Emily wins at the Dinard Festival

Emily by Frances O'Connor is the major winner in the Dinard Festival "Film Britannique";  Jury Prize (Hitchcock d'Or Cine+), Best Performance (Hithcock de la meilleur intérpretation) to Emma Mackey and the Audience Award (Hitthcock du public long-métrage); TV5, Ouest-France, Le Télegramme, Paris Match, Le Figaro, Toute la Culture. The Sheperd of the Hills Gazette...

Pictures by @Zickmafr

The film is one of the films to see this October according to News in Asia:

The star of Mansfield Park and The Importance of Being Earnest, Frances O’Connor would have been a shoo-in to play Emily Brontë if someone had made a biopic of the author 20 years ago. Instead, O’Connor has written and directed a Brontë biopic herself, and cast Emma Mackey (Sex Education) in the lead role. How did the shiest and most repressed of the three sisters come to write the passionate Wuthering Heights? O’Connor’s acclaimed directorial debut suggests that Emily’s hedonistic brother Bramwell (Fionn Whitehead) and a handsome local priest (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) might have had something to do with it.

Released on 14 October in the UK and Ireland, and 28 October in Turkey.

The Pittsburg Post-Gazette presents Gwendolyn Kiste's Reluctant Immortals:

There was always something about the stories of Lucy Westenra and Bertha Mason that Gwendolyn Kiste felt were incomplete — and that’s putting it generously.
Lucy first appeared in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel “Dracula” and is mostly defined by her two murders, first by Dracula when she was human and then by monster hunters after transforming into a vampire. Bertha is the deranged first wife of Edward Rochester who is locked in an attic in Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel “Jane Eyre.” (Joshua Axelrod)

Financial Times publishes an audio transcript of the FT Weekend podcast: Jamaica Kincaid and Enna Okoro on Writing:

Lilah Raptopoulos: You mean you would say, like “this book is actually by me”? 

Jamaica Kincaid:  Yes, and I wouldn’t say it, but it was clear that I thought I had written it. And I was interested in your seeing yourself in the world. I never thought of seeing myself as, as I am. For instance, I was punished a lot because I was very disruptive in school and I think I was about 9, 10. I was given a copy of Jane Eyre to read and in a corner. That was my punishment and not recess. And I read it and pretended I was Charlotte Brontë. And it never occurred to me that neither Charlotte Brontë nor Jane Eyre looked like me. I just felt I was them. Racial identity didn’t come into my imagination until I went to America, because where I come from, everyone is black. So if you say, Oh, the black guy, you would say which one? Because . . . 

The Huddersfield Hub chooses a quote from Charlotte Brontë's Shirley to begin an article about gardening. The quote is somewhat shortened so here it is without cuts:

It was a peaceful autumn day. The gilding of the Indian summer mellowed the pastures far and wide. The russet woods stood ripe to be stripped, but were yet full of leaf. The purple of heath-bloom, faded but not withered, tinged the hills. The beck wandered down to the Hollow, through a silent district; no wind followed its course or haunted its woody borders. Fieldhead gardens bore the seal of gentle decay. On the walks, swept that morning, yellow leaves had fluttered down again. Its time of flowers, and even of fruits, was over; but a scantling of apples enriched the trees. Only a blossom here and there expanded pale and delicate amidst a knot of faded leaves. (Chapter XXVII) 

The full cast and crew of the West Coast premiere at Berkeley of the Wise Children's production of Wuthering Heights have been announced. In Broadway World:

Berkeley Repertory Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for the West Coast premiere of Emma Rice's critically acclaimed Wuthering Heights, a reimagined version of Emily Brontë's gothic masterpiece with live music, dance, passion, hope, and a dash of impish irreverence, creating an intoxicating revenge tragedy for today. Wuthering Heights will perform at Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre (2015 Addison St., Berkeley) beginning Friday, November 18 and continuing through Sunday, January 1, 2023. Press night will be held on Tuesday, November 22. Tickets are on sale and can be purchased online at berkeleyrep.org/shows/wuthering-heights/ or by phone at 510-647-2949 (Tue-Sun, noon-7 p.m.). (Chloe Rabinowitz)

RBB Radio (Germany) presents a new book series that includes a book on Emily Brontë:

Mithu Sanyal über Emily Brontë

Der Auftakt zu einer neuen Reihe über Lebensbücher. Welche Bücher sind nachdrücklich und nachhaltig für unser Leben? Für Mithu Sanyal ist das das Buch „Sturmhöhe“ von Emily Bronte. U.a. erzählt Sanyal davon, wie ihre Liebe zu Emily Bronte begann, als sie 15 war und Kate Bush hörte und wie das Buch sie dann in allen möglichen Lebenslagen begleitete. Eine kluge und inspiriert-amüsante Vergegenwärtigung des Lebens und Wirkens dieser beeindruckenden Autorin Emily Bronte, die zeitlebens für ihre Reche kämpfte, unter Pseudonym schrieb und schon jung an Tuberkulose starb. Anne-Dore Krohn

Mithu Sanyal über Emily Brontë. In der Reihe "Bücher meines Lebens", herausgegeben von Volker Weidermann. Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 160 S., 20,00 Euro. (Anne-Dore Krohn, Nadine Kreuzahler and Jörg Magenau) (Translation)

Politkyol (Turkey) on male pen names: 

Geçmiş maalesef erkek ismini kullanan yazar kadınlarla dolu. Jane Eyre romanını hepimiz biliriz. Romantizm akımının örneklerinden olan bu eserin yazarı yukarıda da andığım Charlotte Brontë. Meğer, Charlotte Brontë ve kardeşleri Emily ve Anne Brontë, ilk olarak eserlerini erkek adları ile yayınlamış. Brontë kardeşler istisna da değil. (Ayşegül Kula) (Translation)

MOB Magazine (Italy) interviews the writer and poet Alessandra Bucci: 

Andrea Giostra: Come nasce la tua passione per scrittura, per la poesia e per i libri? Chi sono stati i tuoi maestri e quali gli autori che da questo punto di vista ti hanno segnato e insegnato ad amare i libri, le storie da scrivere e raccon
tare, la lettura e la scrittura?

A.B.: Da sempre ho amato leggere. Ogni volta che compro un nuovo libro la prima cosa che faccio e aprirlo per annusare l’odore della carta che mi evoca sensazioni meravigliose. Compro tanti libri all’anno e altrettanti ne leggo. Accanto al mio comodino ci sono pile di libri che attendono il loro turno. Preferisco i gialli, le storie autobiografiche e intime, quelle che ti grattano dentro. Ho sognato leggendo “Cime tempestose” di Emily Brontë, amo i classici e tutta la letteratura del Novecento: Buzzati, Pavese, Calvino, Pirandello, Moravia e Pasolini per citare solo alcuni dei miei autori preferiti.  (Translation)

Adevărul (Romania) includes a Brontë reference in a general knowledge quiz. Télé-Loisirs (France) announces that Jane Eyre 2006 is freely available on the 6Play platform. 

Finally, on the Brontë Parsonage Facebook Wall we can find a work by Nicky Peacock, the writer in residence at the Parsonage:

Here’s our Writer in Residence @witchesbirdies ‘s last Lonely Hearts in the set, for Branwell. 

“Lonely Hearts date from the late 17th century and were our ancestors’ version of Tinder bios. None of the Brontës were particularly lucky in love, so using traditional tropes and common lore of the siblings, I took the liberty of mapping out their earthly desires in a series of imagined advertisements.”