Written by Espido FreireIllustrated by Antonio LorenteEdelvivesISBN: 9788414059296Desde la Antigüedad, la literatura ha nutrido nuestro imaginario con inolvidables historias de amor. En las páginas de este libro encontramos amores apasionados, felices, imposibles, platónicos, clandestinos, marcados por la culpa o por el destino aciago. Espido Freire y Antonio Lorente nos ofrecen una apasionante travesía, visual y literaria, por el interior de una veintena de obras maestras de la literatur a con el amor como protagonista.
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Y así, con la fina pluma de Freire y las maravillosas ilustraciones de Antonio, revisitamos las historias de don Juan y doña Inés en El tenorio; Odiseo y Penélope en La odisea, Karen y Denys en Memorias de África; o Valentín y Molina en El beso de la mujer araña. La pregunta es casi obligada: elegir una para vivir y otra para olvidar.
"Yo me quedaría con la de Jane Eyre para vivir porque no es tan trágica y para olvidar... casi todas", dice el ilustrador. "Yo no elegiría ninguna", dice Espido riendo. Antonio ha revisitado con su arte estos romances a nivel estético y el resultado ha sido mágico: "Quería imitar la cartelería antigua de los cines de los años 40 y 50, buscar ese estilo vintage. Elegir solo una imagen de estas historias ha sido complicado". (Maite Torrente) (Translation)
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Hay novelas que envejecen con dignidad y otras que no envejecen en absoluto: permanecen en un estado de intemperie perpetua, como si el tiempo no lograra domesticarlas. Cumbres borrascosas pertenece a esa segunda estirpe. Desde su publicación en 1847 —firmada por Ellis Bell, el seudónimo masculino de Emily Brontë—, el libro ha sido leído como romance, tragedia, alegoría gótica, relato de venganza y hasta como una herejía sentimental contra la moral victoriana. Su grandeza, sin embargo, no reside en la etiqueta que se le cuelgue, sino en el hecho de que ninguna le queda del todo bien. La novela se resiste a ser una sola cosa, y esa resistencia es parte de su poder.En el capítulo 11 de La Ciudad de las Damas, el podcast literario de Artículo 14, Espido Freire subraya precisamente esa condición incómoda: *Cumbres borrascosas* no es una historia de amor para consolar, sino una experiencia emocional extrema que obliga a mirar de frente la oscuridad del deseo. Lo que Emily Brontë escribe no busca idealizar la pasión, sino examinarla en su forma más obsesiva, destructiva y, a la vez, irresistiblemente humana. Pocas novelas han retratado con tal lucidez la frontera borrosa entre el amor y la posesión, entre el vínculo y el daño. (...)Quizá esa sea su grandeza: Cumbres borrascosas narra un amor que, precisamente por ser posible, asusta. Un amor sin pedagogía, sin final reparador, sin moral tranquilizadora. Una novela escrita con el lenguaje desbocado de la poesía y con el pulso implacable de quien comprende que hay afectos que no curan, solo persisten. En ese gesto —en esa negativa a endulzar— Emily Brontë inventó un clásico que no se deja domesticar. Y las Damas lo analizamos en el capítulo 11 junto a Espido Freire. (María Serrano) (Translation)
Camille Paglia, en su monumental ensayo Sexual Personae, contrapone la naturaleza apolínea de Jane Eyre a la oscuramente dionisíaca de Cumbres borrascosas, contrastando a sus autoras y heroínas: la primera, una modélica dama victoriana que aprenderá a conquistar su posición en la sociedad y el corazón de su amado, desentrañando junto al lector el elemento misterioso e irracional del libro: la “loca en el ático”. La segunda, una virago cuyo género Paglia interpreta prácticamente como andrógino y cuya pasión aparentemente asexual por Heathcliff tiene algo de desdoblamiento íntimo de la propia Emily, quien parece proyectarse en su protagonista masculino, byroniano y diabólico, antes que en su heroína, Catherine. En cualquier caso, se trata de una inmersión sadiana “… llena de estallidos de violencia y de vívidas fantasías de muerte y de tortura. Presenciamos o escuchamos cómo se pega, se abofetea, se azota, se pellizca, se araña, se tira de los pelos, se da patadas, se pisotea…”. (Translation)
“Shahrazad’s tales, stuffed with detail, unravelling, tumbling over each other, growing taller in the telling like the jinn who so often appear, are not minimalist,” Winterson observes. “Stories piled on stories. A bazaar of excess. Wealth beyond the reach of avarice. … More diamonds than stars. It’s an inventory of bling.” Just when she locks on a platitude, she spooks us with a reversal, a balletic leap, connecting “Nights” to “Jane Eyre,” say, or inserting an aside on the etymology of “escape,” digressions true to the spirit of “Nights.” (Hamilton Cain)
She traces her interest in the dark side of women’s lives back to two of her biggest influences: Daphne du Maurier and Charlotte Brontë. “Rebecca was one of my earliest inspirations, which I’ve referenced in multiple books of mine,” she says. “Rebecca and Jane Eyre were the original domestic thrillers, before they were even a thing.” Whether any of McFadden’s books will achieve similar classic status is a question for future readers. (Sarah Ditum)
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Literaktum 2019
Querida Jane, querida Charlotte by Espido Freire
Miércoles 13 de Noviembre de 2019
19:30
Aiete K.E.
Modera: Mª Pilar Rodríguez.
Lugar: Areto Nagusia.
En la charla Querida Jane, querida Charlotte, Espido Freire se adentrará en el mundo, la vida y la obra de Jane Austen y las hermanas Brontë, escritoras referentes en la literatura universal y especialmente en la literatura inglesa, que aún hoy en día sirven de inspiración para películas, series, clubes de lectura...
