web in Childhood by Cally Phillips.
AnneBrontë.org has a post on 'The Friendships Of Anne Brontë And Her Sisters' and shows a very moving image of 'the only known specimen of [Maria Brontë's] handwriting'.
Finally, if you are from the Rathfriland area in County Down (Ireland), you may be interested in this:
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