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19/01/20266:30 PM - 8:00 PMHyperemesis Gravidarum is medical terminology for the excessive vomiting of early pregnancy. There is a commonly held belief that Charlotte Nicholls (née Brontë) suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum; however, is this merely a myth, a story, a false idea or is it true, a reality, and an accurate description of her tragic, final illness and untimely death?Charlotte’s official death certificate of 1855 showed that the disease Phthisis, also known as consumption or tuberculosis, was the cause of her death. Yet modern Brontë commentators claim that Charlotte died from excessive vomiting of pregnancy / hyperemesis gravidarum.Charlotte wrote in Jane Eyre (1847),“I cannot proceed without some investigation into what has been asserted, and evidence of its truth or falsehood.”And so, on 19 January, 2026, the very same day a hundred and seventy-one years ago in 1855, when Charlotte wrote to Ellen Nussey explaining that,“… indigestion and continual faint sickness have been my portion …”Join us via Zoom from the Brontë Birthplace, Thornton to hear esteemed retired Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Dr Michael O’Dowd present evidence both for and against the concept that Charlotte was affected by hyperemesis gravidarum.
Acute morning sickness, known as hyperemesis gravidarum, is a serious medical condition with potential consequences for mother and baby. While seven out of ten pregnant women suffer nausea, usually in the first three months, some are sick morning noon and night throughout, vomiting as much as 25 times a day.The Guardian:
Until the 1950s, women even died from the condition through becoming dehydrated – Charlotte Brontë is believed to have been a victim. Now dehydration can be treated with a drip and is a common reason for hospitalisation accounting for more than 25,000 admissions a year. (Jeremy Laurance)
Hyperemesis gravidarum, for which the Duchess of Cambridge was admitted to hospital, is an extreme form of morning sickness. Charlotte Brontë is reputed to have died of it in 1855, but nowadays doctors say it is a routine complication of pregnancy and easy to treat. (Denis Campbell)The Daily Mail:
‘There is a great deal of evidence that anti-sickness medication is safe and effective in pregnancy but some doctors appear reluctant to use it. Yet this is serious if left untreated. Before modern medicine it was the biggest cause of maternal death and led to the death of Charlotte Brontë.’ (Jenny Hope)And more from the Daily Mail:
Victorian novelist Charlotte Brontë is understood to have died from it – and deaths, although rare, are not unknown even now. (Sonia Purnell)The Age knows more that we do (and so does Dr Cindy Pan on News.com Australia):
Hyperemesis gravidarum causes excessive, persistent vomiting and nausea which can linger for an entire pregnancy. Left untreated, hyperemesis patients lose weight because they are unable to keep food or drink down. It drives some women to terminate and has even been blamed for the death of English novellist Charlotte Brontë at four months' pregnant. (Gordon Rayner)More mentions (many including the four-month pregnant thing) to be found in: World News Australia, 9 News, FirstCoastNews, Forbes, The Inquisitr, The Conversation, Liputan (Indonesia)...
Au plus près de ses incroyables acteurs - des inconnus qui gagneraient à ne pas le rester -, dans des décors épurés balayés par les vents mauvais de la passion mortifère, Andrea Arnold entraine dans une fiction âpre, fiévreuse et entêtante qui retranscrit les obsessions de ses protagonistes. Malgré quelques complaisances et longueurs, ces Hauts de Hurlevent new look s’imposent comme une œuvre puissamment dérangeante. (Étienne Sorin, Olivier De Bruyn, Jean-Christophe Ferrari and Valentin Portier) (Translation)L'Express gives it 4 stars too:
Bref, ça sent le drame à plein nez. Mais inutile de préparer les mouchoirs. Ici, ni musique, ni atermoiement. Eventuellement un arc-en-ciel pour donner un peu d'espoir, mais très vite un plan sur une pomme pourrie et une fleur fanée pour revenir à la réalité. C'est du Terrence Malick croisé avec les frères Dardenne. C'est du grand cinéma. (Christophe Carrière) (Translation)Furthermore, L'Express lists three reasons why people should go and see the film (the reasons being: Andrea Arnold, rediscovering the novel and seeing an unknown cast) and publishes yet another review:
Son film sent la sueur sèche, la boue excrémentielle, la pierre glacée et la bruyère fétide. Et nous emporte dans une bourrasque sauvage de désir brûlant, violence sociale et frustration sexuelle. Touchant, comme jamais, au coeur rageur du roman. (Xavier Leherpeur) (Translation)Le Nouvel Observateur:
Nouvelle adaptation cinématographique de l'unique roman d'Emily Brontë (publié en 1847) dans laquelle la réalisatrice Andrea Arnold a voulu se démarquer des nombreuses réécritures précédentes en optant pour le côté sombre de l'oeuvre. (Translation)PureCiné:
Loin du film cliché sur la campagne anglaise du XIXème siècle, la réalisatrice Andrea Arnold propose non pas une romance mélodramatique mais plutôt une histoire d'amour obsessionnelle et désespérée. Récompensé lors de la 68ème Mostra de Venise, cette version de Hauts de Hurlevent est probablement une des plus intéressante qui ait été filmée jusqu'à présent. (Egil Bain) (Translation)Le Figaro:
Adapter à l'écran un monument littéraire comme Les Hauts de Hurlevent, d'Emily Brontë, est un gros défi. Avec pour seule musique le bruissement des feuilles et le souffle de la lande, Andrea Arnold propose une version très esthétique et personnelle de l'histoire d'Heathcliff, gamin vagabond recueilli puis brutalisé dans sa nouvelle famille. Loin de desservir le film (en salles mercredi), quelques lenteurs mettent en lumière toute la cruauté d'un amour obsessionnel. On ressort transi. (Jérôme Garro) (Translation)Sud Ouest:
La beauté du film d'Andrea Arnold est dans cette âpreté, dans ses climats puissants, dans une vision charnelle et rude de la nature. Les personnages ne parlent guère, mais ils bougent, ils galopent, ils s'agitent. Ce sont les corps qui se souviennent et qui s'expriment, qui souffrent et saignent. On n'est pas ici chez des aristocrates en dentelles, mais à la crête d'un lieu où l'on va les joues sales et les bottes crottées. Cette dimension naturaliste, alimentée par une mise en scène attentive aux détails, à la limite parfois du maniérisme mais sauvée par une sorte de froideur finale, ôte au récit une bonne part de son romantisme et de son pathos. (Sophie Avon) (Translation)Juan José Hoyos, a Colombian writer and journalist, recalls finding Emily Brontë's novel in a richman's attic in El País (Colombia).
And you know I always recommend that you don’t forget the classics. Girls today still empathize with Jane Eyre, and Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” should still be on everyone’s list of favorites – only it has to be read first. (Betty E. Stein)Lazy Bastards (in French) reviews Jane Eyre 2011 while Mumsey's Ramblings posts about the actual novel. Imogen Lovely has uploaded a picture of a painting inspired by the Brontës (although the photograph she credits as the origins of the paintings doesn't really exist, not with a Brontë sister on it). EDIT: This has been corrected now.
We have been trying hard to remember - unsuccessfully - who it was that said something along the lines that in many cases - if not all - death tends to define the life of a person. That is far from being Charlotte Brontë's case. Her admirers will each find a key 'defining' thing about her life, but we will say that for most people it is her novel novels that define her life.From The Life of Charlotte Brontë, written by her friend Elizabeth GaskellTake a moment today to read her life's work. Take a moment today to spread the word about her (probable) cause of death.
”She was attacked by new sensations of perpetual nausea, and ever-recurring faintness. After this … had lasted for some time, she yielded to [her husband] Mr. Nicholls wish that a doctor should be sent for. He came, and assigned a natural cause for her miserable indisposition; a little patience, and all would go right. She who was ever patient in illness, tried hard to bear up and bear on. But the dreadful sickness increased and increased, till the very sight of food occasioned nausea …
Martha tenderly waited on her mistress, and from time to time tried to cheer her with the thought of the baby that was coming. “I dare say I shall be glad sometime,” she would say; “but I am so ill – so weary -” Then she took to her bed, too weak to sit up … Long days and longer nights went by; still the same relentless nausea and faintness … About the third week in March there was a change; a low wandering delirium came on; and in it she begged constantly for food … She swallowed eagerly now; but it was too late.”
Wakening for an instant from this stupor of intelligence, she saw her husband’s woe-worn face, and caught the sound of some murmured words of prayer that God would spare her. “Oh!” she whispered forth, “I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.”
Early on Saturday morning, March 31st, the solemn tolling of Haworth church-bell spoke forth the fact of her death to the villagers who had known her from a child, and whose hearts shivered within them as they thought of the two sitting desolate and alone in the old grey house.
Charlotte Brontë is thought to have died of Hyperemesis Gravidarum on March 31st1855
In honor of Charlotte Brontë the Ayden Rae Foundation is designating March 31, 2012 as Hyperemesis Gravidarum Awareness Day. We will be hosting an HG Awareness Walk through the community of Barstow, CA and invite you to participate.
Portrait intimiste où des pans de la vie d’Emily Brontë se mêlent à son œuvre, le premier long métrage de Frances O’Connor dépeint l’autrice en jeune femme recluse. Emily (Emma Mackey) réside dans le presbytère de son pasteur de père. Personnalité farouche et sagace, celle qu’on surnomme la Bizarre est filmée en gros plans par la cinéaste. Mais c’est sur son travail de romancière, limité à une œuvre magistrale, « les Hauts de Hurlevent », que la réalisatrice s’appuie pour déployer un univers gothique et reprendre les codes du film d’horreur. Jouant sur les passerelles entre son existence et son œuvre, elle décrit son frère Branwell (Fionn Whitehead), un être d’ordinaire jovial, assombri sous les effets de l’alcool et des drogues qui inspire le personnage de Heathcliff, antihéros tortueux et colérique de son roman.Dans cette famille heureuse en apparence, Emily dissimule la souffrance liée à la perte de sa mère et de ses sœurs aînées. S’ajoutent des éléments fantastiques. Un masque redonne vie à l’âme de la mère. La nature apparaît sauvage et déchaînée, telle cette pluie inondant les collines du Yorkshire ou le vent entrant avec fracas dans la maison paisible des Brontë. Ces bourrasques dont le sifflement est amplifié par une symphonie originale d’Abel Korzeniowski symbolisent une sorte d’émanation à la fois inquiétante et propice à la création. « Emily » devient ainsi une œuvre musicale. Les images prennent un tour pictural avec la multiplication de plans fixes aux allures de tableau clair-obscur de Vermeer. Hélas, une histoire d’amour fictive avec un vicaire, William Weightman, dont la mort aurait poussé Emily à écrire son roman, outrepasse les aspects historiques pourtant très fins du récit. Du grandiose, le film sombre dans la guimauve. (Aurélia de Spirt) (Translation)
Ainsi, Emily s'éloigne de la vraie vie de la cadette des Brontë. Ainsi, il semblerait que la romancière n'ait jamais vécu de romance torride avec un jeune pasteur, ou du moins ce n'est pas attesté (les soupçons porterait plutôt sur sa soeur, Anne Brontë). Mais cela vient expliquer comment une jeune femme qui n'aurait, semble-t-il, pas vécu de romance ait pu imaginer l'histoire passionnelle d'Heathcliff et Catherine, les protagonistes de son roman. Les férus d'exactitude seront peut-être déstabilisés, mais la poésie métaphorique qui émane de la mise en scène offre un regard neuf et presque magique sur son romance et sa mystérieuse autrice.Dans le rôle-titre, Emma Mackey (Sex Education, Eiffel) est magnétique. L'actrice de 27 ans est de tous les plans et peut exprimer l'étendu de son talent. Les amateurs de littérature anglaise y trouveront leur compte, les autres pourront se laisser happer par la performance d'actrice, plonger dans la mystique des landes anglaises, et comprendre davantage l'une des plus grandes oeuvres du XIXe siècle. Mais si vous cherchez un biopic formel qui retrace avec exactitude la vie de la cadette des Brontë, Emily n'est peut-être pas fait pour vous. (Manon Bricard) (Translation)
It’s a tale as old as time – the ‘bad boy’ with a dark past, less-than-pleasant demeanour, and a leather jacket falls for the hard-working, considerate girl and turns over a new leaf (or not). Somewhere in between are instances of long nights spent crying into tissues or even angry outbursts. Morally grey roles have long captured the attention of literature aficionados – take Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights for instance – slowly making their way into cinema and television. (Eshita Srinivas)
The designs have appropriately literary names familiar to Austen and Brontë fans: a brocade ballgown is named Linton “after the fancy family in Wuthering Heights,” a puffy shouldered, A-line taffeta dress is known as the “Bovary” after Flaubert’s flouncing heroine. (Ellie Pithers)
Before IV fluids became routinely available in the 1900s, hyperemesis killed pregnant women often enough that medical literature listed excessive vomiting as a reason to induce abortion because of the danger it posed to the mother’s life. Some experts believe that the death of the author Charlotte Brontë in 1855 was most likely caused by hyperemesis, not tuberculosis, as was listed on her death certificate.Today, deaths from hyperemesis are rare, but they do occur, as do serious complications. (Alice Callahan)
3. ‘Wuthering Heights’“Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush is a hauntingly beautiful and iconic song that captures the intensity and passion of Emily Brontë’s classic novel of the same name. Bush’s ethereal vocals, accompanied by a driving beat and atmospheric instrumentation, perfectly convey the sense of longing and desperation that permeates the story. The lyrics are a reflection of the novel’s protagonist, Catherine Earnshaw, as she struggles to come to terms with her own desires and the societal expectations placed upon her. The song’s chorus, with its soaring vocals and hypnotic melody, has become one of the most recognizable and beloved in music history. “Wuthering Heights” is a timeless classic that continues to inspire and captivate audiences with its unique blend of literary inspiration, poetic lyrics, and unforgettable musical performance. (Simon Robinson)
We don't choose our creators or our parents. If I had a choice, I'd be very happy with Miss Brontë. I feel myself much suited for Jane Eyre.