El día 19 de abril se concentran dos importantes actos: el primero es una conferencia de la escritora y periodista Espido Freire, ganadora del premio Planeta con la obra 'Melocotones helados', que tendrá lugar en la biblioteca a las 19 horas y versará sobre las hermanas Brontë, autoras de 'Cumbres borrascosas'. (C. Convaila) (Translation)3. And finally at the Wingate University, NC:
At 7:30 p.m. Friday in Wingate’s McGee Theatre, Griffey, music faculty and students will perform works from [Carlisle] Floyd’s well-known “Susannah,” “Of Mice and Men,” and two lesser-known works, “The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair” and “Wuthering Heights.” (Leah Harrison in Charlotte Observer)
Muziektheatergroep Totaal zoekt voor haar musical Jane Eyre zes meisjes met spel- en zangervaring. In november 2009 zal deze nieuwe productie in première gaan in Theater De Lieve Vrouw, de meisjes dienen dan minimaal 14 jaar te zijn. Op 13 december zijn de audities.2. Spain.
Jane Eyre gaat over een weesmeisje dat opgroeit bij haar akelige tante Mrs. Reed, die haar na vele ruzies naar een strenge kostschool stuurt. Daar is ze getuige van de dood van haar vriendin Helen, hetgeen een diepe indruk op haar maakt. Jane wordt lerares op dezelfde kostschool en later gouvernante van Adèle, de onwettige dochter van de brute Mr. Rochester op Thronfield Hall.
De zes rollen betreffen de jonge Jane Eyre, Helen Burns, Adèle Varens en drie weesmeisjes op de kostschool. De rollen variëren in grootte en moeilijkheid. Zo zullen de drie weesmeisjes van de kostschool meezingen in een ensemble, terwijl de jonge Jane Eyre naast haar tekstaandeel ook enkele solostukken zal gaan zingen. Voor meer informatie over Totaal, de musical Jane Eyre, de rollen en het aanmeldingformulier zie muziektheater-totaal.nl. (Babelfish translation)
La escritora Espido Freire impartirá en Cartagena un curso de creación literaria inicial dentro de las actividades para conmemorar el 8 de marzo el día de la Mujer, según informaron fuentes del Ayuntamiento del municipio en un comunicado.Categories: Alert, Jane Eyre, Music, Theatre
La Concejalía de la Mujer del Ayuntamiento de Cartagena ha organizado este curso, que tendrá lugar los días 23, 24 y 25 de marzo de 2009, y cuyo plazo de inscripción comenzó hoy y permanecerá abierto hasta el 15 de diciembre.
Se trata de una de las actividades organizadas por esta Concejalía para conmemorar el 8 de marzo, Día de las Naciones Unidas para los derechos de la Mujer y la Paz Internacional.
El curso se dirigirá a profesores de lengua y literatura, escritores aficionados, periodistas y otras profesiones que necesiten los rudimentos de escribir o contar una historia, de forma que el número de alumnos del curso será de 20. (Siglo XXI)
Las lecturas obligatorias para la realización del curso serán "Cumbres borrascosas", de Emily Brontë, "El adversario", de E. Carrere, "Las vírgenes suicidas", de J. Eugénides y "La lluvia amarilla", de J. Llamazares. (Babelfish translation)
I get it. Really, I do. Literature imprints upon my heart as much as the next person. I am an author after all, and a romantic one at that. I am prone to attaching myself to lines from poetry or prose in ways that sometimes make me believe they are speaking directly to me. I have even been tempted to tattoo them onto my skin, a permanent etching as if that might mean more, that I might be able to absorb them entirely. And yet, I cannot bring myself to really believe that Emily Brontë, an exceptional woman who took huge, beautiful risks in her work, would really be turning over in her grave at the very idea of Jacob Elordi tightening breathless Barbie’s corset. (...)I do not think that any of us are able to accurately guess what Brontë’s reaction might be to any of the many adaptations of her work. However, I do wonder whether she might have been just a little excited by what contemporary female artists are now making of her work and what women are now allowed to conceive and create. Perhaps she might even be delighted that her story was still being consumed by new audiences, generation after generation falling for new Heathcliffs and new Cathys while the moors remain the same — wild, barren, hostile places within which dark and all-consuming love stories still take place.I cannot bring myself to feel too concerned that younger audiences may see this film and consider it the definitive Wuthering Heights (although I highly doubt that will be the case). (...)Whether you agree with her or not on her casting choices, this much is true: it is all art. When Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights, I would be surprised if she viewed it as a sacred text designed to be preserved forever. When an artist puts work out into the world they release it. It no longer belongs to them; not really. You cannot manage the way people hear your words, view your images or listen to your songs. You cannot control their emotions or correct them. You create, you perfect — and then you let it go to take on new meaning. If you’re lucky it resonates not just with one person, but with many over generations; perhaps even a century and a half later you will still inspire people to make something new. And maybe you wouldn’t like it, but it’s all art, and nothing is sacred.May we always be surprised, shocked, appalled and bewildered by art. I hope we’re having this conversation again in another 100 years and another 100 after that. Wuthering Heights is ours, Fennell’s and of course, Charli XCX’s to do with what we please and if some people don’t like it, the original is waiting untouched for them to return to, anytime they like. (Laura Kay)
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While working as a governess for some “unmanageable cubs” in 1839, Charlotte Brontë lived in Lothersdale at Stone Gappe.Her employer, the then owner of the three-storey five bay property south of Stansfield Brow which dates to 1725, Charlotte’s is said to have resembled her character Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre. (Stuart Minting)
So too undiscovered stories of charity when I was researching the Brontës for what for me must be the highlight of the year to welcome the Queen to open the Brontë birthplace in Thornton saved for the nation and now celebrated as the humble beginnings of greatness.Who would have thought when I penned the phrase Be More Brontë to encourage the same resolute determination in young people that three budding writers had shown that Camilla would be the first person to write those words within it’s walls?Giving from others bought it for future generations but also brought stories of giving during the Brontë sisters lifetimes to the fore.For example, did you know that the ruined farmhouse at Top Withins that inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights was actually a part of charitable giving in its own right even before the three sisters and their brother roamed the moors?Money from it’s rent fed and clothed poor children. And now in modern day it forms the centre piece for Wuthering Heights day when charities benefit from the recreation of Kate Bush’s famous dance on the birthday she shares with Emily Brontë and is celebrated each year on July 30th.Add to that the fact that Patrick’s Brontë’s first major curacy at St Peter’s Church in Hartshead, just a few days before Christmas, handed out thick wooden fabric to the women to sew warm clothes for their children particularly during the luddite uprisings when cottage weavers were losing their homes and their livelihood and you will see why charity was a centre piece of giving as much then as now. (Christa Aykroyd)
The Brontës may feel mythic now, but artifacts like this demonstrate that behind every great work is a human life that once held fear, hope, pain, and passion. (Emily Chan)
Contrasting my previous picks is “Jane Eyre,” a classic by Charlotte Brontë that has sat on my shelf for three years and I have attempted to read twice (third time’s the charm?). Jane Eyre tells the story of its namesake in first-person, beginning with Jane’s abusive childhood and staying with her throughout her education and early adult life. I picked this one up again and found that I had a much better grasp on the language and concept of the book, and decided to try it once more. (Beatrice Cosgrove)
What is your favourite film?Jane Eyre and Inception.
