The work of the 19th Century literary sisters, The Brontës, will feature in a creative festival event next month.
"The Brontës: Reimagined; Reappraised; Revisited" will take place online on Wednesday, March 17 at 6.30pm with two authors of the famous sisters set to discuss their lives and their novels.
"A View From the 21st Century" Brontë biographies Dr Sophie Franklin and Adelle Hay will give their insights at the event, organised by Bolton Library and Museum Services and Saraband Press.
Questions may be debated such as "who was the real Charlotte Brontë?" and "was Emily a woman ahead of her time?"
"Why has Anne been endlessly sidelined?" and "which is the greatest Brontë novel of all?" may be discussed.
The event, which is free to book, is part of the New Words Festival, a joint online book festival celebrating the partnership between the Time to Read network.
It is funded by the Arts Council England.
To book to receive a link on Zoom visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-brontes-reimagined-reappraised-revisited-tickets-141039848985. (James Mutch)
Wuthering Heights (2011)Andrea Arnold's unconventional re-imagining of Emily Brontë's classic novel strips away all the period-drama clichés we are accustomed to seeing when any Brontë is hauled over to the big-screen to create an immersive and incredibly daring drama that pushes beyond the well-known love story of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliffe (sic).
Instead, Arnold uses the love between the two young northerners who are split by rank; and, most prominently in Arnold's adaptation, race to create a movie that offers up all the gothic spirit of the novel alongside the even darker history of British imperialism. (Zac Ntim)
Wuthering Heights (Film4, Wednesday, 12.50am)The director Andrea Arnold, who made her name with social-realist dramas such as 2009’s Fish Tank, emphasises rough textures in this Emily Brontë adaptation, bringing us in close to Heathcliff and Catherine (James Howson and Kaya Scodelario) and their windswept world. Despite this immediacy, the pair’s inner lives remain a bit too distant from us, but the film is bracing, all the same. (2011) (Edward Porter)
Bradford BID has launched a series of safe walking tours to help people rediscover their city centre and keep active during lockdown.The BID has teamed up with the award-winning high street app LoyalFree to develop the walking trails. (...)The app has also digitised Bradford in Blue Plaque Trails, allowing residents to discover some remarkable – and, sometimes, surprising – sites of international significance. Do you know, for instance, where Bradford’s original Old Manor House stood? Or where the Brontë sisters’ brother used to live and work? (Felicity Macnamara)
First Post (India) talks about Nancy Drew, the series:
While acknowledging Nancy Drew’s privilege as a rich white girl as well as author Sara Paretsky’s critique of the racial attitudes reinforced by novels like The Secret of the Old Clock, Johnson defends Drew against some of the criticism from critics in the 80s and 90s — most of them, Johnson argued, were reading the regressive latter-day rewrites and not Mildred Benson’s 1930s second-wave feminist texts. Johnson also reminds us of the narrative value of Nancy being motherless, since the heroines of Charlotte Brontë et al benefitted greatly from not having a mother tell them how to behave, when to curtsy and which male excesses to tolerate in perpetuity. (Aditya Mani Jha)
When, on the same evening, he takes the young woman to the hut, instead of making love, he makes her try to put on a dress, with the help of Cyril, who has appeared who knows where. Then, Alma finds himself in a position as Jane Eyre and Cheb M.I am De Winter, N. Rebecca : Fond of a man older than her, surrounded by female ghosts (here, Woodcock’s mother), guarded by a dragon. Alma embarks on a ruthless campaign to turn Woodcock’s infatuation into engagement. (Lawrence Reid)
Andrea Ioime: Quali autori, non solo ‘gialli, l’hanno influenzata?
“Tanti: alcuni sono citati anche nei mei libri, come Jane Austen e le sorelle Brontë. Ma adoro anche James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Donna Tartt, Ernest Hemingway, Peter Handke e i drammi di Shakespeare”. (Translation)
Und ich fand zum Beispiel Jane Eyre von Charlotte Brontë, ein einsames Kind, das irgendwie überlebt. Oder Jeanette Wintersons autobiografischen Roman «Orangen sind nicht die einzige Frucht». Auch hier ein Kind, das irgendwie nicht passte, von der eigenen Familie abgelehnt wurde – und seinen eigenen Weg finden musste. (Peer Teuwsen)
Las tres hermanas Brönte (sic) fueron las que mejor describieron el sentimiento de las institutrices en sus libros bajo el reinado de la reina Victoria. La mayor de las hermanas, Charlotte, trabajo como institutriz en 1839 y llegó a escribir “odio y aborrezco el simple pensamiento de ser institutriz”. Más tarde aprovechó su experiencia para definir a sus personajes como Jane Eyre que también trabajaron como institutriz. Pero ella dotó a esas mujeres de una fuerza y de una determinación que escapaban del patrón de aquella época y del concepto que se tenía de ellas. (Daniel Postico) (Translation)
Exilé loin de sa patrie normande, c’est à Toulouse qu’il grandit,« dans les rues en lacis » duquel il aime se perdre, s’enfermant « entre midi et deux dans l’église de la Dalbade pour mettre [s]es tripes sur l’autel », avant de pousser jusqu’ « au cloître des Jacobins (c’était gratuit pour les jeunes), pour écrire dans [s]a tête ». Une adolescence comme il se doit, torturée par le monde et consolée par l’Esprit. Rodolphe-Maximilien n’aimait pas lire, et c’est bien étrange. Jusqu’à ce qu’il tombe à 14 ans sur Les Hauts de Hurlevent. Rodolphe-Maximilien n’était pas spécialement pratiquant, et c’est bien étrange. (Jacques De Guillebon) (Translation)All About English Literature posts a character analysis of Heathcliff.
The Poems of Anne Brontë
Second, revised edition with new introduction
Edited and Introduced by Edward ChithamISBN 9781913087548 Paperback
ISBN 9781913087555 Hardback
ISBN 9781913087562 eBookEdward Everett Root PublishersFebruary 28, 2021
This is the definitive edition of the poems by the leading modern editor. It makes the work fully accessible to all.
This new edition is essential to understanding Anne Brontë’s life, her entire literary works, and her relationships with her sisters.
Anne Brontë`s poems have in the past been overshadowed by the marvellous productions of her elder sister Emily, whose leadership she accepted for many years during her youth. In commenting on both the novels and the poetry, however, the increasingly different aims of the two are only just now being clearly recognised. Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall are not both simply `Gothic novels` and the poetic work of Anne and Emily cannot be subsumed under the heading 'Gondal'.