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Rarely seen original manuscripts by [Branwell Brontë] the black sheep of the Brontë family, held in Leeds University’s Brotherton Library special collections, can be seen in an exhibition called Visions of Angria: The Creativity of the Brontës, this month.PBS Newshour talks about Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers by John J. Ross:
They are shown alongside new art inspired by his stories, and other works produced by the famous siblings.
The new pieces have been created by third year illustration students on Leeds College of Art’s Visual Communications course.
They have focused in particular on interpretation of the rich and complex world of landscape, characters and events created by Branwell and his sisters while they were still children. (...)
As a project for his students, Nick Cass, a lecturer in museum studies at Leeds University who also teaches visual communication at Leeds College of Art, asked them to consider these Brontë manuscripts and create a response using any illustrative medium.
“The exhibition is a complementary show to Wildness Between Lines, currently running at LCA, which features practising contemporary artists’ interpretations of the Brontës,” says Cass. “With the eight students, I found that a few had read the Brontës’ work and knew something about Branwell, and the others had no idea about how big the Brontës were, but the project opened up a new area to them.
“I was completely thrilled by the work the students came up with, and the way they have articulated the rationale behind their work.”
He has reason to be proud.The pieces, ranging from Rachel Nelson’s digital print Riot Scene to Maria Brozozowska’s laser-cut MDF Depression Is The First Blessing, Victoria Thorburn’s Four Portraits etched beautifully in copper and Sin-yee Chung’s ink on paper comic strip, the art is thoughtful and well crafted.
Until February 23. (Sheena Hastings)
Writing a book is "a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness," George Orwell once said. The literary giant behind "1984" and "Animal Farm" was comparing his life's work to the many illnesses that plagued him from childhood to death.The New Yorker publishes a humour story by Andrew Palmer and Brian Platzer with Brontë references, If I Were Built, I’d Be a Poet:
And though William Shakespeare, Herman Melville and Emily Brontë may not have tied their creativity to poor health quite so explicitly, there's plenty of evidence that disease -- everything from tuberculosis to syphilis and mercury poisoning -- profoundly impacted works like "Moby Dick," "Wuthering Heights" and "Hamlet." (...)
The Brontës
Biographers have blamed the deaths of the Brontë sisters on everything from anorexia nervosa to the work of a fiendish serial killer. In reality, all six of the Brontë siblings died of tuberculosis, a Victorian plague that killed off 1 percent of the English population per year. TB entered the Brontë household after the older girls were infected at the Clergy Daughter's School. This was the place made infamous by Charlotte as the brutal Lowood School in Jane Eyre, where the girls were beaten, starved, and terrorized by tales of hellfire and damnation.
Although the consumptive artist is a tired cliche, there may be some truth in it. The immune system is weakened by emotional turmoil, of which the Brontës had plenty. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne suffered from major depression. Brother Branwell had bipolar disorder and alcoholism. Emily, brainy and strange, probably also had Asperger's syndrome and social anxiety disorder.( Jeffrey Brown and Jason Kane )
And so for many years I’d work odd jobs to support myself. I’d be a bartender, an editorial assistant, a mover, a Brontë scholar. I’d be the strongest Brontë scholar who ever lived, but this would mean little to me. All over the world I’d present papers on “Wuthering Heights,” which, since I’d have to spend so much time grading papers and doing pull-ups, would be the only Brontë book I’d ever read. A fellow Victorianist at my university would try to convince me to read Anne and Charlotte. “At least ‘Jane Eyre,’” she’d say. “You really have to read ‘Jane Eyre.’ You’re a Brontë scholar.” I would not read “Jane Eyre” but that Victorianist would become my wife.Allan Massie talks in The Telegraph about the Booker prize and literary prizes in general:
My Victorianist wife would love me for my muscles and iambs, and I’d love her for warmth, intelligence, and humor. We’d make turkey burgers and sorbet and watch film adaptations of Brontë novels together, not just the ones everyone’s seen, but “Agnes Grey,” “Villette,” the other two Charlotte Brontë novels, the Anne Brontë novel that’s not “Agnes Grey”—if there are film adaptations of all those. If I were built I’d remember the titles of all of Charlotte Brontë’s novels and the title of the Anne Brontë novel that’s not “Agnes Grey.” If I were built I’d write a sonnet sequence for my Victorianist wife. I’d call it “Sonnets from the Portuguese Part Two,” and it would win the Yale Younger Poets prize. I’d be invited to speak at writers conferences, where I’d impress my peers at parties by reciting “The Waste Land” while bench pressing a L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet.
You might argue of course that a life’s work might quite reasonably consist of fewer than ten books. Think of James Joyce’s: “Dubliners”, “The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, “Ulysses”, “Finnegans Wake”; and that’s pretty well it. E M Forster too wrote only half-a-dozen novels, likewise Jane Austen, while Emily Brontë’s life work was restricted to “Wuthering Heights” and a few poems.Boldsky has another article on Kate Middleton's hyperemesis gravidarum:
Hyperemesis gravidarum does not only make your stomach turn, it also dehydrates the body. Another famous example of hyperemesis gravidarum in England is the case of Charlotte Brontë, the author of ‘Jane Eyre' who died of severe dehydration in the fourth month of her pregnancy. Although it was not diagnosed then, doctors now believe that Ms. Brontë might have suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum. (Anwesha)The journalist and TV personality Daphné Bürki confesses to Closer Magazine (France) her Brontëite youth:
Daphné Bürki, journaliste et présentatrice du Grand Journal de Canal +, se souvient ainsi d’un livre qui a particulièrement marqué dans son adolescence : "Mon plus ancien émoi littéraire ? Monsieur Rochester à cheval, lorsque Jane Eyre le rencontre pour la première fois. (…) J’avais 14 ans. Mon amie Emane m’avait passé le livre sous le manteau avec un sourire entendu. Mes émotions érotiques furent donc plutôt Brontë que Youporn". (Eliane da Costa) (Translation)The Gadsden Times has an article about what we can call the Kindle times:
I probably will never read all the books in my mobile vault, but it holds the works of Socrates and Aristotle, Henry James and Winston Churchill, Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters, Thoreau and E.B. White, Joyce and Hemingway, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, and the Russian masters. (Darrell Norman)The Independent presents The Engagement by Chloe Hooper:
The Australian author Chloe Hooper's second novel is a complex psychological thriller that draws on the rich literary history of madwomen in the attic, from Jane Eyre and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. (Lucy Scholes)Christina Patterson talks with Paula Rego in The Independent:
She has said that she is “of course a feminist” because “all women are feminists”. But, I tell her, they're not. And some critics have said her work, which often shows women in thrall to powerful and seductive men, doesn't seem feminist at all. In the series of pictures she did about Jane Eyre in 2001 and 2002, Mr Rochester feels as powerful a presence as Jane.Nadeem Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden is discussed in The Guardian:
