And when he set out to write a love song for his eventual wife Regine, a German immigrant who was married to another when she began dating Olney, what came forth was "Millionaire."Sarah Paretsky, in The Independent, vindicates George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss as a great story of siblings. A Brontë reference slips in:
At first blush, it seems impossible to imagine the song as a romantic overture. But Regine's favorite book at the time was Wuthering Heights. To impress her, Olney wrote what is essentially a missing chapter that supposes how Heathcliff might have accumulated his wealth before returning as the novel's antihero. The tactic proved effective. The pair married 27 years ago and have two grown children.
After ghost-writing Emily Brontë, what remained but the ultimate Nashville mission impossible: a co-write with Shakespeare. (Skip Anderson)
The sibling bond isn’t written about often in English or American fiction. We’re more engaged by the loner hero, by Pip or Huck Finn’s voyage of self-discovery. Even the heroes of the close-knit Brontë sisters are for the most part women on their own.Another vindication comes from The Huffington Post. The subject now is Kate Bush:
Much of her oeuvre defies definition but through her work, one could discover what it means to be human. Who else had the ability for such diverse narrative viewpoints in their songs, and with such astonishing aplomb? She was a mix of Brontë, Keats, Kubrick and Mozart rolled into one; a musical auteur in an industry of vapid puppets and one-dimensional mundanity. (Robert Ince)And The Herald more or less agrees with that:
If untutored, you might only recall something about Kate's high notes, along with images of a lassie in a long white dress warbling aboot yon Heathcliff out of Wuthering Heights.Yahoo Movies quotes Chloë Grace Moretz saying:
Fair enough. It's what set her, in 1978 at the tender age of 19, on the road to stardom. But it also set her on the path to creative freedom and an extraordinary body of work that means such a lot to so many people. (Robert McNeil)
So, what are Moretz’s favorite teen love stories? “Wuthering Heights,” she said without blinking. “I’m super dramatic — when I was younger, especially. I kind of love the tragedy of it and the drama.” (Meriah Doty)Nora Roberts's Inn BoonsBoro features once again in the news. We read in The Baltimore Sun:
On the other side of the state, the Inn BoonsBoro in Western Maryland is owned by best-selling author Nora Roberts, who undertook a restoration of the historic building. Many of the inn's eight graciously appointed rooms and suites bear the names of literary lovers. Think Elizabeth and Darcy from "Pride and Prejudice," Jane and Rochester from "Jane Eyre," as well as Shakespeare's Titania and Oberon from "A Midsummer Night's Dream." (Donna M. Owens)Carolyn on Autostraddle seems to have liked Texts from Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg
I got an advanced copy of Texts From Jane Eyre and at one point laughed so enthusiastically that I sustained bruises.Keighley News publishes the monthly Brontë Society activities article by Hermione Williams:
Throughout August we have enjoyed a busy summer programme. There have been craft workshops where children have created miniature moorland gardens and felt landscapes.Der Spiegel (Germany) reviews Jane, le Renard et Moi :
We have also been holding talks about aspects of the Brontës’ lives and took walks onto Penistone Hill. The visitors were thrilled to see the landscape which inspired the famous Brontë novels, and to have an opportunity to walk in the sisters’ footsteps.
Wer würde schon die ehrwürdige literarische Figur "Jane Eyre" mit Mobbing in Verbindung bringen? Nicht unbedingt jeder. Und doch macht die Autorin Fanny Britt in ihrer zauberhaften Graphic Novel "Jane, der Fuchs und ich" genau das. Ihre Protagonistin Hélène entdeckt als begeisterte Leserin den Klassiker der viktorianischen Romanliteratur und findet dort Trost. Sie steht nämlich seit kurzem auf der einsamen Seite ihrer Schulklasse. Die Mädchen, die einst ihre Freundinnen waren, kichern jetzt hinter ihrem Rücken und schreiben fiese Sprüche über sie an die Klowände. (...)Another review can be found on An Education in Books Blog.
