The only pub in Luddenden, The Lord Nelson Inn, is reputedly the oldest building in the village. Above the door of the pub is a 1634 datestone, although it didn’t actually become an alehouse until the middle of the 18th century.The Grade II-listed coaching inn is dog friendly and has a beer garden in the summer. It was actually used as an exterior of a tavern seen in the first ever episode of Gentleman Jack. Branwell Bronte, the only brother of the literary Bronte sisters, was said to be a regular. (Liv Clarke)
A crumbling redundant church, which appeared in a film version of Wuthering Heights, is to be restored as part of the cultural heritage of the Yorkshire Dales.Lunds Church, in High Abbotside, was built in the 18th century to serve the farming community in the remotest corner of Upper Wensleydale, but the rural population declined, congregations shrank, and the building was deconsecrated in 1981. (Paul Wilkinson)
Las hermanas inglesas Brontë: Charlotte, Emily y Anne, en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, debieron utilizar seudónimos de hombres para que sus obras literarias fueran publicadas. Incluso hay una anécdota con Charlotte Brontë que para la época era profesora y tenía la ilusión de que sus escritos fueran publicados. Los envió al poeta Robert Southey para conocer su opinión. La respuesta que le dio el profesor es hoy inaudita: “la literatura no puede ser asunto de la vida de una mujer, y no debería ser así” (ver). Por fortuna las Brontë no le hicieron caso y hoy podemos disfrutar de sus obras: Jane Eyre, Cumbres borrascosas, Agnes Grey. (José María Dávila Román in Al Poniente) (Translation)
And some quotes in El Universo, Hindustan Times, Merdeka (Indonesia)...
In the corpus of literature cloistered in the canons as ‘of women’s’, we find ourselves, again and again, forced to read the works of Virginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft, the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, and the list continues, crowded by English-speaking masters of literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (A.H. Sarah)
The view from the east and west ridges of the Hebden Beck valley as it flows from the wuthering moors of Brontë Country into the ancient woods of Hardcastle Crags has to be our number one choice. (David Himelfield)
Other moments of unreliability are less sympathetic, and de Céspedes relies upon her reader to know more than the novel spells out. Like Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which expects readers to know not only Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) but also the fate of the Caribbean under European colonialism, Forbidden Notebook expects readers to realize that “the war in Africa,” from which Valeria’s husband had written her romantic letters, is Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia, and that the moment “when he wore the uniform again, in 1940,” is World War II. (Joy Castro)
Her debut single of that year was ‘Wuthering Heights’, a pop song unlike anything the world had encountered before. (Jordan Potter in Far Out)
If you’re an English major who loves the classics, then songs like “Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush or “Ophelia” by The Lumineers might appeal to your literary sensibilities. (Rio Wakura and Elyse Foreman in Her Campus)
Trotz Netflix-Star Emma Mackey als Literaturlegende Emily Brontë in der Hauptrolle und sehr positiven Kritiken ging „Emily“ im Kino völlig unter. Jetzt könnt ihr den gefeierten Film im Heimkino nachholen. (...)Das Drama „Emily“ über die gefeierte Schriftstellerin Emily Brontë sorgte in den Kinos sogar für noch weniger Aufsehen. Allerdings schnitt das bislang wenig beachtete Biopic bei der Presse deutlich besser ab: Laut Rotten Tomatoes sind sagenhafte 90% der Kritiken zum Film positiv – und im deutschen Feuilleton überschlug man sich teils vor Lob. „Emily“ ist ab sofort fürs Heimkino erhältlich und kann somit endlich auf DVD und Blu-ray sowie im Stream (neu) entdeckt werden. (Sidney Schering) (Translation)
On the one hand, Emily does not do justice to the fiery, iconoclastic genius behind Wuthering Heights, but on the other hand, its pleasures deserve acknowledgment. Could any film, after all, portray the actual, uncinematic process of literary inspiration and creation, reading, and writing? Perhaps, if they attempt to avoid misogynist tropes like O’Connor seems to, the worst sin of films like Emily is in wishing that our beloved “spinsters” like Austen and Brontë received in their own lives the soul-stirring love they depict. Can we blame them? (Coleen Morrissey)
"Últimamente, la enfermedad de Anne ha asumido un carácter menos alarmante que al principio: la agitación se alivia; la tos se calma a veces. Si pudiera saber que viviría dos años, un año más, estaría agradecida: temía los terrores del veloz mensajero que nos arrebató a Emily en unos pocos días", escribió Charlotte Brönte en su diario en 1849. Había perdido a una de sus hermanas y estaba a punto de perder a otra. Hoy conocidas y reconocidas como grandes escritoras, ambas murieron jóvenes a causa de la misma enfermedad.En las mismas páginas de aquel diario de una joven en duelo, una frase se interpone a todo el relato de la muerte acechando su casa: "La tisis, soy consciente, es una enfermedad halagadora". Con todo, Brontë parece mostrar con ella aprecio por una infección. La tisis se había adentrado más allá del organismo, en el subconsciente de toda una sociedad, Charlotte dejó prueba de ello. (Carmen Macías) (Translation)
Cécil McLorin Salvant explora pasados a través de su canto en Ghost Song, que además de coros y canto a capela, contrastando con las instrumentaciones pianísticas, incluye una cristalina y sentida versión de Wuthering Heights, la clásica de Kate Bush, que parece convocar a la mismísima Emily Brontë. (Fernando Cuevas) (Translation)
Después de que su propio coche quede destruido en un choque, los personajes deambulan a través de una serie de viñetas relacionadas con la lucha de clases y figuras de la literatura y la historia como Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (Jean-Pierre Léaud) y Emily Brontë (Blandine Jeanson). Corinne y Roland finalmente llegan a la casa de sus padres, solo para darse cuenta de que su padre murió y su madre se niega a darle una parte del botín. (Boquerini) (Translation)
But what is behind all these phenomena? Are they simply a digital continuation of the long artistic tradition of the sad woman's fascination? Niobe and Persephone, Kriemhild and Julia Capulet, Catherine Earnshaw and Jane Eyre, to Virginia Woolf and Amy Winehouse? (Sally-Jo Durney) (Translation)
En bok som Maria har fastnat för är Jane Eyre av Charlotte Brontë.– Det är ett väldigt fint porträtt av en person och även om den är skriven på 1800-talet så kan man ändå fascineras av hennes karaktär. Den boken har betytt mycket för mig, fortsätter Maria. (Johan Espefält) (Translation)
Poor pebble. Ignored by architecture, sculpture, mosaic and jewelry. It dates from the beginning of the planet, perhaps from another star. Warped by space, like the stigmata of its terrible fall. It predates man. And man has not embodied it in his art or industry. He did not manufacture it and thus decide its place. The pebble perpetuates nothing more than its own memory. (...)Cover the flowers in flame, stroke their hair, teach them to read!
she is quite literally burnt alive. You know JLG, was not always the most subtle of directors.