Espido Freire está feliz con el tema que le ha tocado esta semana en Cuerpos especiales. La escritora se ha puesto romántica al analizar Tu cuerpo en braille de Nil Moliner, una canción a la que encuentra bastantes paralelismos con Cumbres Borrascosas de Emilie (sic) Brönte. El protagonista musical es el primo hermano de Heathcliff. "Los dos se quedaron traumatizados en la misma noche de tormenta", ha explicado. (Translation)
Keighley News reports the top 10 Keighley-area attractions according to Tripadvisor which incldude the Brontë Parsonage Museum, the Brontë waterfall, Top Withens and Haworth Parish Church.
Emily Brontë's classic novel "Wuthering Heights" is one of the 15 books to be given the travel ad treatment, with a rather haunting design in keeping with the theme of the doomed love story.USA Today interviews host Meredith Vieira and finalist James Patterson about the coming episodes.
The "gorgeous" Wuthering Heights is described as having "convenient access" to Thrushcross Grange, another grand home that features in the novel. (Tamara Hardingham-Gill)
Question: How is the voting going? Meredith Vieira: We’ve had more than 2 million people voting for their favorite book, so it’s been a great summer of reading. You can only vote once a day, but you can vote every day. (Voting ends Oct. 18.) The list is so great, it’s across the board. It’s not just the classics you’d expect, like “Jane Eyre” – this guy is on it, I have to say (jokingly gestures toward Patterson) – so it really covers a lot of territory. (Jocelyn McClurg)Another bookish TV series is making a comeback. As Art Daily reports, Treasures of the British Library has returned to Sky Arts:
Treasures of the British Library will take viewers on an absorbing, surprising and often poignant journey through history. From a handwritten Beethoven violin concerto score and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre manuscript, to the seminal 1978 Rock against Racism poster and audio recordings of George Harrison, this series will once again remind the viewer of the important role the British Library plays in preserving our collective heritage to provide inspiration for future generations, as seen through the eyes of a group of celebrated cultural figures. The series features moments such as Andrew Scott reading from the first quarto of Hamlet, following his renowned turn as the Prince of Denmark on the stage last year, and violinist Nicola Benedetti playing from a handwritten score of Beethoven’s violin concerto.The New York Times Magazine has a piece of Cary Fukunaga and mentions his take on Jane Eyre.
His adaptation of “Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, starred Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender as a particularly smoldering Rochester. It is both exceptionally haunting and powerfully romantic — a horror story and a love story — and it required an entirely distinct directorial approach. “At first,” he recalls, “I was like: What do I do with the camera? It just sits there? But I really wanted to do a study on composition and restraint. Especially in my generation and younger, there’s this impulse to cut, to move and do things all the time, and I was trying to figure out how to do as little as possible.”Coincidentally, QCityMetro recommends a trip to the British Library, although the article is slightly misleading when it comes to Brontë items there.
Fitting the entirety of “Jane Eyre” into a two-hour movie sometimes felt to Fukunaga like “a real sacrifice — the ability to explore characters for many hours was a sort of itching desire at that point.” (Willa Paskin)
Tomes of religious works, the Magna Carta, a folio of Shakespeare plays, sketches from Leonardo Da Vinci’s works, and notebooks from the Brontë sisters will fascinate you with their tiny, precise handwriting. Beatles fans — even those who aren’t — will get a kick out of seeing John Lennon’s son’s first birthday card — Lennon wrote the lyrics for a Hard Days Night on the back. (Mordecia D. Strickland)20 Minutos (Spain) tells about a recent talk by Spanish writers Espido Freire and Fernando Marías on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
En opinión de Freire, Mary Shelley fue capaz de encontrar un "hueco absolutamente único con una voz definida", aunque ha hecho hincapié en las "complicaciones" que tuvo para publicar, como también lo tuvieron, ha añadido, otras escritoras contemporáneas como Jane Austen o las hermanas Brontë. En este sentido, tanto Freire como Marías han recordado que Shelley, Austen y las hermanas Brontë tuvieron que publicar sus libros con pseudónimos masculinos o esconder que los habían escrito ellas. (Translation)Alison Ver Halen posts about Villette. The Brontë Brussels Calendar: July 1842 is up on the Brussels Brontë Blog.