As this editor shows, we have to grasp how different Anne Brontë`s life experiences were from those of her sisters. Charlotte and Emily shared a bedroom in their childhood (indeed, a bed). They made up their plays which Charlotte called `strange`. Anne slept with her Aunt Elizabeth, a lively, intelligent woman coming from the Wesleyan hotspot of Cornwall. She was steeped in Wesleyan Methodism and had nothing to do with Calvinism. Elizabeth inducted Anne into Evangelical Christianity, a view congenial to Patrick, Anne`s father. Without understanding Anne`s continuous and heartfelt attachment to this mode of thought, feeling and action, we cannot understand her work. As a Methodist, Elizabeth insisted on organised work and behaviour, and as a Wesleyan, on the view that `Jesus died for all`; Anne took on these attitudes.
We have Anne`s retrospective view of her life in poem No.57, which Edward Chitham argues should be studied very closely. It is an intensely honest summary of her life`s experience. Clare Flaherty called this poem a `haunting, elegiac lament over an unfulfilled life`. Here Anne relives her childhood, stressing her own vulnerability, but also her concern for others. She points to the Bible as her exemplar and surprisingly says that her study makes her `wiser than her teachers`, pointing among other things to the scenes in Wildfell Hall where Helen uses theology to struggle with her husband on his deathbed. In lines 178-207 she deals with her relations with Emily.
Edward Chitham, in his new introduction, suggests that nothing could be clearer than her admission that the two drifted away from each other, from childhood to adulthood. In Gondal, sometimes Anne supported Emily`s narrative, sometimes wrote on her own account. Though Emily has often appeared the more dominant woman, sometimes – for example, after the initial rejection of Wuthering Heights - Anne firmly but quietly supported her sister.
12 “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”Who said it? Charlotte Brontë (1816–55), English novelist and poetAbout: Charlotte Brontë was an English writer and eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived to adulthood. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which has been adapted countless times for film and television and is often considered among the greatest works of English literature (as well as being what some might describe as an early feminist novel). The above quote is said by Brontë’s protagonist, Jane, in chapter 23 of the novel.“[Brontë] didn’t twiddle her thumbs. She got on with things – and she paved the way for other female writers. Her novels have a feminist twist, and she had a strong sense that life wasn’t fair for women,” said children’s book author Jacqueline Wilson in an interview for BBC History Magazine in 2016. (Rachel Dinning)
The mystery itself is exciting and full of twists and turns throughout. The Diabolical Bones is perfect for fall and winter (for us seasonal-mood readers) as the wintery isolated setting and consistently spooky vibes are front and center throughout the story. (Marla Warren)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysWide Sargasso Sea is Jean Rhys’ explicitly anti-colonialist response to Jane Eyre. The novel follows Antoinette Cosway, a formerly rich Jamaican heiress of Creole descent who eventually becomes the “madwoman” in Mr. Rochester’s attic. Antoinette tells her own story, in which she is not mad at all, but forced into a hopeless situation by her tyrannical English husband, who is not named in the book. As the book unfolds in the days after the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, Antoinette’s own racism and the consequences of her family’s choice to be slaveowners form a pivotal point in her downfall.Rhys, who was born in Dominica, takes a scalpel to an iconic Gothic tale to look at British oppression in the Caribbean, the horror of white supremacy and slavery, and both men’s brutal treatment of women, and the way elite women can trade an illusion of safety to become complicit in the abuse of the lower class.Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaHigh Place stands in the Mexican countryside, home to Howard Doyle, an ancient Englishman and his sons, one handsome but threatening, the other shy. When Noemí’s cousin Catalina asks her to leave her city life and come to High Place it’s shortly after her marriage to Virgil—and Catalina clearly feels that she’s under some sort of threat. Noemí is used to life as a pampered debutante, but she soon realizes that she’ll need to become an amateur detective to help her cousin. Is Virgil truly a threat? What are the secrets that seem to haunt Howard? And why has the High Place itself begun to appear in Noemí’s dreams, showing her images of grotesquerie and beauty that haunt her waking life and hint that she may never be able to leave? Can a house have a will of its own?The author of Gods of Jade and Shadow takes all the tropes of a classic Gothic and transports them to the Mexican countryside, where the fading English elite fight to hold on to their power—even if it means living in thrall to ancient evil.
I – É UM ROMANCE DE FORMAÇÃO BEM ESTRUTURADO [....]II – A IMERSÃO AO AMBIENTE [...]III – O ARQUÉTIPO MORAL DAS PERSONAGENS (Esther Machado Piuvezam) (Translation)
El punt de partida podria semblar concebut per algun deixeble canadenc de John Cheever —i ho avalaria l’aguda observació de la força i la debilitat psicològica, la ironia tràgica i l’ansietat que lliga la tribu dels Roy-Tremblaypierre—, però L’aigua que vols, premi Sant Jordi 2020, és una nova demostració de la ventrilòquia literària de Víctor García Tur (Barcelona, 1991), capaç d’absorbir i transformar el gran art del passat —ja s’havia disfressat de Hitchcock i de les germanes Brontë a Els ocells, i de Borges a El país dels cecs—, pujar a l’escenari i representar un gran joc. (Ponç Puigdevall) (Translation)
A 45-minute drive from Leeds to Haworth is one of the UK's best road trips.That's according to car hire price comparison website Enjoytravel.com which has ranked the 20-mile journey the fourth-best in the country.The drive, from Leeds city centre to the home of the Brontë Sisters, beats drives from London to Stonehenge, Manchester to Edale, in the Peak District; and even Belfast to the Giant's Causeway.Indeed the short trip via the A647 and A6144 packs in a wealth of natural beauty as well as unusual features. [...]Brontë countryOnce you're past the village of Cullingworth it's rural for the rest of your journey.The plateau between the village and Haworth affords superb views across undulating fields towards the Dales and Pennines.But it's past the crossroads at Flappit Springs where the heather-topped moors reveal themselves in their rugged glory.HaworthA moorland sheep at Top Withens, the farmhouse which inspired Wuthering HeightsThen it's a gradual descent and a brief but steep drive up into Haworth itself.Haworth has long since shaken its reputation as a tourist trap. The steep, cobbled Main Street bristles with decent cafes, pubs, gift stores and curio shops.And there's obviously the Brontë Parsonage which is now a museum.If the weather's decent, it's worth doing the spectacular three-mile walk from Haworth centre to Top Withins (pictured) – the inspiration for Wuthering Heights – via the Brontë Waterfall. (Dave Himelfield)
A set was first built on the top of Haworth Moor's Penistone Country Park on Tuesday with the shoot originally planned to go ahead on Wednesday. [...]The set has been created to mimic a snow scene with white powder sprinkled delicately over rocks.Councillors confirmed that the film crews will only be filming for one day. [...]The first series, which was partly shot in Bradford and featured youngsters from local theatre school, Articulate, was a huge hit, with 6.8 million viewers across its eight-episode run.It was a major tourism boost for neighbouring Calderdale and perhaps, in future, Haworth - already famous for its Brontë connections.
The Predicament of the ‘White Cockroach’: The Paradoxes of Belonging in Wide Sargasso Sea
Animesh Biswas
Journal of Literary and Cultural Analysis
Vol 1. No.1 January- June 2021
Abstract
Neo-Victorian studies is not identified clearly as academic studies. Neo-Victorianism reflects our ongoing attitude towards Victorian literature and culture. It reveals the past in which women were presented as peripheral. Neo-Victorian literature criticizes Victorian culture through postmodern angle. The development of Neo-Victorian literature as an academic discipline can be seen as a response to a particular time or place historically remote to us. Neo-Victorianism got support as early as in the 1960s with the publication of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969). Wide Sargasso Sea by Rhys is the popular adaptation of Victorian literature. Adaptation is a polyphonic practise involving “both memory and change, persistence and “(Hutcheon). Neo-Victorian adaptation challenges Victorian construction of empire, gender, and sexuality. Through Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys adapts Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre criticizing the ideas and ideologies of the past represented in the text. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar consider Bertha Rochester as the ‘veiled’ sexual self of Jane. Rhys brings out the problem of sexual repression into the open. Antoinette’s madness is the result of her sexual castration and lack of adequate human interaction. Rhys takes her heroine Antoinette from the marginalised position and makes her appear most prominent. While doing so Rhys remodels Bertha and offers Antoinette a centralized role rather marginalized. Jean Rhys’ articulation of race in Wide Sargasso Sea is a very complex one as the issue is intrinsically tangled with gender, class, and national identities. The novel which portrays Creole Jamaican society at a moment of crisis presents a unique web of colour, culture, and hierarchical power relations. Colour that is consciousness of skin presented as a metaphor for social construction of race. It is woven with the question of gender and national identity. Whites born in England are distinguished from white Creoles, descendants of Europeans who have lived in the West Indies for one or more generations. There is a large mixed-race population, as white slave owners throughout the Caribbean and Americans were notorious for raping and impregnating female slaves. However, the central character Antoinette based on the mad woman Bertha from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is involved in a greater paradox. Though one steep removed from racial oppression this white Creole woman is bestowed with fragmented identities and an unconscious fear of belonging. An exile within her own family a ‘white cockroach’ to her disdainful servants and an oddity in the eyes of her own husband Antoinette never finds a place that belongs to her and to which she belongs. The historical circumstance that dominates the novel is the Emancipation Act of 1833 that freed all slaves in the British colonies and the racial conflicts, social upheaval and economic turmoil that surround it. I would like to explore the predicament of the white Creole woman who is an outcaste and rejected by both Europe and England whose blood she shares and by the Black West Indian people whose culture and home have been her for two generation or more.
Romeo and Juliet laid the bare bones for the formula when it comes to tragic love stories; we see it years later in Wuthering Heights, with Cathy and Heathcliff who separated by class differences and an unflinching stubbornness, or even recently with The World to Come, with the pair’s relationship doomed because of their social setting and gender. (Natasha Alvar)
Volunteering as an independent visitor in a care home, Reynolds was the only adult spending time with the children who wasn’t paid to do so; no adults lived consistently alongside them. This is better than the grim orphanages in Dickens or Brontë, or probably than the 1960s American institution recreated in The Queen’s Gambit, where the children are routinely drugged with tranquilisers. But we have not got it right, and reading Lucy’s account, the precariousness of the care system is painfully felt. It’s this that makes Reynolds’s book such a necessary contribution to the literature on motherhood, and it’s lucky that both writers are so thoughtful, and so inspiringly attentive to each other’s experience. (Lara Feigel)How British landscapes have influenced musicians and composers in The Times:
Another evocative beauty spot — and Emily Brontë — led Kate Bush to write Wuthering Heights. “Out on the wiley windy moors/We’d roll and fall in green,” she sings, conjuring up grass stains, sounding as windswept as the romantic haven in Yorkshire that inspired her. (Jonathan Dean)
The Wife in the Attic
by Rose Lerner
Narrated by: Elsa Lepecki Bean
Length: 16 hrs and 18 minsThis daring Gothic thriller reinvents one of literature’s most twisted love triangles. Tensely romantic and deliciously suspenseful, The Wife in the Attic is perfect for fans of Jane Eyre, Rebecca, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire.Goldengrove’s towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone’s throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Tabby Palethorp had been running wild there, ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room.I was the perfect choice to give Tabby a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion.I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn’t stop me from yearning for impossible things: to be Tabby’s mother, Sir Kit’s companion, Goldengrove’s new mistress.All that belonged to poor Lady Palethorp. Most of all, I burned to finally catch a glimpse of her.Surely she could tell me who cut the strings on my guitar, why all the doors inside the house were locked after dark, and whose footsteps I heard in the night....With devious sophistication, Rose Lerner weaves a haunting tale full of secrets and sharp edges. Will the governess’ loyalties ultimately lie with the master of the house - or with the wife in the attic?
