Metro reports that Frances O'Connor's
Emily is available to stream now on Netflix.
A ‘beautifully imagined portrait’ of the life of writer Emily Brontë is now available to watch on Netflix.
Released in 2022, the biographical drama Emily is a part-fictionalised take on the author, best known for her only novel Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.
During her life Brontë, who published under the pen name Ellis Bell, also wrote a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.
Despite her being one of the most celebrated English authors across history, her solitary nature while she was alive has made it difficult for biographers and historians to discover more about her. [...]
With little information to work with, it had to take creative licence to tell her story – including a fictional romantic relationship with the young curate William Weightman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen).
However, it was critically acclaimed and currently holds an 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with its critics consensus reading: ‘With a bracingly irreverent approach to its story and Emma Mackey bringing Brontë vibrantly to life, Emily is a biopic that manages to feel true while taking entertaining creative liberties.’ (Pierra Willix)
Daily Mail asks bookish questions to journalist and broadcaster Reeta Chakrabarti.
What Book ...
...first gave you the reading bug?
Like all children of my vintage, I read a lot of Enid Blyton and Louisa May Alcott.
But the first ‘proper’ book was Jane Eyre, which fell into my hands when I was eight, probably because Bronte was next to Blyton in the library.
I don’t know what I made of the romance or of the mad woman in the attic, but I was gripped by the cruelty meted out to young Jane by her cold-hearted aunt, and the deprivations she suffers at Lowood school. I have been a reader ever since.
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