The impact and setting of conflict for British culture is a theme that has attracted greater interest in recent years, and with the work of Jane Austen being profitably interpreted accordingly. Other authors invite similar coverage. Dickens is not exactly prominent as a writer of empire, but his family was much engaged and his short stories reflect sympathy for veterans. The Brontës and War. Fantasy and Conflict in Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Youthful Writings (Palgrave, 2019, £59.99, now in its second edition) by Emma Butcher, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English Literature at the University of Leicester, is a valuable work that reflects well on a tradition of scholarship in which relatively overlooked texts and approaches are advanced and considered, rather than tired affirmations about discourse.The legacy of war is seen as playing a major role. Thus, Wellington and Napoleon play an important part in Charlotte’s construction of fictional personalities, as their characteristics and rivalry provide ready-made devices. Butcher demonstrates that the wide-ranging juvenilia of Charlotte and Branwell provide a way into the variety of commentary on war on offer, and also its role in developing their own sensibilities. She argues that their reading and writing captures a cultural variety including celebrity culture, periodicals, and the writings of others such as Burns and Scott on former military episodes, including Flodden, Jacobitism and the Crusades. Branwell was especially interested in Classical warfare, and this provides a valuable guide to the choices he makes and approaches he adopts. Colonial warfare and civil warfare are also discussed. A valuable work that deserves emulation. (Jeremy Black)
[Former Prime Minister of Australia] Julia Gillard told me she read Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals and re-read Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. (Troy Bramston)
La vida de las tres hermanas Brönte [sic] –Charlotte, Anne y Emily– empezó y terminó en el condado de Yorkshire. El padre fue rector de Haworth, el pueblo que sirvió de escenario para sus novelas de páramos tormentosos. Charlotte y Emily vivieron durante una temporada en un internado de Bruselas, pero tuvieron que volver al morir su tía. Ambas están enterradas en Haworth, mientras que la tumba de Anne está en Scarborough, un pueblo de la costa del mar del Norte.Freire se declara una apasionada lectora y estudiosa tanto de las hermanas Brönte como de Jane Austen. Les ha dedicado libros, artículos, conferencias, viajes y estudios, pero comenta que con este libro sucede algo especial. "Apareció muy pronto, antes de que la fiebre por Jane Austen llegara a España, y durante años ha estado agotado. Por suerte, los lectores no han dejado de pedirme que lo reeditara. Me pareció una idea preciosa que ahora llegara en formato audiolibro. Que acompañara, literalmente, a los lectores en su quehacer diario. Es un libro ágil y muy directo", sostiene.Su fascinación por estas autoras parte de sus obras, por supuesto, pero también de lo que fueron como personas, algo que también se percibe en sus libros. "Fueron grandes genios literarios, mujeres empobrecidas, solteras (salvo, brevemente, Charlotte), brillantes, profundamente inteligentes y perceptivas. Entendieron lo que no tuvieron ocasión de vivir, intuyeron otras vidas y supusieron un grito de rebeldía en dos sociedades (la de la Regencia y la Victoriana) enormemente ricas y complejas y al mismo tiempo muy restrictivas". (Carmen López) (Translation)
The mastermind Mike Flanagan had given out a major hint about the plot of The Haunting Of Bly Manor Season 3 in the previous season. Screenrant pointed out that the characters talked about a ghost story in the first few minutes of the second season. The guests that came for Flora’s (older) wedding discussed the supposed ghost of a nun in the castle they were in. Flora’s husband went on to say that the castle used to be a convent for a few decades in the 1940s.This story was never discussed again in the show and had no purpose of being mentioned at all. Hence, many fans wonder whether it was a hint for the upcoming season. Surprisingly, the story has a lot in resemblance to Charlotte Brontë’s novel called Villette. The horror novel takes place in a convent and also features a nun. She supposedly buried alive on the convent’s grounds for breaking her vow of chastity. Villette is a critically acclaimed novel and will likely be the perfect choice for The Haunting Of Bly Manor Season 3 (or The Haunting Of The Convent?). (Pheobe)
Emily Blunt. Jamie Dornan. Throw them in Ireland and give them bad Irish accents. Hell lets even throw in Christopher Walken and give him a similarly bad Irish accent. Make them all farmers. Sounds like a good time so far.Okay, now let’s make Emily Blunt wildly in love with her mysterious neighbour Dornan. Sounds hot, sounds romantic, sounds serendipitous. But Dornan doesn’t reciprocate the love at all. Sounds dangerous, sounds aloof, sounds like we’ve got ourselves a main conflict of interest to drive the story.On top of this, Dornan has inherited a family curse, and as the description for the movie reads, has been stung by his father’s plans to sell the family farm. Seems like your typical Wuthering Heights-esque story. So why is everyone going insane over the ending to this movie? (Michael Di Iorio)
Whereas Emily Brontë probably never had a living room with a massive flat-screen TV in one of her novels. (Cormac O'Brien)
Jackie Thomas: You were honoured and named the Yorkshire inspirational woman alongside notable figures like baroness Betty Boothroyd and the Brontë sisters. How did that make you feel?DM.F.: Seeing my name alongside Baroness Betty Boothroyd, The Brontë Sisters, and Dame Judi Dench was surreal. It filled me with pride and a sense of achievement to be named among the women I deeply admire and respect. It’s a memory I will always cherish.
Keighley and Worth, YorkshireThe Railway Children, based on a story by E Nesbit, was first made into a classic film in 1970 and was filmed on Yorkshire’s Keighley and Worth railway. This line is no stranger to compelling fiction, with one of its stops being Haworth: the home of the Brontë sisters. The steam railway was originally funded by local mill owners and runs for five miles between Oxenhope and Keighley. Train buffs particularly love its wuthering heights, with great pillars of steam and the sound of the hard-working locomotives echoing off steep valley sides. The Dales National Park lies just north. (Andrew Earnes)
Emily Brontë vivió tan solo 30 años, de manera tranquila y discreta, aunque legó uno de los libros que siguen editándose debido a su espléndida narrativa: Cumbres borrascosas, novela que nació como producto de un propósito común, acordado con sus dos hermanas, Charlotte y Anne, de escribir una novela cada una. Con esta edición conmemorativa del segundo centenario del nacimiento de Emily Brontë, ilustrada por Bastian Kupfer, Alianza Editorial celebra a la autora por todo lo alto. Ideal para coleccionistas y amantes de los libros bellos. (David Rocha Molina) (Translation)
More Bastian Kupfer illustrations of the book can be found on juliocesarabadvidal, Excentriks or on Tejiendo críticas en la sombra.
