Directed by Alex HuntWritten by Oliver Draiv (among others, we guess)Produced by Phil Viardo, Jeremy Gilbreath (supervising) and Vlad Kumurzhi (associated).Photographed by Eugnee FilsonWith: Jean Evans (Cathy Earnshaw), Dante Ayala (Eddie Linton), Ehan Vaughan (Heathcliff Earnshaw), Gabriel Quintella (Hindley Earnshaw), Maia Sky (Bella Linton), Lane Wray (Patrick Earnshaw), Sofia Shakarian (Young Cathy), Jameson Barros (Young Heathcliff), Jax Binkert (Young Hindley).
Jane EyreWe wonder who this Father Jameson may be.
Directed by Jerry Bradford
Written by ???
Produced by Phil Viardo, Alex Hunt (executive), Jeremy Gilbreath (supervising) and Vlad Kumurzhi (associated).
Photographed by Benjamin Mahl
With Raina Silver (Jane Eyre), Tyler Harlow (as Edward Rochester), Eric Roberts (as Father Jameson), Alana Tilton (Bertha), Esmeree Sterling (Georgiana), Derek McDonnell (Richard Mason), Emily Lisa Jones (Blanche Ingram), Yva Leroy (Adele),
The classics got hotter. Vertical dramas from stories you already love. Open the app. For the plot.
From the Yorkshire moors to the Philippines, from Japan to Brazil, by way of Turkey, Mexico, and France, students from Nantes Université (FLCE) invite you to discover the many lives of Emily Brontë’s classic novel. Created by third-year students majoring in English as part of their Cultural Translation course with Laëtitia Saint-Loubert,, this online exhibition explores how Wuthering Heights has travelled across languages, cultures, and media.Through interactive maps and digital timelines, the online exhibition Wuthering Heights in Translation traces the novel’s many journeys through its translations, adaptations, and rewritings across diverse cultural and historical contexts.How do you translate the untranslatable? What happens to Gothic aesthetics, gender relations, or the violence of passion as they cross linguistic, cultural, and medial boundaries? From adapt ations for young readers to ballets inspired by the novel, from book covers that reinvent its visual world to costumes that bring its characters to life, from the translation of proper names to epistolary rewritings and imagined accounts of Heathcliff's enigmatic youth, these projects offer a wealth of new ways to rediscover Wuthering Heights. Others explore the novel's silences, ellipses, and unresolved mysteries, inviting visitors to investigate, play, and reflect on the many transformations of this enduring classic.Collaborative, creative, and digital, this project showcases the vitality of a novel that, for nearly two centuries, has continued to be translated, adapted, reinvented, and reinterpreted around the world.
'Wuthering Heights' by Emily BrontëA book considered greatly ahead of its time, Wuthering Heights made major waves when published thanks to its intense themes. Although it was once a banned book, modern readers know that it’s an important piece of literature. (...)'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte BrontëIf there’s one thing the Brontë sisters could do, it’s writing. Jane Eyre was published just months before Wuthering Heights, making it a great year for the family. Both books have remained lasting favorites among literature fans. (Acacia Deadrick)
If there's an environment that works best for folk horror, it's probably the exquisite rolling moors of Yorkshire under gray clouds. For me, a movie lover who was raised on baby Gothic tales like The Secret Garden and later the grim romance of Jane Eyre, the new film Starve Acre is a splendidly dark and gloomy return to a beloved setting. (Jo Light)
Would you devote your evenings to arguing with Socrates about morals or sparring with Dante about politics and spirituality? The urgent need of slotting historical literature into some sort of forced contemporary relevance is making these tomes less enjoyable. Wuthering Heights is withering. (Kong Wai Yeng)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf(...) She summons the work of women over the centuries, from Aphra Behn to the Brontë sisters, to find the answers. The lot of women in Britain has improved dramatically in the century since Woolf wrote her essay. Yet it still feels like essential reading, in particular as a manifesto on the right to form one’s own opinion and express it.
Jane Eyre de Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre, una joven huérfana, enfrenta una vida llena de desafíos mientras lucha por su independencia y dignidad. Su fortaleza y determinación la llevan a convertirse en institutriz en la misteriosa mansión de Thornfield Hall, donde se enamora del enigmático Sr. Rochester. La novela es una poderosa historia de amor, resiliencia y la lucha por la autonomía personal en una sociedad restrictiva. (Nuria Safont) (Translation)
Mariola Díaz-Cano Arévalo: ¿Un autor de cabecera? Puedes escoger más de uno y de todas las épocas.RM: (...) Nunca he sido una enamorada de la novela romántica pero sí me emocionan historias como Jane Eyre, Mujercitas, Historia de dos ciudades, y ha habido épocas en mi vida en las que solo leía ese tipo de libros. (Translation)
And what a typical female writer Penelope Featherington (Nicola Couglan) is: shy, over-weight, awkward (when sex comes to her, she falls over in the street and lands on a shoe). Since the last journalist to grace a worldwide TV hit was Carrie Bradshaw of Sex in the City, who thought that if you bought the right desk the right novel would follow, I love Penelope with a weird intensity. She is close in spirit to anti-social Jane Austen (she hated Bath) and raging Charlotte Brontë (she hated children), though her object of hatred is herself, at least until she picks up a quill.
