A total convert of Emily

York Mix recommends Emily:

Meanwhile, literary sort-of biopic Emily is getting another push at Cineworld and Vue this week – I was a bit sniffy about this one when I saw the trailer for it, but having seen the film I’m a total convert; this atmospheric, fictionalised take on the life of Emily Brontë may well have you dusting down your copy of Wuthering Heights afterwards. (James Beeken)

The film has also made it onto The Irish Times top 50 of the films of 2022.

46. Emily (Frances O’Connor): Yes, it seems we did need a biopic of Emily Brontë starring your one out of Sex Education. Emma Mackey (for it is she) is excellent. (Donald Clarke, Tara Brady)

Together with Jane Eyre 2011, Emily has also made it onto a selection of 'The 12 Greatest Feminist Period Drama Movies and TV Shows, Ranked' compiled by WhatNerd.

12. Emily (2022)

In Emily, Emma Mackey takes the feminist angst she showed in Netflix's Sex Education and applies it to the 19th century as Emily Brontë.

The young real-life author managed to become a legend of literature with a single book, titled Wuthering Heights and published in 1847. Sadly, Emily Brontë met an untimely death at 30 years of age.

Wuthering Heights is a classic novel full of immoral anti-heroes that were seen as scandalous at the time, especially from a woman author! But given how much Emily herself was a rebel, it all makes sense.

In her directorial debut, Frances O'Connor takes us through the misfit's journey to womanhood, a journey that's full of turbulence even as Emily lives her quant countryside life.

As of this writing, Emily is still showing in cinemas, so try to watch it in theaters while you still can!

11. Jane Eyre (2011)

After the death of her sister Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë was inspired to ditch her dull (but respectable) teaching job and write her own novel. That novel was Jane Eyre. Talk about a talented family!

Jane Eyre was a revolutionary book at the time—not just for feminism but for literature as a whole, with it being written in first-person and focusing on the psychology and spirituality of its protagonist.

In 2011, Cary Fukunaga adapted Jane Eyre into a surprisingly chilling film, suffused with elements of the supernatural and Gothic.

Stranded on the moors, Jane (Mia Wasikowska) ends up on the doorstep of Moor House after running away from her traumatic wedding with Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender). A visually stunning and very accurate adaptation of a classic must-read novel. (Georgia May)

Brig Newspaper discusses Emily Brontë, the film Emily and historical accuracy:

There’s a lot of drama to be mined in the tale of the Brontë family, and the specific times they lived in. The sisters were obliged to publish under a pseudonym, and were presumed to be men. There was a cholera outbreak in Haworth – the illness which carried Weightman and several of the other characters to their deaths. The town itself was balanced on the edge of the moors, but was feeling the massive societal changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution, and the immense changes that made to northern England.

Here, in the mining Wuthering Heights for its gothic elements, its ‘romance’ elements and its isolated moors, Emily neglects the real history of Emily Brontë that we are aware of and creates instead what feels like a pastiche of Cathy and Heathcliff that could have been an Alternate Universe Fanfic instead. In the end, no-one benefits from this – we learn nothing of Emily’s life beyond her public biography, and the imagined elements are too fantastical, too far-fetched to be able to be given any credibility. (Anne-Louise Fortune)

Bluray-Disc.de (Germany) announces that the bluray of the film will be released in Germany in March 2023.

Für ihr Regiedebüt hat sich Schauspielerin Frances O’Connor dem Leben von Emily Brontë gewidmet. Hauptdarstellerin Emma Mackey verkörpert in "Emily" (Großbritannien, USA 2022) die bedeutende Schriftstellerin an der Seite von Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead, Alexandra Dowling, Amelia Gething und Gemma Jones. Das Biopic-Drama, für das O’Connor auch noch das Drehbuch verfasst hat, feierte seine Weltpremiere auf dem diesjährigen Toronto International Film Festival und ist seit dem 24. November in den deutschen Kinos zu sehen. Im Heimkino-Segment wird Capelight Pictures "Emily" im kommenden Jahr auswerten. Die Filmbiographie erscheint am 3. März 2022 im Vertrieb der Alive AG auf Blu-ray mit einer Bildkodierung in 1080p, 2.39:1, AVC sowie deutschem und englischem Ton in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 im einfachen Keep Case mit Wendecover. Aktuell wird lediglich der Kinotrailer als Bonusmaterial angegeben. (Translation)

East Bay Times reviews Emma Rice's Wuthering Heights.

The reimagined version of Emily Brontë’s gothic tale is filled with music, dance, passion and a touch of irreverence as the revenge tragedy unfolds. Here Heathcliff, a poor child from the Liverpool docks, is adopted by the Earnshaws and taken to live at Wuthering Heights. A fierce love develops between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, but a brutal chain of events begins when the two are forced apart. (Sally Hogarty)

Pop Matters reviews Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster by Caroline Hagood.

In the first three pages: Jill Soloway, the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, Helene Cixous, the fates of Greek mythology, the witches from Shakespeare’s MacBeth, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and Yoko Ono. At this point, you’re welcome to lean in like the lady in When Harry Met Sally, who is dining at the next table at Katz’s, and say, “I’ll have what she’s having.” Hagood is supersaturated with pop culture references but not with footnotes. She wields the occasional quotation with a light touch that doesn’t require a heap of context or prior knowledge to appreciate. (Megan Volpert)

Télérama recommends giving a new French translation of Shirley as a Christmas present.

“Shirley - Villette”, de Charlotte Brontë

Dans ce volume inattendu, deux romans rassemblés, l’un et l’autre postérieurs à Jane Eyre (1847) et tenus dans l’ombre par l’immense notoriété de celui-ci. Ils valent pourtant le détour, notamment Villette, qui témoigne de la verve insolente d’une autrice tout sauf bas-bleu. (Fabienne Pascaud, Gilles Heuré, Nathalie Crom, Valérie Lehoux, Marc Belpois, Juliette Cerf, Christine Ferniot) (Translation)

Culturefly also recommends '21 of the best fiction books to give as gifts this Christmas' and one of them is

My Soul Twin by Nino Haratischvili

The follow-up to Nino Haratischvili’s bestselling The Eighth Life is billed as a modern day Wuthering Heights and it’s certainly a worthy comparison. The story centres around Stella and Ivo, and the reunion of their unconventional family. Like Cathy and Heathcliff, these two characters have a complicated relationship and an even more complicated history. Brought together as children, they return to one another as adults, embarking on a journey to uncover truth and understanding. This is a multi-layered and complex tale of toxic relationships, the bonds that bind people, and how the past shapes the present. (Natalie Xenos)

La vanguardia (Spain) features writer Esther López Barceló:

Entre sus referentes se encuentran su propia madre, Adriana Barceló, que es filóloga y poeta, y desde Mercè Rodoreda hasta las hermanas Brontë. (Elena Gómez Pastor) (Translation)