“She’s a deeply anxious person, but she puts that anxiety to the service of her intelligence and her creativity. And a lot of people don’t do that,” she says of Brontë’s quirks. “And it’s very easy to get sucked into your thoughts when they are dark and it’s very easy and comfortable.”“So I think a good exercise is to exercise your brain and read as much as you can and then use whatever dynamics you have in you and whatever shifts you have. And you put them to the service of art and put them to the service of whatever it is you like,” she says. “But I think this particularly for this story, it’s okay. It makes sense that she put it all into her writing.”Mackey is a force in the role. Her facial expressions transform from cheeky glee to desperate longing with simple nuances; you can feel the Brontë whimsy when she lets loose — quite literally, as her character twirls around while on opium in the lush, sprawling moors — and you descend with her into moments of madness, entranced by her will to carve out a life she wants. It’s partly why she hopes viewers will be transported into Emily’s world.“I think we create a real universe there. And visually, I think [the film] has its own signature. And I like that,” she says. “It’s always kind of in movement. The camera’s always in movement, and we use only natural lighting. There’s no artifice to it at all.”There are scenes filled with sunshine and blooming botanicals, and others with looming rainclouds and dark skies. But it all informs the environment in which Brontë stepped into her own.“It’s obviously so formative of that family and how they existed because they were just [in] a tiny village in the north of England and surrounded by death. Like surrounded by death,” she says. “Emily’s actual room at Haworth Parsonage looks out to a graveyard. Her whole life, she woke up to graves.”“She must have been so happy and so chilled in her life,” Mackey jokes.Aside from the film’s mise en scène, she hopes viewers will “go on a journey” and “get swept away by it.”“And I also don’t want them to overanalyze it in the same way that Wuthering Heights should be overanalyzed, because I would, you know what I mean? I don’t want people to be like, ‘Ugh, I don’t really know what it’s trying to be.’ I think that’s the point,” she says. “Don’t try [to] superimpose a formula onto it, it won’t work.”“Just let it happen to you, I think,” she adds.“I don’t think this film was made for necessarily just Brontë fans — that would be, you know, too restrictive. And I think hilariously, I think people who are like, proper Brontë nerds would be like, ‘Well, this is not historically accurate. What are we doing?'” she laughs.“But I think that’s the whole point. And it took me a while as well, because… I’m not Cartesian, but I like facts and I like history and I like, you know, sticking to the script. And so it took me a while to kind of untie that in me and just let the story happen to me and figure that out with Frances and let our imaginations run wild.”“It’s about a life, that’s all. And a rich one at that.” (Natalie Harmsen)
Veteran actor turned debut director Frances O'Connor slightly oversells both the romance and the Romance, bringing a poetic melodrama to the screen that isn't always plausible but nicely fits the gothic mould of its subject. The stunning setting and the stately, occasionally thunderous score by Abel Korzeniowski do a lot of the tonal heavy-lifting, to great effect, while Mackey conveys Emily's erratic tendencies while channeling the smirking wit of someone smarter than everyone around her. Particularly in the first half of the film, she's closer to Elizabeth Bennet than a Brontë character, and the Emily depicted here is actually less volatile and withdrawn than the existing accounts of her.Inevitably, a movie like this will beg the question: did any of this actually happen? Well, no. There's no evidence that the famously isolated Brontë had a grand love affair, and the filmmakers take extreme liberties with the timeline to say the very least. For example: Jane Eyre came out slightly before Wuthering Heights, which isn't at all what's suggested here. (The timeline of the deaths is similarly rewritten for narrative effect.)In all likelihood, Emily Brontë's novel was inspired by nothing more than her own imagination. That makes it perhaps an even more incredible literary achievement — but it would be a far less interesting biopic. (Alex Hudson)
Corsage and Emily, on the other hand, are willing to let their heroines be flawed characters, convinced that the interest in their stories lies in the way a patriarchal society made room for neither their talents nor their eccentricities.Mackey’s Emily is both paralytically shy outside the family circle – her career as a teacher ends when she is found hiding in a closet – and aggressively rebellious, roaming the Yorkshire moors with her dissolute brother Branwell. Today, we might suspect the budding novelist was on the autism spectrum; in 19th-century England she was merely odd. The script gives her a passionate love affair with a handsome young curate to explain where she got the idea for Wuthering Heights, but also makes clear that her literary imagination is a crucial escape hatch in a society with little room for creative women. (Kate Taylor)
Emily: Actor turned writer/director Frances O’Connor starred in a “Mansfield Park” adaptation; she knows literary drama. Now she what-ifs the birth of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights,” with Emma Mackey giving a smashing title performance that exceeds the film’s limits. (Peter Howell)
Weekend / Week-End (1967)Weekend is a black comedy about a bourgeois couple who both have secret lovers and who are both conspiring to kill each other. The perfect premise for a fantastic French thriller.Then imagine model-turned-actress Mireille Darc and actor and director Jean Yanne starring as the couple, that Godard is behind the camera, and that the plot goes on to include a country house, a dying father, inheritance, car accidents and vignettes of literary figures including Emily Brontë. In true Godard form, it’s quite mad. All we know is that it’s worth a watch. (Elizabeth Gregory)
JANE EYRE WI’ CHARLOTTE BRONTËAlthough much more associated with Yorkshire, The Brontë sisters actually spent much of their lives in Lancashire walking from their family home in Haworth across the South Pennine Moors. Charlotte and Emily Brontë are thought to have frequently visited the picturesque Wycoller near Colne and in particular, the isolated ruins of Wycoller Hall. It was supposed to have been Charlotte Brontë’s inspiration for Ferndean Manor where Jane Eyre finally found Rochester, injured and blinded by the Thornfield fire which his mad wife had started. Wycoller is set in a wooded valley, surrounded by beautiful rolling countryside, between wild moorland and brooding Pendle Hill. What remains of Wycoller Hall now are ruins, however, there is a haunting yet romantic splendour about the place and its surroundings. Very Brontë-esque. Lancashire is proud of its relationship with the Brontës, even if it has to play second fiddle!