In der Bücherwelt findet sie Trost und Schutz, ausgerechnet die leicht angestaubte Jane Eyre wird zur ihrer einzigen Verbündeten im täglichen Spießrutenlauf durchs Klassenzimmer. In ihr entdeckt Hélène ein Vorbild für den Umgang mit aussichtslosen Situation. Es sind die einzigen Farbausflüge, die Arsenault den Lesern in den vorherrschenden Grau- und Brauntönen des Buches gönnt, oft Naturskizzen oder Auszüge aus "Jane Eyre" in Hélènes Worten nacherzählt.
In der gebeutelten Jugend der Romanheldin erkennt sich Hélène wieder. Aber auch Charlotte Brontës feministische Ikone ist auf Dauer kein Ersatz für echte Freundinnen. In kleinen, feinen Sätzen wie diesem gelingt es Britt, die ganze Verzweiflung des gemobbten Mädchens unterzubringen: "Ich habe selbst eine blühende Fantasie, aber trotzdem bin ich immer wieder überrascht, wenn ihr eine neue Gemeinheit eingefallen ist." (Moritz Piehler) (Translation)
Books. "I love Wuthering Heights, The Bell Jar. I prefer paperback." (Gayle Jo Carter)
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I've Come Home Now echoes the dark power of Wuthering Heights as a man inside a castle embraces a woman through an open window. (Jim J. Tommaney)Indeed. On the artist's Facebook we can see the painting (on the right) with the well known quote from Wuthering Heights: “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Their other big successes include a visually breathtaking Wuthering Heights set in Rajasthan, India and A Fine Balance based on Rohinton Mistry's novel about poverty and injustice in India, which got glowing reviews. (Yasmin Alibhai-Brown)Magic, Dragons and Other Fantastic Dreams interviews the author A.L. Butcher:
Which authors or books influenced your writing the most?Later in the interview she mentions Wuthering Heights as one of her favourite novels.
Oh gosh, as I’ve said I read a lot, in many genres so it would be hard to name them all. I suppose if I have to pull names out of hat –Alexandre Dumas, Gaston Leroux, Brontë sisters, Janet Morris, J.R.R. Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, David Gaidar, Ellis Peters, Richard Adams, Douglas Adams, E. A. Poe…. The list goes on.
The Sydney Morning Herald talks about the Judge a book, buy its cover initiative:[Jason] Benjamin is one of 25 artists to have contributed to an exhibition and silent auction, opening tomorrow, to benefit the Sydney Story Factory, a non-profit creative writing centre for children and teenagers.The list included Jane Eyre (number 11) and Wuthering Heights (number 10). The first one has been chosen by the artist Wendy Sharpe:
The idea was hatched by its volunteers and pursued by Catherine Keenan, a Fairfax journalist and the Story Factory's co-founder, who asked Sydney Morning Herald readers in August to nominate their favourite book. Inspired by the list, artists were asked to create new book covers or artwork. (Linda Morris)
Wendy Sharpe Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë. Oil on canvas, 25 x 20 cm (Picture source).32auctions interviews her:
When and where did you first read Jane Eyre?The Guardian's Film Blog talks about Wuthering Heights 2011's box office:
I first read 'Jane Eyre' when I was twelve, immediately loved it and did drawings of what I thought all the main characters looked like. There have been seventeen adaptations of Jane Eyre for television and film; what is it about the novel or Jane herself that continues to invite reinterpretation?
It is such a dramatic, exciting story and has so many great scenes. Though "poor and friendless”, Jane Eyre is a very strong, independent woman. I hate it when you see versions where she looks like a fashion model or Hollywood starlet. In this work I’ve attempted to depict the supernatural aspect of the novel.
Among holdover titles, Wuthering Heights saw another big drop, falling 62%. Director Andrea Arnold's previous picture Fish Tank reached £597,000, which looks an elusive target for the Brontë adaptation, currently at £447,000. (Charles Gant)Glamour Magazine publishes a twitterview with the actress Chloë Grace Moretz:
RT@Kimmiejamms Are you a bookworm like Isabelle & what's your fave book? #GlamChloeAnother Brontëite is the author Cathy Woodman, according to Novelicious:
My fave is Wuthering Heights. I love books! (...)
