The real star

Stylist features Emma Mackey and her EE Bafta rising star nomination.

Mackey is nominated for her role in the sweeping period drama Emily, where she plays Emily Brontë, the sister of Charlotte and the author of Wuthering Heights.

“I’ve always loved period dramas. I was going to say they’re my guilty pleasure, but actually, they’re just a pleasure,” she reveals. “I loved Emily because it didn’t feel stuck up or precious.” (Helen Bownass)

Still on screen, The Telegraph explains 'Why Yorkshire is the real star' of Happy Valley.

Fans began flocking to the area after the first series hit screens back in 2014, and with the third, and final, season now in full swing, interest in all things Happy Valley is reaching fever pitch. But long before the Calder Valley became the setting for must-see television, it inspired some of Britain’s most eminent writers, namely Emily Brontë. And it's hard to wander far before coming across a landmark referenced in a Hughes or Plath poem. [...]

Walk the winding paths of the South Pennines  

[...] Of course you are firmly in Brontë country here, with plenty flocking up to Top Withens to have their Wuthering Heights moment – Emily Brontë was thought to be inspired by the ruined farmhouse. The literary sisters’ home village of Haworth is also accessible in half an hour from Hebden, via the aptly named Brontë Bus. (Emma Beaumont)

'Books for Valentine’s Day' in The Glasgow Guardian.

On the subject of classic literature, a less typically romantic read is Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Set in the Yorkshire moors, this book tells the story of Heathcliff and Catherine’s haunting transcendental love, full of obsession and wild passion. Its gothic genre makes the book more appealing as it is less of a typical blissful love story, and instead has great depth and morals. You could say that it is about a negative, more destructive and selfish kind of love. Heathcliff’s pursuit of revenge is enthralling, and further provides a stark contrast to the romantic aspects of the novel, such as the conventional love of Catherine and Edgar Linton. Overall, I would thoroughly recommend reading Wuthering Heights as it is an unforgettable story about the power of love and hatred, and how the two can be cruelly intertwined. (Emma Beech)

Il Foglio (Italy) features Branwell Brontë.