The novel was written in his brother's cottage in the Peak District, a bus ride from "Heathcliff country". Aslam concedes that Wuthering Heights may have entered his novel "subliminally" – if not in its anguished love triangle, then in its characters' "youthful intensity". (Maya Jaggi)Idolator describes the latest videoclip by Arlissa (Swamp Sing) like this:
The video matches that organic feel, taking place in the swamps of Louisiana, with a real Kate Bush “Wuthering Heights” feel, minus all the manic prancing. (Carl Williott)University of Toronto News interviews Professor Deidre Lynch about Jane Austen and the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice:
Clueless remains the best Austen adaptation ever. The most recent Pride and Prejudice film I thought was quite sappy because they tried to make it into Wuthering Heights. They missed that what attracts us to Austen is precisely the ways in which she’s not Charlotte or Emily Brontë. And yet they had lots of scenes of stormy weather and moors that just don’t work with the novel. (Jenny Hall)The Asheville Citizen-Times talks about winter in literature:
In Charlotte Brontë’s novel “Jane Eyre” (1847) she captures the gloom of rural England in winter in a style that matches her main character’s psychological state just before the first encounter with Mr. Rochester:The Atlantic has an article about the Monty Python following the publication of Monty Python's Flying Circus: Complete and Annotated... All the Bits, edited by Luke Dempsey:
“The ground was hard, the air was still ... the charm of the hour lay in its approaching dimness, in the low-gliding and pale-beaming sun. I was a mile from Thornfield, in a lane noted for wild roses in summer ... and even now possessing a few coral treasures in hips and haws, but whose best winter delight lay in its utter solitude and leafless repose. If a breath of air stirred, it made no sound here.” (George Ellison)
Consider Python’s semaphore version of Wuthering Heights. It wasn’t just that the Pythons had the wit to dream up the idea. They also, crucially, had the comic sense not to attenuate it by stretching it over the rack of a four-minute sketch. They took two minutes to harvest its richest possibilities—Heathcliff and Catherine wave flags at each other across a moor, with explanatory subtitles; Catherine’s husband confronts her, flagging irately; a baby cries by sticking two tiny flags out of its cradle—and then they moved on. (David Free)We even find a Brontë reference in the New York Times review of On Extinction. How We Became Estranged from Nature by Melanie Challenger:
The Anglophobe who wearies of reading the more descriptive pastoral passages of Hardy or the Brontës, with their gorse and fens, might be well advised to concentrate on the book’s more interesting midsection, the journeys that take Challenger along with the British Antarctic Survey to South Georgia Island and the Falklands and then, later, her own improvised trip to the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut in Arctic Canada. (Paul Greenberg)Le Télégramme (France) describes like this the latest collection by fashion designer Christophe Josse:
Un défilé où l'on feuillette les époques avec élégance, comme avec cette robe noire fermée « Hauts de Hurlevent », sobrement mais somptueusement travaillée, c'est cela la haute couture. (Claudine Lanchec) (Translation)And a mention in La Jornada (México):
Cierto, hay quien realiza su travesía encerrado entre cuatro muros: Cumbres borrascosas fue creada por Emily Brontë, de carácter solitario y salvaje, a pesar de una muy breve y dolorosa estancia en Bruselas. (Vilma Fuentes) (Translation)La Nación (Argentina) talks about a selection of movies about men characters written by women which will be aired on Canal(á) and presented by Silvia Hopenhayn, one of the movies will be Wuthering Heights but we don't know which version; Mittelhesen (Germany) and The Times mention the Charlotte Brontë criticism on Jane Austen; Keighley News reports the latest meeting of the Brontë Country Tourism Partnership:
“Susan Briggs, from the Tourism Network, spoke to us about what our area may look like from a distance,” she said. “When you live in the village, you can get so focused on what you’re doing it’s almost like you’re in a bubble.Cat's Thoughts reviews I.J.Miller's Wuthering Nights; Der Goldene Buchrücken (in German) posts about Agnes Grey; Storyteller, La Comunidad de la Ciencia, I don't understand why I sleep all day (both in Spanish), Affogando in un libro (in Italian) and Romance n'Alma (in Portuguese) review Wuthering Heights; Dinosauruksen ehtoojupinat (in Finnish) posts about Shirley; skip to my lou talks about Jane Eyre; Dawn Zulueta World reviews Hihintayin Kita sa Langit 1991; some pictures of Ponden Hall under the snow on the Parsonage's Twitter and Facebook.
“It was interesting to hear from someone who is an expert in her industry – Susan had a lot of interesting things to say.”
Mrs Barker said distinctiveness was about highlighting more than the obvious Brontë connections. She pointed to the village’s vintage theme – apparent in the 1940s weekend celebrations – open mic nights, quality locally produced beer and the area’s popularity with cyclists.
The Duchess of Cambridge is suffering the same pregnancy-related illness that most likely claimed the life of Haworth author Charlotte Brontë.The Sydney Morning Herald also pauses to look at Charlotte's case:
But vastly improved medical techniques mean Kate Middleton’s condition is unlikely to end in the same tragic circumstances as the writer of Jane Eyre, who died in 1855 aged 38. [...]
Ann Dinsdale, of Haworth’s Brontë Parsonage Museum, said: “It was generally accepted Charlotte died of Hyperemesis Gravidarum in the early stages of her pregnancy.
“There was nothing that could be done for her then. Today people get good care, but back then there just wasn’t that care. Treatment wasn’t possible.
“There are a few really expressive pencilled notes she wrote in that period that make it clear she suffered terribly.
“People who suffer today have drips attached and get through it fine, but what happened to Charlotte Brontë really highlights the fact that this can be a very serious condition without the right care.”
The English novelist Charlotte Brontë died an awful death in 1855. Faint, exhausted and a slave to incessant nausea and vomiting for months, the fragile writer was unable to stomach food and water despite wearily trying to summon strength.Many more news outlets continue just mentioning Charlotte such as Businessweek, Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, the Sunderland Echo...
Dehydrated and delirious, with no medicine to save her, Bronte died while four months' pregnant from the effects of an illness now suffered by Kate Middleton and still inflicting misery on pregnant women - hyperemesis gravidarum, excessive, persistent vomiting and nausea that can linger for an entire pregnancy.
''A wren would have starved on what she ate during those last six weeks,'' a friend of Brontë's is reported to have said. (Linda McSweeny)
Autour de Hurlevent, la lande. Une vague immense verte un instant, et bleue l'instant suivant. Comme le ciel d'avant la neige, ou comme cette chambre crépie, dans la toute première scène, où Heathcliff heurte contre les murs encore et encore une immense douleur dont nous ignorons la cause.From Libération:
Le bleu est la couleur Brontë par excellence. Dans l'adaptation de Jane Eyre sortie il y a quelques mois, Cary Fukunaga le grisait, glissant à sa palette la poussière d'un vieux manoir au crépuscule, et les pierres immenses du pensionnat. Pour Andrea Arnold, le bleu Brontë est vif comme celui de l'océan, tranchant comme la glace, sauvage, intensément, comme les jeunes héros à l'image desquels, plan après plan, son film se modèle. Il donne à tous les verts de la lande des brillances d'émeraude, aux cheveux de Catherine celles de l'ébène. Il met une fièvre à tous les yeux.