this Regency-era drama is more about courtship, less about marriage, and the focus this season is on what happens between Penelope and Colin. Their romance is like a leaf out of the pages of Jane Austen’s Persuasion or Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, sticking to the trope of a highly coveted man falling for the most unexpected, least noticeable woman. (Sanghamitra Chatterjee)
The things Bridgerton does well, however, it does very, very well. The dynamic between Colin and Penelope – high-status guy falls for apparently undesirable girl – is stock (see everything from Jane Eyre to She’s All That), but here it hasn’t lost one iota of its centuries-old appeal. That’s partly to do with the acting: Coughlan is sensational as a woman who wallows in humiliation but cannot bring herself to relinquish hope, while Ruth Gemmell and Polly Walker’s performances as the meddling mamas of the Bridgerton and Featherington clans give the show its meatiness. (Rachel Aroesti)
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"Playbrary" focuses on tales in the public domain. These include Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Treasure Island and The Three Musketeers, among many others. (...)"In today's gaming world, storytelling is paramount. Playbrary aims to present the greatest stories ever written in an interactive, gamified format, inspiring people to read the original books," says Cyril Louis, ECD at LePub. "As the saying will go, the book is always better than the game."Games stick to each book's original plot while allowing players to get creative as the story unfolds. After a kid "plays" a book, they're encouraged to read the physical or digital volume. (Olivia M. Miller)
We've tried the free version, which uses the good old ChatGPT 3.5 model. The story broadly follows the plot of the book, though there are some peculiarities, such as Helen apparently living in Mrs. Reed's house alongside Jane. Even with a detailed prompt, the output was not particularly impressive. But, this is a beta release and glitches and inaccuracies are to be expected. It's unclear how the paid ChatGPT-4 version would perform (as we are not plus users), but given the significant advancements between versions 3.5 and 4 in other areas, the results would likely be much stronger.
El hashtag #booktok nació allá por agosto de 2020, según un artículo del periódico The Guardian. En plena pesadilla pandémica, Kate Wilson, una chica de 16 años de Shrewsbury, Reino Unido, publicó en TikTok un vídeo en el que rescataba una serie de citas de libros que, según ella, decían te amo, “sin decir realmente te amo”. En el vídeo, Kate mostraba las portadas de Historia de dos ciudades, Cumbres borrascosas y Jane Eyre, con las citadas frases sobreimpresionadas y acompañadas de una canción, bastante apasionada, de la banda francesa Famy. (Juanjo Villalba) (Translation)
Article by Devin Coldeway:Kyle Wiggers and Natasha Lomas contributed reporting. These questions were asked cold with no extra context or context. (...)“Write a summary of the book Wuthering Heights without using any proper names.”Removing the names of the main characters’ names was a test of flexibility, since most summary information will use them liberally. Bard’s result is incomplete and very vague, and while mostly accurate it’s a bit weird that it split it into two volumes — no one thinks of books in volumes any more. Claude’s summary is not accurate at all in plot or themes. GPT-4’s summary is really quite good, if a bit wordy, getting a bit gothic itself in its prose.Bard:A man is forced to stay at a gloomy estate on the moors. He learns about the two families who live there and their turbulent relationships. The love between a man and a woman is the central theme of the first volume. His revenge against the man she chooses to marry and its consequences are the central theme of the second volume.Sources – Learn moreClaude:Here’s a summary of Wuthering Heights without using proper names:The story is about two families living on the Yorkshire moors. A man from one family becomes obsessed with a woman from the other family. Though she does not truly love him, she agrees to marry him. When she dies in childbirth, the man becomes increasingly dark and vengeful. He focuses his resentment on ruining the lives of the woman’s daughter and son. However, his evil plans are eventually thwarted by the deep bond between the two young lovers. In the end, their love transcends the darkness that has torn the two families apart for generations. The story is a tragic tale of passion and revenge set against the stark backdrop of the English moors.GPT-4:Wuthering Heights is a classic Gothic novel set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The story revolves around the passionate and tumultuous relationships between the inhabitants of two isolated rural estates. The narrative is framed by the perspective of a visitor who is intrigued by the history of the dwellings and their occupants.The plot unfolds through a series of flashbacks, revealing a tale of intense love, jealousy, betrayal, and revenge. Central to the story is the passionate bond between a brooding and fiercely independent man, and a spirited and tempestuous woman. As children, they forge a deep connection, but their different social standings and the expectations of their time drive them apart. Their love story becomes a central tragedy of the novel, with each character’s decisions leading to destructive consequences for themselves and others.Simultaneously, the novel delves into the lives and relationships of other characters who inhabit the two estates. A particular focus is given to the dynamics between two families, who are closely intertwined by fate and circumstance. The novel also explores themes of social class, inheritance, and the harsh realities of life in the unforgiving moorland setting.The protagonist’s all-consuming love for the spirited woman leads him to embark on a path of vengeance against those who wronged him or stood in their way. The second generation of characters, born of the first, are also caught in this cycle of retribution. The novel’s intricate plot explores the consequences of unchecked passion and the potential for love and redemption in the face of suffering.Ultimately, Wuthering Heights is a tale of heartbreak, obsession, and the destructive nature of vengeance. It remains a timeless classic that continues to captivate readers with its vivid portrayal of intense emotions and its haunting, atmospheric setting.