Sin ir más lejos, la escritora española Espido Freire ha sido una de las que más ha ahondado en su pasado. Su obra Querida Jane, querida Charlotte permite desvelar esta fascinación, no solo por Austen sino también por las hermanas Brontë, también coetáneas. Espido se adentra en el mundo, la vida y la obra de estas escritoras que con tan poco, aisladas, en una situación de precariedad, enfermedad y pobreza consiguieron escribir obras universales. (Sara Andrade Abad) (Translation)
More The Most Wuthering Heights Ever Day alerts (including one in the Yorkshire Dales) and photo collections: Craven Herald & Pioneer, Wagga Wagga Council News, Lancashire Evening Post, Blue Mountains Gazette,
More Bridgerton than Jane Eyre or Austen, it includes a witty “D’Arcy coming out of the lake” moment to remind passengers about life vests. As is de rigeur with these films, it features real British Airways staff – 40 in total – but thankfully gets a good performance out of them, courtesy of director Sharon Maguire who is best known for the Bridget Jones movies. (Emma Hall)
Your favourite female heroine (if different from above!), and why?Also Spanish writer Espido Freire is interviewed by El Diario de La Rioja about her new book, Soria Moria.
OK … perhaps Cathy in Wuthering Heights because that’s such an incredibly forceful and clever story – narrated by someone totally outside the story and featuring characters in such distress, it has a darkness hanging over it yet still manages to be a vibrant love story. I think it’s an incredible work of fiction … one of those books that grows every time you read it.
La narrativa de sus admiradas Jane Austen y las hermanas Bronte está muy presente en Soria Moria. ¿De qué modo han influido en su obra?In Mexico the Diario de Xalapa reports an event scheduled to take place today where guitarist Mauricio Hernández will play Cumbres Borrascosas (Wuthering Heights) composed this year for him by Julio César Oliva.
- Bueno, para comenzar, Jane Austen describió la caza y captura del marido entre las clases altas con una precisión que me ha servido de orientación..., aunque las madres casamenteras de Soria Moria son mucho más feroces y determinadas de lo que la educación de Austen permitiría describir. Las Bronte asoman menos... (Diego Marín A.)
The narrative of your admired writers Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters is noticeable in Soria Moria. In what way have they influenced your work?
- Well, to begin with, Jane Austen described hunting for husbands among the higher classes with such precision that it has helped to guide me, although the matchmaking mothers of Soria Moria are much more fierce and determined than education allowed Austen to describe. The Brontës can't be seen so much.
Walking the Invisible, by Michael Stewart, follows the Brontë Stones trail, taking a series of walks through landscapes and buildings familiar to the family and investigating the geographical and social features that shaped their lives and writing. The book also compares the times they lived in with the present.Michael, who lives in Thornton, where Emily, Charlotte, Anne and Branwell Brontë were born, became captivated by the Brontës after he left school and discovered a copy of Wuthering Heights in a library. “I never encountered the works of the Brontës at school. We were told we weren’t bright enough,” he said. [...]“Up on the moors, I had a profound understanding of the texts. I started to connect with their writings in a visceral way,” said Michael. “It was like I had discovered another layer, and I sank further in. The words and the moors were one.”Walking the Invisible - a “literary study of the social and natural history that has inspired writers and walkers, and the writings of a family that have touched readers for generations” - takes in landmarks such as Thornton’s Old Bell Chapel where Patrick Brontë was a curate, the grand residence said to be an inspiration for Mr Rochester’s house in Jane Eyre, backdrops to Branwell’s affair with an older married woman, the brooding moorland where the sisters roamed, and the beautiful stones engraved with words of contemporary female writers - Kate Bush, Jeanette Winterson, Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay - in tribute to the Brontes.Michael came up with the idea for the four Brontë Stones, installed in 2018 in places where the sisters walked, and he leads guided tours of the trails for visitors from around the world. (Emma Clayton)
Jane EyreBased on: Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThere have been multiple music-based productions about Jane Eyre, the timeless tale of a woman and her weird, wife-napping boyfriend. The 2000 musical ran on Broadway for six months. I doubt its failure was because of the ableism and racism of the second act, but maybe it was one of those signs from God Jane likes to sing about.Songs to Listen To: They all sound kind of the same? “Perfectly Nice” almost manages to do something. I liked “Secret Soul” and “Sirens,” but maybe that’s just because I like counterpoint. (Eileen Gonzalez)
Vanguardista, pues, en el mundo de las escritoras influencers y 360, también ha participado como guía exclusiva para grupos reducidos en viajes para conocer mejor a figuras literarias como Jane Austen –de cuya vida y obra es toda una experta–, James Joyce o las hermanas Brontë. (Jorge C. Parcero) (Translation)
Greed is not a word used frequently any more. Tending to be associated with quaintly prim eras and Victorian novels, the sooty world of Charles Dickens comes to mind with its pickpockets and severe judgments. Envision Emily Bronte's floridly romantic character, Heathcliff, grasping for riches and power in Wuthering Heights. (Mauri-Lynne Heller)The Broadway premiere of Jill Santoriellos's A Tale of Two Cities reminds the reviewers of Jane Eyre:
Do you think Les Miserables stands as the greatest accomplishment in the history of musical theater? Would you argue that the musical version of Jane Eyre that plodded onto Broadway in 2000 never got the respect it deserved? (Elysa Gardner in USA Today)
Producers keep gambling on these bloated, blustery epics, hatched out of literary or historical sources, which is puzzling since most of them have failed to gain traction on either side of the Pond. Broadway has seen its share of unmemorable '80s-style period pulp in the past decade or so, including "Jane Eyre," "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "Jekyll & Hyde," "The Woman in White" and "The Pirate Queen," while two singing tomes have already come and gone without bumping into an audience in London this year, "Gone With the Wind" and "Marguerite." (David Rooney in Variety)The Milford Daily News informs that
Fair entertainment director Beth Nolan Conners, a theater aficionado, is bringing in the cast of West Acton-based Theater III’s production of “Jane Eyre, The Musical,” to perform on Saturday. (Nan Shnitzler)The premiere of this production will be next November, 7.
The production of Bronte currently running at Metro Arts will undoubtedly be of interest to those with an interest in the work of the Bronte sisters and, under the direction of the very able Sue Rider the ensemble cast do a creditable job of the material provided. There are indeed some keenly interesting moments in the unfolding story of these women but all too often the script descends into self-important philosophizing and pontificating about life and the process of writing. (Read more) (Nigel Munro-Wallis)CinemaBlend begins the review of The Duchess (2008) with a (very) misinformed statement:
The Duchess is a sobering look at the darker side of pre-Victorian life, the side that the Austens and Brontes of the world would have you believe never existed. (Stuart Wood)And Catherine Townsend makes another Heathcliff+Rochester reference in her Love & Sex section in The Independent:
As I grew up, I learned that the women in classical literature didn't fare much better. I was always drawn to the tortured types like Heathcliff and Mr Rochester, despite the fact "loving" these men often equalled death or insanity.Several Spanish newspapers publish interviews and profiles of Itsaso Lozano Madariaga, winner of the Circulo de Lectores Novel Award for La Vida Privada de los Seymour, who happens to be a Brontëite:
«Soy muy norteña, me encanta la lluvia, el frío y la forma de vida de la campiña inglesa», por eso la novela está ambientada allí y en los bucólicos parajes del valle del Loira, los escenarios del imaginario de la gran novela del siglo XIX (Jane Austen y las hermanas Brönte [sic]) de las que se declara admiradora. (El Correo Digital)
«Soy del norte. Adoro Inglaterra, su clima, su paisaje, el té y las novelas de Jane Austin o las hermanas Brönte [sic]. No me molestan ni el frío ni la lluvia» aclara esta narradora que escribe «exclusivamente por placer». (El Norte de Castilla)
¿Cuáles son sus referencias en las letras?Another well-known Spanish writer and Brontëite is Espido Freire, author of Querida Jane, Querida Charlotte, who has visited for the third time Haworth (with pictures).
Las hermanas Brontë, Ame Tam o Jane Austen. Y también la literatura oriental, la de India o de Pakistán. Tienen una sensibilidad especial, incluso los hombres que escriben. (La Gaceta)
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Reader, I loved it! From the time I was 12, this 19th century classic has stayed solidly in my heart. Strong, loyal Jane knows how to speak her mind, and the taciturn Mr. Rochester hardly knows what to do with her. Filled with wonderful longing and delicious heartache … and that ending … oh, that ending! (Grabs tissues, dabs eyes.)The Irish Times also includes the novel in a tongue-in-cheek guide on surviving Valentine's Day.
3. Enjoy yourselfUnfortunately Lancaster Online isn't joking when it says,
I asked a middle-aged man what his ultimate turn-on was. Actually, this guy was only 28 years old, but he was a morbidly obese chain-smoking tree surgeon so I’m guessing he’s at his own special middle age right now. What he told me, between delicate bites of a Whopper, was that he loved nothing more than a woman who knew how to have a great time in bed. So don’t be afraid to go with what your body wants; perhaps that’s curling up into a tiny ball and humming tunelessly as you read Jane Eyre for the fifth time? Do it – it will drive him wild. (Maeve Higgins)
The romance novel genre began with Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" and is going still going strong, [Holly Bush, literary salon organiser] says. (Joan Kern)Svenska Dagbladet mentions the equally accurate Facebook tests such as 'which literary character are you?', etc.
På Facebook är det sedan länge populärt med tester av typen ”Vilken litterär karaktär är du?” Även detta har jag irriterat mig på, delvis av samma skäl som ovan. Bror duktig-aspekten, ständigt närvarande på i synnerhet Facebook, når här kvävande nivåer.El imparcial (Spain) interviews writer Espido Freire.
Det är tänkt att testresultaten ska publiceras på Facebook till vännernas beskådan, även om det ofta går att stänga av den funktionen (vilket har inneburit en viss lättnad under arbetet med denna artikel). Det som tillkännages är givetvis främst att användaren är svårt litteraturintresserad. Huruvida man blev Heathcliff eller Huckleberry Finn är liksom inte huvudsaken – poängen är att man var så inkörd i det litterära landskapet att man hade roligt när man gjorde testet. (Thomas Engström) (Translation)
¿Había investigado antes sobre ella o ha aprovechado la ocasión del centenario para hacerlo?
Es innegable el hecho de que habrá más gente que se vaya a interesar por ella coincidiendo con el centenario, así que era un buen momento para escribir este libro. Pero, igual que escribí sobre las hermanas Brontë o sobre Jane Austen, mi interés por los personajes femeninos viene de le (Elena Viñas) (Translation)
jos porque las mujeres tenemos una carencia histórica y psicológica de figuras de referencia.
Women's Wear Daily on the inspiration behind the New York Fall 2015 collections:“Bertha Mason, the insane character in Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre,’ and Antoinette Cosway, Bertha’s original name.” — Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty, Suno (Kelsi Zimmerman)The Lancashire Evening Post suggests a trip to Yorkshire:
From Beechwood Grange alone, we were just around the corner from Rievaulx Abbey, Ryedale’s market towns, the famous Yorkshire Moors and the beauty of historic Brontë country. Travelling a little further afield we could have checked out Scarborough or headed to Malton, known as Yorkshire’s food capital.
It is the first time the Libris and the Boekenbon prize, the Netherlands’ two major literary awards, both worth €50,000 to the winner, have been won by the same book. Daanje’s ambitious and highly complex novel spans three centuries and 11 chapters, each with a different narrator. She set the first section of the book in a Yorkshire village and drew heavily on Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, for inspiration.