Adaptant le célèbre roman d'Emily Brontë avec une fidélité et une intelligence du texte rares, cette version des Hauts de Hurlevent est aussi éblouissante par sa beauté plastique que glaçante par ses silences et ce qu'ils suggèrent.
A l'oeil, c'est un tissage merveilleux de gros plans et de grands ensembles, la lande avec les enfants qui l'arpentent, la main avec le cheval qu'elle caresse, toute chose devenue fragment d'une même matière hybride, difficile à saisir, rétive à toute fixité. A l'oreille, rien d'aussi spectaculaire. Pas une note de musique jusqu'à la dernière scène : quelques phrases emportées dans le sillage du vent, le bruit des coups, l'écho de mille brutalités dont les mots ne sauraient que faire.
Dans cette conjonction risquée d'une image luxuriante avec la plus grande âpreté sonore, Andrea Arnold trouve un équilibre aussi fragile que fascinant, et des grâces hypnotisantes. Tout travaillé qu'il soit, son film ne semble l'être que pour recréer à rebours une rudesse de coeur que bien peu ont su lire entre les lignes tourmentées d'Emily Brontë. Comme les deux sauvageons de la lande, son film ne s'apprivoise pas : il se donne immédiatement, farouche, tout marbré de vertiges. Un travail d'exception pour une réussite incontestable, et une grande leçon de lecture. (Noémie Luciani) (Translation)
Le point de vue de Heathcliff domine le film et Heathcliff est dominé par le flot de sensations exacerbées qui s’imposent à lui. Battu, rejeté par les uns, dévoré d’amour par les autres, constamment tiraillé entre son intégration au groupe (au nom des valeurs de charité chrétienne) et sa solitude fondamentale de bête curieuse, on le voit errer aux limites de la folie, disparaître puis revenir, transformé, dégrossi, affûté par une passion qui ne fait plus la part entre son amour pour Cathy et son obsession vengeresse contre tous ceux qui lui ont fait du mal. (Didier Péron) (Translation)Le Figaro comments on t it from the point of view of adapting a good classic and looks at Anna Karenina as well and Ça dépend des jours reviews it too.
Le titre peut aussi rappeler certains romans du XIXe siècle, comme Jane Eyre, David Coperfield ou Eugénie Grandet... C'est amusant que vous me parliez d'Eugénie Grandet car c'est le roman qui m'a accompagné pendant la rédaction de Furie, il y a quelques années... Vous me comparez à Balzac ? Je n'ai décidément pas perdu ma journée ! [rires] D'autant que le pseudonyme que j'ai choisi est un clin d'oeil à deux écrivains qui me sont chers : Joseph Conrad et Anton Tchekhov. (Baptiste Liger) (Translation)The Huffington Post lists several 'Bad Reviews Of Great Authors', including Wuthering Heights:
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily BrontëNouse mentions the novel in an article about Romanticism.
"There is not in the entire dramatis persona, a single character which is not utterly hateful or thoroughly contemptible."
- Atlas, 1848
This cult of the individual was also cultivated by Lord Byron, through his controversial Byronic hero: the solitary, alluringly mysterious male figure striding through the mists, defied sense and reason in his supernatural qualities, and highlighted society’s fear of the unknown through his exoticism, sex appeal, and by bringing to light the subversive depths of the human unconscious. This exploration of the supernatural, as a rejection of the Enlightenment values of reason and empiricism, was emphasized in works such as Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, and in Francisco Goya’s paintings exploring the outer-regions of the imagination. (Jordan Licht)The journalist who wrote this Press and Journal article is not quite so knowledgeable about the novel, though.
Emily Brontë has a lot to answer for. The romance of her classic gothic novel Wuthering Heights, with its secluded farmhouse and mysterious Yorkshire moorland setting, has lured many a property seeker to a lifestyle in the far-flung coastal regions of this fair isle. [...]Close enough indeed.
“The scale of the house alone makes it big enough to have everyone round for Christmas.”
A property just ready to welcome the patter of tiny feet and the regular peal of laughter from friends and family.
Not very Wuthering Heights, then, but close enough.
Those who prefer the classics might think of Mr Rochester, the hero of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre, who is described as having ‘broad and jetty’ eyebrows, a ‘square’ forehead and ‘decisive nose’.Fortunately we have a couple of Brontëites to the rescue. The Independent on the Imagine: Jeanette Winterson – My Monster and Me:
He seemed like governess Jane Eyre’s perfect man until their wedding day - when she discovered he already had a wife hidden away in his attic. (Fiona MacRae)
A young, clever, troubled girl finds solace from an oppressive mother in the local library, where she begins to read through the fiction stock in alphabetical order. Which end of the alphabet would you suggest she started at for maximum consolation? In this (though in almost nothing else), the young Jeanette Winterson took the conventional route, beginning at A.And Dave Astor interviewed by Baristanet:
According to Alan Yentob in his Imagine film about her, she'd reached the letter M by the time she was 16, and was being thrown out of her home for a love affair with another girl. Which meant that she'd passed Austen and Eliot and the Brontës, and so had a perfect literary model for her vigils on a nearby hilltop, where she could stand windswept and dream of somewhere beyond Accrington. "Of course, I felt like Heathcliff," she said as she revisited the spot. What if she'd got to Virginia Woolf a little earlier though, and the seductive transgression of Orlando and of Woolf herself? (Tom Sutcliffe)
You wrote about “comic strips” for many years for Editor & Publisher magazine; what are some of your favorites? And how about favorite columnists and authors? “Doonesbury” and the now-retired “The Far Side” are my two favorite comics; I miss the latter a lot. As for columnists, I found Heloise (who wrote my book’s preface) and “Dear Abby” writer Abigail Van Buren to be very, very nice people. My favorite op-ed columnist might be Connie Schultz, whose writing reflects her working-class/lower-middle-class upbringing — the same family background I have (despite my misleading last name!). My favorite living authors are Margaret Atwood and Barbara Kingsolver. Among the past authors I love are Charlotte Brontë, John Steinbeck, Herman Melville, Emile Zola, and Edith Wharton – even though none of them came to this year’s ice cream social at Bradford School. (Kristin Wald)The Keighley News reports that
Haworth Band is to feature on the popular BBC programme Countryfile.Hathaways of Haworth looks at the clothes Cathy Earnshaw would have worn. Las lecturas de Ana writes about the novel in Spanish. Ryan's Bookcase posts about The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in Hungarian. She-wolf Reads reviews Tina Connolly's Ironskin.
A film crew was due to record the brass band performing at the Brontë Parsonage Museum at dusk yesterday.