The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis Hodder & Stoughton, £14.99A Brontë Sisters murder mystery? Well, why not? This, in fact, is the second in the series by Brontë devotee Rowan Coleman (writing under a Brontë-inspired pseudonym). There's a child's skeleton uncovered within the walls of a house near the Brontë parsonage and Charlotte, Emily and Anne attempt to find out what happened. (Teddy Jamieson)
BBC News mourns the death of 10-year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, probably linked to air pollution:
Gifted - remarkable - exceptional. These are words that could be applied to Ella by anyone, not just a proud parent. Ella was in the top 10% of her school and by the time she was nine years old she had a reading age of 14. In the weeks before she died she was devouring Jane Eyre. (Claire Marshall)The Blackeyed Theatre production of Jane Eyre is mentioned by In Your Area:
Adrian McDougall has produced 19 national tours with touring theatre company Blackeyed Theatre, based in Bracknell, Berkshire, since he launched the firm in 2004, including the world premiere of Steven Berkoff’s Oedipus.
But in mid-March, Mr McDougall and his team were forced into making the unthinkable decision to cancel their global tour of Jane Eyre when Covid-19 resulted in theatres closing. The tour was Blackeyed Theatre’s biggest to date, but 13 weeks of performances – including a month in China – were lost because of the pandemic.
When Covid-19 restrictions were eased in the summer, Blackeyed Theatre made the decision to partner with live streaming company TicketCo TV and broadcast a performance of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde via its HD quality pay-per-view service.
The one-off online show proved such a success that Mr McDougall and his team have returned to the abandoned Jane Eyre tour to deliver an on-demand production that will be available on TicketCo TV from Friday, November 27.
Elle (Italy) recommends the book Quando scriveva Lietta by Lietta Tornabuoni:
Lei sì che sapeva narrare in sintesi, pochi aggettivi giusti, nessuna compiacenza, per dirci della vita e mai solo di un film o di un evento. Ritratto di Cannes ai tempi di Amarcord: «Fellini con le bionde (Giulietta Masina, Monica Vitti in volpi rosa) e con le brune (Magali Noël, la Cardinale trasparente di pizzo nero); Joséphine Baker viva, in lamé d’oro. Molte carine di poco nome: tutte con i seni infiammati dal sole e dal vento ancora fresco della spiaggia. Permanenti fitte e grette, giacchettina di talpa, calze rosse, cigno color aragosta, sottovesti di raso. Volendo, stivali. Naufraghe, campagnole belle, bagnanti, Lili Marleen, sceicche, sorelle Brontë». In poche righe, un mondo intero. (Piera Detassis) (Translation)Lextra (Italy) reviews L’italiano errante per l’Italia by Giovanni Comisso:
Il fatto che racconterò oggi mi è stato trasmesso da un amico medico, Paolo Fiorentini, al quale, a sua volta, in una strana staffetta, era stato narrato molti anni prima da Bruno Blasi in persona. Si tratta di una storia d’amore, di morte e di straordinaria follia che, sepolcrale e notturna, sarebbe piaciuta a Edgard Allan Poe o a Mary Shelley e che, fosse accaduta in altri luoghi e in altri tempi, avrebbe forse ispirato a Emily Brontë un romanzo ancora più patetico e straziante di “Cime tempestose”. (Anna Alfieri) (Translation)Deutschlandfund Kultur (Germany) celebrates the 90th anniversary of Jean-Luc Godard and mentions his 1967 film Weekend:
Der Kapitalismus hat das soziale Zusammenleben zerstört, nur die Revolution kann Abhilfe schaffen, sagt Godard und lässt „Alice im Wunderland“, Emily Brontë und den Revolutionär Saint-Just auftreten. (Hartwig Tegeler) (Translation)Il Libraio (Italy) talks about memorable dresses in literary characters:
E che dire dell’abito puritano dell’amatissima Jane Eyre? La protagonista di Charlotte Brontë è così attaccata al suo vestito semplice e castigato che, anche quando sta per sposare il ricco signor Rochester, rifiuta i colori vivaci per “sobrio raso nero e seta grigio perla”. Scelta che, però, fa brillare ancora di più il suo carattere limpido e genuino. (Translation)Autumn readings in Lubimy Czytać (Poland):
„Inkubowi” nie brakuje tzw. klimatu, podobnie jak książkom angielskich XIX-wiecznych pisarek, choć to klimat trochę inny. Do czytania w zimne jesienne dni świetnie sprawdzą się i „Małe kobietki”, i „Dziwne losy Jane Eyre”, i „Duma i uprzedzenie” oraz oczywiście „Wichrowe Wzgórza”. Kto nie czytał, niech nadrobi – tak jak „Inkub” ma szansę spodobać się osobom nielubiącym thrillerów, tak „Wichrowe Wzgórza” Emily Brontë mogą zachwycić tych, którzy romanse mają w głębokim poważaniu. To (arcy)dzieło nie jest zwykłą opowieścią o miłości, czy raczej namiętności, ale posiada wyrazistych bohaterów (często trudnych do polubienia), których losy przypominają tragedię grecką – czego nie zrobią, będzie niedobrze. Jest tutaj również motyw odwiecznej walki dobra ze złem, a w tle tajemnicze i nastrojowe wrzosowiska północnej Anglii. (Anna Sierant) (Translation)Fanpage (Italy) comments on the latest edition of the Amici 20 TV programme:
Volano stracci tra Arisa e Rudy Zerbi nella puntata di Amici 2020/21 in onda sabato 28 novembre. Al centro, l’esibizione di Letizia Bertoldi sulle note di “Wuthering Heights” di Kate Bush, stroncata da Zerbi secondo cui la giovane dovrebbe cantare solo lirica. Arisa ha risposto per le rime: “Mi sta venendo il mal di pancia”. (Translation)La Nación (Argentina) interviews film director Walter Hill:
Marcelo Stiletano: Algunos estudiosos de su obra afirman que la violencia es la mayor constante y la principal característica de las películas que usted escribió y dirigió. ¿Es así?