Icon Books has scooped up the rights to cultural historian Eleanor Houghton’s biography of Charlotte Brontë, Material Witness, which explores the famous author’s life through her surviving clothing.Ellen Conlon, senior commissioning editor, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Liza DeBlock at Mushens Entertainment, in an exclusive submission, for publication in June 2024. Meanwhile, audio rights have been sold to W F Howes.The publisher said: “Although nearly 170 years have passed since Charlotte Brontë died, witnesses to her life still survive. This innovative biography finally gives voice to the dresses, corsets, bonnets, shawls and many other garments that were present as she penned the first lines of Jane Eyre, as she walked the cobbled streets of Haworth with her sisters, as she dined with William Makepeace Thackeray at his home in London or as she joined Arthur Bell Nicholls at the altar in the summer of 1854. Powerful as their stories are, their testimonies have remained unheard – until today.” (...)Houghton said: “I am delighted to be working with Icon Books on Material Witness: Charlotte Brontë’s Life Through Clothes. As the astonishing secrets hidden within her surviving wardrobe are revealed, a real, raw, three-dimensional woman emerges – one who shatters myths and challenges our long-held preconceptions of this beloved author.” (Sian Bayley)
And so news in the historic Brontë village of Haworth that a superfast 5G connection to online networks has been blocked will be the cause of understandable frustration to those who see access to a faster, more reliable digital world as something of a lifeline, be that to their business or themselves.At almost 60ft tall, their concerns are understandable and those who know the value of protecting places such as Haworth from anything detrimental to their character, identity and beauty should not be demonised but celebrated as guardians of something that, once gone, cannot be retrieved.The challenge is, then, to ensure good people who can generate vibrancy, prosperity and a sense of community are not chased away by what they may well see as a Luddite mentality hell-bent on freezing people and places in time. Conversations must continue if compromise is to be found.
A Vintage ChristmasIf you're drowning in finals, last-minute Christmas shopping and holiday parties but still want to get some winter reading in, try this poetry and short story collection. With work from well-known authors including Louisa May Alcott, L.M. Montgomery, Mark Twain, Anne Brontë and more, this compilation of short and sweet Christmas pieces is the perfect pick-me-up when rushing between activities. You'll be transported into an old-timey world of crackling fires and magical moments in no time!
Editors, as any editor can tell you, live in the shadow of their writers, reacting quietly behind the scenes, unheralded and little known. This is, evidently, how Gottlieb prefers it. “This glorification of editors, of which I have been an extreme example, is not a wholesome thing,” he once told The Paris Review. “The editor’s relationship to a book should be an invisible one,” he said then and believes today. “The last thing anyone reading Jane Eyre would want to know, for example, is that I had convinced Charlotte Brontë that the first Mrs. Rochester should go up in flames.” He insists editing is neither an art nor a craft. It’s just “what I do,” he says. “I’m not an abstract thinker. I don’t think, really — I just react, which is what editors are supposed to do.” When I tried to press him further, he waved me away. “Don’t you feel like an idiot having to ask questions like that?” (Matthew Schneier)
O’Connor’s fantasy about Emily offers a generous version of how she could have experienced her life, and how that life, though horrendously short (she died from tuberculosis at the age of 30), might have inspired her to write her classic work.What we often forget when we watch these period dramas is just how spectacularly young these artists were. This film captures Emily’s youth and sense of the future, without slipping into sentimentality or saccharine palettes. A handful of scenes have the trappings of horror – a brilliant device that elevates the movie to new emotional heights.Nanu Segal’s spellbinding cinematography recalls the ethereal sensibilities of classic, English period dramas, while Abel Korzeniowski’s soundtrack captures the tumultuous verve of the young characters.The film has the offbeat spareness of Terence Davies’ A Quiet Passion (2016) about American poet Emily Dickinson, and the delirious exuberance of Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice (2005), culminating in a singular resonant statement of its own.The film ends where it began, with Emily lying down, moments away from death, answering her sister Charlotte’s throbbing question: “How did you write Wuthering Heights?”“I took my pen and put it to paper,” Emily replies, breathlessly. (Jessie Tu)
Producer 1, female, Bafta voterWhat has caught your eye so far?Emily succeeded in capturing the Brontës and energy of Wuthering Heights — an unexpectedly inventive and thrilling debut from veteran actor Frances O’Connor with a fantastic lead performance from Emma Mackey.
Baz'art (France) reviews the film as seen at the Royal Film Festival.
Hodges wrote the screenplay with Ian Hendry in mind, as he was trying to break away from the caperishness of The Italian Job (1969). However, Michael Caine readily bought into the notion of thriller as social autopsy and brought a sombrely pitiless pathos to what he later claimed “was like Charles Dickens meets Emily Brontë, written by Edgar Wallace”. (David Parkinson)
CapricornJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëCapricorns are famous for being hardworking, disciplined and determined to get the job done. But how do you think they got that way? Capricorn energy is so motivated and entrepreneurial because it’s a zodiac sign that is often accompanied with abandonment and hardship. Jane Eyre is an orphan who has been let down by all her caretakers, but her strength of spirit always her to remain resilient and to take care of herself better than many in her situation would. The themes surrounding this novel are peak Capricorn, as the story of a woman overcoming the worst odds will inspire anyone to grit their teeth and rise to the occasion. (Roya Backlund)
Jane Eyre, Lee SunNeko, d’après Charlotte Brontë (Nobi Nobi)
Toujours dans la collection « Les Classiques en manga », retrouvez l’adaptation réussie du premier roman et (déjà) chef d’œuvre de Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.
