Brontë groupies

The Yorkshire Post confirms that an anonymous donor gave 20000£ to save the Honresfeld Collection. Will it be enough? In a few days we will know:

Honresfield Collection: Campaign to save precious Brontë manuscripts gets boost from anonymous donor

An appeal to save precious Brontë manuscripts for the nation has had a boost from an anonymous donor. (...)

The Brontë Society and Parsonage in Haworth had a target of £25,000 but more than £34,000 has been donated.

It is expected the Friends of National Libraries, who have co-ordinated the fundraiser, will announce in the coming days if it has been successful.

If the Brontë manuscripts are saved, they will form part of collections at the parsonage and the British Library.

The campaign was also recently backed by The Prince of Wales, who called it a 'noble campaign'.

The Friends of the National Library (FNL) have raised £7.5 million towards a purchase of the Honresfield Library which was due to go up for auction. (Victoria Finan)

Films "like" Pride & Prejudice according to Collider:

Jane Eyre (2011)

Speaking of notable literary names, you might've also heard of classic novelist Charlotte Brontë. Like Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre has undergone multiple film adaptations. Our favorite version to include on this list is the 2011 film starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, which is true to the gothic romance and understated themes of the original 1847 novel.

After a cruel childhood as an orphan, and following many years spent in a strict school for girls, Jane Eyre (Wasikowska) is grateful for her new position as governess of a large manor called Thornfield Hall. Her young pupil is a good student, she's given food to eat and a place to sleep, and the master of the house, Mr. Rochester (Fassbender), seems pleasant enough. But, as Jane will soon discover, things at Thornfield Hall are not what they appear to be.

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

Another Brontë classic for our list, Wuthering Heights is a gothic romance from 1847 written by Emily Brontë—sister of Charlotte. Again, similar to her literary counterparts including her sister, Austen, and Tolstoy, Brontë's novel has seen many film adaptations.

Our choice for this list, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights stars Ralph Fiennes as the dark and brooding Heathcliff, with Juliette Binoche as the tragic Catherine Earnshaw. As childhood companions at the Wuthering Heights estate, Heathcliff and Catherine have a bond that defies social status and family duty. But when the pressure of growing up threatens to drive them apart—and a misunderstanding drives Heathcliff away—the young man returns to Wuthering Heights hell-bent on proving his worth to Catherine, her family, and anyone else he suspects of doubting his worth. (Kacie Cooper Stotler) 

The Guardian's hideously horrible Halloween culture quiz includes the question:

10.Which creepy old novel begins "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Martin Belam)

Also in The Guardian, an interview with the actress Maya Hawke:

How has being dyslexic affected your career? Does it make it harder to read scripts or learn lines?
Learning lines is fine but it makes it hard to look at a pile of scripts with excitement. If I ever reach a certain level of success, I’ll hire someone to read me scripts out loud.
Who would you hire?
I recently wrote a fan letter to Thandiwe Newton because I listened to her audiobook of Jane Eyre and it’s one of the greatest performances I’ve ever heard. Thandiwe Newton will never read my scripts to me, of course, but I love her voice.

The Oregonian highlights novels by Oregon writers:

“The Death of Jane Lawrence,” by Caitlin Starling
The bones of this Oregon author’s new novel resemble those of “Jane Eyre” or “Rebecca”: A young woman with no social standing marries only to learn a disturbing secret about her husband’s previous wife. But this heroine is made of different stuff. Jane is the one who proposes to the town doctor, offering her skills as an accountant in exchange for the financial security of a wedding ring. It’ll be a business arrangement, she assures him. She doesn’t count on shocking surgeries or a haunted house — or an undeniable spark between her and the doctor — to complicate the deal. Starling blends classic gothic romance with magic and philosophy for a truly spooky tale. (Amy Wang)

There's no Twilight recollection without the compulsory Brontë mention. Now in Stuff (New Zealand):

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, Twilight has been praised for its Brontë-like vision of girl meets vampire. (James Croot)

CBR digs into some of the Manga writer Junji Ito stories for Halloween: 

While Smashed covers a wide range of horror stories, it wouldn't be complete without a ghost romance included in its collection. The short story "Mirror Valley" is something of a Romeo & Juliet meets Wuthering Heights kind of ghost romance. (Diane Darcy)

According to the Daily Mail, Wuthering Heights 2009 is among the top ten hottest dramas on Britbox to watch now:

Wuthering Heights
This 2009 take on Emily Brontë’s timeless novel stars Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley (the pair are now married) as Heathcliff and Cathy.

Telegram & Gazette talks about Half Life, which is the latest single by Idler Wheel: 

Ultimately, it’s clear that [Michael] Boylan has created a sort of “Heathcliff in ‘Wuthering Heights’” sort of scenario here, and as Emily Brontë does in the novel, Boylan finds a sort of Romantic beauty in the character’s pain, alienation and darkness. (Victor D. Infante)

Morgenbladet (Norway) and dark academia: 

Og da har vi ikke engang snakket om dåmen, eller skal vi si guddommen, som kommer strømmende ut gjennom gamle universitetsportaler, Brontë-søstrenes romaner of alt annet som lukter nygotisk, magisk, filmatisk, litterært og som historisk har en plass gravert inn i kalveskinnet på gamle boksider, mellom veggene på humanistiske læreanstalter og under trekronene til de høye, rødmende lønne  lønnetrærne i New England. Hva slags fenomen er dette? Jo. (Ragnhild Brochmann) (Translation) 

Harry Mount describes people like us as Brontë groupies in The Telegraph:

If you are a PLF [Sir Patrick Lee Fermor] nut, this is like Graceland for an Elvis fan or Haworth Parsonage for Brontë groupies.

We tend to agree. 

ABC (Spain) recommends book readings for Halloween, including Damas Oscuras which includes a tale by Charlotte Brontë. A couple of news outlets in Spanish still lists the Brontës as authors who published under a pseudonym: El Observador and Vein. El Heraldo de Aragón (Spain) publishes a nice story about a great-great-grandmother who:

A sus 92 años, Matilde recuerda perfectamente cuál fue el primer libro que leyó cuando era joven: Cumbres Borrascosas, novela de Emily Brontë. “Fue en Toledo todavía. Una vecina me veía todo el día con pequeños libritos que cogía de dónde podía. Entonces me dijo "Eso no es leer, te voy a traer un libro de verdad”". Todavía guarda aquel ejemplar que, asegura, le cambió la vida. (Camino Ivars) (Translation)

Journal de Montreal (in French) interviews the actor Roy Dupuis:

Isabelle Hontebeyrie: Votre tout premier film marquant?
R.D.: C’est «Les hauts de Hurlevent» avec Lawrence Olivier. J’avais sept ans. J’étais le genre d’enfant qui ne voulait jamais aller se coucher et on regardait des films avec ma mère le vendredi ou le samedi soir. Je m’en souviens encore. C’est un film romantique «au boutte», ça m’avait surpris moi-même, comme petit gars, d’aimer un film d’amour. Et c’est un amour tellement tordu! (Translation)

Entrepeneur lists a Charlotte Brontë quote among quotes to boost productivity. Lifestyle District reviews the Bristol performances of the Wise Children's production of Wuthering Heights and Tor reviews Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood.