Heathcliff in therapy

Tomorrow is World Book Day and so Daily Mail reveals 'The 10 classic novels bluffing Brits pretend they have read to impress their friends (even though 95 per cent of us think they are dull)' and Wuthering Heights is among them.

They're the books we know we’re meant to have read – but which many of us are too daunted by to actually pick up and start.

That hasn’t stopped nearly half of Britons from pretending to have devoured classics in an attempt to impress others.

An overwhelming 95 per cent of people find reading older novels and plays hard work, a poll has found. However many said they bluff their literary knowledge to appear more intelligent. [...]

Other novels which have failed to entice readers include Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and James Joyce’s 730-page novel Ulysses. [...]

Some 48 per cent of men and 44 per cent of women are willing to lie about having finished the classics – with young people most likely to fib. Of the 2,000 adults surveyed, 35 per cent said they would lie to look more intelligent, 24 per cent to impress a friend and only 11 per cent to woo a date.

Yet more than two thirds said they would be tempted to pick up the classics if they were funnier, according to the survey by TV channel Dave and the University of St Andrews.

Dave has said it will give the classics a ‘modern comedy makeover’, reinventing Jay Gatsby as an influencer and putting Wuthering Heights’ Heathcliff in therapy. (Imogen Horton)

The Telegraph and Argus also comments on the same survey. while offering alternative plots to make them more enticing.

Wuthering Heights

The new version sees Heathcliff sent to counselling for anger management and toxic masculinity (Jamie Jones)

However, whether truthfully or not, Wuthering Heights has also made it onto the list of readers' favourite books compiled by The Yorkshire Post.

Wigan Today shares a list of accommodations near literary locations.

Haworth, West Yorkshire

This small village in the Pennines of West Yorkshire is one of the settings for the Brontë sisters works during the early 1800s, the home of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. The bleakly beautiful Yorkshire moors have contributed to many differing interpretations of Wuthering Heights.

Where to stay: T’Lasses Cottage – from £605 per week (Christine Emelone)

Of course, March is Women's History Month and so HITC shares empowering quotes, including one from Jane Eyre, and Hyperallergic highlights some of the New York Public Library's treasures not to miss this particular month.

Portraits of Lyons and her sister Pauline, captured using the ambrotype method of early photography, are among the New York Public Library’s (NYPL) highlights for Women’s History Month, beginning today, March 1. These and other objects currently on view in NYPL’s Treasures exhibition, such as novelist Charlotte Brontë’s writing desk; botanical cyanotypes by photographer Anna Atkins; and Berenice Abbott’s gorgeously abstracted photo of a penicillin mold, center the stories of women well-known and less so. (Valentina Di Liscia)

CengNews recommends watching To Walk Invisible this month.

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Chаrlotte, Emily, аnd Anne Brontë аll struggled in wаys thаt I cаnnot comprehend. They were destitute аnd lonely. Their fаmily’s finаnciаl аnd emotionаl resources were depleted by their аlcoholic brother. They аlso hаd to contend with а publishing industry thаt wаs uninterested in femаle writers. Despite this, they wrote аnd published some of the most fаmous works of English literаture, including Jаne Eyre, Wuthering Heights, аnd The Tenаnt of Wildfell Hаll (аll under mаle pseudonyms). This film is both eerie аnd inspiring аt the sаme time. (Nаtаlie Weinstein)

The Clarion is saddened by the 'unexpected cancellation of Bethel’s decade-old Europe Term and 43-year-old England Term' which helped students get closer to literature.

The trip would be the first time she experienced literature in 3D. Instead of reading “Pride and Prejudice” in a concrete classroom, she walked the streets of Bath. She saw the Brontё’s fireplace and imagined meals cooked and a home warmed. She walked through Hemingway’s memoir “A Movable Feast” in Paris.

“When you’re standing in the middle of a story, it becomes immediately clear that these works considered great were made in places and times by people,” she said. “That’s all touchable.”

Elle (Italy) has an article on the Brontë family.