RT @jimdougan: If you could spend a day in the life of any film character, who would you choose? #GlamChloe
Scarlett O'Hara or Cathy from Wuthering Heights.
What is your favourite Women’s Fiction book of all time and why?California Literary Review posts a recap of the latest episode of House M.D., Perils of Paranoia (Season 8, Episode 8):
I adore Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, its story of passion, unrequited love and revenge acted out on the wild Yorkshire Moors. Although the ‘hero’, Heathcliff, is tragically flawed, I have fallen in love with him many times.
My parents chose my name from having read Wuthering Heights just before I was born.
I know I’m on controversial ground here, but if people read more Victorian literature, they’d be aware that mostly, before vaccines (and decent plumbing), people just died a lot, especially the children. Doesn’t anyone read Jane Eyre anymore? Or the novels of Mrs. Gaskell? (Holly Hunt)The costume drama cough, indeed.
The narrative's romanticization of a passionate, abusive (presumably pseudo-fictional) relationship takes off just like the sparklers in the clip, despite the corny narration and occasional overstyling. It bangs on the proper brain receptors like a council house Wuthering Heights. One last hit of Euro-techno euphoria just as the sun starts setting early for the winter over leafless trees. (Molly Lambert in Grantland)Melissa Kite in the Daily Mail doesn't like George Osborne's speeches but we think that she likes even less Wuthering Heights 2011:
It was more depressing than the new film version of Wuthering Heights which is two hours of wind howling and rain pelting on window panes as Cathy wails 'Eeeeeacliffe!'Niagara This Week announces that the Shaw Festival’s annual film series returning to Niagara-on-the-Lake will screen Jane Eyre 2011 next January 7; Simon Riley describes Jane Eyre 2011 as 'sublime' in The Playlist and Hollywood Chicago thinks that the film is underrated. Other reviews can be found on The Bagpiper Online, Filmtabs (in German) and chris watches movies. LadyLavinia 1932's Blog reviews Jane Eyre 1997 and The Gown posts about Wuthering Heights 2011. Becky's Book Reviews and livrespourvivre revisite/read Jane Eyre, the novel and Yours Beloved Wuthering Heights, the novel. One more entry at the Brontë Weather Project documents its progress.
The Woman Who Ran has echoes of classic Gothic fiction as Helen Graham arrives at an out-of-the-way Yorkshire village and rents the Brontë-ishly named Wildfell House. The place is a ruin, but then so is Helen’s life; her relationship with retired journalist Gil is no comfort, and there are things in her past that she will have to face up to. Questions of trust — and of simple survival — become very pressing ... Baker evokes the minatory setting with real panache and excels above all at orchestrating the steadily rising tension. (Barry Forshaw)The Reviews Hub posts about the new performances of Sally Cookson's Jane Eyre adaptation in Bristol:
After an incredible run at London’s National Theatre, Sally Cookson’s epic reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre returns to Bristol Old Vic as a single thrilling piece of drama.Keighley News celebrates that 2015 was a strong year for tourism in the region:
Unlike many screen adaptions that have portrayed Brontë’s novel as a romance, Cookson and the ensemble’s interpretation of the story does not focus solely on Jane’s love for Rochester; instead, the play is a platform for a strong female voice to challenge the constraints of class and gender.
Cookson’s adaption is as much about Jane’s psychological journey as it is her relationship with the brooding Rochester. The spirited heroine knows the boundaries that restrict her – both in terms of class and gender – are unjust and cruel. This production rejects any hint that this is a story about a “poor, obscure, plain, and little” literary character; this is a story of an individual with a brilliant mind who strives for personal freedom.
Even Bertha – often thought of as the silenced madwoman in the attic – is granted a voice; Melanie Marshall’s sung performance transforms Rochester’s imprisoned wife into a haunting songstress storyteller. Her renditions of Mad about the Boy and Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy are mesmerising. (...)