As always, there are honourable exceptions. PD James scored a hit with her palate-cleansing Death Comes to Pemberley, which imagines the characters of Pride and Prejudice six years later, and embroils them in a deliciously ripe whodunit. Wide Sargasso Sea, the 1966 novel by Jean Rhys, is perhaps the greatest literary riff of them all. It looks at the marriage of Mr Rochester through the eyes of his “mad” first wife, the one confined to the attic in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and richly evokes the power-play (and imbalances) between men and women in marriage.What’s fascinating about Rhys’s work is that while its feminist response to the past is very much steeped in the ideology that was sweeping through British culture in the 1960s, it also chimes with our preoccupations in the 21st century. Indeed, both Wide Sargasso Sea and Nick are attempts to “reclaim narratives”, that modish phrase which anyone who follows the angry mob on Twitter will recognise. Today, we live in an age in which historians and museums are obsessed with giving a voice to those from the past who have been previously silenced, while the lives of more famous historical figures are there to be questioned.Yet while a reimagining of Mrs Rochester’s life is poignant, a proper emancipation of someone fettered by the conventions of the time, the reclamation of Nick Carraway is unnecessary. He has not been wronged in any way; his silence in Fitzgerald’s original is a smart way to enhance our understanding of the novel’s more memorable characters. (Ben Lawrence)
On Tuesday 23 February I tuned into the performance Wild Swimming by Marek Horn and was not disappointed. [...]Wild Swimming details the story of Nell and Oscar, (Ella McKeown and Logan Jones) two childhood friends who are wildly different, yet always managing to find their way back to one another. Oscar is an undergraduate whose enthusiasm for romantic poetry leads to his wish to travel the world and follow Lord Byron in his completion of swimming the Hellespont. Despite his formal education, Nell always seems to have the upper hand in their debates. Sharp tongued and fiery, she always keeps him on his toes. In the end, Nell comes out on top despite the expectation that she is to wait at home to be married. She ends up living out Oscar's dream of visiting Greece and proceeds to inform him that her poetry is due to be published in a collection. She is successful, while he returns injured and deflated from fighting in the war.Despite the fairly short running time of just over an hour, the play spans hundreds of years starting in the Renaissance period and finishing in the present day. As the time passes, the characters develop in interesting ways. Initially playing down the impact Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has on her, Nell eventually admits that seeing someone just like herself on the page is meaningful. She finds herself, just as Oscar reverts into a shell of his former self. Refusing to move forward in time he attempts to make a portal to go back to the 17th Century. He wants to go back to the version of himself that matches the one in his head; a moment which is very powerful to capture. As the perfect blend of the past and the modern, Wild Swimming plays on gender politics while using audience engagement to its full potential. (Elizabeth Walsh)
Nous sommes en 1979. Xavier qui est alors au cours Florent, a rendez-vous avec quelques autres élèves au Palais des congrès où Robert Hossein recrute des jeunes talents pour son prochain spectacle Les Hauts de Hurlevent, adapté du roman d'Emily Brontë. Devant cet immense acteur et metteur en scène, les apprentis comédiens sont pétrifiés de trac.L'audition se passe, les candidats retiennent leur souffle. « Toi ! » dit alors Hossein, en désignant [actor Xavier Deluc]. (Translation)
The Brontë Lounge with Ann Dinsdale
February 25th, 19.30 h
An evening with our Principal Curator
Our February visitor to the Brontë Lounge is Ann Dinsdale, Principal Curator at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
With an absolute wealth of knowledge and experience at her fingertips, Ann will be in conversation with Helen Meller in this zoom event, discussing her more than three decades working at the Museum, and sharing how vitally important the Brontës and their legacy have been to her, both personally and professionally.
Ann Dinsdale is Principal Curator at the Brontë Society, and has worked at the Brontë Parsonage Museum for more than thirty years. Her books include The Brontës at Haworth (2006) and At Home with the Brontës (2013).
It is not for nothing that Ishiguro has named Charlotte Brontë as the novelist who has influenced him most. From “Jane Eyre,” he learned how to write first-person narrators who hide their feelings from themselves but are transparent to other people. Rereading the book a few years ago, he kept coming across episodes and thinking, Oh, my goodness, I just ripped that off! (Giles Harvey)
In between, beauty is far and between in this novel centered on the Texas Panhandle. The Dust Bowl and the Depression — events that marry to help decimate the nation’s economy during the 1930s — certainly offer no allure, and as a young lady, Elsa Wolcott is told by her wealthy parents she is not beautiful, and never will be. At 25 years old, she is considered a spinster; the survivor of a cold and unloving childhood. Her escape is into novels, identifying with the likes of Jane Eyre, and Elsa counts books as her truest friends. (Tom Mayer)
Womack, Marian: The Swimmers(Titan Books US 978-1789094213, $15.95, 352pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, Feb 23, 2021)Dystopian reimagining of Wide Sargasso Sea set in Andalusia. After the ravages of the Green Winter, Earth is a place of deep jungles and monstrous animals. The last of the human race is divided into surface dwellers and the people who live in the Upper Settlement, a ring perched at the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere.
The cinematography is very reminiscent of Victorian art—which would have been Shelley’s time—in that there are a lot of tableau-like shots that play around with light and darkness. Was this intentional? How did you initially approach shooting the film? Did you look anywhere specifically for inspiration?I’m so glad you picked up on that because we, indeed, looked at a lot of Victorian-era paintings, as well as Dutch Golden-Age paintings from earlier in the 17th century, as a big inspiration for the visual look of the film. In fact, in some cases we specifically set out to recreate certain compositions inspired by specific paintings! We also looked at a number of movies to help build our reference image library and inform our approach – Cary Fukunaga’s “Jane Eyre” and “Lady Macbeth” were big influences for us; both are films that Nora and I both love and both think are quite underrated. On the lighting side, we also took a lot of inspiration from “Barry Lyndon”, “Bright Star,” “The Beguiled,” “The Witch,” The Crown,” “Game of Thrones,” and other dark movies and shows with period settings. We also looked at “Alias Grace” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” quite a bit for inspiration for subjective framing. And we also looked at “Black Swan” and “Mother” for how to integrate surreal, nightmare imagery and have it blend into the world of the film. (Jericho Tadeo)
New Brontë-related scholar publications:
Passion and Feeling versus Religion and ‘Pure’ Affection in Jane Eyre
Edberg, Natalie
2021
Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor)
The purpose of this essay is to investigate the protagonist and narrator in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, it explores how Jane to a certain extent both represents and challenges the norms set by the Victorian society since it was during this time that the novel was published. By taking a closer look at the novel in relation to Victorian society’s norms and ideals the essay will show that the conflict that Jane faces in the novel is between love, feeling and passion versus religious norms and principles. By highlighting these conflicts, the essay presents evidence that the protagonist Jane often shows a feminist sentiment. However, her actions often contradict these sentiments which creates a complexity that I hope this essay will explore.
Phrase-structure in English Used in Charlotte Brontë's “Jane Eyre"
Murodova Mukadas Ikromovna, Tillayev Zafar AkmalovichInternational Journal of Innovations in Engineering Research and Technology, vol. 7, no. 05, 2020, pp. 223-229Languages vary in the patterns they allow as grammatically complete, that is in' the kinds of sentences they use. The syntactical description of any language is made scientifically possible by isolating certain recurrent units of expression and examining their distribution in contexts. The largest of these units are sentences, which can naturally be decomposed into their smaller constituent units — phrases. English syntax is a many-layered organization of relatively few types of its basic units. A twofold or binary structure is one of the most striking things about its grammatical organization
Three-fourths thriller and one part reimagined classic, “The Wife Upstairs” is a feisty Southern charmer that’s twisty enough to make dinners late in kitchens everywhere.Taking plot and character inspiration from Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre,” author Alabama author Rachel Hawkins cleverly reimagines the gothic classic by placing it in the leafy community of Mountain Brook, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. This time Jane is unknowingly embroiled in a love triangle, but she’s also looking out for herself ― carving out a new identity and life in the high-end village, where status and appearances seem to count more than character. [...]In Hawkins’ version, admirers of “Jane Eyre” may smile as they encounter “Eddie” Rochester, zipping his sports car through the neighborhood called Thornfield Estates, the storied English names somehow fitting in quite well in this modern-day South. Despite the playfulness of the reworked names (Jane Eyre’s charge Adèle surfaces as Eddie’s Irish setter puppy), some of the more sinister characters from the classic bring their shadows with them to “The Wife Upstairs”: cold and aloof Mrs. Reed switching from Jane’s aunt to her employer and St. John River becoming John Rivers, a church employee from her past who tries blackmailing our heroine.Jane is a fish-out-of-water, an averagely attractive young woman from out West with a mysterious past, a beat up car and a dubious living situation in a skanky apartment near strip malls. Wanting more from life, she quickly latches onto Mountain Brook’s affluent lifestyle, where Old Money meets new. Starting with a barista job, she soon finds herself walking the dogs of the wealthy, gaining enough of their trust to be able to pilfer small, valuable trinkets. Diamond earrings and gold bracelets have a way of ending up in her pockets.As much as the reader would like to sympathize with Jane, Hawkins makes sure there are a few things about her that we should know: She’s hiding something from her past and “Jane” isn’t her real name. (It might be Helen Burns, another nod to the Brontë classic.) As these unsettling facts come to light, the reader becomes more guarded about Jane’s version of things. Tensions mount and mistrust grows as other characters weigh-in through Hawkins’ use of the multi-narrator technique. [...]This is not Brontë’s tale, but a modern, rip-roaring thriller best enjoyed on a sandy beach with a tall, salty-rimmed beverage nearby. (Amy Bonesteel)
Thank goodness then for films and books where you can see people who look like you doing the things you do? There’s The Joy Luck Club but they’re Americans. What about Crazy Rich Asians? Well, they’re insanely rich and live in Singapore.Where are the Normal British Asians?Why does it even matter? What difference does it make if you see yourself in fiction? I see myself in Lizzy Bennet, Jane Eyre, Hermione Granger and it is wonderful to feel your bright wit, your earnest sense of duty, your courage and determination reflected in these characters who don’t necessarily look like you.The thing is though if you are only ever depicted in one way, you’ll feel your caricature, you’ll believe your stereotype. You don’t dare to be anything else. The way to break free is for the wider world to have as many depictions of someone like you as it can.
The childhood book that’s stayed with you...Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëNo one read stories to me as a child. I stole my brother’s Willard Price adventure books at first, Amazon Adventure etc and found them enthralling. Then I graduated on to the Nancy Drew mystery series. I don’t remember Enid Blyton or Narnia. My father’s books were in the house, mannish books, Graham Green and Neville Shute... My first big book love was Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Heathcliff, Cathy, their thwarted love story, the moors. “I am Heathcliff”. I still reel at this book.
Wide Sargasso Sea • Jean Rhys • 1966Probably my favourite novel. In her moody, beautiful way, Rhys creates an anti-colonial, feminist answer to Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre. It turns out the madwoman in the attic was a beautiful heiress; both she and the Jamaican heat are way too much for Rochester to handle.
I was intrigued with how the collection begins with poems about imagined robots and historic attempts at robots mimicking living things, and how it segues into later poems where the human body acts like a machine. Tell me how you started to make that parallel.Your question immediately makes me think of this line in “Jane Eyre”: “Do you think I am an automaton?—a machine without feelings?” And of course, before that, we have Descartes to thank for the metaphor of living beings as machines. Yet we live in a time in which the metaphors of past thinkers and writers are reshaped by the realities of twenty-first-century technology: our bodies are both “like” machines, while sometimes being part machine, and we live in fear of being replaced by machines. If our bodies are like machines, and can even be machines, what is it that continues to differentiate us, animate us? (Tara Betts)
In Emily Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Helen Burns dies of consumption after being quarantined for some time. Later, we are told about how Bertha Mason is kept in confinement owing to a mysterious affliction — a mental illness. Critical enquiries have uncovered the possibility of her ‘madness’ stemming from her captivity, as opposed to Edward Rochester’s argument that she was kept in captivity on account of her illness. (Ipshita Nath)
The latest issue of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature contains a Brontë-related piece:
Volume 14, Issue 4 – December 2020Creative NonfictionEmily K. Michael, A Letter to Jane Eyre
Dear Miss Eyre,
Today I write to offer my thoughts on certain aspects of your story, which I have just finished reading. Perhaps you are wondering why I call you by your maiden name. Ms. Brontë’s wonderful publication tells me that you are lately married, but it is your unmarried self, at a fixed point in the narrative, for whom I fashion this letter. (...)
For me the real draw is the impeccable historical research. I have both personal feelings about the Brontës and a serious historical nerd obsession about them. Other than a few adjustments made for the sake of story which are acknowledged in the afterword (the mysteries, of course, are fictional) the characters and their personalities match my own research and reading experience. These books provide a real sense of place and a fond yet realistic look at the Brontë household and the sometimes close, sometimes contentious relationships between the siblings, their father, and their housekeeper, Tabby. I really enjoy spending this time with them and I recommend this for fans of historical and literary history and for fans of the Brontës in particular. (Carrie S)
But I just nitpick. I fixate upon small plot flaws and get hung up on what I see as inconsistencies. I waste everyone’s time with my quibbles.For instance, in Jane Eyre Jane fails to recognise Mr Rochester (who she has lived with for several months and is falling in love with) who shows up pretending to be a fortune teller. She sits with him for what must be a half-hour conversation without seeing through his flimsy disguise. Perhaps she had gone temporarily blind. And deaf, as she doesn’t recognise his voice either. (Steve Finan)
In the Quick by Kate Hope Day (Random House, March 2)This past summer, the SpaceX flight to the International Space Shuttle offered a rare moment of wonder during an otherwise static year. For those more interested in life beyond Earth, In the Quick by Kate Hope Day (Random House, March 2) offers an escape. June is a brilliant young woman gifted with a knack for mechanical invention. A fascination with space exploration runs in the family. June’s uncle created the fuel cells for Inquiry, a spacecraft that went missing when she was twelve-years-old. Now an accomplished astronaut with a position as an engineer on a space station, June seeks out her late uncle’s protégée James who may help her unlock the reasons why the cells failed—and also find the missing ship and its crew. Romance ensues which tests the limits of human ingenuity and ambition. With echoes of Station Eleven, The Martian, and, yes, Jane Eyre, this is a gripping and unconventional novel with an unforgettable heroine. (Lauren LeBlanc)
SHORTZ: Do you know when the TV network has scheduled Jane blank to blank?COPANS: Eyre to air.