As for the new challenge, I came up with it because I occasionally receive complaints about the figurative use of literally. Reader Andy Gaus even suggested I challenge you to send me the “best” (i.e., worst) use of the word from a spoken or printed source.That’s a fun idea — but I fear that insisting literally can only indicate that something really, truly happened may be a lost cause. As Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary reports in a usage note, evidence of “the use of literally in a fashion that is hyperbolic or metaphoric . . . dates back to 1769.”Further, the people using the word that way have included lots of beloved authors. Charles Dickens used literally figuratively in “David Copperfield” and “Nicholas Nickleby.” Charlotte Brontë used it in “Jane Eyre.” It also turns up in work by William Makepeace Thackeray, Louisa May Alcott, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and so on.Rather than continuing to try to arrest the development of literally, it seems to me, we’d do better to coin a new word that means literally in its literal sense. Can you help? (Barbara Wallraff)
Jane Eyre (2011)Jane Eyre is another beloved classic novel (this time from Charlotte Brontë) that has received countless adaptations. But none have quite hit the mark like the 2011 version directed by Cary Fukunaga. The film starred Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Michael Fassbender (Prometheus) as Jane and her love interest, Mr. Rochester and was an excellent homage to the source material. From the backdrop of Thornfield to the build-up of the romance, this rendition of Jane Eyre stayed true to the book’s themes. (Danielle Baranda)
French windows overlook a beautiful and very green garden that looks like a Brontë sister might have imagined it. In this chaotic and noisy city, it’s an island of serenity where people can immerse themselves in their reading and writing. (Carlos S. Maldonado)
P.– ¿Cuáles son sus referentes? ¿Hay otro libro que le haya marcado especialmente?R.- Curiosamente aunque haya estudiado mucho a Jane Austen no es la autora que más me ha influenciado. Si estamos hablando de unas influencias más directas, hablaríamos de Shakespeare, hablaríamos de Emily Brontë, de Tolstoi, de Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath y en los últimos años de una manera muy marcada, Margaret Atwood. A partir de ahí, todos los grandes novelistas del siglo XIX y algunos autores del Siglo de Oro Español que escribieron principalmente teatro. (Cristina Morte Landa) (Translation)
I wondered where imaginary friends might vacation. I thought of my own imaginary friend, who was tall and lean and blond. I’d named him Heathcliff, because I thought of him as part Wuthering Heights character and part Michael Penn song, a Romeo in black jeans.My younger son called me back to reality, back to our small suburban kitchen the three of us like to crowd into while I am cooking. I turned on the stovetop—click, click, flame—I pictured all of our imaginary friends, vacationing on a beach somewhere, relaxing and enjoying their time off together until we needed them again: Heathcliff, Bad Guy, and Oaken John, staring out to sea, their hair sandy, salt crusting along their sunburned necks. (Kelly McMasters)
Patricia Park, Re: JaneThis 2016 novel is technically an homage to another classic—Brontë’s Jane Eyre. But Park has a knack for echoing mannered 19th century conundrums. When this Jane, of Queens—an orphaned, hapa student of nunchi—accepts an au pair position with English professors, her world begins to open up in unexpected ways. A coming into self story befitting our time. (Brittany Allen)
• “Wide Sargasso Sea” by Jean Rhys. Rhys brings one of fiction’s most fascinating characters to new life: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. (171 pages) (McDaniel-Browning)
It feels like the tip of the iceberg. In 2024, US software company ElevenLabs partnered with the estates of Laurence Olivier, Judy Garland and James Dean to use the late actors’ voices as narrators for books and other text material on its Reader app. How long, then, before Jane Austen or Charlotte Brontë, quills in hand, are explaining Elizabeth Bennet or Jane Eyre? If the Queen of Mystery’s “realness” is any guide, the answer is, imminently. (Lenny Ann Low)
La autora bilbaína, de raíces gallegas, ha defendido el acceso libre y emocional a los clásicos. «No impondría un canon, pero sí animaría a que los jóvenes lleguen a ellos por entusiasmo. Da igual si entran por Jane Eyre, por Delibes o por El Cid. Lo importante es que un libro les lleve a otro». (Translation)
Today, Barter Books occupies the former station entrance, Parcel Room, central island, and outbound platform. A model train runs continuously at head height between the shelves. The monumental Famous Writers mural by local artist Peter Dodd was unveiled in 2001 and depicts 33 lifesize portraits of writers including Charlotte Brontë, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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I had to have at least one Brontë, didn't I? The cruel choice for me being between Charlotte and Emily, with Charlotte finally winning the day. More easily identifiable. Plus, I decided, Emily would probably have hated being up there in the public eye, whereas Charlotte, if off by herself, might have quite liked it. (Not that both Emily and Anne aren't represented, however; Emily's faithful bull mastiff, Keeper, is at Charlotte's feet, along with Anne's Blenheim spaniel, Flossie.)Richmondshire Today reviews We Are Brontë, at the Georgian Theatre Royal.
It’s not quite clear what “We Are Brontë” is. It’s a play, but not strictly a fictional/dramatic piece. It’s more of a hugely absurdist send-up (and homage) of the works of the Yorkshire Brontë sisters, with a bit of meta-analysis of theatre in general (and lots of breaking of the fourth wall).The Guardian reports that we may expect an Amy Winehouse biopic.
Angus Barr and Sarah Corbett play characters. Who they are actually playing is rather undefined and fluid: “We are all the characters in all the Brontë stories.” Both appeared on stage in rather gothic costume and wigs, giving them a suitably wind-tangled look, as if they have just descended from a Yorkshire moor above Haworth. Sarah Corbett’s face is a picture: how many hours are spent practicing in front of a mirror those waggling eyes and other odd and slightly alarming facial expressions?