L’histoire romantico-gothique de cette orpheline très tôt livrée aux sombres vicissitudes de l’existence mais dont la détermination et l’indépendance de caractère pousseront la jeune femme à chercher le bonheur coûte que coûte. (Simon) (Translation)
Hur är det möjligt att göra en så här slätstruken film om en så mytomspunnen, härligt okonventionell författare som Emily Brontë? (Translation)
‘Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris’ - Anjet Daanje ★★★★½De Nederlandse beschrijft in de vorm van aantekeningen, essays, necrologieën en brieven een hele stoet aan personages, wier levensdraden samenkomen in de knoop die Eliza May Drayden heet, Daanjes versie van Emily Brontë. Veel kans om zich aan de passanten te hechten krijgt de lezer niet – de dood is alomtegenwoordig, en iedere kennismaking is een aangekondigd afscheid. Toch is het geen log boek. Daanje schrijft heel precies en houdt de aandacht vast met haar gracieuze, serene stijl. Een bijzonder boek en de terechte winnaar van de Boekenbon Literatuurprijs.
“Le gusta Cumbres Borrascosas”: El retrato de Dorian Gray, de Oscar Wilde. Ingenio y mala onda a partes iguales. La eterna juventud por la tremenda. Como en nuestros días. (Javier Rodriguez Marcos) (Translation)
Alejandro Lingenti: ¿Cómo fue su primer acercamiento a la literatura? ¿Cuál fue el primer libro que le produjo un impacto de esos que dejan huella?
S.M.: De niña solo leía. Leía muchísimo, y era para mí una forma de escape, de consuelo, de gozo. Leía intuitivamente, sin programa y, por supuesto, sin ningún plan de convertirme en escritora, eso vino mucho después. Me cuesta decir un solo libro que haya generado ese impacto. En mi caso fue una suma de libros, una mezcla rara entre la que había tebeos, novelas de Agatha Christie y algunos otros libros que me removieron por dentro, intensamente, como Cumbres borrascosas o Crimen y castigo, aunque apenas los entendiera. (Tran-lation)
Sarah from Too Many Damn Books (via Literary Hub) lists Wuthering Heights among Top Books Read in 2022 From the Past. Final thoughts on Charlotte Bronte and Arthur Bell Nicholl's Honeymoon, 1854.
For the past ten years I have been writing a Brontë novel from the view point of Charlotte's husband, Arthur Bell Nicholls. Well, I thought I was writing a novel. What I now find is I have been writing many, many Brontë short stories that run from 1798 to 1906. The collection is called," My Heart is in Haworth. "
I have always meant to weave these stories into one narrative and have tried to do so for years. But so far they stubbornly refuse. So I'm now publishing them as they were written, and posting them periodically on this blog.
I have decided to do it this way because I'm tired waiting for this book too! The time is now on the platform I have.
The stories are offered to the public for free,but they are copyrighted of course. ©
Below is my first installment. "Miss Emily's stone" set in 1854.
The book hasn't been written in chronological order by any means. In one writing session I could zip to two or three different decades of the story and often did. So it is in keeping with the endeavor that my writing doesn't appear in an orderly timeline either.
There are far more romantic and dramatic scenes than this one to be sure. But this one elbowed itself to the front of the line!
The scene is the fall of 1854, the Nicholls have returned to Haworth from their honeymoon in Ireland.
follow in the honeymoon footsteps of Charlotte Brontë and her new husband Arthur Bell Nicholls - from Haworth to North Wales and across the Irish sea to Ireland.
As for now, the blog has two posts, both about Killarney :
Charlotte and Arthur arrived at Killarney, however, we do not know where they stayed. Pauline Clooney, in her historical fiction novel 'Charlotte & Arthur '(Merdog Books), has them stay at the newly opened Railway Hotel where 'everything was of the highest standard' and there was even gaslight. But, as Pauline acknowledges, there is no recorded evidence of their actual Killarney lodgings. They may well have stayed at the Railway Hotel or indeed at any other number of hotels in the area.
Just to confirm there are more than 2 posts. I have posts starting in Wales where Charlotte’s and Arthur’s honeymoon began then onwards through Ireland. I’m currently up to Killarney! Next post will be about Glengarriff
This project will only be funded if at least £20,000 is pledged by 12th September 2022 at 12:23pm.Crowdfunder launches to save the birthplace of the Brontë sisters for the people of BradfordHaworth is synonymous with Yorkshire's most famous literary family - but the birthplace of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë some six miles away has never received as much attention. (...)A creative community group, the Brontë Birthplace Project, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to buy the terraced house and renovate it as an events space and accommodation.Some £450,000 is needed to fund both the purchase and the first two years of running the property, with the campaign group initially trying to raise £20,000 through crowdfunding.Campaigners, part of Thornton’s South Square Centre, are also intending to apply for Government and lottery match funding.The group has been told by the current owner Mark De Luca that he will give them first preference on purchasing the house if they can raise the money by Christmas. (...)Retired academic Sarah Dixon, member of the Brontë Birthplace Project, said: “We will use the space to do all sorts of cultural and literary activities.“This is not just a Thornton project - this is a project for all of Bradford.“It’s such a perfect fit at this time because of Bradford being awarded the City of Culture 2025. What could be more famous in Bradford than the Brontës?”The group are in talks both with the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth and the city’s council about how to maximise tourist potential to Thornton should the purchase be successful.Ideas include opening an Air BnB on the first floor of the birthplace and creating a new walk across the moors from Thornton to Haworth.Mrs Dixon said: “If we don’t take this opportunity now - there was an attempt a few years ago and it failed - it could deteriorate, we believe. It needs protecting.” (Victoria Finan)
Top 35 must-see locations for book lovers - with Brontë sisters' home coming out on top. (...)Darren Hardy, author and editorial programmes manager at Amazon, which commissioned the research to launch the Kindle Storyteller Award, celebrating the best self-published stories, said: “It is such an exciting time to be in the independent publishing space.(...)“Some of my favourite literary sites, like Coleridge's Nether Stowey, the Brontës' Haworth, or DH Lawrence's Eastwood, also feature truly wonderful and significant houses where the rooms in which the writers were born, or wrote some of their key works, are preserved for all generations.”The study also revealed the nation’s favourite British writers – with Charles Dickens, who can count “Oliver Twist” and “A Christmas Carol” among his works, coming out on top.He was followed by Charlotte Brontë and George Orwell – while Emily Brontë and Virginia Woolf, legendary female novelists who paved the way with their literary classics including “Wuthering Heights” and “Mrs Dalloway”, were just behind. (...)The Kindle Storyteller Award is open for entries until 31st August 2022.TOP 35 LITERARY LOCATIONS – AS VOTED BY READERS:1. Haworth – home of the Brontë sisters, Emily, Charlotte and Anne (Sarah Lumley)
Also in The Sun, The Mirror, Wigan Today. Edinburgh News, This is Oxfordshire.
Jane Eyre, Charlotte BrontëA classic novel that helped to give Brontë Country in West Yorkshire its name, Jane Eyre is an epic 600-page account of Jane’s life, from young orphan to domestic bliss with Mr Rochester, through her experiences in her teaching career, bigamy, homelessness and more.The book has inspired film versions and stage adaptations including one this year at the Stephen Joseph Theatre. (...)Wuthering Heights, Emily BrontëEmily Brontë only wrote one novel in her life, but what a novel it is. Her story of the passionate, and ultimately destructive love between the headstrong Catherine and brooding Heathcliff is a true classic of English literature. It is set on the dark, stormy moors – including Top Withins – above Haworth where the Brontes lived. (Sue Wilkinson)
Paxman’s style, inherited from his time skewering politicians, marked a break from his affable predecessor, Bamber Gascoigne, but he still saw the humour in some of his students’ most egregious errors. In one episode, a student from Imperial College London guessed the name of the romantic lead Orson Welles and Michael Fassbender had both played in film adaptations of a work by Charlotte Brontë as Inspector Clouseau. Paxman put his head in his hands and between laughs proclaimed it “one of the funniest misapprehensions we’ve ever had”.
You should read something paranormal, literary, and lyrical, like Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood. This YA, Ethiopian-inspired Jane Eyre retelling starts when a young debtera named Andromeda is hired to exorcise a large mansion of specters of the Evil Eye. The young heir Rochester, who hired her, doesn’t treat her like a servant. In fact, an undeniable attachment begins to form between them as the spirits of the house fight back against both Andromeda and Rochester. (Alison Doherty)
I inevitably had some disagreements. When I teach about global Christianity, I often use Charlotte Brontë’s 1846 poem “The Missionary” to explain what drove those evangelistic endeavors. The poem perfectly epitomizes the view of those overseas races as “the weak, trampled by the strong,” who “live but to suffer—hopeless die.” They are subject to “pagan-priests, whose creed is Wrong, / Extortion, Lust, and Cruelty,” until they can be liberated by White Christians. This is exactly the thought world of Heathen, and the poem vividly illustrates the overlap of racist and anti-Catholic rhetoric.Quite reasonably, Gin Lum does not quote Brontë’s poem, because it is not American and therefore falls outside her purview. But that in itself raises an issue. Are the attitudes and concepts explored in Heathen in fact distinctively American, or did they rather belong to a much broader phenomenon which was more generically Protestant—emphatically British, but also German and Northern European? (Philip Jenkins)
The book that ...features the most beautiful jacket:
Last year on tour I picked up a beautiful vintage hardcover of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, which features such illustrations as Procession of Lowood Orphan Girls in Gothic Dress. (Riza Cruz)
Still some reactions to Emily's trailer: Harper's Bazaar, Red Magazine, Lubimyczytać (Poland), Taxidrivers (Italy), The Best (Greece), The United Business Journal...
Como para muchas, Jane Austen tuvo un papel esencial en su carrera como devora libros insaciable. Las historias de Elisabeth Bennet, Anne Elliot o Emma Woodhouse se convirtieron en indiscutibles de su librería a una temprana edad, abriendo la puerta a descubrir a otras autoras como las hermanas Brontë: “Con ellas, se crean lectoras para siempre”. Es por ello que se sorprendió cuando vio que clásicos como Sentido y sensibilidad, Mansfield Park, Agnes Grey, Una habitación con vistas o La formación de una marquesa no estaban publicados en catalán. (...)De momento, ya llevan siete libros en la nueva colección de Viena. El último, una sorpresa, Las confesiones del señor Harrison de Elizabeth Gaskell. El octavo, según avanza Pujals, coincidirá con el Día de Todos los Santos y será Drácula. La editora piensa en Stranger Things para introducir el imprescindible de Bram Stoker. Para más adelante llegará otro clásico, siempre polémico e inclasificable, Cumbres Borrascosas de Emily Brontë. (Cristina Martín Valbuena) (Translatiuon)
Cumbres Borrascosas fue repudiada y ridiculizada cuando se publicó por su estructura, su violento discurso y oscuros personajes. Es un libro complejo que suele ser amado u odiado, sin tintas medias. Pero, innegablemente rompió paradigmas, y se atrevió a mostrar un amor sin idealizar que colinda con odio y venganza. Hay que leerlo con cabeza fría y valentía. (Aimara Villanueva) (Translation)
I stället ska vi till Haworth och betyga vår vördnad för systrarna Brontë, och vi kommer ända till parkeringen i Haworth. Där trasslar vi in oss i en obegriplig parkeringsautomat och dessutom blir jag omotiverat arg på hela turistverksamheten. Vad har det här med systrarna Brontë att göra, egentligen? (Translation)
The village of Haworth attracts a lot of visitors for its rich history and stunning countryside, but with that comes some problems. (...)"Out on the wily, windy moors'.I'll never hear the opening line of Kate Bush's classic song 'Wuthering Heights', a track inspired by the Emily Brontë novel of the same name, the same again after visiting Haworth in between Storms Dudley and Eunice.The West Yorkshire village is a tourist hot spot where visitors flock due to its close association with the Brontë sisters as well its heritage railway line, plethora of events and stunning moorlands where the weather gets, I can confirm, wily and windy. (...)She also said that she didn't think there was enough recreational activities for the villages as "most things are around the tourists and it feels like it's got more so that way"."Some community things for the older generation would be nice", she said.Of course, despite the frustrations she was still able to find plenty of upsides too.The woman, who had worked in the Brontë Parsonage Museum for 20 years, said: "It's a lovely village. It's quaint and it's got a lot going for it. There's great places to eat down in the centre and some lovely shops. Though, it can get a little bit out of reach for the locals as it's mostly geared towards the tourists."We are lucky because out of the back we have a lovely view. If we didn't have that we would lose the plot." (...)Jo Cashon has been running The King's Arms for just over a year and said that she has "absolutely loved it"."It's just nice that they've got so many events on", she said, highlighting the 1940s and 1960s themed days, Steam Punk festival and Christmas weekend.Jo said: "Everyone gets right in to the spirit and helps with decorating the village. It's great to see."Add to that the constant stream of literature buffs that visit Haworth and it's no surprise that business is good at the pub, which even features a set of Brontë themed beers and sits just around the corner from the Parsonage where the sisters wrote their famous novels. (Charles Gray)
Emma Rice’s production of Emily Brontë’s novel has all this director’s trademark feyness and humanity. She and an energetic cast manage to untangle the book’s sometimes chewy tale about bleakness on the windswept Yorkshire moors. (Quentin Letts)
Urban Kars is dominated by Kars castle built from the local basalt on a precipice akin to Edinburgh Castle. A river curves its way around the base of the castle hill. Half frozen with steep icy banks and abutted by historic buildings with snow-covered roofs and smoking chimneys, it could easily be the setting for a novel by Dickens or one of the Brontës – but this is Pushkin country. Much of the old town is 150-year-old Russian. (David Zev Harris and Mark Gordon)
Rekha Balakrishnan: Who are your favourite authors?
SB: I admire the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Agatha Christie, Margret Atwood, and Alice Walker. I also love books by Sophie Kinsella, Nicholas Spark, and many more. The list is endless.
Johan Jacobs: Kent u een gedicht uit het hoofd?PdK: ‘Spellbound’, een gedicht van Emily Brontë over onstuitbaar verlangen. (Translation)
«Boccaccio quando è più scandaloso [at his hottest] mi sembra meno pornografico di Pamela o Clarissa Harlowe o anche Jane Eyre o un manipolo di altri libri e film che passano indenni il vaglio della censura», scriveva D. H. Lawrence per difendersi dall’accusa di oscenità rivolta tanto al suo romanzo, L’amante di lady Chatterley, quanto ai suoi dipinti, appena esposti a Londra. (Stefano Jossa) (Translation)
La playa aquí, como las Cumbres Borrascosas de Brontë o la isla y los demonios de [Carmen] Laforet, es un inquietante personaje más. (Raquel Bada) (Translation)
Confesso una passione insana per " Cime tempestose" di Emliy Bronte. Il perché è semplice: è uno dei primi film che ricordo in assoluto della mia infanzia. Mi aveva molto colpito da bambino. In particolare ero stato attratto dalla signora Merle Oberon e dalla fotografa Gregg Toland. L'ho amato a tal punto da rivederlo per ben tre volte in un giorno solo. Avevo appena sei anni allroa e probabilmente non avevo capito molto, ma ero stato rapito, per così dire, da quelle immagini in bianco e nero. La frase che ho scelto, è questa: "La violenza e il tradimento sono a doppio taglio, e feriscono di più chi le usa". Allroa ho letto "Cime tempestose" quando ero più grande a quella citazione mi è tornata in mente. Da adulto, forse, ne ho ho compreso qualcosa in più. (Francesca Bolino) (Translation)
Periódico Correo (México) announces the death of the actor Xavier Marc, who was part of the cast of TV series Cumbres Borrascosas 1964.
Finally, a poem by Veronica Ashenhurst entitled Bulwark: To Jane Eyre is published on Literary Yard and AnneBronte.org has decided to join the Wordle frenzy with a Brontë version: Brontëdle.
Introducing the Brontë Babe Book Club. A book club for fans of all things Brontë. Everyone welcome. We’ll read and hopefully enjoy books written by the Brontë family, books about them, those inspired by their lives and works, and those with a connection to places they knew and loved.Meetings to take place monthly over Zoom. If you have Facebook then please head over to our community group page to see if it is your thing. We also have an official group on BookClubs.com. Please message me or head over to the Facebook page for details of how to join up. This is the only place you will be able to vote for the books we read.First up is Jane Eyre on 9th March 2022. We’re currently voting for our second book. The third title will be The Vanished Bride by Bella Ellis. I
’d love to see you there!
Karen Aldridge, a Chicago actress of longstanding international acclaim, finds herself playing a bizarre but compelling character at the shoebox-sized A Red Orchid Theatre: She’s Agatha, a terrifyingly stern spinster sister stuck in a rundown manse on a simulacrum of the wild Yorkshire moors, a fever nightmare of Charlotte Brontë-like origin.But Aldridge, who is powerful enough not just to intimidate anyone walking in off the street but to raise the entire stakes of director Kirsten Fitzgerald’s production of Jen Silverman’s “The Moors,” is such a remarkable actress that all of that fast-paced intensity constantly is underpinned by vulnerability. Silverman’s 2016 play, a satirical deconstruction (or mashup) of Brontë-like mythology, has designated Agatha as a figure so controlling as to even panic the house Mastiff (played by Guy Van Swearingen), when he’s not playing out his relationship with a local moor-hen (Dado). But I think the playwright also wanted us to ponder some version of a latent theme in all of the Brontë novels: how, in isolation both geographic and gender-forced, does a woman allow herself to be seen? (Chris Jones)
hopes to write a future book on England’s Brontë sisters (Jon Niccum)
This shows in its most public face; the website is buzzy, with excellent photography and some interesting and unusual first-person stories, but cliched and riddled with assumptions, omissions, generalisations and tin ear errors.A list of writers, poets and playwrights mentions Caedmon, the Brontës and The Yorkshire Post’s own Ian McMillan, but manages to leave out Marsden’s Simon Armitage who is only the nation’s Poet Laureate. (Jayne Dowle)
The Prismatic Jane Eyre School Project, an AHRC-funded joint project run by the University of Oxford and the Stephen Spender Trust, is running a nation-wide creative translation competition for school learners.
Entrants are asked to produce a poem in another language inspired by a selected passage from Jane Eyre. The competition accepts submissions in any language from learners in Key Stages 3-5, and all entries need to be accompanied by a literal translation into English. Up to 100 entries to the competition will be published in a printed anthology, which will also be available online.
Support materials are available on our resources page. Additional activity packs are provided in four languages (Arabic, French, Polish, and Spanish). These materials give learners and teachers the chance to take part in creative translation activities related to Jane Eyre at home or in the classroom.
The competition guidelines and selected passages are available on this webpage. The competition deadline is 1 March 2022.
Interested teachers and prospective entrants can receive regular updates about the competition (or the project more generally) by registering their interest using this form.
For queries, contact PJEschools@ell.ox.ac.uk.
"It’s a book about the north of England as well as a book about the Brontës because I compare then with now,” said Dr Stewart, the university’s course leader in creative writing.“Scarborough, where Anne went to die in 1849, was at that point an up and coming spa town, very prosperous and where the London gentry went to experience the baths. The contrast is extreme.“I walked from Haworth to Liverpool, recreating the fictional walk of Mr Earnshaw in ‘Wuthering Heights’ when he returns with Heathcliff.“Again, it is a case of a place that very different now. I look at how Liverpool was the centre of the European slave trade as around 80 per cent of the country’s income was from slavery, and I look at the likelihood of people being a slave or the child of a slave at that time.” [...]Dr Stewart’s new book also covers the travels of Branwell, the only son of the Brontë parents. A painter and writer, Branwell found work as a tutor in Broughton-in-Furness, Lancashire."The differences are not as marked as with Scarborough," said Dr Stewart. "The pubs are there, the streets are cobbled – it’s fairly unspoiled so the comparison is not as stark.“William Wordsworth also wrote about the nearby hill Black Combe and the landscape around Broughton. Branwell wrote to Wordsworth because he was obsessed with him, but Wordsworth never wrote back to him.”The book also covers a visit to North Lees Hall in Derbyshire, the likely inspiration for Thornfield Hall in ‘Jane Eyre’, as well as the Luddite Trail near Huddersfield.To coincide with ‘Walking the Invisible’, Dr Stewart will host a walking tour around Haworth, ‘In the footsteps of the Brontë’s, on Sunday, July 4 as part of the Bradford Literature Festival. (Ruby Kitchen)
What’s the book you took with you to read at the pub? A spot of lightweight melodrama? Jane Austen or one of the Brontës perhaps? [...]There are scores of places that have a thriving trade based around literary tourism. Haworth in Yorkshire is a mecca for fans of the Brontë sisters, being the place where they grew up and indulged in healthful thrashes across the surrounding moors, giving rise to the windswept romance of Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. (David Szmidt)
In August 2020, Kate Wilson, a 16-year-old from Shrewsbury, posted on the social media video platform TikTok a series of quotes from books she had read, “that say I love you, without actually saying I love you”. Set to a melancholy soundtrack, the short video plays out as Wilson, an A-level student, holds up copies of the books with the quotes superimposed over them. “You have been the last dream of my soul,” from A Tale of Two Cities. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same,” from Wuthering Heights. “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own,” from Jane Eyre. It has been viewed more than 1.2m times. (Alison Flood)
Like most people, I first encountered the Brontë sisters in a high school classroom. The spell Emily’s Wuthering Heights (1847) cast on me has strengthened with every passing year. The book’s famous romance (the quasi-incestuous bond between the violent Heathcliff and the vain Catherine Earnshaw) actually constitutes less than half of the novel. The greater and more difficult story―the one that draws me to the text over and over―is a meditation on generations: a study of how human faults pass from parents to children and of how we might outlive the sins of the past. Shortly after the book was published, Emily Brontë died at 30 years old. At 25, I’m closer to that age than to the teenage lovers―or to who I was when I first learned of them. The author’s wisdom, to quote her doomed heroine, has run “through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.” (Ian Malone)
Jane Eyre (2011)Cary Fukunaga's adapation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name is the sexiest one by far — all steamy chemistry and gazes full of longing and repressed tension. Mia Wasikowska plays the titular Jane, who arrives at Thornfield Hall as a governess. There, she must contend with the moody owner, Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender), whose broody facade conceals a dark secret within. (Ineye Komonibo)
Hathersage has been voted the top hidden gem among villages in National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty around England [...]Famous author Charlotte Brontë was so taken with the Peak District village that when she wrote Jane Eyre she based Thornfield Hall on North Lees Hall and Milton on Hathersage. (Gay Bolton)
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Emma Mackey was seen stepping out on set for the first time to film a new biopic about author Emily Brontë. [...]Dressed in her costume Emma looked markedly different from her edgy Netflix character Maeve Wiley as she prepared to shoot scenes alongside Jackson-Cohen, who plays assistant curate William Weightman.Emma transformed into the iconic author by wearing a purple cable-knit sweater over a purple-and-white plaid dress.Her brunette locks were styled into a slick bun with a middle parting, and her hair was partially covered with a knitted bonnet.The actress was also seen with a long brown coat in her arms, which she appeared to keep on hand so she could warm up when cameras weren't rolling.
Source Oliver, meanwhile, was dressed up in a black suit that he paired with a white shirt, and in between takes he also donned a blue padded coat.Marking Frances O'Connor's directorial debut, Emily - which is yet to have a release date - will follow the story of the famous author, best known for her iconic novel Wuthering Heights.The upcoming film will see Emma join the likes of Line Of Duty's Adrian Dunbar and Ammonite star Gemma Jones.Dunkirk's Fionn Whitehead, The Musketeers' Alexandra Dowling and The Spanish Princess star Amelia Gething complete the line-up. (Roxy Simons and Rianne Addo)
A digital database established at the University of Alberta 20 years ago, The Orlando Project gives students and instructors access to a wide variety of literary works by feminist writers from the British Isles dating from the very beginning to the present. The text base includes a list of over 1,400 female British writers — from Charlotte Brontë to Mary Wollstonecraft — as well as some non-British and male writers. The Orlando project is free for U of A students to use through the library and students can also take part in the Orlando project by submitting an idea for an entry.Isobel Grundy, a professor emeritus of english and Orlando Project research director works on the database alongside Susan Brown, a professor at the University of Guelph, and Patricia Clements, a professor emeritus at the University of Alberta.While some may argue that the Orlando Project is a database, Grundy clarified that it’s much more.“It’s not really a database, because it’s very much angled, less towards number crunching and towards proving statements about things which are, on the whole, more nuanced,” she said.The database mainly focuses on the British Isles because “it’s the longest English speaking tradition,” but the database still contains diverse international women writers.“We have a sprinkling of American women, we have very few North American male writers, we have a sprinkling of European writers who have been read in translation by Anglophone authors, and we have a sprinkling of writers in Africa, Australia, Asia, and other places who have either written in English or been important to translate.”The Orlando Project databases not only focuses on written work by women writers but also examines the social context the writer lived in, which Grundy explained can have important influences on their work.“We have tried to have entries that tell you about a writer, the circumstances of her life, and what she produced,” she explained. “One of the core beliefs of the Orlando Project has been that the material conditions are very hard on what is produced and that even the most brilliant and creative writer is going to be very much shaped by the circumstances of her time and her place in her life — that is a relationship which is always of interest.” (Doha Hameid)
Let's read all of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë's main novels in 2021!See below for the announcement video and schedule.Hosted by Marissa from Blatantly Bookish: https://youtu.be/Cv9nWH9e5NYSchedule:January - Villette by Charlotte BrontëFebruary - Villette (continued)March- The Professor by Charlotte BrontëApril - Agnes Grey by Anne BrontëMay - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëJune - Shirley by Charlotte BrontëJuly - Shirley (continued)August - Poetry? A Modern Brontë-related book? (TBD)September - Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëOctober - Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëNovember - Nonfiction November Brontë styleDecember - Catch up month,, Modern Brontë-related book (TBD/more details to follow)
Oh dear readers, Ashley and I have been planning and plotting and considering which Jane to share with you this year. You may recall 2019’s selection, Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice. This January, we’ll be passing our time with Jane Eyre, the titular character of Charlotte Bronte’s most famous work. Why Jane in January you ask? Well, we considered Austen in August but decided that was too limiting. Jane in January accomplished our task last year and gave us many more Janes to choose from as authors, characters, and historical personages, so there you have it. We like variety and options, especially in our reading lives. Jane Eyre, much like the Bennett sisters, is a beloved literary character, so we had to narrow our options greatly, and finally selected the titles below from ten that made our short list. (...)
So, if you want to read along with us this month, we’d love to be friends on Goodreads so you can track us in real time, and here’s what we’ll be sharing with you here, and when.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ... January 7
Mr. Rochester by Sarah Shoemaker ... January 14
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys ... January 21
Re Jane by Patricia Park ... January 28
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