They performed the Chorale Prelude Deep Harmony, composed by a former conductor of the band, Handel Parker.
The filming was for a regular segment in Countryfile that shows the influence of the landscape of a particular area on writers, composers and artists.
The crew also interviewed local composer Arthur Butterworth and filmed artist Ashley Jackson at Top Withens, the reputed setting for Wuthering Heights. The episode is planned to be broadcast on December 30.
As the drama unfolds, Dyer describes how TB ravaged Europe’s working class during the industrial revolution. More personal accounts from the Romantic Age are especially interesting. She tells us how 6 siblings of the famed literary Brontë family died of TB. (Rachel Albalak)
Tuberculosis (Biographies of Disease)Categories: Books, Charlotte Brontë, Scholar
Carol A. Dyer
Greenwood Press, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 2010
ISBN-10: 031337211X
ISBN-13: 978-0313372117
Pages: 146; Price: US $45.00
Tuberculosis is a complicated medical condition that has a rich and important history, a distinctive social context, and an active and destructive present. The disease appears in Greek literature as early as 460 BCE and was a favorite of 19th-century novelists whose heroines often succumbed to “consumption.” Through history, the development of TB diagnosis and treatment has been synonymous with events in the development of medicine.
Tuberculosis presents TB from the perspective of the people and events that shaped its past and the factors that influence its current global state. The book begins with an essay discussing the importance of the social factors that influence the transmission and progression of TB. The following eight chapters focus on disease-specific information, historical and biographical perspectives, influence on the arts, the current state of TB in the world, and future directions. Throughout, medical information about the disease is intertwined with a historical and cultural perspective to illustrate the state of the disease today.
The death of Charlotte Brontë from hyperemesis gravidarum and refeeding syndrome: A new perspective
Simon P. Allison, Dileep N. Lobo
Clinical Nutrition
Available online 10 February 2019
Many theories have been advanced concerning the cause of Charlotte Brontë's death, none of which fully explain all the symptoms she experienced in the course of her final illness. Her death certificate records the cause of death as phthisis (tuberculosis), but there is no evidence, other than circumstantial, to support this diagnosis. A diagnosis of Addison's disease, caused by tuberculosis of the adrenals, has been proposed, but this is unlikely, since it does not fit well with two and a half months of severe anorexia, nausea and vomiting, followed by remission of these symptoms and eventual death. We agree, as suggested by some authors, that the most likely diagnosis was hyperemesis gravidarum, but suggest that this was complicated by the refeeding syndrome consequent on recovery of her appetite after resolution of hyperemesis gravidarum and that this was the cause of her death. These two diagnoses are compatible with the remission in her symptoms of anorexia, nausea and vomiting in the third week of March 1855, followed by further decline and death.
Votary, vixen and vulgarian: German governesses and English domesticity in novels by Charlotte Yonge, Charlotte Brontë and Mary Braddon
Susan N. Bayley
Journal
Cultural and Social History
Published online: 04 Feb 2019
Among the most amusing vignettes in Victorian novels are German governesses created by Charlotte Yonge, Charlotte Brontë and Mary Braddon. Fräulein Ohnglaube is a votary who believes in ghosts. Fräulein Müller is a vixen with a secret ambition, and Fräulein Braun is a vulgarian who scoffs two breakfasts of beef and beer. All are depicted as potential threats to the values and norms of the English ‘cult’ of domesticity.This paper argues that these authors wished to preserve and celebrate "pure" English domesticity . Their negative representations of German governesses reveal how thoroughly English and anti-cosmopolitan were their conceptualisations of domestic life.
The Brontës
Born in Thornton, Emily, Charlotte and Anne, the 19th-century literary family, are also associated with the village of Haworth, with both places now popular tourist spots.
The sisters are well known as poets and novelists, with their classics including Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre still as popular today.
Their brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, was an English painter and writer who died aged 31 in 1848. (Mark Stanford)
“A wren would have starved on what she ate during those last six weeks,” records the contemporary biographer of Charlotte Brontë, author of the 1847 novel Jane Eyre. (SP Allison and Lobo, 2020; Weiss, 1991).
Though Brontë’s death certificate indicated she had phthisis (tuberculosis) and several of her siblings had died of TB, there was no indication she herself had the disease. Instead, though not all sources agree (Maynard, 1983), many believe that Brontë, newly and happily married, was indeed pregnant and was suffering from the pernicious vomiting of pregnancy, i.e., hyperemesis gravidarum. Ultimately Brontë died from her illness, just weeks shy of her 39th birthday. She had been married only nine months. (...)
Further, increased circulating levels of GDF15 are seen in women whose nausea and vomiting continue during the second trimester: GDF15 has been implicated in the development of the pernicious vomiting of pregnancy, i.e., hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) (Petry et al., 2018), the disease from which Charlotte Brontë is thought to have suffered and died. (Sylvia R. Karasu M.D.)
You’ll soon discover that a lot in Haworth is ‘Old’ and full of history, as this is where the Brontë family once lived and wrote the books that would place this moorland village on the map.
If you have time, take a look around the Brontë parsonage - their old home - or the atmospheric church and graveyard where some are buried, and the Black Bull pub, which Branwell would drink in. (Chris Pickles)
Set to premiere on GMA Network this evening after "Saksi" is his highly anticipated teleserye comeback titled, "The World Between Us" (TWBS). (...)
Inspired by the literary cult classic, "Wuthering Heights," by Emily Brontë, a stellar cast joins Richards in what he declares would likely become his "best teleserye in the last five years." (Tessa Mauricio-Arriola)
Later as I grew up, I got introduced to the pleasures of Wodehouse, Perry Mason, Agatha Christie, the plays of Shakespeare, and the story telling of Tagore and Rider Haggard. The racy novels of Alistair Maclean, Frederick Forsyth, James Hadley Chase and the like would, in later years, be complemented by the likes of Dostoevsky, Leon Uris and even what may be considered in today’s times as the “slow-moving” Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë or Arthur Conan Doyle. (Ashok Warrier)
Author Karen Perkins will be signing copies of her book – Parliament of Rooks: Haunting Brontë Country – in Haworth next Saturday (July 10).
She will be at Wave of Nostalgia, in Main Street, from 2pm.
“This is a book full of suspense and chills set in historical Haworth and on the Brontë moors and it features Emily herself – just the kind of novel we love in my bookshop!” said Diane Park, owner of Wave of Nostalgia. (Alistair Shand)
Long before the Wild Atlantic Way found sway, the resort community started its tourism journey 200 years ago, in 1820, when a ferry from Limerick to Kilrush put Kilkee on a visitors’ map and holiday horizon, drawing appreciative visitors for bathing and beauty from all over Ireland and Britain, including Charlotte Bronte, who chose to honeymoon here. (Tommy Barker)
Kate Kellaway: There are questions of domination in many of your paintings. The question about who is mastering – or mistressing – whom feels particularly key in Snare (1987) and some of the Jane Eyre pieces. How far do you see relationships as a power struggle?
