Emily's raw violence

The Independent blog Notebook has an article on the British Library exhibition Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know it and chooses to highlight, if only briefly, Emily and Anne's Gondal:

Even Emily and Anne Brontë delved into SF when they developed the world of Gondal, a large island in the middle of the North Pacific. Although the prose has been lost, Gondal is mentioned in poems written by the Brontës. (Neela Debnath)

Emily Brontë is also mentioned by biographer John Matteson in the Hartford Advocate:

Who are some of your favorite writers? What is it about them you hold dear? [...]
I love the raw violence of Emily Brontë and the emotional intelligence of George Eliot. (Krystian Von Speidel)

The New York Times dance critic's review on the New York City Ballet’s spring season has a quote from Emily's Wuthering Heights:

The inscrutability of Ms. Reichlen takes us close to the heart of the Balanchine experience — indeed, of the dance experience. Each role gives her a new character, in the way that Catherine in “Wuthering Heights” speaks of dreams that have passed through her “like wine through water and altered the color of my mind.” We recognize the remarkable authority she now exudes in most of her roles, and yet we’re left not knowing who this miraculously changeable woman really is. She dances as if to expose some layer of the self deeper than ego. (Alastair Macaulay)

Playwright Joy Gregory continues comparing the Brontë sisters and the Wiggin sisters, this time in the Wall Street Journal:

As Ms. Gregory worked on the script, she found a historical antecedent to the Shaggs' story: the Brontë sisters: "They were another trio of young women in a remote, bleak landscape working on something heretofore unheard of under the watchful eye of an overbearing dad." (Andy Beta)

Yeah, we know, 'print the legend' and all that. But still.

Kultur Films have released a fragment of their Brontë sisters DVD on YouTube.

Katie's Bookshelf posts three reasons why you should read Jane Eyre while For the Love of Lit takes a look at several on-screen Jane Eyres. Redhead Heroines posts her thoughts on April Lindner's Jane. And finally, The Literate Chemist has found Wuthering Heights disappointing.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontëites, Juvenilia, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights