"Very Byronian, Very Doomed, Very Wuthering Heights"

NPR interviews Guillermo Del Toro on his new Frankenstein film:

Terry Gross: On designing a creature that looked nothing like the original Frankenstein

Guillermo Del Toro: It has a very Byronian, very doomed, very Wuthering Heights sort of look of a doomed hero. And when he's first born, and is bald and almost naked,  I wanted it to feel like an anatomical chart, like something newly minted.

The Tallahassee Democrat presents the upcoming performances of You on the Moors Now by Jacklyn Bauhaus in Tallahassee:

The wind beats down across my brow. I stand on the precipice – a mountain of a molehill (or a molehill of a mountain, I cannot decide). And as the brightness breaks through the hollow clouds, I find what even Emily Brontë finds in the bleak solitude of the moors – liberty.

For that is the root of "You on the Moors Now," the Florida State University School of Theatre's upcoming production. Four unforgettable women from literature take upon themselves the freedom to rewrite their own stories in a 21st-century twist. (...)

She was studying for her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre at FSU when she went to study abroad in London. "We saw a production of the play called Brontë," Bracey said. "[It's a play] about the three Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne)… the lives they lived and how their imaginations went into their books."

And it was after that experience that she immediately went forth to gather as many of their stories as she could. "I found so much of my growing up was based off of a lot of these stories." Bracey uses the example of the 1995 movie "Clueless," a retelling of Jane Austen's "Emma." (Samantha Sumler)

Outlook reviews Ruskin Bond's Life's Magic Moments:

There is something haunting, too, in the way he speaks of Emily Brontë: “In the far distance is a church and the vicar’s house. The house is called ‘Wuthering Heights’, and it gave its name to the masterpiece written by a girl who was not to live for long—Emily Brontë, one of the three gifted daughters of the vicar. No, Emily Brontë never died. Her spirit still sings across the lonely moors.” This is not literary criticism—it is communion. He will argue that she has not died, because to him, she has not. That is the odd stick-to-it-iveness of art, isn’t it? Writers who left the world early walk among us still, and occasionally—by the grace of chance and a windswept hill—they stray into our sunrooms, too. (Wani Nazir)

Diez Minutos (Spain) interviews Alejandra Rubio, a Spanish "Internet personality":

 Alejandra Rubio, en plena polémica con Patricia Pardo, elige 'Cumbres borrascosas', la novela de Emily Brontë como uno de sus libros favoritos porque "me lo he leído muchas veces porque siempre intento buscar algo nuevo", Y es que la nieta de María Teresa Campos, que ha heredado de su abuela su amor por las letras, es una ferviente seguidora de las historias de amor y este libro escrito en 1847 que fue publicado bajo el pseudónimo masculino de Ellis Bell es, para muchos, la obra cumbre de la literatura romántica. (María Larrocha) (Translation)

Manhattan Times interconnects themes of women's oppression, colonial exploitation, and power across literature and art through Wuthering Heights, Wide Sargasso Sea, the art exhibition Postures, and the sugar industry legacy:

What do the transatlantic slave trade, 19th century literary fiction and a gigantic sculpture made of sugar have in common? 

Written by Emily Brontë using her pseudonym, Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights is still considered a masterpiece of romantic Gothic fiction. It takes place in the haunting moors of Yorkshire in Northern England and details the tortured unrequited love between Catherine and Heathcliff.

A new film adaptation arrives on Valentine’s Day 2026 starring Margot Robbie (Catherine) and Jacob Elordi (Heathcliff). The early buzz is that it’s not entirely faithful to the novel.

But the story behind this book is just as fascinating as any film.

Emily died in 1847, just after her only novel was published. Her sister Charlotte edited the book and republished it three years later. Charlotte also wrote one of the most tortured and passionate romantic novels of all time, Jane Eyre. Jane is a lowly but well-educated governess. She falls in love with her aristocratic boss, Mr. Rochester, who, scholars say, was based on an unrequited love. Spoiler alert: Just as Jane is about to marry Rochester, she finds out that not only is he already married, his mentally ill wife, Bertha, is locked up in the attic.

So common was the practice of 19th century fictional women to be locked up, go mad, or both, that two Indiana University professors, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, described the “distinctively literary female tradition” in their groundbreaking 1979 book, Madwoman in the Attic. (Sherry Mazzocchi)

Anusua Mukherjee has problems with The Sound of Music in The Frontline:

First, I have problems with the narrative arc. I find it a terrible waste of talent that Maria, a spunky woman training to be a nun who is described variously as a “will-o’-the wisp”, a “headache” and a “demon” by the other nuns at Nonnberg Abbey, should end up playing mother to a bunch of spoilt children and their grinchy father. If she had no other career choice then she could have at least done better than make a righteous saint of herself by adoring the entitled lot, falling in love with the father of the seven kids, and then hiking with them over the Swiss Alps to escape the Nazis. Maria’s governess counterparts in Victorian novels were more interesting. Jane Eyre screams at her employer, cancels their wedding at the last moment, and won’t relent until she has him on his knees, blind and broken.

BookTrib lists some K-Classics, Korean revisitations of literary classics:

Re Jane by Patricia Park

Jane Re is a half-Korean, half-American orphan from Flushing, Queens – a place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Jane works in her uncle’s grocery store and is thrilled to become the au pair for two professors and their adopted Chinese daughter. A witty nod to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Re Jane is a story of falling in love, finding strength, and living not just out of obligation to others but for oneself. (A.H. Kim)

The list of BookClub is of books "so romantic you'll reread them every year". It's made by AI, of course and includes Jane Eyre.