A must-see and fitting production to start Bristol Old Vic’s 250th birthday celebration, Jane Eyre is a compelling piece of theatre that intelligently finds new meanings to Brontë’s vivid descriptions. The adaption’s focus on the fight for personal freedom will surely resonate with many.
Numbers visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum at Haworth remained constant, at around 69,500, but the world-famous literary shrine saw a two per cent rise in income.The wonders of the Yorskhire Dales are explored by Jack Blanchard in The Mirror:
Attendances for educational activities such as talks and workshops were also about the same, but shop sales soared by 20 per cent.
The museum is anticipating an increase in visitors this year as it stages a series of events celebrating the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë's birth.
"We are delighted that numbers have remained steady and look forward to welcoming more people this year," said Rebecca Yorke, the museum's marketing and communications officer. (Alistair Shand)
Every leaf speaks bliss to me. So wrote Yorkshire’s most famous daughter Emily Brontë of autumn days in God’s Own County.Chlöe-Grace Moretz is a well-known Wuthering Heights fan. Now on Contact Music:
Standing atop a soaring peak in the Yorkshire Dales on a crisp November morning, you can see exactly what she meant.
Every way you look the hills explode with colour – deep reds, blazing yellows, rich oranges and shimmering golds.
Any lingering doubts about taking a trip to the great British countryside at this time of year are quickly blown away on the autumn breeze.
"I enjoy books that aren't really YA (young adult) in that sense," she says, "so when I read The 5th Wave it's a very un-YA YA book. It deals with bigger problems and bigger emotions than most YA books. My favourite novel in general is Wuthering Heights!" (Rich Cline)The Australian reviews the novel Cloudwish by Fiona Wood:
“Cloudwish” is also the ethereal meaning of Van Uoc’s name. Although a successful student and photographer, she prefers to be invisible at school and “the shape of not fitting in was almost comfortably familiar”. However her inner resolve and love of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre give her enough confidence to challenge injustice and constantly ask herself, “What would Jane do?” (Joy Lawn)Young readers of classic books in The Times of India:
Authors like Jane Austen, Brontë Sisters, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf have given readers of all ages a chance to understand the society of yore from women's point of view. Abhishek Mankar, a student of NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, who is hooked to Persuasion by Jane Austen these days, says, "I love reading classics which have strong women characters. Books like Sense and Sensibility and Jane Eyre take me back in time where women took tough decisions in matters related to family, society and career. It makes me understand their perspective." (Rishabh Deb)Bustle and a list of books with slow starts but worth reading:
Jane Eyre is (famously) full of death, romance, house fires, lies, crazy people living in attics — there's a lot of exciting stuff in there. It's just not in the beginning. The book starts out with sad baby Jane, a little orphan being raised by her cruel and uncaring relatives (sound familiar?). And then poor little Jane is packed off to an abusive boarding school (very different from Hogwarts), where her days are full of drudgery and hunger. It's a grim, slow-paced story to begin with, but as Jane begins to grow up, she becomes more and more self-reliant, and her story becomes far more interesting. (Charlotte Ahlin)We don't think that Jane Eyre is a particularly slow-starter, though.
Shine a mirror on the flaws of all women you meet, and torment them until they say, "I am Heathcliff!" Get Sir Laurence Olivier to play you in a movie. More than one. Be moody, cynical and defiant. No. Matter. What. (Doni Wilson)Luton Today presents a production of Matthew Bourne Sleeping Beauty choreography. Quoting principal dancer Dominic North:
“The relationship between her and Leo is almost a bit Wuthering Heights or Lady Chatterley’s Lover – which is exciting to dance and portray.Fashion Times talks about Veronique Branquinho's pre-Fall 16 Collection:
For Pre-fall 2016, Veronique Branquinho was once again seemingly inspired by the sort of Gothic heroine written about by the Brontë sisters.The Hindustan Times interviews the Booker prize winner Marlon James:
She asked us to "Imagine a forest, a winter forest, dark and romantic." (Jayne Mountfort)
The UK publisher who first read my book asked me to turn it into a Jane Austen novel.Cherwell explores the English country house in literature:
You’re joking!