W.H.: Deberíamos usar ciertas palabras con mucho cuidado. Si yo invito a una persona a ver "una película violenta" la reacción va a ser negativa. Pero si le digo: "¿Vamos a ver una película de acción?" la actitud va a ser otra. Más positiva, por supuesto. Para darle más claridad a la respuesta le diría que no conozco ningún drama más cargado de violencia que Cumbres borrascosas. Allí comprobamos que la violencia suele ser mucho más emocional que física. Y esa violencia emocional resulta todavía más profunda. En todo drama hay conflicto. Y lo que a mí me interesa es contar historias que me resultan interesantes a partir de algún contexto dramático y narrativo en el que los conflictos afloran. (Translation)
Infobae (Argentina) mentions that on the subscriber platform Leamos.com Laura Ramos discussed the Brontës. Newsweek informs us that, apparently, the name Emily was one of the most popular girl names in the 1995-1996 years. The infamous quote "Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.” returns in an article in El Vocero de Puerto Rico. And it is still not by Charlotte Brontë, nor any other Brontë. A new Letterbox review of Wuthering Heights 1939.
The Misfits Theatre Company has announced the presentation of the New York premiere of The Heroine Chronicles' (London, UK) site-specific production of Oh Heroine How I Love You!, written and directed by Callie Nestleroth, performed and composed by Sara Page.Deccan Chronicle talks about 'gifted' children:
Originally developed in partnership with Camden Libraries with the additional support of Unity Theatre Trust and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, performances of Oh Heroine How I Love You! will begin on Saturday, September 7 at 8pm (for a limited engagement through September 15, 2019) in multiple locations at Jefferson Market Library (425 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10011 at W 10th Street).
Experience historic Jefferson Market Library transform with The Heroine Chronicles' production created specifically for library spaces, Oh Heroine How I Love You! Join the world of Cathy Earnshaw (Sara Page), the heroine from Emily Brontë's classic tale Wuthering Heights, and be taken by her on a journey that goes beyond the confines of her book. Whether from the many film adaptations, or Kate Bush's singular song, Cathy and Heathcliff are infamous characters. But do we ever consider the effect they have on their author, or those who learn their story?
A ghostly character, Cathy's grasp on reality is fraught. Be taken along for the ride as she wanders lost on the Yorkshire Moors, and catapults between her worlds created in adaptation. As you experience Wuthering Heights come to life around you, will assisting Cathy actually end up helping her author, Emily Brontë?
[Sukhnidh] Kaur, who is an Economic-Psychology major from St. Xaviers’, Mumbai, says that she got the opportunity to research and study more on this topic due to her background in psychology. “I realised that I had actually read about people, whether it’s the Brontë sisters or Da Vinci, who are just not like other people. I studied more about it and understood that it is a real thing and not just an idea in the air. It has a strong neurobiological basis,” she adds. According to Kaur, research about giftedness has taken place in other countries and acceleration programmes for gifted kids are also in place but India does not have anything like that. (Imana Bhattacharya)Beyond Chron explores the works of Jean-Pierre Léaud:
Yet “Weekend”’s drily absurd moments wind up having the tang of graveyard humor given more serious occurrences in the film. Dead people are treated as a survival resource, whether it takes the form of cannibalism or having the corpses from car crashes looted for necessities. The grim fate bestowed on philosopher Charlotte Brontë shows that the free play of the mind has no purchase in the mentality of the acquisition-minded. If anything, Godard’s fictional world mocks France’s egalitarian motto of “equality, liberty, fraternity” by showing it means in practice looking for ways to get even slightly ahead of one’s neighbors. (Peter Wong)
The next performance of Carter Plays for POTS after "The Crucible" will be "Ollantay," a Spanish performance created to better represent Native American history. The final performance of the year will highlight 19th century feminism with "Jane Eyre." (Ava Eucker)The Los Angeles Review of Books posts about Ruth Ware's The Turn of the Key:
The secrets locked away behind an attic door calls to mind another Victorian Gothic nanny — Jane Eyre — and, like Jane, Rowan will discover that what she doesn’t know could hurt her. (Karen Brissette)Criterioncast announces the September 2019 schedule of The Criterion Channel which includes a Starring Laurence Olivier series which includes Wuthering Heights 1939. From page to stage – and everything in between interviews with Nick Lane about his adaptation of Jane Eyre for Blackeyed Theatre.
Wuthering Heights by Kate BushIAI wonders why we fall in love with fictional characters:
Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights inspired 18-year-old Bush to write this song, which she fought to convince producers to use as her debut single. Turns out she was right, as the track catapulted her to fame and is now ranked as one of the top singles of all time.
No more do readers typically offer monogamy; if Emily Brontë's Catherine Earnshaw is one soulmate, Bulgakov’s Margarita may be another, and no exclusivity is offered or required. (...)Westword interviews Miriam Suzanne on the upcoming Jane/Eyre premiere in Denver:
Let us consider an inverse case: female attraction to a dangerous male for his dangerous qualities, alongside fictionalisation of him as safe. It seems likely that generations of heterosexual female readers of Wuthering Heights have felt at least a degree of attraction to Heathcliff; and, since he is fictional, they have remained safe from physical and emotional harm. But in life this would not be so, and to read the novel in this spirit is, it is implied, a misreading. Brontë seems to have written Isabella’s plot with respect to such a possibility. When Isabella falls in love and lust with Heathcliff, Catherine feels compelled to tell her: ‘It is deplorable ignorance of his character, child, and nothing else, which makes that dream enter your head. Pray, don’t imagine that he conceals depths of benevolence and affection beneath a stern exterior! He’s not a rough diamond—a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic: he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.’ So he proves, in his elopement shortly afterwards with Isabella, who hardly outlives the relationship. She is Brontë’s warning to the fictionalising reader: ‘It is deplorable ignorance of his character, child, and nothing else, which makes that dream enter your head.’
This has not stopped certain kinds of couples since 1847 from modelling themselves on Catherine and Heathcliff. Of these the most famous are Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. On their return to England from America in 1956, they immediately visited Top Withens, the Yorkshire ruin thought to be the model for the eponymous house. Both subsequently wrote poems entitled ‘Wuthering Heights’, and Ted’s compared Sylvia to Emily Brontë herself. I might add that four decades later, when I was studying at Cambridge, two of my fellow undergraduates – the female partner American, the male partner English, and both poets – were highly conscious of the antecedence in Cambridge of Plath and Hughes, and, through and beyond them, of Catherine and Heathcliff. (Catherine Brown)
Susan Froyd: What’s on your agenda in the coming year?myNews LA describes what the visitor could find at the Riverside Dickens Festival:
Miriam Suzanne: We’re currently in rehearsal for a (somewhat queer) stage adaptation of Jane Eyre. It’s a collaboration between my new theater company, Grapefruit Lab, my band and a few others. That has all my attention until it opens on February 23.
