On the 164th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's death

On the 164th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's death, Serena Di Battista (from The Sisters' Room) selects some Italian-translated recent books about her life and work for SoloLibri:

Il 31 marzo 1855 moriva Charlotte Brontë. Per celebrare una delle più grandi scrittrici inglesi di tutti i tempi oggi vi proponiamo i libri da leggere dedicati a colei che ha scritto un capolavoro come Jane Eyre.
Se siete degli appassionati di letteratura inglese avrete di sicuro letto le opere delle sorelle Brontë. Oggi ricorre l’anniversario di morte di Charlotte Brontë, la maggiore e forse la più famosa delle tre autrici dello Yorkshire. Charlotte Brontë ci ha lasciato in eredità il suo più grande capolavoro, Jane Eyre, ma anche altri romanzi: Il professore, Shirley, Villette. Ma quali sono i libri che possiamo leggere invece se vogliamo approfondire meglio la vita e il pensiero dell’autrice? Quali sono i più bei libri a lei dedicati? Scopriamoli insieme, oggi ve ne consigliamo alcuni. (Translation)

Libreriamo (Italy) lists several of Charlotte Brontë's most well-known quotes.

The Montana Standard publishes the obituary of Catherine M. Meekin (1932-2019):

With a passionate interest in the English authors, the Brontë Sisters, Catherine served as president of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Brontë Society for several years. Catherine's hobby was painting and she was particularly skilled in Chinese Brush painting. She was also an avid knitter.

Los Angeles Review of Books reveals how the author Kerry Madden-Lunsford is preparing a new novel with Brontë references:

They wanted me to write plays and “drop the grotty trade school occupation of journalism,” and I was very happy to oblige. I’m now writing a novel inspired by that time called Hop the Pond, which also has themes of addiction and features the Brontë sisters and their brother, Branwell. (Tim Cummings)

Jacobin Magazine reviews the new film by Jordan Peele, Us:

Scissors could be in there too, but just ordinary household ones that you’d find lying around anywhere, not fancy shears that look like the Brontë sisters once used them for dressmaking and they’ve been in a museum ever since. (Eileen Jones)

Manilla Bulletin discusses a literary dinner around André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name:

In our conversation about Call Me By Your Name, I would have had much more to say if I called to mind what little I learned about life from Dante or Virgil or Homer or Ovid, all of whom and more, such as Monet, Heraclitus, Shakespeare, Emily Brontë, Friedrich Nietszche, Anton Chekov, etc., made this love story more like a meditation on the human condition. (AA Patawaran)

Manchester Evening News discovers lakes around Manchester:

Walshaw Dean Reservoirs (...)
These three reservoirs are also located near to Hebden Bridge and take just over an hour to get to from Manchester city centre.
Nearby is Top Withins, a ruined farmhouse near Haworth, which is thought to be the inspiration behind Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. (Alexandra Rucki)

A Muslim girl celebrating Sabbath amidst a Jewish family... in Germany. The News on Sunday (Pakistan) reports:

By sundown, Rebecca and I had traded our puffer jackets and faux fur-lined boots for full skirts and petticoats in preparation for Shabbat. Dressed like maidens from an Emily Brontë novel we joined Rebecca’s Rabi uncle for a candle-lit dinner. Bread breaking rituals and Kiddush, blessing over wine, were soon superseded by an open-hearted and honest discussion on the shared Abrahamic origin of Islam and Judaism. (Fatima Bakhtawar)

Le Monde interviews the writer Guillaume Musso:

Dans leur petite bibliothèque étaient rangés les Mémoires du général de Gaulle et Les Hauts de Hurlevent. A l'intérieur du livre d'Emily Brontë était inscrit à la plume le nom de ma mère. J'ai commencé à lire. Cela m'a fait l'effet d'un électrochoc. J'ai eu l'impression de pénétrer dans un monde interdit. En plein passage entre enfance et adolescence, j'accédais aux tourments et passions d'êtres torturés, machiavéliques, à la complexité de l'âme humaine. J'avais l'impression de lire des des pensées secrètes et pas toujours convenables. D'être en connexion avec une jeune Anglaise née un siècle et demi plus tôt. Fascinant ! A partir de là, je me suis lancé dans un marathon de lectures. (Pascale Krémer) (Translation)