29. Les Hauts de Hurlevent, 1939William Wyler (1902-1981)La plus célèbre des adaptations du roman d’Emily Brontë. Laurence Olivier et Merle Oberon forment un couple inoubliable, qu’aucun successeur n’a égalé. (Jean-Paul Brighelli) (Translation)
In a Heathcliff-esque moment, Tom’s long-submerged emotions finally erupted. Had he finally found his wife’s grave? (Michael Hogan)
I Am Not a Bird
Queering the Brontës with Rosie FreemanBradford Community Radio - LGBTQ+ History Month 2021Sunday 21 Feb 1-2pm
Repeated Monday 22 Feb 12-1pm and Thursday 25 Feb 9-10amThe Brick Box Rosie Freemans presents a queer reading of the Brontës, their lives, works and characters. Expect feminist punk, gender-bending, and moorland Gothicism.
The BrontësBorn in Thornton, Emily, Charlotte and Anne, the 19th-century literary family, are also associated with the village of Haworth, with both places now popular tourist spots.The sisters are well known as poets and novelists, with their classics including Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre still as popular today.Their brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, was an English painter and writer who died aged 31 in 1848. (Mark Stanford)
4. The Brontë’s Trail, PendleIf you are a bit of a bookworm who loves learning about Lancashire’s literary history, then this walking route could be perfect.The Brontë sisters spent a lot of their time exploring Lancashire and the South Pennine Moors.This walking route begins in the heart of the Trawden Forest and sees you walk by historic farmhouses and beautiful woodland.It will take around 5 hours to complete, but it is completely worth it if you are excited to discover abandoned tram tracks and waterfalls.You will even encounter the remains of Wycoller Hall on the route.The walk starts neat The Trawden Arms and The Old Rock Café.If you want to grab a drink or a nibble for the journey, The Lakeside Cafe on Ball Grove Drive, Colne could be a great stop off point.They are open 9-4 on Mondays and 10-4 every other day of the week. (Sarah McGee)
Mr Brocklehurst, Lowood School in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)The supervisor of Lowood, where the young Jane is sent, Brocklehurst is a pious hypocritical clergyman who keeps the girls in conditions of appalling privation. Ravaged by chilblains from the perishing cold and half-starved, the food is ‘scarcely sufficient to keep alive a delicate invalid’. Pupils have no resistance when typhus rips through the institution and Jane’s friend, Helen Burns, dies in her arms of consumption. A reminder that things could indeed be worse. (...)Miss Jean Brodie of Marcia Blaine’s School for Girls, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1961)'I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' says Miss Brodie to her girls — the 'crème de la crème'. This leaves the Brodie set familiar with the Italian Renaissance painters and the love life of Charlotte Brontë, but not the date of the Battle of Flodden. In the end, it’s not the affair Miss Brodie engineers between one of her girls and the Art master that proves her undoing, but her admiration for Mussolini. (Flora Watkins)
4. The fire scene, Jane Eyre (2011)"After Rochester’s room was set on fire, he leaves and comes back to Jane, who was just waiting. They are soooo close, it's stirring. And the movie as a whole is an underappreciated period piece!" (dreacarmenc, listed by Allie Hayes)
Yönetmenliğini Cary Joji Fukunaga’nın yaptığı film 2011 yılında çekildi.On yaşında öksüz kalan, babasını da öldü bilen Jane Eyre, kendisine köle gibi davranan halası tarafından yoksul kızların gittiği katı disiplinli bir yatılı okula gönderilir. On yıl kadar kaldığı bu okula sonunda öğretmen olur. Bir süre sonra da Edward Rochester’ın malikânesinde mürebbiyelik yapmaya başlar. Jane, giderek hayal bile edemeyeceği zorluklar ve acılar yaşayacak, beş parasız ve evsiz barksız kalacak, erkeklerin egemenliğindeki bir dünyada bir kadının tek başına ayakta kalabileceğini kanıtlamak için savaşacaktır. (Ayşen Sıla) (Translation)
Cada escritor tiene sus caminos literarios. Me gusta mucho la literatura inglesa, la historia inglesa y la forma de hacer historia que tienen los ingleses. Junto a la historia y la literatura argentina, se unen formar mi imaginario y el universo de donde salen mis novelas. Mujercitas de Alcott fue el primer libro que mi mamá me puso en las manos. Alcott no era inglesa, pero abrió el camino. Las Brontë fueron el pilar de mis lecturas adolescencia. Jane Austen moldeó mis lecturas mi juventud. Es imposible pensar en escribir sin pensar en ellas.Fue cuando leí el libro Infernales. La hermandad Brontë de Laura Ramos que logré entender que algo faltaba, que había algo que no había entendido del todo. La gran influencia en mi historia como lectora tenía que ver con escritoras que eran hijas pobres de pastores protestantes. Jane, hija del reverendo Austen; Charlotte, Emily y Anne, hijas del reverendo Brontë. Alcott no es inglesa ni es hija de clérigos, pero sí hija de un educador y ella misma, maestra y pobre. (...)Charlotte fue la hermana Brontë que hizo famosa a una institutriz, Jane Eyre, pero fue otra hermana, Anne, la que trabajó como tal. Las experiencias de Anne Brontë como institutriz están reflejadas en la menos famosa de los escritos de la familia, Agnes Grey. La novela, contada en primera persona, tiene mucho menos atractivo sobrenatural o encanto que las de sus hermanas, pero refleja, sin decorados, lo que debió ser la vida de esas mujeres. (Translation)
Well, actually Charlotte did work as a governess, twice.