After that, the band will be recording a new EP, and Grapefruit Lab will start talking about a fall show. Life is never boring!
The festival formally begins at 9:45 a.m. Saturday at the flag pole adjacent to Ninth and Main streets, in front of City Hall, where visitors will encounter actors representing Dickens, Queen Victoria, Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Edison, Emily Brontë, Mary Shelley and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — to name a few. (Ken Stone)Variety reviews the new TV remake of Picnic at Hanging Rock:
[Natalie] Dormer added that the casting was actually accurate for the time, pointing to such literary characters as Jane Eyre and Blanche DuBois. “A woman was a spinster if she wasn’t married by the time she was in her late 20s.” (Ed Meza)The Independent quotes film director Clio Barnard (Dark River) as saying:
I’d seen the Brazilian cinematographer Adriano Goldman’s Jane Eyre [he also shot Dark River], and that was a representation of the Yorkshire countryside that wasn’t picturesque in a cosy way. I wanted the film to look at what it really is. (Nick Hasted)BookRiot lists young adult biographical fiction:
The World Within: A Novel of Emily Brontë by Jane Eaglandherinterest gives you tips when 'i love you' is not enough:
Spanning several years of Emily Brontë’s life, The World Within depicts Emily’s life with her siblings (Charlotte, Bran, and Anne), her father, and her aunt. Surrounded by death, Emily grieves constantly and aches to hold onto the writing games she plays with her siblings. However, her siblings have agendas for their own lives to follow, some of which includes sustaining the family. As Emily copes and endures trying real-life events, she grows as a young woman and a writer. Moments from her (fictionalized) real life will sparkle as readers recognize details from her famed Wuthering Heights. (Abby Hargreaves)
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.”Diario Córdoba (in Spanish) talks about a recent Wuthering Heights lecture:
It was Charlotte Brontë who said those words, in Jane Eyre. One of my favourite things to do is look deeply into your eyes, often revealing many of the things that you can’t or choose not to say. (Kimberley)
Bajo el título de Conversaciones enamoradas en torno a Cumbres borrascosas se ha desarrollado una interesante actividad en la Biblioteca Provincial de Córdoba, donde hemos analizado en profundidad dicha novela. Al frente, dirigiendo, ha estado la profesora María Valero Redondo. Está considerada como novela gótica de finales del siglo XVlll y es la tórrida, tormentosa y apasionada historia de amor entre Catherine y Heathcliff, lo que lleva a los protagonistas en ocasiones a colocarlos en el desdibujado y turbulento límite del abismo. En su momento hubo críticos que lo denominaron como un texto vulgar, repulsivo, morboso, etc. Dentro del contexto queda clara la relevancia de la metáfora. De este libro se han realizado varias y diferentes versiones cinematográficas en diferentes países. Alguna extracta y elimina parte del texto original. (Read more) (Pilar Redondo) (Translation)Arab News recommends a visit to Yorkshire, PopMatters mentions the 'anachronistic' appearance of Emily Brontë in Jean Luc Godard's 1968 film Weekend.
Les libraires de Bookwitty: Comment expliquez-vous l'immense popularité de John Irving?Sveriges Radio and Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish) reviews The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry:
Karine Placquet-Wiltord: C'est un écrivain à la fois très traditionnel et atypique, et je crois que les gens sont assez sensibles à cette tension, que l'on retrouve aussi dans ses livres. Il a des accents très réalistes, des tonalités qui rappellent Charles Dickens ou Charlotte Brontë. (Translation)
Mot slutet av romanen skriver Cora i ett brev att hon läser böcker av "Brontë och Hardy, Dante och Keats, Henry James och Conan Doyle". Utan tvekan har författaren Sarah Perry själv läst dem. Väldigt mycket. För stundtals känns det som om Emily Brontë skrivit ännu en bok som utspelar sig i dimman på de engelska hedarna. (Lina Kalmteg) (Translation)
Kärnpunkten i ”Ormen i Essex” är närheten mellan Cora och Will. Det skulle kunna vara en viktoriansk roman, en Charlotte Brontë, fast med betydligt mer humor och sälta. (Lotta Olsson) (Translation)El Punt Avui (in Catalan) reviews the performances of Frankenstein in Barcelona:
[Carme] Portaceli va arribar a Shelley a la vegada que amb Jane Eyre, de qui també va fer una adaptació al Lliure de Gràcia, amb molta sensibilitat. Però si a Eyre el discurs rebel és la bandera, a Frankenstein Shelley desapareix. absolutament. (Jordi Bordes) (Translation)According to Diario Motor (in Spanish):
Hethel es el idílico pueblo de la campiña inglesa donde Lotus tiene su sede. Es un sitio que perfectamente habría sido el emplazamiento evocado por Emily Brontë para su mítica novela “Wuthering Heights”, “Cumbres Borrascosas” en su traducción al castellano. (Sergio Álvarez) (Translation)SyFantasy (in French) reviews Melmoth the Wanderer by Anne Radcliffe:
Dans les romans gothiques, il est d'usage de voir l'héroïne poursuivie par unvillain ténébreux, puis de la voir épouser le jeune premier. Ou alors, comme Jane Eyre, de provoquer la rédemption de celui qu'elle aime. Point de tout cela dans Melmoth ou l'Homme errant ! Immalie aime Melmoth tel qu'il est. Pourtant, celui-ci fait clairement comprendre à la jeune fille (parfois de façon très amère et dure) qu'il est ce qu'il est, qu'il ne peut pas changer, et que leur relation est vouée à l'échec. Pour savoir comment tout ça finit, il vous faudra lire le roman... (Adeline Arénas) (Translation)The Brussels Brontë Blog continues mapping the Brontës' Brussels: now Mary and Martha Taylor.
Stepping into this exhibition is possibly quite like seeing the Soane as Charlotte would have seen it. This idiosyncratic one-room show is as packed full of ideas as the objects that crowd the room itself.The Christian Science Monitor reviews Claire Harman's Charlotte Brontë. A Fiery Heart:
A curate's desk, stuffed full of artefacts and relics that 'could' have a connection to the Brontës.
