Top Withens, near Haworth, is popular with literary tourists, although its links to the 1847 book have been the subject of scholarly dispute over the years.Built in the 16th century as one of three ‘laithe houses’ for the sons of the landowner, by the time the Brontë sisters passed the farm on their walks it was inhabited by the Sunderland family, who left in 1896. The last farmer to occupy Top Withens kept poultry there in the 1920s, and it has been abandoned ever since.The house is not protected – a listing granted in the 1950s was revoked in 1991 – and today forms part of a large estate owned by Yorkshire Water. Their custodianship came about because the three Withens farms were bought for a new reservoir project in the 1900s, only for the plans to be delayed because of World War One.The Near and Middle farms were demolished around this time and the land rented out for grazing. The tenants were not required to maintain Top Withens – by then already dilapidated due to vandalism and souvenir-hunting – and the water board at the time agreed to take on responsibility for its upkeep.By the 1950s, the roof was disintegrating and it collapsed around a decade later. The farmhouse’s condition was a concern to the local newspapers as far back as 1949.In the 1970s, repair and stabilisation was carried out, and further work took place in the 1990s under Yorkshire Water’s supervision. At the time it was described as a ‘managed ruin’.Retired builder Peter Wroe, of Barnsley, contacted The Yorkshire Post having made several attempts to seek reassurance that Top Withens was being maintained.Mr Wroe had questioned whether the roof could be replaced and windows fitted. However, the land is now designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and there is no suitable vehicle access to the farm that would allow construction work to take place. The building has no water supply and Yorkshire Water have declined to sell or dispose of it because of the ecologically sensitive location. Any development at Top Withens would require intense scrutiny and a planning application would be complex.A spokesperson for Yorkshire Water said: “The location of the ruins within moorland considered a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a Special Area of Conservation and also a Special Protection Area, makes any development of the site, or renovation, extremely difficult.” (Grace Newton)
Pennines“Not as soft as the Yorkshire Dales to the north, this is the wilder, windswept Pennine moorland of Brontë dramas and mysteries with tough sheep, soaring birds, horizon-stretching views and stone-clad villages clinging to steep-sided valleys. Criss-crossed with packhorse trails and dotted with bold rocky outcrops, it has an invigorating northern defiance.” – Helen Pickles, destination expert. (Chris Moss)
The £453,964 development grant will enable the centuries-old Portico to bring to life plans to create an accessible and sustainable space for arts, literature, learning and history for Manchester’s residents and visitors.The team will now work with experts and a range of community stakeholders to transform the Grade II-listed building and preserve the library’s incredible book collection, which includes the first edition of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. (Natalie Rees)
The three Brontë sisters had the aura of the Yorkshire moors. (Stuart Mitchner)
In his own preface Gray listed reasons for reading the book: “Seeing great writers in a huff,” “The biographical snippet,” “The pleasure of the essay,” “The pleasure of hearing great writers converse,” and “The pleasure of history.” There’s a gossipy Letters-of-Note draw in reading Charlotte Brontë spend her preface to Shirley drubbing a hostile reviewer. (Mazin Saleem)
Q: What book have you already read that you would recommend?A: Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëOk, I admit it. I’ve read this one a few times before. But I’m about to start writing my master’s thesis on hope and grace in Jane Eyre, so I needed to do a re-read to get started.Humbly, I think Jane Eyre is everything a novel ought to be. It has daring romance, orphans, house fires, gypsies, missionaries, madwomen and even the French. It also examines issues and ideas well before its time: spiritual abuse, neglect and coercive control.Ultimately, however, it is a Christian novel – move over Francine Rivers – about a woman with keen insight into the people around her and into the God who is full of grace.
It’s fair to say that a candle snuffer doesn't top the list of homeware essentials. It’s more of an antiquated accessory that happens to be functional. But you can’t deny the Dickensian feel of the item. Opt for a rustic design and you might as well be in Oliver Twist or Jane Eyre. In the latter half of the novel, Charlotte Brontë’s protagonist blissfully notes: “So I snuffed the candle and resumed the perusal of Marmion". Read on to enter your Victorian era. (Tania Leslau)
by Isamova Dilfuza RakhmatovnaWorld of Science, Vol. 6 No. 11 (2023)This article aims to analyze expression of moral conviction and focus on the influence of women freedom to society through the novels of Charlotte Brontë in Victorian age. The study of perception and belief in oneself in novels takes an important place in the system of literature in the 19th century. So, while analyzing works of most novelists,one can easily mention a design of strength and convictions in literary works through the main characters and heroes of them.A person's consciousness reflects an emotional attitude to the objects of reality. A person, being a character of , absorbs everything that he perceives from the outside world and reflects the result in writings. Currently, it is important to study the psychological foundations and beliefs of moral conviction on the basis of works, since such an analysis is able to reveal diverse means of expressing emotions in the context.
November 30, 7:30pm (This online event will take place via Zoom. This is a live event and will not be recorded.)In this edition of The Brontë Lounge, we’re joined by award-winning artist and portrait photographer Carolyn Mendelsohn.Inspired by a quote from Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights', Carolyn Mendelsohn's stunning installation ‘Hardy and Free’ celebrates the enduring connection between Yorkshire women and the landscape, telling unique and powerful stories through projection, soundscapes, personal objects and a filmic collection of photographs.In this event, we’ll be discussing Carolyn’s process, spotlighting the four months where she embarked on a series of adventures to capture the personal stories of remarkable women living and working in the Bradford District.We’ll also have a chance to hear about her technical process, both behind the camera when taking photos and in front of the microphone when interviewing her portraitures.‘Hardy and Free' was commissioned by the Brontë Parsonage Museum and is on display at the Museum until 31 December 2023. The accompanying film can be watched on our YouTube channel.
Charlotte Brontë took back to England not just a throng of impressions and emotions, but a travelling trunk packed with Brussels mementoes, the most treasured of which were gifts from Heger. He had presented his star pupil with books and copies of stirring, patriotic speeches he had made at the annual prize-giving for pupils at the Athénée Royal, the prestigious boys’ school where he taught.But Charlotte’s trunk also contained a more unexpected offering from her tutor, a piece of wood measuring about ten by two centimetres that would look utterly insignificant did it not bear an inscription in ink that read “morceau du cercueil de Ste. Hélène”.This tiny strip of wood, now one of the most curious items in the Brontë Parsonage Museum, is a fragment from the coffin of Napoleon Bonaparte, who had been buried in 1821 on his island exile of St Helena.How did Heger come to own a relic that Napoleon devotees would have been thrilled to have in their possession? Happily, it is possible to trace the intriguing and somewhat circuitous route by which it came into his hands and thence to Charlotte Brontë’s.The relic had a paper wrapping which has been conserved in the Brontë Museum and on which Charlotte wrote: “August 4th 1843 - Brussels – Belgium - 1 o'clock pm. Monsieur Heger has just been into the 1st Class and given me this relic – he brought it from his intimate friend Mr Lebel. Mr Lebel was the Secretary of the Prince Achille Murat; the Prince de Joinville, son of King Louis Philippe, brought over the remains of Bonaparte from St Helena.” (Read more)
EDIT: The Brussels Brontë Blog also reports about the article.
Keighley in Bradford, Yorkshire was among over 50 towns and cities across the UK that won funding from the government in the third round of its levelling-up scheme. Now it plans to use that cash to regenerate its historic Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and transform it into a major commuter route.The five-mile heritage railway line opened in 1867. Travelling through landscapes made famous by the Bronte sisters, it has featured in dozens of films and TV shows, including both the 1970 and 2022 adaptations of ‘The Railway Children’.With almost £20 million in funding to spend over the next ten years, Bradford Council plans for the heritage railway to become a ‘major transport hub and commuter route’. Signalling along the line, which links with national rail services at Keighley, will be upgraded to allow more trains to run and its fleet of diesel locomotives will be revamped.The council is also using the funding to create a robotics and engineering research institute in Keighley town centre.Bradford council leader Susan Hinchcliffe said: ‘The town has a proud engineering and manufacturing tradition. This is such an exciting project which will enhance Keighley’s engineering, manufacturing and economic role in the region, putting it at the forefront of UK innovation.’ (Amy Houghton)
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN (1970)
Made in West Yorkshire, this classic utilised the Keighley and Worth Valley railway, noticeably the stretch between Keighley and Oxenhope. The Edwardian-style Oakworth station held a starring role, and north of the station Bents Farm stood in for the ‘Three Chimneys’. The village of the film was Haworth, while the doctor’s house was the renowned Brontë Parsonage Museum! Mytholmes Tunnel was used for the paper chase scene and the famous landslide, where the girls warned the train with their petticoats. [...]
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1992)
The adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel centred itself around North Yorkshire. This particular Wuthering Heights building was located north of Grassington, and the palatial Broughton Hall (north of Skipton) stood in for Thrushcross Grange – home of Edgar Linton. Heathcliff worked in the tithe barn of the seventeenth-century manor house, East Riddlesden Hall, Keighley, while the narrative’s wild moors were filmed around Malham Cove. Aysgarth Falls set the scene for Cathy and Heathcliff’s declarations of love.
Sarah Laycock – curator in charge of collections at the Brontë Parsonage Museum – is guest speaker at the next Lees Methodist Church Meeting Point.Lees Methodist ChruchTea and biscuits will be available from 1.45pm, and the meeting starts at 2pm.She will talk about the work devoted to caring for items at the world-renowned museum, in Haworth.Maurice Baren, for the church, says: "This is most responsible work, for Sarah has to know exactly how to treat the 'living' collections of clothing, manuscripts, memorabilia and so much more, to curate the material – ensuring items are available in good condition for forthcoming exhibitions and external loans to museums worldwide."This is a rare opportunity to learn more about what is so essential to the care of all the irreplaceable items in our world-famous museum." (Alistair Shand)
But the opportunities are almost impossible to miss – a rich architectural landscape; the Unesco World Heritage Site of Saltaire; a host of famous artists, musicians and writers (from the Brontë sisters to David Hockney); a trendy craft beer scene; and, perhaps most importantly, a young population that is bubbling with potential. (Rebecca Atkinson)
When we learn that his character isn’t working class at all and has lied his way into the Saltburn family’s home, Oliver is revealed to be a modern-day take on arguably the most famous gothic figure: Heathcliffe [sic].The similarities between Oliver and Heathcliffe are striking. The ultimate gothic antihero, Emily Brontë’s character from Wuthering Heights enters as a working-class underdog before being revealed to be the villain, enacting a generations-wide punishment on an upper-class family – sound familiar? To add to the similarities, in the end, Heathcliffe’s revenge is never really about class or his treatment. It entirely comes down to unrequited love, much like how when Oliver is revealed to actually come from a middle-class family, his further violence towards Felix and his family all comes down to Felix not reciprocating his obsession. (Lucy Harbron)
Every ‘unlikeable’ female character henceforth seems to be a mimic of Eve. Matilda in The Monk successfully deceives and seduces a highly respected religious man, as Eve does to Adam; Catherine in Wuthering Heights is untamed and wild, taking after Eve’s disobedience from God; Julia in The Duchess of Malfi has a fickle nature and is weak to the whims of men, as Satan proves; Bertha in Jane Eyre is simply put, “the madwoman.” [...]Let us instead see Eve as an independent woman, one who wishes to forge her own destiny. Let us try and sympathise, recognising that these so-called unlikeable women are more than what makes them unlikeable. A good place to start is Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, a retelling of Bertha from Jane Eyre where her erratic behaviour is instead understood as a response to being rejected and abandoned.It is in our power to reshape this narrative; to instead critically evaluate how and why we judge the unlikeable female character we see so often in the media. (Sienna Hammond)
Lauren Blackwood – Blackwood is an emerging talent in the literary world. Her debut novel, “Within These Wicked Walls,” has received critical acclaim for its insightful portrayal of the Ethiopian style of Jane Eyre. Blackwood’s unique voice and storytelling ability establish her as a promising author to watch. (Dasia Williams)
Liu, BonnieThe Gaskell Journal; Knutsford Vol. 37, (2023): 43-65This article compares Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë and Ancient Melodies, an autobiographical novel by Ling Shuhua, a twentieth-century Chinese female writer. In a personal letter, Woolf strongly recommended The Life of Charlotte Brontë to her Chinese friend. Over the years, the connection between Ling and Woolf has attracted considerable attention. However, there are no studies that investigate why Woolf introduced Gaskell’s life writing to Ling, despite her notorious comments on Victorian biographies, or connections between the life writings of Gaskell and Lin
g themselves. Through a focus on contrastive ideas of time which are present in both The Life of Charlotte Brontë and Ancient Melodies, I discern a connection between the two texts that might explain Woolf ’s recommendation of Gaskell’s biography: both texts consider the tensions between women’s domestic and creative ‘selves’ in a patriarchal context. This article examines how Gaskell’s narrator deploys two modes of mid-nineteenth-century patriarchal culture.
Words & Music: Seasons GreetingsMonday 25 December, 5pm – 6.15pmIn this festive edition of Words & Music, actors Dominic West and Gemma Whelan read poetry and prose exploring everything that makes for a magical Christmas: family and friends, festive food, the giving of gifts, wintery weather, angels, shepherds, and three wise men.With texts by C.S Lewis, Anne Brontë, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a feast of seasonal music from classical to contemporary.
3. HaworthThe literary allure of Haworth is a constant draw for book-lovers in Leeds, but it's even more special at this time of year. Nestled in Yorkshire's rugged moorland, it's just a short train ride away from the city. Famously, it's the home of the Brontë sisters. Fans of the iconic tale Wuthering Heights will have read about Christmas in the fictional lodgings Thrushcross Grange and the Heights itself. This could be the perfect opportunity to escape into your favourite novel. On a dedicated Brontë bus, you'll be able to witness the landscapes that directly inspired Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, which are even more magical at Christmas. (James Connolly)
2. HaworthThe home of the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne is always beautiful during the Christmas season. The rough, moody moorland surrounds the village, home to the Brontë Parsonage Museum, the former home of the Brontës. Haworth hosts a magical festive experience, which takes place across the four weekends leading up to Christmas. The village is lit by twinkling fairy lights and beautiful shop windows and the event includes traders, choirs, carol singers, processions and parades. (Liana Jacob)
Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn KisteThis vampire book explores the story of two women, Bertha Mason (from Jane Eyre) and Lucy Westenra (from Dracula), who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in the 1960s, after surviving encounters with two classic literary characters: Dracula and Mr. Rochester. The novel delves into their lives when Dracula and Rochester unexpectedly return to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, creating a shocking turn of events.Praised for its exploration of the two women put to the side in their original works, Reluctant Immortals puts these two forgotten women at the forefront, allowing them to explore and tell their own stories. (Kennie M)
Un classico è sempre un libro che ha qualcosa da dire, lo sappiamo, eppure non è detto che lo dica in ogni epoca allo stesso modo, ecco perché le traduzioni cambiano, si aggiornano. Se la lingua originale di quel testo rimane intatta, cristallina, negli anni, l’operazione di travaso e difesa del suo senso profondo in un’altra lingua risente invece delle metamorfosi della società e dell’immaginario, che si riflettono nei dizionari. Un traduttore trova l’equilibrio giusto, scende giù in profondità e risale fino all’oggi, senza forzature, come un cercatore di pepite che ha trovato le più preziose e antiche, occultate ai più fino a quel momento.Lo ha fatto di recente Monica Pareschi con quel romanzo eterno, disturbante e selvaggio che è Cime tempestose, da lei ritradotto per Einaudi, ed è stata per me l’occasione di rilettura che aspettavo, perché volevo vedere che effetto mi faceva adesso, a quarant’anni, la devastazione gotica e ancestrale che aveva lasciato in me a vent’anni, e poi a trenta, sempre uguale e sempre diversa. (Nadia Terranova) (Translation)
The story, with a title from Emily Brontë’s poem Remembrance, begins onboard a ship sailing from London to Ostend with Emily a very reluctant passenger. The sailing is rough and her sister Charlotte is throwing up relentlessly.“I was pleased to see that she was being violently sick,” Emily remarks. A tad unkind, you might think. And the author of Wuthering Heights could indeed be unkind, especially when forced to do things against her will. Like, for instance, leaving Haworth for any length of time. (...)Powell summons the spirit of Emily with real finesse, in all her disdain for the world and her devotion to home and hearth. (Anne Cunningham)
It may seem a little counterintuitive to compare internet fame with Gothic novels like Brideshead Revisited, Wuthering Heights, and Northanger Abbey. But Fennell thinks of these books and online obsessions as closely connected. (Tasha Robinson)
Steve Prokopuy: Is your creative center an inherently dark place, or is it a place where your dark thoughts go to hang out and mix it up and come out as these amazing films?E.F.: Oh, I don’t know. Honestly, I think I always have been a Gothic witch at heart. I feel a real kinship with the Brontës and Kate Bush and Hilary Mantel and all of those women who are making Gothic, intense, sexual, dark things. That’s where all of my loves are, ever since I was young. Absolutely, there’s a place of darkness, but it’s also crucially joyful, funny, pleasurable.
For me she’s at the top, but she re-recorded Wuthering Heights. And it doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t have the same vibe or soul that the original had. It’s not her fault. She has gotten older and used different instruments and equipment. I listened to that song constantly for eight years and I didn’t care what she thought about her song, I only cared what I thought. (Ígor López)
The song, by the way, was used in the Norwegian TV show Maskorama, according to NRK. And, another song inspired by Wuthering Heights, It’s All Coming Back To Me Now by Celine Dion, also appears in another TV show, Strictly Come Daincing, as can ben read in The Guardian.
And here, at 3 p.m. as the sun slowly crawls past the lawns and porches full of empty Halloween displays, my cold nose against the window makes me feel like Heathcliff’s ghost walking on the Wuthering Heights. (J.P. Devine)
Woolf’un makalesinde adı geçen büyük kadın yazarlar arasında Jane Austen, Brontë Kardeşler (Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë ve Anne Brontë), George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Katherine Mansfield gibi yazarlar gelir ve elbette ki Virginia Woolf da bu yazarlar arasında yer alır. Bu öncü isimlere modern dünyamızdan şu isimler de eşlik eder: Sylvia Plath, Furuğ Ferruhzad, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Agatha Christie, Harper Lee, J. K. Rowling ve saire. Hazır konusu açılmışken başrolde bir kadına yer veren ve "kadınların uyanışı" gibi bir temelde kaleme alınan romanlardan bazı örnekler de vermek isterim:Lev Tolstoy'dan Anna Karenina, Henry James'ten Bir Hanımefendinin Portresi, Emily Brontë'den Uğultulu Tepeler, Charlotte Brontë'den Jane Eyre, (...) (Bahri Doğukan Şahin) (Translation)
Las bibliotecas son el bien absoluto, intocables, fascinantes, lugares de refugio, sitios en los que surge el amor o los aprobados de fin de carrera, palacios mentales que albergan historias que huyen de la realidad triste, pobre o agresiva, el niño que descubre a Ulises o la Canción de Rolando, a Tintín, a Asterix, a Sherlock Holmes e Irene Adler, a Dracula, a Heathcliff, a Jane Eyre o a Superman. (Nieves Abarco) (Translation)
Así lo cuenta Emily Brontë, con torrencial romanticismo, en Cumbres borrascosas. Los protagonistas se enamoran, se traicionan y se aniquilan el uno al otro con desamparada crueldad. Parecen empeñados en destruir toda posibilidad de final feliz, pero cada vez se necesitan más. Cuando Catherine está a punto de morir, Heathcliff le suplica que lo persiga: “Hay espíritus que andan errantes por el mundo. Quédate siempre conmigo, toma cualquier forma, vuélveme loco. Pero no me dejes solo”.Emily escribió la novela mientras cuidaba a su hermano, enfermo de tuberculosis, durante largas vigilias agónicas. En su libro, las apariciones expresan un deseo que reconocemos bien: la permanencia del ser amado. Ella, la recluida hija de un pastor anglicano, pensaba que la fantasía es un distrito de lo cotidiano. Los fantasmas existen –aunque no sean reales– porque los necesitamos. No sabemos vivir sin los muertos. (Translation)
by C.A. CastleBlack & White PublishingISBN: 9781785304989Published: 9 November 2023A contemporary, queer homage to Jane Eyre, this coming-of-age and coming-out novel follows protagonist Brontë as he unravels the secrets of Greenwood Manor and its handsome master, Darcy.All Brontë Ellis has ever known is life at St. Mary's all-boys boarding school, where he lingered first as a student and then as a teaching assistant. So when a chance to forge a new life in Cambridge presents itself, he seizes it with both hands.Arriving at Greenwood Manor as the new live-in tutor, Bron finds himself welcomed by all - the gregarious Mr Edwards, his precocious pupil Ada . . . except for Darcy, the elusive and tempestuous eldest son. Despite the rumours about him, Bron cannot help feeling drawn to the one person who seems determined to avoid him.When tragedy strikes the house, Bron begins to sense dark secrets smouldering beneath Greenwood Manor's surface. Soon he's not sure what to believe, or whether he even has a future at Greenwood. Only Darcy holds the key, if he can be persuaded to reveal his heart to Bron . . .
Visitors will be able to pick up a bargain at the Brontë Parsonage Museum tomorrow (November 26).The world-famous Haworth tourist attraction is taking part in Museum Shop Sunday, an international initiative highlighting the role of retail in supporting arts, cultural and heritage venues.There will be ten per cent off all items, including gifts, books and jewellery. (Alistair Shand)
There have been many re-workings of Wuthering Heights over the years - from Heathcliff the Musical, written by and starring Cliff Richard as the brooding anti-hero, to a film version set in medieval Japan.Now Emily Brontë’s masterpiece is given a new twist, in a historical novel re-imagining the events of Heathcliff’s three-year absence from the plot of Wuthering Heights. In the novel, Heathcliff returns transformed as a wealthy gentleman.Heathcliff’s Fortune, by Gordon Howdle, is inspired by the author’s interest in British involvement in the Indian subcontinent, particularly the East India Company. The book follows Heathcliff’s journey to India and his life overseas.In late summer 1780 Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights after overhearing Catherine, the girl he has grown up with, say that it would degrade her to marry him. He takes with him an amulet; his only possession when he was found as a child urchin in Liverpool. When he wears it, the amulet seems to bring him luck.Heathcliff walks to Liverpool, from where he travels to India as a deck hand on a ship of the East India Company. On arrival in Madras, he finds work, love and wealth - but will his luck last? (Emma Clayton)
Whether it was a copy of Wuthering Heights on a desk, a verse containing the word ‘champion’, or the way costume designer Lu Herbert set the scene, I saw part of my world on a stage I never quite expected. (Natasha Meek)
And others visit Hartshead to follow in the footsteps of Patrick Brontë, who became minister in Hartshead in 1811, or to discover more about Robin Hood, who is reputed to have cut his final arrow from the yew tree that remains a prominent feature at St Peter's Church. (Andrew Robinson)
"This exact thing happens in ‘Wuthering Heights,' " Fennell says. "Heathcliff tries to climb down into Cathy’s grave and the subtext is very much that is what he’s intending to do. So this is very much part of the Gothic tradition.” (Patrick Ryan)
Jane Eyre the Musical — Auditions December 10, 3-5PMA musical drama with music and lyrics by composer-lyricist Paul Gordon and a book by John Caird, based on the 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë.There will be doubling of roles except for Jane and RochesterThere are roles for females that look twelve to fifteen years old.Music Direction — Amy TrimbleDirector — Lora AdamsThe show will begin rehearsal January 22 and be performed March 15–30.
Jane Eyre 2011Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre traces the journey of the titular character (Mia Wasikowska) from childhood to adulthood. As a child, she suffers abuse both in school and at home. In adulthood, her life becomes slightly better, and she is appointed the governess at an estate belonging to a wealthy man named Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender). Jane soon begins dating her employer, but his unpredictability troubles her. Unfortunately, she discovers a dark secret he has been hiding.Mia Wasikowska might have left Hollywood, but she will always be remembered for her performance here. She radiates a sense of optimism at all times, making her character very likable. Even after finding out the truth about her new lover, Jane keeps her head high and figures out the next step without any franticness and anger.Judi Dench also deserves praise for her performance as Rochester’s housekeeper. Her character is the only nice person in the movie, and the warmth and love she channels help counterbalance the overall melancholic mood. (Philip Etemesi)
Another 2011 movie marking Fassbender’s ascension to the A-list, Jane Eyre sees him take on a classic literary hero. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre follows Mia Wasikowska’s eponymous Jane through several stages of her life. A cruel aunt sends the young orphan Jane to a strict boarding school. Jane becomes a governess after leaving school and falls in love with her employer, the mysterious Mr. Rochester (Fassbender).The movie stands as one of the best adaptations of the book for many reasons. The adaptation shifts the novel's events around, telling some of the story in flashbacks. It looks stunning in every moment, from its Oscar-nominated costumes to its gorgeous lighting and set design. Fassbender and Wasikowska both deliver affecting performances that garnered significant critical acclaim and awards attention. (Kyle Logan)
[Francesca] Coppa cited Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler from Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, Catherine and Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and even Buffy and Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer as examples of analogous pairings to Reylo in other media. (Belen Edwards)
The Little Books of the Little Brontës, by Sara O’Leary, illustrated by Briony May Smith (Tundra Books, 5-9) A delightful portrait of the imaginary world that the four Brontë children – Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne – created for one another in a series of miniature books that offers a glimpse of the what was to come.
In Hamburg feiert "Jane Eyre" Premiere: ein Roman-Klassiker der englischen Schriftstellerin Charlotte Brontë, Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts erschienen, mit einer für die damalige Zeit revolutionär mutig- selbstbewussten Frauenfigur. Jane Eyre meistert ihr anfangs schwer auszuhaltendes Leben mit einer klaren Ruhe. Die Geschichte macht einem sofort das Herz auf.In schwarzer Jogginghose und Socken probt Cathy Marston mit den Tänzern und Tänzerinnen - fast sanft, voller Respekt. Ab und zu übernimmt sie den Tanzpart, um zu zeigen, wie sie sich genau die Bewegung vorstellt. Oder sie nimmt online das Buch zur Hand und liest daraus vor. Für die einzelnen Rollen arbeitet sie mit Wortlisten: "Mit diesen Wortlisten arbeite ich in der ersten Woche mit den Tänzern und Tänzerinnen auf Bewegungen. So kreiere ich ein spezielles Vokabular für jede einzelne Rolle."Für die Besetzung ihrer beiden Hauptrollen hat sich Cathy Marston recht schnell entschieden: Ida Praetorius tanzt Jane Eyre und Karen Azatyan ist der finster-attraktive Mr. Rochester: "Die Rolle ist für ihn gemacht", findet Marston. Die zweite Besetzung von Jane und Rochester sind Madoka Sugai und Alexandr Trusch - beide ebenfalls Stars vom Hamburg Ballett.Als Musik hat Cathy Marston unter anderem die "Fantasie g-moll für Cello und Klavier" von Fanny Hensel ausgesucht. Fanny Hensel ist eine Zeitgenossin von "Jane Eyre"-Autorin Charlotte Brontë und die Schwester von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Sie konnte als Frau damals keine eigene Karriere machen. So verbinden sich auch Musik und Erzählung. (Annette Matz) (Translation)
Supererfolg im England von früher. Charlotte Brontë lehrt weibliche Willensstärke in der Männerherrschaft.Wie kann man mit dieser feministischen, antikapitalistischen und so weiter Brille, die einem mittlerweile so fest an den Kopf gewachsen ist, dass man nicht umhinkommt, auch Bücher von 1847 mit ihr zu lesen – wie kann man da heute noch aus einem Werk wie Jane Eyre von Charlotte Brontë die unbedingt benötigten messages und learnings ziehen? Immerhin wurde das zunächst unter männlichem Pseudonym veröffentlichte Buch unmittelbar zum Supererfolg, weil es für das viktorianische England so bahnbrechend vom sogenannten Innenleben einer Frau handelt. (Read more) (Berit Dießelkämper) (Translation)
Unter allen Gespenstern, von denen Emily Brontë erzählt, ist der Rassismus das bis heute lebendigste.Emily Brontës Roman Wuthering Heights (Sturmhöhe) ist voll von Wut und Wind, der einem die Haare ins Gesicht fegt, sobald man das Buch aufschlägt. Das beginnt beim Titel: Wuthering bezeichnet das Heulen des Windes und ist zugleich der Name des einsamen Bauernhofs im Hochmoor, auf dem ein Fremder während eines Sturms Unterschlupf sucht. Zwar bekommt er ein Bett, aber keinen Schlaf, weil der Geist der früheren Bewohnerin ans Fenster klopft. Und Heathcliff, der gar nicht erschrockene Hausherr, reißt das Fenster auf, um die Tote hereinzulassen.Wuthering Heights ist eine Geschichte über die Nachtseiten des Lebens, über Diskriminierung und Brutalität. Es ist die Geschichte von Heathcliff, der vor 35 Jahren vom Vater der Familie Earnshaw auf den Straßen Liverpools aufgelesen wurde und zusammen mit dessen Kindern Cathy und Hindley auf Wuthering Heights aufwuchs.(Read more) (Mithu Sanyal) (Translation)
The exhibition traces Blackman’s young adulthood: the Lewisham homeless shelter she lived in aged 13 is pictured; the comics she turned to as a “shield against the real world” are displayed. In the local library, which she says “saved my life”, she would read novels, including classic fiction – the likes of Jane Eyre. (Ella Creamer)
Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth(...) Cathi Unsworth takes a novelistic approach to the phenomenon, following its roots in fiction by Charlotte Brontë and Bram Stoker and relating its rise to the alienation so many young people felt under an 1980s culture of success at all costs. (Will Hodgkinson & Victoria Segal)
Mariola Díaz-Cano Arévalo: ¿Qué personaje te hubiera gustado conocer y crear?AG: Jane Eyre. O la Reina de Corazones, una psicópata muy divertida. (Translation)
Ainda bem infelizes foram as irmãs Brontë, das quais Charlotte e Emily, filhas de um pastor protestante que viveram encafuadas nos confins da Inglaterra, conseguiram ser autoras de duas obras-primas da ficção romântica, respectivamente Jane Eyre e O morro dos ventos uivantes, ambas publicadas pela primeira vez em 1847.As Brontë destoam da maioria das biografadas num quesito: não tiveram amante nenhum, muito menos uma penca deles. A vida amorosa livre e aventurosa faz parte, no caso de várias personagens do livro, dos ingredientes que as levaram tanto à condição de pioneiras quanto à infelicidade. (Eloésio Paulo) (Translation)
Al vino rosado que hicimos este año decidí ponerle Cumbres Borrascosas, porque tiene un sabor ácido al inicio, pero al final se siente un regusto de ternura. Es de la variedad Tempranillo, de delicado color salmón, tiene una fresca esencia de durazno y mandarina. Puede usted maridarlo con una rebanada de queso, empalmada de ate de membrillo y una nuez garapiñada arriba, todos productos regionales, y brindar con sus amigos o pareja platicando de Catherine y Heathcliff, los protagonistas de Cumbres Borrascosas, sobre todo de la desesperación que le acomete a uno, como lector, cuando los ve que se aman tanto y no pueden realizar su amor. (Translation)
Jordi Muñoz: Com van ser els seus inicis en el món de la literatura?P.A.: Crec que al final tots els que escrivim ho fem perquè abans de res érem lectors. En el meu cas va ser així. Vaig ser una nena molt lectora, m’interessava estar amb els llibres que tenia al meu abast i poder passar-me hores i hores tancada a la meva habitació. Val a dir que no eren necessàriament llibres per a la meva edat, perquè va ser una iniciació molt primerenca i en aquella època no hi havia tanta divisió per trams. A casa meva llegia els llibres que podia tenir la meva mare, recordo començar a llegir les novel·les de la col·lecció RENO, amb clàssics de tota la vida com Cumbres Borrascosas o Sinuhé el egipcio, segurament sense assabentar-me massa. (Translation()
Pero también tiene un minuto para Cumbres Borrascosas esa singular novela de Emily Brontë según sus palabras “dos narradores, dos casas y dos familias, dos generaciones, dos tipos de paisaje y una estructura en dos partes” (Roberto Carlos Miras Miras) (Translation)
Ein Klassiker um Liebe, Leidenschaft und Rache: Die Theater-AG des Städtischen Gymnasiums Ettenheim inszenierte „Sturmhöhe“ nach einem Roman von Emely Brontë. Die schauspielerische Leistung der Schüler würdigte das Publikum mit viel Applaus. (Klaus Schade) (Translation)
YourTango publishes the week's horoscope and recommends Virgos to read Wuthering Heights by... Charlotte Brontë which, frankly, says it all An English teacher who loves Wuthering Heights in Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press. TickerTV thinks that in Emily Brontë's you can find examples of literary juxtaposition.