She said could I rewrite it in an 18th c Standard English voice. She’s basically saying can I turn my slavery novel into a Jane Austen novel or maybe it’s Wuthering Heights with whipping! (Manjula Narayan)
With Wodehouse we can revel in the glorious farce and decadence of the era; with Ishiguru we shudder at the dark secrets they contain; in Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the country house even becomes one of the main characters in the novel. The English country house in literature is ambiguous and varied – and it’s here to stay. (Ben Ray)Film Totaal (Netherlands) reviews Jane Eyre 1944:
Het boek van Brontë is een complex verhaal en vormt een karakter studie van Jane, iets dat moeilijk samen te vatten is in een kleine twee uur. Toch slaagt de film daar erg goed in en weet het in ieder geval de sfeer perfect weer te geven, iets dat latere verfilmingen wel eens misten. Joan Fontaine en Orson Welles waren beide op het top van hun kunnen in 1943 en weten de personages uit het boek echt leven in te blazen. Leuk detail is dat Elizabeth Taylor in de film te zien is in een vroeg klein rolletje. Ze was nog onbekend en stond dan ook niet op de aftiteling. (Michelle Iwema) (Translation)Eskilstuna Kuriren (Sweden) and madwomen in the attic:
Alltså att GW:s mamma, låt oss förresten kalla henne det hon hette, Margit, måste ha varit ett klassiskt fall av "Madwoman in the attic". Alltså en kvinna av det slag som inte haft några andra val än att dväljas i begåvningsreserven.La Voz de Galicia (Spain) remembers how
Typen beskrevs redan 1847 i Charlotte Brontës "Jane Eyre" där en galen hustru hålls inlåst på vinden av sin make.
Nu var ju grovarbetare Gustav Persson naturligtvis inte av den sort som låste in frugan, han var säkert precis så snäll och beskedlig som sonen GW beskrivit honom. (Translation)
Como puede suponerse por su frase, Emily Brontë, la romántica autora de Cumbres borrascosas, fue especialista en calentamientos, pero la pobre murió de tuberculosis a los 30 años, tras haber contraído un resfriado en el funeral de su hermano Branwell. (Moncho Núñez Centella) (Translation)Il Corriere della Sera (Italy) interviews the author Lucinda Riley:
È una necessità profondamente umana: ascoltare o raccontare una storia. Dickens scriveva a puntate per i periodici. Le sorelle Brontë venivano pubblicate con pseudonimi maschili, era forse letteratura “da donne”? Il libro della mia vita è Cime tempestose. (Mateo Persivale) (Translation)Once again the sketches of literary characters by The Composites are in the news. Now in an article in the Daily Mail. Indianapolis Business Journal mentions a local production of The Mystery of Irma Vep. A Universe in Words reviews Mick Jackson's Yuki Chan in Brontë Country. Que la suerte esté siempre de vuestra parte (in Spanish) reviews Wuthering Heights. bookalibre (in Italian) reviews Shirley.
After dinner, the UK’s Publick Transport change the mood completely with half an hour of straight-faced knockabout fun in We Are Brontë. Essentially a kind of National Theatre of Brent for the devising generation, the show ruthlessly skewers trope after physical theatre trope. No theatremaker will ever be able to animate a book as a bird in a devised piece again. Thank God. (Andrew Haydon)Chortle announces that the Brontës will be present on the next Horrible Histories special episode:
Horrible Histories is to return for another one-off special, with Mel Giedroyc returning as a guest star.John Sutherland in The Times mentions Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights in an article on how getting the most out of literature means having fun.
The team are making a show about Staggering Storytellers to mark the BBC's #Lovetoread campaign.
Tom Stourton, Jess Ransome and Jalaal Hartley also star in the CBBC show, which will air on July 11.