There is no specific narrative or characters, only slightly impressionistic sequences to illustrate a general mood gained from the reading of the books. These were accompanied by some extremely inventive uses of lighting and the props and scenery: who can ever forget somebody working their way through a pile of doorway “furniture” to provide appropriate sound effects for the opening of a big old creaky door? Knocker, bolt, chain, lock and key, and door handle. (Guy Carpenter)
The family of Amy Winehouse has signed a deal to make a biopic about the late singer. Monumental Pictures’ Alison Owen – mother to Lily and Alfie Allen – and Debra Hayward will produce the film. [...]For some reason, The Times' readers are discussing why electric toothbrushes are never seen on the screen.
Owen and Hayward affirmed their commitment to telling the stories of “amazing women, both real and fictional”, such as Queen Elizabeth I, Bridget Jones, Jane Eyre and Mary Poppins author PL Travers. (Laura Snapes)
Graham Etheridge is right. I have watched Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice, Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre and Cranford and I have never seen a character use an electric toothbrush.Writer Espido Freire discusses the Brontës on Spanish radio station Cadena Ser. Books & Candies posts about Jane Eyre. The Brussels Brontë Blog shares 'The Brontë Brussels Calendar' for September 1842.
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Noon Tuesday, Oct. 16: The Tea and Tales Book Club will discuss "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
True, there have also been graphic novel versions of Shakespeare, Dickens, Brontë, Melville and Kafka – and even a Marvel Comics adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that is faithful to Austen’s original – but Lee’s depiction of racial discrimination continues to arouse controversy. (Martin Chilton)The Independent also sees fit to republish the rather pointless article on the Brontës' deaths of TB first published on The Conversation a couple of weeks ago.
Wuthering Heights, Emily BrontëEl País (Spain) features Joanna Russ's How to Suppress Women's Writing, which has just been translated into Spanish.
The timeless Brontë classic wouldn’t be completely at home on a shelf of horror novels. But, like most Gothic fiction, the passionate tale of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw does include plenty of eerie elements. From the sinister setting and revengeful protagonist to the many references to ghosts and death, this book is a good starting point for those looking for just a hint of spookiness in their fiction. (Michelle Regalado)
“Cada hombre que alguna vez le dijo a una editora adjunta mientras la acorralaba contra la pared ‘ya sabes que estoy en un matrimonio abierto’, cada hombre que alguna vez empleó la palabra ‘melodramáticas’ para describir las memorias escritas por una mujer […] o que dedicó dos párrafos a especular sobre el cuerpo de una mujer o un autor trans en lo que se supone que era una reseña sobre su obra […], cada hombre que se ha referido a una Brontë, a Emily Dickinson o a James Baldwin como escritores menores: todos ellos están aquí. ["] [...]We do get that last point, but students can't really know or read another novel by Emily Brontë.
¿Cobrar por escribir? Charlotte Brontë se embolsaba 20 libras al año, cinco veces el precio de lavar el vestuario de una criada. [...]
Muchas de las grandes escritoras sobreviven en el imaginario colectivo con el síndrome del one hit wonder. Russ lamenta que en sus clases de literatura la amplia mayoría de sus alumnos confirmasen desconocer otros títulos de la obra literaria de sus autoras más allá de haber leído Frankenstein, Jane Eyre o Cumbres borrascosas . ¿Si pasa con Shelley o las Brontë, qué pasará con las que no han logrado pasar esa criba que las sitúa en la universalidad del arte? (Noelia Ramírez) (Translation)
Las mujeres y el gótico nos han dado grandes obras de la literatura, desde las ‘Cumbres borrascosas’ de Emily Brönte [sic] o el ‘Jane Eyre’ de su hermana Charlotte, hasta las fronteras de ‘Los misterios de Udolfo’ de Ann Radcliffe o la casi parodia perpetrada por Jane Austen en ‘La abadía de Northanger’ (en la que, precisamente, la protagonista leía la novela de Radcliffe). Todas ellas imaginaron grandes mansiones acechadas por los fantasmas del pasado, las sombras tenebrosas y las tormentas que las iluminan para dejar ver estatuas y grandes pinturas que salvaguardan las estancias con una mirada inquietante. Y, sobre todo, imaginaron mujeres. (Mireia Mullor) (Translation)Spanish writer Espido Freire writes about Anne Brontë on her blog.
What was the first book to make an impact on you?Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. I loved it and still do: an orphan/outsider up against the world, a mean family, and yet she gets the man. I love it despite the Creole madwoman …who I don’t like.
Book Marks: First book you remember loving?Mary Morris: Oh definitely Jane Eyre. There were lots of books that I read and that absorbed me before Jane Eyre (like Little Women and all of Nancy Drew), but Jane Eyre was my first love. I was perhaps eleven or twelve years old and found myself living inside that book. I savored every page. It obsessed me night and day. Then afternoon day I’m walking home from school with a friend, and I tell her I’m reading Jane Eyre and she says to me, “Oh have you gotten to the part about his crazy wife in the attic?” And I put my hands over my ears and screamed. Ever since then I won’t let anyone talk to me about a book or film they’ve enjoyed if I plan to read or see it.
A cualquier lector, aunque no esté muy formado, le preguntas y te sabe nombrar Orgullo y Prejuicio, Sentido y Sensibilidad o Emma. Hay muy pocas autoras a ese nivel, tienes a Rosalía de Castro, a Virginia Woolf, incluso en su momento a Santa Teresa de Jesús, o a las hermanas Brontë. (Marta Otero Mayán) (Translation)
Released in November 1977, Wuthering Heights was in the charts when Bush was still a teenager. “It’s nostalgic in a way”, explained Laura talking of her initial interest in Bush. “I’m a lot younger than the generation that heard Wuthering Heights when it came out. When I was a kid my parents had the single in a box of records. It sold well so is a common single and I later got a copy of the album The Kick Inside and seriously got into it and loved it in my teens.” (Richard Purden)
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