Date and Time: Sunday, November 26th, 11:00 AMLocation: Raabe-Haus Literatur in Braunschweig, GermanySpeakers: Kathrin Reinhardt and Martina NiestrojFocus: Examining the spiritual dimensions of Emily Brontë's texts through TarotReinhardt and Niestroj approach the task of unraveling Brontë's spiritual essence with a Tarot-inspired literary experiment. They aim to trace connections between Brontë's thoughts and the mystical realms she crafted in her writings, using the symbolism of Tarot cards to interpret and explore.While this unique approach may raise eyebrows, it's presented as an experimental lens rather than a conventional interpretation. The use of Tarot cards, though unconventional, adds an intriguing layer to the exploration of Brontë's literary legacy.
Via RegionalHeute.
Similarly, in Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre,” the eponymous character defies societal norms by seeking love and independence on her own terms. Jane’s resilience in the face of numerous challenges, including a tumultuous love affair and her own impoverished upbringing, serves as a testament to the strength of the human spirit.
“A mí siempre he ha llamado mucho la atención que de ellas y muchas otras mujeres escritoras dicen que no tienen legado ni se parecen a nadie, pero lo que pasa es que varias de ellas escribieron para mujeres, como Alice Munro, como Clarice Lispector, como Amparo Dávila. Parecían marcianos, pero lo que pasa es que estaban escribiendo sobre su sensibilidad y su género [...]“La sensibilidad que tienen es una sensibilidad que no estaba representada de manera visible, no que no existiera. Y muchas veces la que ha existida han sido mal leída Brontë estaba chifada; y Mary Shelley que imaginó a un señor cosiendo a otro señor con partes de cadáveres. Yo no sé cuándo viene la idea de las mujeres escribiendo de la casa”, aseguró. (Kevin Aragón) (Translation)
Emily BrontëTranslated by Júlia Mota Silva CostaUniversidade Estadual de CampinasMagma, (19), p. 273-277Apresenta-se a tradução inédita em português brasileiro de três poemas da escritora inglesa Emily Brontë (1818-1848). Mundialmente conhecida pelo seu único romance, Wuthering Heights (1847), Brontë deixou cerca de 200 poemas, os quais, entretanto, permaneceram à margem da fortuna crítica da autora, particularmente no Brasil. Considerando-se que a única tradução da poesia de Emily Brontë editada em livro, no Brasil, é a de Lúcio Cardoso — uma seleção de 33 poemas, publicada na década de 1940 pela José Olympio, sob o título de Vento da Noite, hoje editada pela Civilização Brasileira —, com as traduções aqui apresentadas, pretende-se contribuir, conquanto timidamente, para minimizar essa lacuna de mais de 160 poemas nunca vertidos para o português brasileiro.
Is there a similar tension playing out in the scene where Oliver humps Felix’s grave? Is that about lust, or grief, or are they also linked?It's about grief. It's about love. It's an attempt to get some form of impossible closure. And the reason that scene is so long is because we needed the whole emotional journey. It's an attempt at something that is totally futile; Oliver himself understands how absurd and appalling and ridiculous is the position he's in. There's a scene in Wuthering Heights after Cathy dies when Heathcliff digs down to her coffin and tries to get to her. It’s very clear what he's intending to do, which is to, at the very least touch her, kiss her. So it's part of the Gothic tradition that sex and death are kind of intertwined. (Belinda Luscombe)
She had similar feelings about the grave scene, in which Oliver strips and fucks Felix’s freshly buried grave. At the October Q&A, Fennell said the scene was inspired by a scene in Wuthering Heights “where Heathcliff tries to dig down into Cathy’s grave, and the sort of implication, subtext there is very much made text, I suppose, in this film.” Of the lengthy sequence, which “goes from funny to horrible to terrible to sort of weirdly sexy to awful again,” she said, “[In] terms of cutting away, of course everyone wants you to, you know, of course the producer and the distributor says a lot of, ‘Are you going to cut away? Can you cut away there? No, you will cut away there,’ and I said, ‘No.’ Because when I saw it, it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.” (Mary Kate Carr)
A love of those kinds of books led me fairly quickly from other teen suspense/horror authors like Christopher Pike and Lois Duncan to the more adult fare of Victoria Holt and Mary Stewart. Holt’s and Stewart’s books were considered classics of “romantic suspense” by the time I was a teenager, but I always put their books squarely in the same Gothic canon as books like Jane Eyre.In fact, Victoria Holt’s Mistress of Mellyn and Mary Stewart’s Nine Coaches Waiting have a lot in common with Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel. All three novels have a young governess coming to an isolated estate to take care of a difficult charge. All three stories have a secret related to the family that owns the estate that the heroine must uncover. And all three stories dare the young woman to decide if she should trust some wealthy, brooding man with her love.I eventually outgrew the nonstop reading of Gothics, but I still love stories where a woman finds herself in uncharted territory, where she doesn’t have all the facts, where she must uncover the truth and determine who to trust (broody rich guy entirely optional). [...]Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (1847)The grandmother of the girl-in-peril-at-a-mysterious-estate tale, the template from which so many others followed. Jane herself is distinguished by her bravery, by her strength of character, by her dogged determination to discover the truth about the strange goings-on at Thornfield Hall and its master, Mr. Rochester. Every year, in October, I re-read this book along with my other Gothic favorites. You can’t beat the atmosphere, especially in the Thornfield section of the book. 176-year-old spoiler: It also introduced the notion of the “attic wife”, a devastating moment in the story that has become a modern internet meme. (Christina Henry)
A couple of new Brontë-related scholarly papers or thesis
The Contribution of Charlotte Beontë to English Literature
Qulliyeva, M. (2023).
Modern Science and Research, 2(10), 615–617. Retrieved from https://inlibrary.uz/index.php/science-research/article/view/25688
Feministička perspektiva romana Jane Eyre i Široko Sargaško
Rijeka: Sveučilište u Rijeci,
Undergraduate thesis, Filozofski fakultet, Zagrev, 2023
Hotel operators have shown “significant interest” in opening in Bradford, a councillor has claimed. [...]“The wider District has huge potential in the hosting market, and if you look at the recent purchase of the Brontë birthplace as an example, you can really see places like that helping to satisfy that experiential accommodation demand.” (Chris Young)
Why not? That’s what I kept asking myself about “The Artful Dodger,” a new series that plucks two characters out of Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist” and drops them into an Australian buddy comedy. It’s a little like borrowing Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester for a cozy little rom-com, or placing Holden Caulfield in the middle of a college sex romp. But: Why not? (Matthew Gilbert)
Dr Maisha Wester offers fresh readings of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre – the Byronic anti-heroes (Heathcliff, Rochester) are not romantic idols but demonstrate behaviour – violent, controlling – more rooted in horror. (Helen Tope)
“A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away—away—to an indefinite distance—it died.” –Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Jill Staake)
Writing the Brontës - Karen Powell and Bella Ellis in conversation
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:30 - 20:30 GMT
Blackwell's Bookshop
146 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9GP United Kingdom
We're delighted to be welcoming Karen Powell and Bella Ellis to Manchester to discuss Fifteen Wild Decembers and A Gift of Poison - two brilliant new novels centered around the Brontë sisters. Karen and Bella will be in conversation with Sophie Parkes (Out of Human Sight)
Fifteen Wild Decembers - Karen Powell
Isolated from society, Emily Brontë and her siblings spend their days inventing elaborate fictional realms or roaming the wild moors above their family home in Yorkshire. When the time comes for them to venture out into the world to earn a living, each of them struggles to adapt, but for Emily the change is catastrophic. Torn from the landscape to which she has become so passionately bound, she is simply unable to function.
To the outside world, Emily Brontë appears taciturn and unexceptional, but beneath the surface her mind is in a creative ferment. A violent phenomenon is about to burst forth that will fuse her imaginary world with the landscape of her beloved Yorkshire and change the literary world forever.
Fifteen Wild Decembers is the dazzling second novel from a writer who has been compared to Shirley Hazzard and Graham Greene, and whose first novel was described as ‘utterly stunning’, ‘mesmerizing’ and hailed as ‘a masterpiece.’
A Gift of Poison - Bella Ellis
Haworth 1847 - Anne and Emily Brontë have had their books accepted for publication, while Charlotte's has been rejected everywhere, creating a strained atmosphere at the parsonage.
At the same time, a shocking court case has recently concluded, acquitting a workhouse master of murdering his wife by poison. Everyone thinks this famously odious and abusive man is guilty. However, he insists he is many bad things but not a murderer. When an attempt is made on his life, he believes it to be the same person who killed his wife and applies to the detecting sisters for their help.
Despite reservations, they decide that perhaps, as before, it is only they who can get to the truth and prove him innocent - or guilty - without a shadow of doubt.
In college, at Syracuse, Oates sometimes referred to herself as a character called “the writer.” In a letter to a friend, she noted all the books “the writer” had just read (“approve of all the king’s men tho it was written with one eye on the typewriter & one eye on Hollywood & the old man & the sea & for light reading wuthering heights”) before disavowing her lofty tone: “This aint me talkin, this is the ‘writer.’ She talks too much.” (Rachel Aviv)
Gary Shteyngart, a fellow-teacher at Columbia, remembered Rebecca [Godfrey]’s beloved “Anti-heroines” seminar, which celebrated rebellious, difficult literary characters—from Emily Brontë’s wild Cathy, shivering on the windy moors, to Jean Rhys’s tearful drunks. (Peggy would have fit right in.) It was his mistake, Gary said, to schedule his own seminar, “The Hysterical Male,” at the same time as hers. They were planning to have their classes face off in a beer-pong match at the end of the semester, Hysterical Males vs. Anti-heroines, but he had to call it off once he realized his students would be outnumbered. (Leslie Jamison)
Romeo and Juliet. Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester. Bella and Edward.Comparing Bella and Edward to these couples from literary classics may seem like a plebeian folly. But with north of 160 million copies sold, the “Twilight” series crossed over from a YA fiction blip to a global phenomenon. [...]In 2009, Meyer revealed 12 things that influenced her as she wrote “Twilight.” The list, published by Entertainment Weekly, included “Jane Eyre,” “Anne of Green Gables,” “X-Men Cartoons,” the band Muse, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, HGTV and more.If you have read “Twilight,” this list probably won’t surprise you. Interrupting the angsty love sequences and awkward small talk are both explicit and implicit references to “Wuthering Heights” and “Romeo and Juliet.” (Hanna Seariac)
VilletteBy Charlotte BrontëCharlotte Brontë is, of course, known for her classic novel Jane Eyre. But her other writing is often pushed to the wayside, including Villette, a story George Eliot said was "a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power."The story follows schoolteacher Lucy Snowe, who is looking to find her own independence. However, this proves difficult when she befriends a worldly English doctor, and begins to have feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Now Lucy must decide if she is able to be with a man and still be free. (Kaytie Norman)
Another school that could serve as a model is one in London, called Michaela Community School, that also serves a predominantly low-income population. In addition to providing a rigorous academic experience that includes reading classics (when I visited I observed a group of students who were listening to a teacher reading Jane Eyre and appeared totally entranced by it), the school focuses on developing what classical schools might call “virtues.” But instead of more nebulous qualities like truth and goodness—or perhaps in addition to them—Michaela fosters traits like kindness and gratitude. The result is not just one of the top-performing schools in England but also—from what I saw—a community of thoughtful, articulate, and mature young people. (Natalie Wexler)
A la vision mélancolique des sœurs Brontë errant dans une lande brumeuse, Paulina Spucches oppose des femmes animées de la volonté d’exister par elles-mêmes et d’échapper au destin programmé de mères au foyer ou de gouvernantes de famille bourgeoise. « Elles étaient multiples, créatives, pleines d’humour et affrontaient la rudesse du quotidien par un soutien mutuel impérissable. »Ce que restitue Brontëana au prisme de la discrète et atachante Anne, portée par un trait d’une libre poésie, une maîtrise de l’aquarelle et de la gouache, un sens de la construction impressionnant. Remarquable ! (Translation)
Completing the fiction shortlist are Booker-winning author Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood and Karen Powell’s Fifteen Wild Decembers, a reimagining of the lives of the Brontë family. (Ella Creamer)
Several newspapers and websites about figure skating report the performance of the Canadian duo Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, who won the Cup of China competition with a routine to the music of Wuthering Heights 1992. We asked our friend ChatGPT to make use of Eurosport, Goldenskate, and Radio Canada and write something coherent and short. This is what it answered:
Canada's ice dance virtuosos, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, claimed gold at the Cup of China with a spellbinding performance that artfully embodied Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights." Set to Ryuichi Sakamoto's evocative soundtrack from the 1992 film adaptation, the duo's free dance not only secured their fifth consecutive Grand Prix win but also mesmerized the audience in Chongqing.
Despite a stumble in the rhythm dance, the pair rebounded with a flawless interpretation of the classic English novel in the free dance. Gilles and Poirier's emotional connection to the music, highlighted by Poirier's level-four twizzles and Gilles' expressive moves, earned them a remarkable free dance score of 126.79 points and a total of 207.83.
Acknowledging the challenges, Gilles admitted, "Today was not our best skate." However, Poirier emphasized their resilience, stating, "We channeled that energy today and truly immersed ourselves in the performance."