Stories covered include how DH Lawrence would climb mulberry trees in the nude to stimulate his imagination, how a party at Lord Byron's house led to the writing of Frankenstein, and how Charles Dickens was 'the Harry Styles of his day'.
Viewers will also meet The Brontë Sisters trying to get a book deal, Roald Dahl entering the Great British Bake Off with a worm cake and Malorie Blackman, Enid Blyton, Jacqueline Wilson and Beatrix Potter in Little Mix-style sketch.
The Woman Who RanThe Telegraph & Argus celebrates the new vintage bus linking Haworth station and the Parsonage:
By Sam Baker (Harper, £7.99) When a mysterious woman called Helen Graham moves into Wildfell, a long-abandoned house at the edge of a Yorkshire village, even Gil Markham, a cynical retired journalist, is intrigued by the new arrival. The local gossips go wild, but Helen, a former war photographer, just wants to be left alone. As the names of both the characters and Helen’s new home suggest, Sam Baker’s novel is inspired by Anne Brontë’s criminally underrated The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Like the heroine of that novel, Baker’s Helen has fled an abusive relationship. Just a few weeks ago she fled from her burning Paris flat, leaving behind her estranged husband’s body. But what really happened in Paris? And is Yorkshire really a safe refuge? An original and gripping thriller. (Anna Carey)
This means that the stations are not located in the centre of the villages that we serve, which is very apparent at Haworth, meaning our passengers have to battle with the hill from the station to Main Street and the Brontë Parsonage, which is an almost insurmountable challenge for some visitors.WWD talks about the Sébastien Meunier's Men's Spring 2017 collection for Ann Demeulemeester:
I'm very pleased to report that we have a solution to this, thanks to our partnership with the Brontë Parsonage Museum. The railway and the parsonage are jointly funding the operation of a vintage bus service that links Haworth Station with the village, operating seven days a week from July 11 until September 4, and it's free to Railway Rover ticket holders. (David Knights)
When he didn’t go punk, Meunier channeled a “Wuthering Heights” romanticism, with billowing silk shirts and military jackets cinched with wide obi belts. (Joelle Diderich)Ralph Nader attacks the two-party de facto US system in The Hill, with a curious Wuthering Heights reference:
Get real, indeed, with the cyclical redundancy of Wuthering Heights — a national legislature, ossified by safe gerrymandered districts, and fluctuation between complacent gridlock or sadistically conceived proposals such as cutting the IRS budget to aid-and-abet $300 billion in uncollected taxes per year, or starving enforcement budgets against massive fraud on Medicare, Medicaid, or the Pentagon, which brings in between $10 and $20 in revenue for every $1 in enforcement funds.The Huffington Post on sex and censorship in classical Hollywood films:
In one of the greatest love stories on film, “Wuthering Heights,” Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier kept their clothes on all the way to the end with Kathy’s heartbreaking death, Heathcliff at her side. (Babette Hughes)The Herald Sun interviews Chloe Shorten, the wife of the Labor candidate for the upcoming Australian federal election:
“My mum was a university lecturer so I grew up playing in the university library in Queensland,” she says. “That’s where I’d go after school and I’d do my homework there. I was eight and all these law students were there. I wasn’t reading any of the law books, I was reading my own books, lots of Enid Blyton, Famous Five, the Anne of Green Gables series, then the Brontës. (Blanche Clark)A model, a goat, a picture and The Age to talk about it:
Whenever Age photographer Simon Schluter calls and says "I've got a good story", I know I won't be disappointed. This one was about loneliness, Wuthering Heights, and being alone on a mountaintop, he told me. "With a goat". Say no more. (Tom McKendrick)Le Figaro (France) has an article on the actress Chloë Grace Moretz
Ses essentiels de l’été (...)Galdar al Día (Spain) recommends Stefan Bollmann's Women Who Read.
Dans sa valise : « J’emporte des produits de soin pour le visage et de protection contre le soleil. Et les Hauts de Hurlevent : j’adore ce livre. » (Isabelle Girard) (Translation)
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