Hinde Pomeraniec: Cuando te leía y leía lo de Abel Santa Cruz y su adaptación de Los miserables, me acordaba de que mi generación y nuestra genealogía, que es de unos años después, tiene que ver ya con la televisión y, por ejemplo, con los teleteatros de Alberto Migré, con El principito en los teleteatros, con los poemas de Julia Prilutzky Farny.M.M: Exactamente. En mi caso es una marca tremenda, entonces por eso digo que la voz de Pedro López Lagar haciendo de Heathcliff en Cumbres borrascosas la tengo como casi una alucinación.H.P.: Sé que había programas de humor en donde aparecían de pronto actores imitando el grito de Cathy de Pedro López Lagar.M.M.: Ah, mirá, eso ya no lo recuerdo. No habría permitido que se burlen de Pedro. No hubiera escuchado en broma a alguien burlarse, hacer una imitación de Pedro López. Se prestaba, era una voz muy amanerada, ¿no? (Translation)
Quizá para el pensamiento cínico hay un tinte un poco artificial en los nuevos usos de la palabra sororidad, algo de construcción falsa, como si por el hecho de ser mujeres ya fuéramos solidarias siempre entre nosotras. No es así, pero poner esa palabra en el centro del discurso, forzarla, ha ayudado a cambiar la narración atávica de la rivalidad femenina. Pienso en las hermanas Brontë, en Louisa May Alcott, en Virginia y Vanessa, en Hannah y sus hermanas o en las vírgenes suicidas. (Translation)
Mariola Díaz-Cano Arévalo: ¿Quién es tu escritor favorito? Puedes escoger más de uno y de todas las épocas.LV: Pues no sé si tengo alguno, creo que no. Más que escritores, diría libros que me han gustado mucho. De los clásicos, Oliver Twist de Dickens, Crimen y castigo de Dostoievsky, El conde de Montecristo de Dumas, algunos dramas de Shakespeare, Cumbres borrascosas de Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre de su hermana Charlotte… (Translation)
Si en algún momento he tenido la sensación de que Jude el oscuro nos podía remitir al amor romántico y maldito de Cumbres Borrascosas de Emily Brontë, más bien he terminado por pensar que, además de Dickens, otra de las influencias más claras para Hardy en este libro es la de Fiódor Dostoyevski. (David Pérez) (Translation)
Niemand kann heute mehr schreiben wie die Brontë-Schwestern oder wie Theodor Fontane. Der Familienroman aber bleibt virulent – und sei es in Form seiner sprachgewaltigen Demontage wie im Riesenwerk "Die Tutoren" (2015) des Serben Bora Ćosić. (Manfred Papst) (Translation)Pianeta Donne (Italy) highlights a Wuthering Heights mention in a chapter of the Turkish soap opera Erkenci Kuş (Daydreamer) (Episode 39):
Una volta tornati nelle rispettive case, Sanem cerca di scrivere, non le riesce e legge qualche frase di “Cime Tempestose” pensando a Can; anche lui, nel suo letto, sta leggendo il capolavoro di Emily Brontë e intanto pensa aPicture Source.
ll’amata. Huma, nella sua stanza, fa nervosamente le valigie, ma poi legge sullo stesso libro delle righe che le fanno venire in mente il suo comportamento. (Martina) (Translation)
Qui giace un poeta. 60 visite a tombe d’artistaVarious AuthorsJimenez EdizioniISBN: 9788832036213Oltre cinquanta autori italiani e stranieri – tra scrittori, artisti, editori, giornalisti, librai e blogger – accomunati dalla passione per i viaggi sulle tombe di poeti e romanzieri. Tombe sfarzose, come quella di Oscar Wilde, o semplici lapidi in un prato, come quelle di Jack Kerouac e James Joyce, tombe ospitate in cimiteri celebri – il Père-Lachaise di Parigi o l’acattolico di Roma – oppure nascoste in mezzo a monti desertici, coperte dal segreto di un monastero, come quella di Javsandamba Zanabazar, artista e poeta mongolo, in patria venerato come un santo. Tombe che raccolgono ossa e ceneri, niente di più, ma che sono spesso meta di trascinanti pellegrinaggi. Perché, quando si ama visceralmente un poeta o uno scrittore ormai morto e sepolto, non bastano le parole che ha lasciato, non sono sufficienti i diari, le lettere, le biografie e le auto-biografie. Quando si ama qualcuno che non c’è più, arriva sempre il giorno in cui si fa irresistibile il desiderio di “vederlo ancora una volta”, andare a trovarlo dove giace per sempre.Cosa si prova – quali emozioni, ricordi, riflessioni scattano – quando ci si trova di fronte alla tomba di un artista amato? Che storia c’è, dietro quella lapide? E che storia c’è, dietro quel pellegrinaggio? Di questo scrivono gli autori coinvolti: hanno compiuto il loro pellegrinaggio e ce lo hanno raccontato. Massimiliano Governi sulla tomba di Sandro Onofri, Daniele Mencarelli sulle tracce di Camillo Sbarbaro, Barry Gifford tra i cimiteri di Parigi e Venezia, Matteo Trevisani in ricordo di Giordano Bruno, Giovanni Dozzini in cerca di Elio Vittorini, Tyler Keevil tra le brughiere gallesi con Dylan Thomas, Nicola Manuppelli sulle tracce di William Butler Yeats e molti altri ancora.Alcuni di loro hanno scelto di descrivere che fine abbiano fatto, post mortem, alcune coppie celebri della letteratura, altri si sono avventurati anche tra tombe di personaggi che, nel loro ambito e a loro modo, potevano definirsi poetici. Insieme compongono un mosaico di pellegrinaggi letterari su tomb
e di poeti, scrittori e artisti, per parlare, attraverso la morte, della vita e dell’arte.
One of the visited 'tombs' is Emily Brontë's, which as you know is not really a tomb:
Le finestre della casa nella quale abitarono le sorelle Brontë affacciano da sempre sul cimitero del villaggio di Haworth, e tuttavia "la sepoltura di Charlotte ed Emily [...] non è lì tra quelle tombe che sono state il loro panorama per tutta la vita: è custodita dentro la chiesa ed è quasi inaccessibile ai visitatori". Laura Ganzetti ha scoperto Emily e Charlotte Brontë in una notte d'estate dell'adolescenza e le ha seguite fin nello Yorkshire, dove hanno vissuto e ora riposano, per rendere omaggio alle loro vite, alle loro opere e ai loro luoghi. (Source)
Further information on Il Libraio or FS News.
