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Sunday, January 23, 2022

Sunday, January 23, 2022 10:36 am by M. in , , ,    No comments
 The best novels by female authors in Rising Kashmir (India):
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published on 16 October 1847. The novel extuberates intense power and intrigue. The story revolves around Jane Eyre, a plain yet spirited governess, and her arrogant, brooding master of Thornfield Hall, Mr Rochester. The book also focuses on elements of social criticism and is considered by many to be ahead of its time because of Jane's individualistic strong character and how the novel approaches the topics of class, sexuality, religion, and feminism. The novel along with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is one of the most famous romance novels of all time. The novel can be easily called a masterpiece that has been teaching true strength of character for generations by its depiction of a woman's quest for freedom.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë. It is one of English literature's classic masterpieces—an exciting novel of love and tragedy. It revolves around two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel is influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. Emily Brontë’s enthralling prose concentrates on the nature of human folly, defying the gender, religious and social morals of its day. It is a mystifying masterpiece that examines the cruelty of love, and how the past haunts. (Irfan Mehraj)
Daily Mail covers the story of Zara Rutherford and her fly solo around the world:
On the way she has kept Sharky's canopy wedged closed with her elbow at 180mph, gone fishing for her own dinner in Alaska and spent a month in the remotest region of Russia with no fellow English speakers, no wi-fi and only a battered copy of Jane Eyre for company. (Sarah Oliver)
The Davis Enterprise tells the story of a COVID confinement:
Two weeks ago, however, after several days of illness, my daughter said that the room made her feel like the madwoman in “Jane Eyre,” confined and crazed. I can picture that.
Even though I haven’t read the book since I was a teenager, I shivered at the comparison. (Marion Franck)
El Faro de Vigo quotes Wuthering Heights (or maybe not):
 No sé si habrán leído ustedes Cumbres Borrascosas, de Emily Brontë. Es una novela llena de violencia, rabia y pasión. Pura amargura ante lo inevitable. Su autora, de apenas 30 años, la publicó en Londres en 1847 con el seudónimo de Ellis Bell; era tal la dureza del texto, que fue tachado de amoral y considerado una obra de mano masculina. Al final de la novela, una de sus extraordinarias protagonistas dice: “Yo no necesito la felicidad. Ya la he probado, y me aburre. Te necesito a ti; y, si eso supone dificultades y privaciones materiales, creo que ahora estaría dispuesta a afrontarlas”.  (María Oruña) (Translation) 
Well, we have indeed read Wuthering Heights and we cannot find a quote like that in the novel. Maybe it's a problem with the particular translation. 

Quotes about patience, including one from Jane Eyre, on Parade. Nerd Daily publishes an excerpt of Shauna Robinson's novel Must Love Books with a Brontë mention:
Nora knew from her first day that Parsons Press wasn’t what it used to be. This whale of a company had been around since the 1800s, since Dickens and Brontë and Poe, not that Parsons ever published anything that interesting.
Letras Libres (Spain) reviews The Wind by Dorothy Scarborough:
Una de mis novelas favoritas es Cumbres borrascosas. A Dorothy Scarborough (1878 – 1935) la descubrí precisamente por esta novela y por esta escritora. Considero que no fue mera casualidad, sino una causalidad libresca toparme con El viento (Errata naturae editores, 2019), cuyo texto de contraportada afirma que: “Con ecos de Cumbres borrascosas (…), El viento está considerada la gran novela gótica americana.” (Karen Villeda) (Translation)
Wall Street International Magazine (in Spanish) talks about female anonymity in writing (and takes for granted a questionable picture of the Brontës):
Conocido es el caso de las hermanas Brontë (1818), Charlotte, Emily y Anne, poetas y novelistas británicas que publicaron sus obras con nombres de hombres por temor al rechazo de la pacata sociedad británica del tiempo.
Seguramente todos recordarán el clásico de la literatura, Cumbres Borrascosas, única novela de Emily Brontë publicada en 1847. Por su parte Anne, escribe La inquilina de Wildfell Hall, novela que trata el derecho de la mujer casada a separarse del marido maltratador, argumento que no era tema en la época. (María Ester González Cereceda) (Translation)
A passing mention in Algérie Patriotique (Algeria):
C’est ainsi qu’entre un cours de chimie et un cours de génétique, je trouvais le moyen de m’évader, ne serait-ce que quelques minutes, en compagnie des «Frères Karamazov» ou avec les sœurs Brontë dans leur Hauts de Hurlevent. (Aziz Ghedia) (Translation)

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