There are treasures on display on loan from the Brontë Parsonage Museum: the dress Charlotte wore to a dinner party at Thackeray's house, as well as an 1838 guidebook from London Zoo, and Charlotte's tiny account book, where she recorded her expenses during her first trip to London.
Charlotte Brontë's notebook where she recorded her expenses during her first trip to London in July 1848.
Comparisons are made between Charlotte's plain (food-stained?) dress and the fashions of the time, with a fashionplate from 1850.
Charlotte's trips to the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in the company of Dr David Brewster are represented by a Brewsterscope, a contemporary instrument for viewing 3D photography.
Charlotte Brontë's dress, which she wore to Thackeray's dinner party, 12 June 1850
You can also see variations on the George Richmond portrait of Charlotte Brontë: friends claimed the sketch didn't reflect the true likeness, it made her more beautiful. Cory has created an altered version of the picture with a larger nose and chin, perhaps creating a more realistic portrait of the author. (...)
If you're a stickler for historical accuracy and have unbending views about the authenticity of artefacts, this might not be the Brontë exhibition for you.
But if you enjoy wit and whimsy, and are happy to imagine other worlds belonging to our favourite authors that aren't set down in official historical reports, there's plenty to both inform and inspire at this show. It's both affectionate and irreverent; fanciful and full of important detail. We rather liked it. (Zoe Craig)
Harman emphasizes the parallels between Charlotte and Branwell, who were just a year apart, by juxtaposing episodes of their youth. The two collaborated on stories set in the fantastical Angria, and both wrote to renown poets for encouragement – Southey’s response taught Charlotte a lifelong lesson in adopting a male persona so as to be judged on her writing, not her gender. Both experimented with opium (at least, Harman makes a convincing case that Charlotte did) and harbored an obsessive unrequited love for someone married. Branwell’s privilege as the only son worked against him, however. His father’s homeschooling afforded him knowledge of the classics, but deprived him of peers, and his freedom to travel and socialize (which Charlotte desperately longed for) led to opium addiction. (Elizabeth Toohey)Keighley News talks about the upcoming Reader, I Married Him, edited by Tracy Chevalier:
Reader, I Married Him was commissioned by the Brontë Society as part of celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Charlotte’s birth.Victorian Musings reviews the book.
The book features stories from some of the finest and most creative voices in international contemporary women’s fiction.
The collection is edited by Tracy Chevalier – who is working closely with the Brontë Parsonage Museum on bicentenary events – and published by Borough Press.
The 21 stories in Reader, I Married Him, one of the most celebrated lines in fiction, are inspired by Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and shaped by its perennially fascinating themes of love, compromise and self-determination.
Tracy Chevalier and fellow contributors Helen Dunmore and Salley Vickers will visit Haworth to read from the anthology. (David Knights)
Great works, from Hamlet to Wuthering Heights, are mischievously reduced to the idiot poetry of textspeak – with very funny results. (Nicholas Lezard)Mallory Ortberg, by the way, posts on The Toast a very funny list of every meal in Wuthering Heights ranked in order of sadness:
Wuthering Heights is the story of a group of people who eat the most miserable meals imaginable, and cannot experience love as a result. Sometimes they have tea, but more often they are merely offered it, and decide they are too furious to have tea, and die instead. Here is every meal the characters of Wuthering Heights almost eat before being interrupted by sex-rage and dying.Business World reviews the film Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis by Lav Diaz:
The second accusation is harder to refute: incandescent lights, an aluminum tripod, printed shirts impossible for that time period (though printed textiles have been around since the 12thcentury). It’s also not a little nitpicky (was Godard held accountable for the off-the-rack look of Emily Brontë’s and Saint-Just’s costumes in Weekend?). (Noel Vera)This columnist from The Courier-Tribune didn't like Jane Eyre:
This is something librarians understand completely. I’m glad I tried reading “Moby Dick” and I’m glad I liked it. I sometimes reflect there are those same books, like “Jane Eyre,” that others convinced me to read, and to my chagrin, and theirs, couldn’t get through the first chapter. (Dave Bare)Alex Weiss in Bustle lists things to do with old books (besides reading them, of course):
While I'm not looking forward to ridding myself of any books, I wouldn't mind getting rid of some of the book clutter that takes over my desk and floor. And if I'm honest, I know that there are multiple books I'll never crack open again — whether it be the botany college textbook I actually bought or one of my many copies of Wuthering Heights. If you're also a book collector, then I'm guessing you might be able to relate.Elena Ferrante's pseudonym is discussed in Tidningen Kulturen (Sweden):
Det saknas inte dubbleringar i kvinnolitteraturen och man har kastat fram "The Madwoman in the Attic" av Sandra M. Gilbert och Susan Gubar från 1979 och de exempel som tas upp där, men dessa handlar om 1800-talsromaner och de projektioner kvinnliga författare, uppfostrade till att vara "the Angel in the house", k Jane Eyre, eller att som Emily Brontë hoppa över kvinnolinjen helt och låta sin Catherine få en soulmate i den demoniske mannen Heath Cliff i stället. Eller när de kvinnliga författarna ofta fick ta till manliga pseudonymer för att tas på allvar. (Enel Melberg) (Translation)
unde ta till för att visa fram mörkare sidor, exempelvis genom att ge den änglalika huvudpersonen en dubbelgångerska, som den galna kvinnan på vinden i Charlotte Brontës
A scholar alert for tomorrow, March 24:Why Lucy Doesn’t Care: Migration and Emotional Labor in VilletteTalia SchafferThe Oregonian publishes an excerpt of Lyndsay Faye's Jane Steele and The Outerhaven reviews the novel; Jaú e Mariola (in Portuguese) reviews Jane Eyre 1944.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
In this talk, Shaffer explored what happens if we read Lucy Snowe in Villette (1853) as a migrant caregiver, an early fictional example of a worker in an emerging economic category. Drawing on contemporary sociological studies of caregivers’ experiences with surveillance, cultural disorientation, and visibility, particularly Arlie Russell Hochschild’s theory of ’emotional labor,’ she asked, is it possible to read Charlotte Brontë’s last novel not as a case study of the unique psychology of a baffling individual but, rather, as a proto-sociological account of labor in a new global economy? What might such an approach mean for readings of the novel?
Her current project, “Wuthering Heights in Japan,” originated during her tenure as a Fulbright Lecturer in Japan, where she discovered a proliferation of Japanese re-imaginings of Emily Brontë’s iconic novel. During her term as a Guggenheim fellow, Pascoe will be focusing on Japanese Brontë enthusiasts and Japanese versions of Wuthering Heights in order to address a wide spectrum of larger questions: How do literary works cross over from one culture into another? What gets added (rather than lost) in translation? How can the process of foreign language acquisition (even when it is belated and imperfect) enhance critical acuity?(Via Iowa City Press-Citizen ; DesMoines Register)
Forget Heathcliff and Mr Darcy. The latest romantic hero to emerge into print, believe it or not, lives in South East Cornwall. Alex Verney is as rich as Darcy and as tormented by past demons as Heathcliff, although without the borderline psychopathic tendencies. His creator, Ruth Saberton, thinks he's perfect.The Briston Evening Post interviews the author Dr Sanjida O'Connell:
My favourite book is...The Columbia Spectator publishes a piece by a first-year student who was homeschooled:
Wuthering Heights. It's set on the Yorkshire moors where I grew up and is a brilliantly written tale of savage love.
As a home-schooler, I had to fight against societal stigma on a daily basis. I never really “fit” into people’s categories. I attended college classes while I was still in high school. I had read “Wuthering Heights” and other great works by the time I was 10 years old. (Ashley Mendez)The Nashville Scene reviews Jean Luc Godard's 1968 Weekend screened at The Belcour (Nashville) this weekend:
The director issues withering denunciations of the West over a static shot of a guy chewing his lunch; he rejects film’s literary influences by setting fire to Emily Brontë — literally. (Jim Ridley)Cambridge First publihes a negative review of the Jane Eyre 2011 DVD:
This timeless Brontë classic demands a strong female lead. Mia Wasikowska has some of what is needed but so often leaves the viewer with an unrealistic feeling. There is an imbalance. (...)A Permanent Flux and Virtual DVD Magazine (Germany) are far more positive:
Even the indomitable Dame Judi Dench brings little stability to a rocking ship that crashes head long into the rocks as the film sinks in a motif-less ending. (Toby Lattimore)
Mia Wasikowska gelingt es allein mit ihrer Körpersprache und ihren schauspielerischen Leistungen, den gesamten Film mit all seiner Intensität, Dramatik und Romantik zu tragen und ein detailliertes, psychologisch tiefgehendes Gesamtbild zu erzeugen, das stets eine bedrängende Atmosphäre schafft. Einzigartig. (Translation)Thame Cinema 4 All reviews Wuthering Heights 2011:
To describe this film as a Brontë adaptation, or as a nineteenth century costume drama, would be to evoke a genre of film that it strenuously and very successfully rejects. (...)More reviews on Zampando Cine en Madrid (in Spanish). As the film opens in the Netherlands, several news outlets review it: De Nieuwe Krant, Nederlands Dagblad, De Telegraaf, de Volkscrant, FOK!, 8Weekly, Filmtotaal (very positive), Stadsblad Utrecht.
One might argue that the novel is essentially about the impossibility of love in a world without freedom, and Arnold’s film heightens this interpretation by making her protagonists like wild animals, cruelly constrained. We are left in no doubt of the passion of Catherine and Heathcliff’s attachment – they really are two halves of one being – but it is a love that is not possible in a world built on social inequality, a world in which people are traded to create wealth, and women are traded for the purpose of consolidating assets. This is a Brontë adaptation that feels raw and timeless and relevant. (Tony Harrison)
I’m almost finished with my new book entitled Vlad Oll Over. I call this book gothic chick lit because although it is chick lit, it contains gothic elements as well. Think Sex and the City meets Jane Eyre.Manuel Hidalgo writes an article in El Mundo (or here) about Emily Brontë:
La escritora alemana [She was born in Hamburg, but German writer she was not] Winifred Gérin dedicó 17 años a investigar la vida de las hijas del clérigo anglicano Patrick Brontë, residiendo incluso durante una década en Haworth, el aislado pueblecillo de Yorkshire, al norte de Gran Bretaña, donde transcurrieron en gran medida las cortas existencias de las tres hermanas. (...) (Translation)Junto a una taza de té (in Spanish) comments the article; Do Authors Dream of Electric Books? has visited Haworth and the Parsonage; Nyra Escribiendo (in Spanish) posts about Wuthering Heights; Libby's Books posts about the critical reception of her book Sloane Hall; Buried in Books reviews Eve Marie Mont's A Breath of Eyre; SoloLibri reviews in Italian Io sono Heathcliff by Desy Giuffré.
A woman portrayed by national media as living as Charlotte Brontë has said her business has been ruined by the false claims. (...)The Boston Globe reviews Jean Luc Godard's Week End (1967):
She said she had been told the article would be about tourism and her business Abigails Ateliers. She said she had approved a different version of the story and had broken down in tears when she had read what was eventually printed.
“I have spent three years building up my business and now I am afraid it is ruined,” she said. “I spent a lot of time building up my online presence and now when you put my name in to a search engine there is a story about a crazy lady who thinks she is Charlotte Brontë." (Kathryn Bradley)
Easy enough to summarize, “Weekend’’ is fairly impossible to describe. An affluent French couple, Corinne and Roland (Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne), head off in a sporty convertible for a weekend getaway. They do eventually get to Oinville (what a name), but only after days filled with congested traffic and car crashes and absurdist encounters. Emily Brontë turns up. (Mark Feeney)The Victoria Times Colonist's readers talk about favourite books
The book was Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Handwritten inside the cover was "To Sandra, From Granny, Christmas 1975."Elle Magazine (UK) interviews Robin Wright:
This Christmas gift from my grandmother was the first classic book that I had ever read.
And as a teenage girl, I was completely transported to the Yorkshire Moors and into the lives of Catherine and Heathcliff and their tragic love story.
Brontë's talented writing made quite an impression on me and I loved this feeling of entering a world unknown to me. I am sure it is that book that made me want to continue to read more classics and many other wonderful authors.
My grandmother passed away many years ago now, but I still treasure the Wuthering Heights she gave me and every time I look at it, I feel a great appreciation for my very dear "Granny" and the real gift she gave me, the love of reading. (Sandra Nuttal)
Now that my kids are out of the house I'm finally able to get to the classics I've never read: Emily Brontë, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch 22'. It's endless. They're all in a gigantic pile next to my bed.The Lincoln Journal Star announces that the exhibition Cut! Costume and the Cinema will be at The Durham Museum (Omaha) until April 29.
As well drawing on the Bluebeard legend (itself the basis for Edgar G. Ulmer’s 1944 film Bluebeard), there are shades of other Hitchcock classics (Suspicion, Rebecca) and even Jane Eyre. (Matt McAllister)The Lancaster Intelligencer Journal wonders about the slow death of the snail mail:
Last summer, when Constance Renfrow went to England to study the Brontë sisters, she held with a gloved hand a pencil drawing done by Anne Brontë, the youngest of the literary sisters. On the back of the portrait was a handwritten note.The Times asks Tina Leonard about consumer rights:
"Holding something that [Anne Brontë] actually touched was an incredible experience," Renfrow recalled, adding dryly, "I don't think it would be the same experience if you held Amy Tan's laptop." (Suzanne Cassidy)
“I bought tickets recently for Wuthering Heights but, when I got to the cinema, I discovered my friend already had a ticket. I requested a refund and the box office.agreed to give me a gift voucher, even though it didn’t have to give me anything,” she said. (Niall Brady)Becky Roberts. Film Reviews posts about Wuthering Heights 2011 and Mi Siglo talks about Charlotte Brontë and Jane Eyre (in Spanish).
Jean-Luc Godard's 1968 film Weekend, with its Emily Brontë character and all, is now a theatre play being performed at the Theaterneumarkt in Zurich, Switzerland:week_endThe Emily Brontë segment is described both on the Südkurier review
Nach dem Film von Jean-Luc Godard
With: Matthias Breitenbach, Rahel Hubacher, Jörg Koslowsky, Katharina Schmalenberg, Sigi Terpoorten, Sebastian Weber
Regie: Robert Lehniger
Bühne/Kostüme: Irene Ip
Video: Tobias Yves Zintel
Dramaturgie: Britta Kampert
Premiere: 9. February 2010, 20:00 h
February 10,11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Es ist eine Reise ohne Wiederkehr, auf die Roland und Corinne sich begeben, als sie sich am Wochenende auf den Weg machen, um aus reiner Habgier Corinnes Eltern zu ermorden. Grundlage für die Bühnenadaption ist Godards Film aus dem Jahr 1968 - ein radikaler Abschied vom Erzähl-Kino, eine apokalyptische Odyssee, die durch eine Welt am Rande des Abgrunds führt: Ein endloser Stau, zahllose Unfälle, brennende Autos, aggressive Anhalter, seltsame Gestalten. Roland und Corinne finden nur durch Zufall noch zum Haus der Eltern, um ihren Plan durchzuführen. Geniessen können sie das Erbe nicht. Gefangen von einer Gruppe im Wald lebender Rebellen, endet Roland als Fleischeinlage in einem Eintopf, den Corinne gierig verspeist. (Google translation)
Da wird aus Saint-Justs Revolutionstexten gelesen und schließlich gar die Dichterin Emily Bronte verbrannt. (Wolfgang Bager) (Google translation)and in the Basler Zeitung's one:
Auf ihrer langen Reise aufs Land fahren die zwei Möchtegern-Millionäre nämlich nicht nur an zahllosen Verkehrsunfällen, an Streitenden und Toten vorbei, sondern sie treffen beispielsweise Alice im Wunderland, Emily Brontë (Rahel Hubacher), einen klassenbewussten Bauern (Matthias Breitenbach) und, eben, Revolutionär Saint-Just (regelrecht unheimlich: Jörg Koslowsky). (Alexandra Kedves) (Google translation)Categories: References, Theatre
David Watkin, an innovative British cinematographer who won an Academy Award for "Out of Africa" and whose many films included "Chariots of Fire," has died. He was 82.The San Franscico Chronicle reviews A Father's Law by Richard Wright and begins the article with a cliché:
Watkin died Tuesday of cancer at his home in Brighton, England, his friend Chris Mullen announced on Watkin's website. (Valerie J. Nelson in Los Angeles Times)
Conjuring an unforgettable character can be a curse. Brontë couldn't improve upon Jane Eyre, Fitzgerald couldn't surpass Gatsby. A wholly original character can stultify an author's writing as effectively as it makes his career. (David F. Smydra Jr)Poor Lucy Snowe, Shirley Keeldar, Caroline Helstone...
As the girls wait, they pass the time like the Bronte sisters, taking refuge in imagined kingdoms. They invent an absorbing game with their dolls, "telling each other stories of loss, abandonment and escape over and over again.'' The underlying theme of their stories is rescue. (Catherine Watson)The Telegraph & Argus talks about the Early Music Shop in Saltaire:
Bradford historic musical instrument supplier, Peter Booth, is hoping that his products meet royal approval. Mr Booth, who manages the Early Music Shop at Salts Mill, Saltaire, is eager to see the new film The Other Boleyn Girl, starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. (...)And the spinet can be seen on the image on the left (courtesy of spikesbint)
From a spinet appropriate for a drawing room scene in Jane Eyre to an entire army of marching drums with fifes, the Early Music Shop has supplied them all. (Chris Holland)
It is pretty hard to make an origin story more convoluted than the one Wolverine already boasts, but it really looks like the filmmakers are going to try. Should we just be glad that they're skipping Wolverine: Origin where he was re-imagined as a Bronte character? (Elisabeth Rappe)How It Fits talks about Charlotte Brontë and Jane Eyre (although the comments about Charlotte's relationship with her sisters are quite unjust). Sophie's Perspective comments the novel and its 1997 adaptation. Wuthering Heights 1939 is the subject of this post on Reel Love. Understanding Cinema reviews Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, that contains a bizarre Emily Brontë appearance.
The cartoon on the left comes from The Telegraph and Argus and we hope it will make you laugh as much as it did us.Best imported telemovie or miniseriesHere are the figures.
Winner: Shakespeare Re-told (ABC)
Readers' choice: Jane Eyre (ABC)
'The pervasive presence of the sickroom scene in Victorian fiction' just mention the words and suddenly I'm noticing sickrooms all over the place and sitting up and taking more notice of what's going in them. It's not just about women writers employing particular diseases that reflected women's social roles, like anorexia or a touch of hysteria, oh no indeed and it's not just the women writers who used the device.Thackeray, Dickens and Kingsley took their characters to the sickroom as often as Bronte, Eliot and Gaskell.Do read the whole post because it's truly worth it.
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