Haworth, West Yorkshire – Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Brontë siblings lived with their father Patrick in the parsonage at Haworth, a village on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. The family was plagued by tuberculosis: two older sisters died of the disease in 1825, followed by Branwell and Emily in 1848, Anne in 1849 and Charlotte in 1855. Emily wrote one novel, Wuthering Heights, which the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti called “a fiend of a book”.Wuthering Heights is the name of a remote house on the moors, the setting for the tumultuous love affair between the passionate Catherine Earnshaw and her adopted brother, the brooding, swarthy Heathcliff.Where to walk: Start by visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum, where you can see the table at which Emily, Charlotte and Anne wrote; then walk west to the crags and the abandoned farmhouse Top Withens, said by some to have inspired Emily. (Henry Eliot)
The Times reviews The Crichel Boys by Simon Fenwick:When I was 16, Wuthering Heights was a setwork book and more than half my class was in love with Heathcliff. Tormented, intense and complex, he remains my favourite literary character to this day. I have a vivid memory of most of us faintly marking the ambiguous paragraph where Cathy and Heathcliff have sex but, to our great disappointment, Miss Young skated nimbly over that part. [...]I also fell for Jane Eyre, which encompasses everything you could want in a Gothic novel: an orphan battling to find not only love but her place in life; the enigmatic and prickly Mr Rochester, who we grow to love; his imprisoned and mad first wife; and, to top it off, the cremation of the mysterious house, Thornfield. What’s not to love? [...]Now I have written my own Australian Gothic novel, Sargasso — a Wuthering Heights for the modern-day Australian reader. Sargasso is set in an isolated beach house on the Australian coastline, and concerns the obsessive childhood friendship between Hannah and Flint. Flint is a Heathcliff. He is a tortured and complex soul, poor man, and it was an absolute thrill to create him.I played around with the hallmarks of Gothic writing. Instead of the bleak English climate, I used the harsh Australian sun; in place of the stately English home or dreary mansion, I created a stunning, architect-designed beach house, which becomes a character in the novel.
Friends called them “the Crichel Boys”, “the Bears” or “the Bachelors”. To others they were the “hyphenated gentlemen-aesthetes”. They were gay, or bi, or open-minded. Nancy Mitford called them “the Brontës” and the novelist Elizabeth Bowen the “dear old cissies”. (Laura Freeman)
Il rapporto con gli stranieri è pure un elemento importante nei romanzi di Agatha Christie e riflette una punta di xenofobia che serpeggia nella società britannica e si nota anche in alcuni grandi classici dell’Ottocento (è, ad esempio, abbastanza ricorrente nelle opere delle sorelle Brontë) (Helena Labus Bačić) (Translation)
Some recent Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights covers on YouTube and a video talking about the importance of the song:
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“Becoming Jane Eyre” by Sheila Kohler is the story of the Brontë family, mostly about the sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne who wrote their novels under the pen names of men. The novel begins with their father lying in bed, blind. His daughter, Charlotte, watches over him. He recalls the surgery on his eye. Charlotte and her sisters and her brother are dependent on him for house and stipend. (Priscilla Comen)
The macabre tale has inspired writers from Charles Dickens to Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter and Kurt Vonnegut, Joyce Carol Oates and John Updike, and is referenced in such classics as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. “You could argue that a lot of contemporary crime fiction is based on Bluebeard motifs,” says [writer Kate] Forsyth. (Caroline Baum)
We’ve grown up reading classic books, from Austen to Brontë, that idealize these grandiose locations. (Elise Taylor)
Come potrete aver immaginato da queste poche premesse che vi abbiamo dato sulla trama di Dietro i suoi occhi, la miniserie di Erik Richter Strand inizia nel territorio sicuro del thriller psicologico/erotico per poi deragliare nel racconto sovrannaturale, cercando di rielaborare e modernizzare alcuni elementi del romanzo gotico (con chiari spunti da Cime Tempestose e Jane Eyre... che Adele sia la classica mad wife in the attic?). (Carlotta Deiana) (Translation)
[James] Nesbitt is such a natural comic actor it’s hard not to expect a quip or two along the way but here he’s impressively stony until, that is, he goes full Heathcliff as Brannick’s long-buried emotions finally erupt. (Suzi Feay)
What is your favourite way to relax?I love hiking. I like to go out in the hills. It’s a bit Wuthering Heights and wild this time of year in the Peak District.
A Master's Dissertation recently published:
Jane Eyre (1947) and Wuthering Heights (1847) as Bildungsroman: A Comparative Analysis
Helena Cano Gámez
Universidad de Jaén. Filología Inglesa
[EN]The aim of this Master’s Dissertation is to study two of the most renown novels from the Victorian era, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, as novels of development or Bildungsroman. A comparative analysis on the protagonists’ psychological and moral development, focusing on the typical devices found in Bildungsroman will be provided. The main subject matters that will be developed in this essay are the characters’ origins and their families, social class and class mobility, love relationships and personalities.
#2 The BrontësPerhaps the most famous literary family the country has produced, the Brontës were born in Thornton and spent most of their lives in Haworth. Their life and work are celebrated in Haworth’s Brontë Parsonage Museum, which is a short walk away from the unspoilt area of south Pennine hills that inspired works including Wuthering Heights.
What can we expect next from you?A standalone novel inspired by Jane Eyre, set in the south of France and England. It is a story of Hema Pattni, an orphan who is both intrigued and scared of meeting Rahul Raichura, the man who has employed her to look after his four-year-old charge. A story of a Gujarati family who holds a secret. (Mita Mistry)
Springora describes how she furnished him with the perfect victim. Her parents were divorced and she was precocious, book- smart, insecure about her looks and hungry for attention — quite ordinary, in other words. Jane Eyre is loved by so many teenage girls for a reason. (Fleur Macdonald)
I read Around the World in 80 Days and War of the Worlds and Jane Eyre. I had nobody to guide me, no kindly librarian to curate what I read and guide me towards what I should be reading. Thank god for that. (Aoife Martin)
The Mariposa County Arts Council has awarded Sydney Jacobs, a senior at Mariposa County High School, the title of Mariposa County Champion of Poetry Out Loud, a national recitation contest that encourages youth voice and agency through the memorization and performance of great historical and contemporary poetry. [...]Jacobs scored the highest in these criteria’s with powerful recitations of “Women Who Love Angels” by Judith Ortiz Cofer and “Death of Anne Brontë” by Charlotte Brontë.
Julia HarbourISBN: 9798577167530December 5, 2020Continuing the saga of the Gothic classic Jane Eyre, Author Julia Harbour's debut novel reintroduces us to Adele, Jane and Rochester in the Gothic drama we know so well. As the classic story moves forward, secrets are revealed. A heritage is denied. Passions smoulder. Danger looms! Heartbreak and joy intertwine as Adele's journey reaches its startling culmination. Rich with breathtaking surprises, Not Forgetting Adèle is a gripping tale of a young woman whose courage and determination changes the lives of everyone around her. Like its predecessor, Not Forgetting Adèle will find a place in all our hearts.