P.R.::It’s part of it. Some people can feel more dominant than others, but a maid can have power over her mistress. The meekest person can manipulate.
Your favourite literary character?
It’s a toss-up between Hans Castorp from The Magic Mountain, if you like your literary lads idealistic, thirsty, self-centred and daft, and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights, who gets all the best lines like the devil he is. He’s no romantic hero, but God, is he fun.
As for books written by women, Ní Dhuibhne remembers only Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson and the Brontës (who, as Mary Rose Callaghan observes wryly, ‘had been obliged to pretend they were men’). It was at UCD that it dawned on Máiríde Woods that ‘being a woman might be a disadvantage – brilliance seeming male-slanted’. (Paula McGrath)
Anne loves to read whenever she can get the chance, and one of her favorite books is Jane Eyre. She read the gothic novel in the orphanage and frequently quotes the governess's wise thoughts.Jane Eyre goes to work at a mansion owned by Edward Rochester, a mysterious and wealthy man. Jane falls in love with him, but everything changes when she discovers that he has a dark secret. (Oliver moure)
William Butterfield’s Grade 1-listed All Saints in Margaret Street is a Gothic masterpiece. The architecture critic Ian Nairn said it can only be understood in terms of overwhelming passion: “Here is the force of Wuthering Heights translated into dusky red and black bricks, put down in a mundane Marylebone street to rivet you, pluck you into the courtyard with its harsh welcoming wings and quivering steeple”. (Victor Keegan)
BuzzFeed as a historical figures quiz that includes (but not includes) Charlotte Brontë. La Opinión de Murcia (Spain) reminds us that the Brontës used a pseudonym.
Before the advent of intravenous rehydration, an appreciable number of women with HG died. The most famous casualty until now: author Charlotte Brontë who died in 1855, four months pregnant after severe HG left her unable to take on food or water. (Rob Brooks on HealthCanal).
It is also believed that novelist Charlotte Brontë died from the condition at Haworth Parsonage, in the days before medical advances. (Lancashire Telegraph)
Some believe that Charlotte Brontë, who wrote Jane Eyre under the (m)alias of “Currer Bell,” died from complications related to HG, and not from from tuberculosis as was thought at the time. There’s also speculation that it may have been typhus, but if you know anything about the symptoms of either then you know everything you need to about the suffering HG has the potential to cause. (Evan Derkacz on The Frisky)
The duchess’s rare, severe form of sickness has ties to literary history. English writer Charlotte Brontë, author of the Victorian novel "Jane Eyre," died in 1855 from what is thought to have been hyperemesis gravidarum. (Bloomberg News)And more mentions in The Huffington Post, Health Examiner or Parade.
Aride comme la lande du North Yorkshire où a été tourné le film, la narration est limitée aux sensations éprouvées par le renégat, son rapport à la Nature hostile puis à celle des hommes. Si l'on comprend l'aspect théorique du projet - impressionnant travail sur le son, passionnante composition des plans et des motifs -, la froideur qui s'en dégage coupe l'empathie qui pourrait se dégager de l'histoire d'Heathcliff. (Yannick Vely on ParisMatch) (Translation)
Plus difficile ce sera pour Heathcliff et Cathy dans la nouvelle et superbe version des Hauts de Hurlevent, telle que la cinéaste britannique Andrea Arnold l'a imaginée. (Philippe Lagouche in La Voix du Nord) (Translation)
Malheureusement, la réalisatrice s’enlise dans cette ambiance épaisse, entraînant le spectateur avec elle. Au choc des premières images, succède une molle lassitude : à trop vouloir nous asséner la brutalité du quotidien de ces riches paysans si peu enclins à confier leurs sentiments, leurs inquiétudes et leurs joies (il y en a tout de même quelques-unes), Andrea Arnold transforme sa fiction en démonstration. (Emmanuelle Giuliani in La Croix) (Translation)
Sans arme lorsque la cinéaste s'approche trop d'elle, la lande apparaît monstrueuse dès qu'on lui jette en pâture les deux jeunes gens. Andrea Arnold met en images le romantisme littéraire du XIXe en filmant le paysage où est née Emilie Brontë ; celui-là même qui a mystérieusement poussé ses deux sœurs et son frère à écrire également. La lande autour de la maison Brontë, cette lande qui habitait si violemment déjà Les Sœurs Brontë (1979) d’André Techiné, la cinéaste anglaise la rend témoin et responsable de l’amour maudit de Catherine et Heathcliff. La caméra à l’épaule ne cesse de bouger, les mises au point se font approximatives et de faux raccords en faux raccords, la fuite éperdue des deux jeunes gens semble ne pouvoir se terminer ailleurs que dans l’impasse du décor. Andrea Arnold construit son film pour qu’une fois terminé il n’en reste que le souvenir romantique d’une terre désertique et celui d’un des films les plus terrifiants de l’année. (Fabien Aloin in Il Était une Fois le Cinéma) (Translation)
Si elle n’a pas toujours la main légère sur le symbolisme et les allégories animales, Arnold sait conférer à son premier film d’époque une texture ultra-sensitive : attentive aux humeurs des saisons comme au bruissement des étoffes et aux variations du spectre lumineux, la cinéaste ancre ses personnages dans un théâtre naturel à la beauté sauvage et saisissante, sans se laisser aller à la pure contemplation. (Eric Vernay on Cinéma Teaser) (Translation)
A travers une mise en scène radicale et des interprètes extrêmes dans leurs sentiments (ou ressentiments), Andrea Arnold rappelle que les écrits d'Emily Brontë n'étaient pas que romanesques, mais également brutaux et sans concession. Un mythe dépoussiéré. (Christophe Carrière in Marie Claire) (Translation)L'Express which already published a favourable review insists on providing more reasons to see Andrea Arnold's adaptation:
La réalisatrice britannique de Red road et Fish tank, tous deux primés à Cannes, adapte pour son troisième long métrage le célèbre roman d'Emily Brontë. Et elle signe l'un des films les plus impressionnants de cette année 2012. Voici pourquoi. (Thierry Chèze) (Translation)More articles on Suite101 and Cinemovies.
Malta is just about perfect: the sea/land/skyscape you’ve seen in films – think Gladiator, Casino Royale, Wuthering Heights, Da Vinci Code, David Copperfield – and Robin Williams’ Popeye, with the set of the village now a tourist attraction. (Paul Edwards)A Wuthering Heights shot in Malta?