Hijo de bibliotecaria, recuerda que su flechazo literario cuando tenía 11 años fue Cumbres borrascosas de Emily Brontë, porque “tuve la impresión de leer un libro prohibido porque buceabas en la psique de personajes completamente marginales. Como decía Eco, si no lees, vives una vida. Si lees libros, puedes vivir cien mil”. (Justo Barranco) (Translation)
Emily Brontë. Introduction by Cristina CourtAverso PoesíaISBN: 978-84-127207-9-2Emily Brontë desafió los opresivos mandatos de género de la época victoriana, debiendo emplear un seudónimo masculino para publicar su obra —firmaba bajo el nombre de Ellis Bell—. Aunque su potencia como novelista haya eclipsado su poesía, Brontë destacó como una de las grandes poetas victorianas.La presente edición de Poemas, que tiene un carácter bilingüe, toma como base la edición en inglés realizada por William Heinemann en 1906, que recopiló parte de la producción poética de Brontë, situando póstumamente a la autora a la altura de grandes autores ingleses de la talla de H. G. Wells o Kipling. Sus poemas entroncan de forma nítida con la tradición literaria del romanticismo inglés, mostrando un lirismo arraigado en el entorno natural y que sitúa el «yo» como foco poético, aspecto por el que destaca precisamente la producción literaria de Brontë. Además, otorga importancia en su poesía a los reinos de la imaginación, el ensueño y la muerte; temáticas situadas en los márgenes de la vida que evidencian cómo sus versos se vieron marcados por los fallecimientos que rodearon a su familia y por la salvaje vegetación de su entorno. De pocas autoras puede decirse que una única obra publicada llegara a encumbrarlas de tal forma, a Brontë le bastó con la afamada Cumbres borrascosas.
Ahora la editorial Averso en una edición bilingüe de excelente factura publica una antología de los mejores poemas de Emily, tomando como base la edición en inglés realizada por William Heinemann en 1906. En su introducción Cristina Court señala como «hay todo un universo propio en la obra poética que construye Emily Brontë. Así mostraba los brumosos páramos del recóndito pueblo donde residía, con enigma y misterio, encontrando en ellos la calidez, el reposo y la plenitud con un aprecio inigualable al paisaje poético que Haworth Y la naturaleza le ofrecía:«¡Cuán clara resplandece! Cuán tranquilo estoy //al recostarme bajo su luz protectora,//mientras cielo y tierra me susurran» (Francisco Recio) (Translation)
Regrettably, the newspaper also repeats the same confusion with Haworth, Thornton, Bradford, the Parsonage, and the Brontë Birth House that previous articles.
Ada Enechi: I have to ask about THAT graveyard scene. There was definitely a level of uncomfortability when watching that scene and it made me question what else could have been removed that we weren't privy to as we rarely see the whole cut. What other scenes of that level were removed from the final cut?E.F.: (...) It is troubling, it's about grief. It is about the horror of grief and the horror of love. It comes directly from the Gothic tradition because there's a scene in Wuthering Heights, one of my favourite books of all time, where Heathcliff digs down to get to Cathy's coffin and the subtext is very much to do a similar thing. So what we have in the film is not completely outlandish given the genre.
I don't know much about the Brontë sisters, but this little book has to be seen to be believed. I know the picture is slightly blurry but even up close, in person, I couldn't read it, the writing is so small. It's the writing of a 13 year-old Charlotte Brontë, and containes the Glass Town story The Search after Happiness. (Robert Purchese)
Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen PowellEuropa Editions £14.99Karen Powell’s debut novel, The River Within, was a tale of class, grief and love set in 1950s Yorkshire. Her second travels further back into that county’s past and revisits the lives of its most famous writing family, the Brontës. The story of moorland isolation, early deaths and burgeoning creativity is a familiar one, but Powell, with Emily as her first-person narrator, gives it new energy, capturing the vulnerability of the three sisters and their determination to make the most of their talents. (...)Fyneshade by Kate GriffinRecently there has been no shortage of gothic tales in which spirited, Victorian-era governesses confront mysteries in remote settings. Kate Griffin’s Fyneshade (Viper £16.99) finds original ways of presenting well-worn tropes. Rejected by her family and separated from her lover, Marta — Jane Eyre but with an icy heart — is sent to gloomy Fyneshade. There she finds a pupil who cannot be taught, a dangerously seductive antihero and a house full of secrets. No innocent herself, she tries to turn events to her advantage in Griffin’s dark, inventive story. (Nick Rennison)
The term gothic has been affixed to many art forms, covering everything from Wuthering Heights and The Hound of the Baskervilles to the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and Hitchcock’s Rebecca. It’s a style, a mood, that we think we know, but do we really? (Alison Rowat)
“Não vou morrer. É verdade? Ele não nos separará. Nós somos muito felizes.”A escritora britânica Charlote Brontë (1883-1924) estava casada havia nove meses quando faleceu, aos 38 anos, de câncer. É autora do romance “Jane Eyre”. (Euler de França Belém) (Translation)
Wuthering Heights 1939Cumbres borrascosas es un gótico taciturno, y la película en blanco y negro se presta bien a ese tono. Los actores y la suntuosa partitura contribuyen a subrayar el carácter lúdico del romance central. Cumbres Borrascosas es una trágica historia de amor, pero las líneas entre Heathcliff y Cathy son tan bellas que su amor poético perdura más allá de sus circunstancias. Cuando Laurence Olivier fue elegido para el papel de Heathcliff, Vivien Leigh intentó hacerse con el papel de Cathy, pero afortunadamente Merle Oberon se quedó como Cathy porque su interpretación fue maravillosa. (Translation)
Nell’estate del 2010 librerie e centri commerciali esposero edizioni di Cime tempestose di Emily Brontë recanti in copertina un bollino stampato in vernice rosso sangue, al cui interno si leggeva: «I libri preferiti di Bella e Edward». (...)Per via di un paradosso piuttosto comune in letteratura sembra quasi che Povere creature!, romanzo di Alasdair Gray del 1992 (oltre dieci anni prima dell’uscita di Twilight) finalmente approdato in Italia grazie a Safarà, prenda avvio proprio da questa vicenda. Anche Gray menziona Brontë più di una volta, e lo fa all’interno di una narrazione concentrica costruita attorno al manoscritto (fittizio) di un medico scozzese che racconta la storia del suo matrimonio in ottica romantica, mettendo insieme i capisaldi del romanzo gotico inglese. (Read more) (Sara Mazzini) (Translation)
E questo rimane l'aspetto fondante del racconto stesso: Cime Tempestose racconta una delle storie d'amore più tossiche che siano mai state raccontate in letteratura, ma questo non ha mai minato il suo valore intrinseco. (Erika Pomella) (Translation)
Sie stehen für das Raue, Melancholische und Unzivilisierte, literarisch nobilitiert, seit Heathcliff in Emily Brontëes Wutherings Heights/Sturmhöhe durch die trübe Moor- und Heidelandschaft streift, sich gegen die Naturgewalten und seine stürmische Leidenschaft stemmt und daraus dämonische Stärke bezieht. Kate Bush hat das Moor dann noch hysterisch schrill intoniert. (Translation)
Far Out Magazine lists the 157 favourite books of Art Garfunkel and Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are there.
