The Big Brontë Clothes Swap

The Telegraph and Argus highlights the events which are to take place in the Bradford area to mark International Women's Day. Among them is:

• The Big Brontë Clothes Swap – March 13 at the Brontë Parsonage. Come and barter, donate and swap clothes and take home some new garments. Including free refreshments, a talk about their new exhibition Defying Expectations: Inside Charlotte Brontë’s Wardrobe as well as an Inspiration Station to give tips and hints on how to upcycle clothes.

GoBookMart lists famous authors who died in March such as

Charlotte Brontë (March 31st)

Charlotte is among the three English Brontë sisters (the others are Anne and Emily) who found widespread success as writers. Perhaps among the pioneering generation of women authors in the 19th century, writing represented to Brontë an escape from the harsh reality of life. Her works include “Jane Eyre”, “The Professor” and “Villette”.

A contributor to Gettysburg Times writes about her Winter Reading Challenge, which included Wuthering Heights.

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is vastly different, and upon this reread I was reminded by how complicated and manipulative Heathcliff can be, as well as the stark, decaying atmosphere of just about everything in the novel. (Jessica Laganosky)

Ricochet imagines other trigger warning for classic novels such as

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë: Warning: Passionate affair transcends death. (Manny)

Boston Review discusses motherhood.

This is the subtext of the essays in Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids (2015), try as both the contributors and editor Meghan Daum do to come up with something else. Not incidental, of course, is the fact that childcare is still mostly women’s job; of the sixteen writers in the collection, twelve are women. Sigrid Nunez catalogues the great ones—Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf—who did not have children. (Judith Levine)

Worcester Magazine looks into Nightmare Alley 1947 after watching Nightmare Alley 2021. The role now played by Cate Blanchett was then played by Helen Walker.

A former clerk at Worcester City Hall, Helen Walker first played the lead role of “Jane Eyre” in summer stock at the Boylston Town Hall and later with the Louise Galloway Players at the Red Barn Theatre, located at the intersection of Routes 9 and 30, in Westborough. (Craig S. Semon)

News24 reviews The Sky Is Everywhere.

Lennie lives with her Grams (Cherry Jones) and her stoner uncle Big (Jason Segel). And she has lost interest in what she usually enjoys. A talented clarinetist bound for Julliard, she stops playing music, relinquishing her position of the first chair to her band nemesis. She also fails to communicate with her best friend Sarah (Ji-yung Yoo). While all she wants to do is re-read Wuthering Heights and sit in Bailey's closet wearing her clothes. (Caryn Welby-Solomon)

Jazzwise features singer Cécile McLorin Salvant.

At the Cadogan Hall concert last year, Salvant unveiled an astounding version of ‘Wuthering Heights’, the preparation for which took her deep into the world of Emily Brontë, who penned the 1847 novel, which singer-songwriter Kate Bush adapted with such bravado that Salvant was épatée when she first heard it after her elder sister had requested the song for her wedding playlist.

Enthralled as she was by the way Heathcliff is haunted by Catherine in Brontë’s tale, Salvant also set about writing original material that broaches the theme of torrid emotional torture amid the departure of a lover on Ghost Song, arguably one of her finest creations to date as a composer insofar as it extends a long lineage of folk, blues and jazz ballads in which confessions waft like lonely clouds over a deftly mapped chordal landscape. As if guided by a mischief-maker spirit the piece came to her in circumstances that were anything but scripted. (Kevin Le Gendre)

A similar comment is made in an interview for Il Manifesto (Italy).