One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in Wuthering Heights. I like the classics. (David Gordon)The Northern Rivers Echo reviews (almost by mistake) Laura Moriarty's The Chaperone:
I must admit that I picked this book up under a misapprehension. I had wanted to read something from the Australian Moriartys - Jaclyn, Liane and Nicola - who are like our version of the Brontë sisters. Laura Moriarty, however, is an American author.Chloe Hooper's The Engagement is discussed on Crikey:
From the opening scenes of The Engagement, there’s an atmosphere that drenches the pages with a subtle, simmering sense of dread. Filling her mis-en-scene with gothic tropes that recall the gloomy romance of classics like Rebecca and Jane Eyre, acclaimed Australian writer Chloe Hooper draws us into a tense, brilliantly crafted story that grapples with the tangled threads of power and desire. (Rebecca Howden)The director Guillermo Del Toro discusses his next film on his own website DelToroFilms:
[Crimson Peak] is not Hell House at all. Nothing could be further from that. [Crimson Peak] is a spec script Matthew and I wrote right after Pan's Labyrinth. It stayed mostly under the radar but I have been pushing it quietly. Universal has been very supportive and wanted to do it. It's set at the turn of the century and it is a Gothic romance with ghosts. When I use the [Gothic Romance] term I use it not in the Barbara Cartland model but rather in a Brontë fashion. Dark and stormy and wind-swept.EDIT: IndieWire's The Playlist calls Crimson Peak, a Brontë-esque Gothic Romance.
My mom never checked up on my reading, probably because she thought she already knew what I liked — Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights. I don't know if she would have objected to Lois Duncan — after all, her books were shelved in Young Adult — but to me, Duncan's books felt subversive, and none more so than my personal favorite, Daughters of Eve.Probably when Stevie Nicks thinks of Gothic Romance she is more on the Barbara Cartland's side of things according to this article on GigWise:
Nicks has spoken about being a Twilight fan before, comparing it to Jane Eyre and even saying that the New Moon film inspired her latest record, In Your Dreams. (Grace Carroll)Brentwood Gazette interviews the comic duo Frisky and Mannish:
What's your favourite song to perform?A young writer and Brontëite on Booktrade; Justin Ponter has sent us this curious, surrealistic collage posted on I Am Not Like You about last summer's Lynda La Plante vs Charlotte Brontë; efe eme remembers an anecdote of the first days of Kate Bush's career; Book Vampire reviews Villette; Brook Cottage Books and The Moody Standard post about Jane Eyre; Hoerspiele-Konstenlos (in German) posts about Wuthering Heights; Meu closet, meu jardim (in Portuguese) and Jori's Reads talk about Jane Eyre 2011.
"The one that audiences ask for is actually our version of Wuthering Heights, as though it were sung by Kate Nash. It was huge on YouTube.
It is the same condition that historians believe killed Charlotte Brontë. The difference between Kate and Charlotte is that the former has access to the very best care modern medicine can offer while the latter lived at a time when entire families were wiped out by TB and women frequently died in childbirth. (Hilarie Stelfox in The Huddersfield Daily Examiner)
English novelist and "Jane Eyre" scribe Charlotte Brontë officially died of tuberculosis in 1855, but some biographers have speculated that the then-pregnant author actually perished from hunger and dehydration caused by severe vomiting and nausea.
A family friend remarked after Brontë's death that “a wren would have starved on what she ate during those last six weeks,” according to Brontë contemporary Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. (Roxanne Palmer in International Business Times)
The duchess's rare, severe form of sickness has ties to literary history. English writer Charlotte Brontë, author of the Victorian novel Jane Eyre, died in 1855 from what is thought to have been hyperemesis gravidarum. (Jason Gale and Meg Tirrell in Winnipeg Free Press)Detroit Free Press recommends some gifts:
It's never too soon to start the kids on the classics. In this case, it's "Jane Eyre: A BabyLit Counting Primer" (Gibbs Smith, $9.99). The board book starts with one governess, two trunks, three candles -- and Mommy has a crush on the dashing, but misunderstood Mr. Rochester. Other tales in the series include "Pride and Prejudice," "Moby Dick" and "Romeo and Juliet."The Boston Globe has an alert for tomorrow, December 10:
Decades ago, as Margot Livesey read over her early attempt at a novel, she realized that her ardent reading of great writers was little in evidence. Questions about literary inspiration were on her mind again as she wrote her seventh novel, “The Flight of Gemma Hardy” (Harper), a reimagining of “Jane Eyre” in 1960s Scotland. Livesey, a Radcliffe Institute fellow this year, will discuss what can be gained and lost by drawing on the works of others in “Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be: Homage, Appropriation, and Influence” at 4 p.m. Dec. 10 in the Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden St., Cambridge. Past Radcliffe Institute fellow Claire Messud, who has a new novel coming out in the spring, will introduce her. (Jan Gardner)Also in the Boston Globe we find a visit to Emily Dickinson's homestead in Amherst:
The library, with its wood-paneled fireplace and rug woven in soft-colored wools, reflects the family’s love of reading. The museum is undertaking to replenish its shelves with the 3,000 editions of books the Dickinsons owned (most of the originals being at Harvard’s Houghton Library). Among Emily’s favorite volumes — what she called “the strongest friends of the soul” — were Shakespeare, the Bible, the Brownings, and the Brontës. (Diane Speane Triant)El Litoral (Argentina) explores childhood in Victorian novels, among them Jane Eyre:
En Jane Eyre la protagonista comienza narrando las relaciones tensas con sus parientes más cercanos que la han adoptado. La joven Jane es huérfana y por eso vive en casa de su tía, la señora Reed, junto a sus altaneros primos. Las discordias hacen que la protagonista sea enviada a la institución Lowood. La narración de la tétrica vida en ese sombrío sitio permite que la imaginación de Brontë llegue a una sublime escritura (en donde se logra una perfecta armonía entre lo sentimental y lo oscuro; una composición característica del romanticismo), sólo igualada en la grotesca escena donde aparece la enloquecida y salvaje esposa de Rochester. (Fabricio Welschen) (Translation)Ronna Benjamin suffered from Gumption Trap when she tried to read Wuthering Heights in high school. In The Huffington Post:
It's why you never started Wuthering Heights in high school and read the Cliff Notes the night before the test. It's the mindset that prevents you from ever starting that wonderful business idea.The St Louis Post-Dispatch salutes the reopening of the Saint Louis Central Library after its restoration and remembers that some old things have been kept like:
The exterior of the building is highly decorated with carvings, including the shields and names of printers and quotations and names of illustrious authors, such as Goethe, Milton and the Brontës. One, from Thomas Carlyle, says: “In books lies the soul of the whole past time: The articulate audible voice of the past.” (Jane Henderson)The Sacramento Bee recommends a visit to the The Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party in Daly City:
But it's not just Dickens devotees; it's readers enamored by the Brontës, Thackeray and Trollope, too. And it's also for people whose only reference point for the era is a yearly dose of Scrooge and Marley's Ghost. (Sam McManis)The director of the Sacramento Public Library recommends Jane Eyre in the same newspaper:
"I've read 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë at least 40 times. Jane is one of the truest and bravest characters in literature. The story is a metaphor for life." (Rivkah Sass, compiled by Allen Pierleoni)A Blytheville Courier News journalist and an assistant professor in Las Cruces Sun-News, both Brontëites; Bookshelves of Doom, Soñadora Excéntrica (in Spanish) and That Small Reading Addiction review April Lindner's Jane; Obsession with Books interviews Aviva Orr, author of the upcoming The Mist on Brontë Moor; Postcards from Purgatory has read Jane Eyre.
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