The ultimate Brontë drama

The Anglo Celt talks about the upcoming performances in Virginia, County Caven (Ireland), of the Hotbuckle Productions touring Wuthering Heights production:

Hotbuckle Productions, a theatre company renowned for bring great works of fiction to the stage, look to achieve a similar feat when they bring Emily Brontë’s classic novel, Wuthering Heights, to The Ramor stage. (...)
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story set on the windswept Yorkshire moors, of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.
Hotbuckle bringing their special magic to this wonderful tale and spend much of this month touring around Ireland before they return to the UK. If you want to see this unique show then toddle along to The Ramor on October 14. the show starts at 8:00pm.

The Telegraph & Argus announces some of the events of next year's Bradford Literary Festival:

Next year’s festival will run from June 29 to July 8. Although the programme is still in development, the 2018 festival will see the launch of the highly anticipated Brontë Stones Project, which will see stones carved with poetry celebrating the literary family placed at locations in the district significant to the siblings, starting at their birthplace in Thornton. (Chris Young)

A series of talks/events at the Midtown Reader (Tallahassee, FL) bookstore is reported in American Booksellers Association:

Midtown Reader’s “Read to Lead” series, which features important community figures talking about the books that shaped them as people and as leaders, provides the Tallahassee, Florida, bookstore with a unique opportunity to promote and sell a variety of backlist titles. (...)
In September, the store invited Diane Roberts, a Florida State University writing professor, NPR commentator, and author of the 2015 book Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America (Harper), to discuss the written word’s power to change lives and the books that shaped her own, including A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle (Square Fish), Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Vintage Books), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Penguin Classics), End Zone by Don DeLillo (Penguin Books), The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Harper Perennial), and the 1946 children’s book The Lion’s Paw by Robb White (A.W. Ink). (Liz Button)

A Slate Dear Prudence story includes this reference to Jane Eyre:

He was so drunk at the rehearsal that I had to hold him up as we walked down the aisle, and he made jokes about disrupting the ceremony to object. (This wasn't part of the ceremony, because we're not in a Brontë novel.) (Mallory Ortberg)

The Yorkshire Post interviews Gregory Orr, grandson of Jack Warner:

 Who remembers Devotion, the story of the Brontë sisters with Olivia De Havilland as Charlotte and Ida Lupino as Emily? Not a foot of film was shot outside Los Angeles. The New York Times review described it as “a ridiculous tax upon reason and an insult to plain intelligence”, which shows that even the omniscient moguls sometimes got it catastrophically wrong.
Orr laughs when he recalls that the film had no chance of authenticity: it’s resemblance to 19th century Yorkshire was merely accidental and, like 1939’s Wuthering Heights, in which a California ranch stood in for the moors.
“The director [Curtis Bernhardt] fought with Olivia De Havilland. He was rather high-handed. Others said she was obstreperous. There was something not going right and they delayed it by several years. It might not have been a Warner Bros. movie in the sense that the studio executives didn’t understand it enough to make it into a good movie. It was made under the studio system where everything was made on the back lot; my grandfather hated anybody going on location. It didn’t match enough the people making it to make it into a successful movie.”
Maybe the timing was wrong. Perhaps Jack Warner, a septuagenarian sentimentalist who had long passed over the crime dramas of the past in favour of lighter fare, might have made the ultimate Brontë drama had he lived long enough. Orr’s laughter reveals his doubts.
“He was a slow reader. Getting through a novel was difficult for him. He said, ‘If it’s too long to read on the toilet, it’s too long’. I’m sorry to say it, but does that sum it up?” (Tony Earnshow)

Vogue interviews the actress Daisy Ridler:

She was, and still is, a voracious reader—“I rarely saw her without a book,” says Branagh, who directed her in Murder on the Orient Express—and she recently asked her mother to give her a list of classics, which she’s now making her way through. (Current title: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë.)  (Gaby Wood)

Keighley News reports the discovery of a body  in a car fire in Penistone Hill Country Park, Haworth:

Officers were called to the country park – a popular beauty spot and a scene for filming of last year’s BBC Brontë biopic To Walk Invisible – at 7.28am on Monday. (Miran Rahman)

Indie-Zone (in Italian) reviews the Sofia Coppola film The Beguiled:

“The Beguiled” è un film girato con grande classe ed esperienza, non è il lavoro migliore della regista, ma è il suo miglior film dai tempi di “Lost in Translation”. Ispirato all’originale, con aperti richiami a “Ritratto di Signora”, a “Picnic ad Hanging Rock”, ad Hitchcock (“Il sospetto”, “Rebecca la prima moglie”) e con la forza delle sorelle Brontë, è un film da vedere; forse lo amerà di più un pubblico femminile, ma è dedicato a uomini che amano e, soprattutto, che odiano le donne. (Il Demente Colombo) (Translation)

ActuaBD (in French) reviews the Trisagion trilogy (  Shiki Mizuchi & Bancha Shibano):

En effet, le manga, achevé en trois tomes, se structure autour de trois grandes histoires, chacune mettant en scène un Nihile particulier, inspiré à chaque fois d’une célèbre œuvre littéraire : Les Hauts de Hurlevent, Sweeney Todd et Le Portrait de Dorian Gray. (Guillaume Bautet) (Translation)

Svenska Dagbladet talks about the work of Ebba Witt-Brattström:

Så finns det några motvapen? Jo, "systerskapet som politiskt verktyg" är en metod Witt-Brattström utövar med glädjet. Fran Sapfo via den heliga Birgitta, Charlotte Brontë, Selma Lagerlof och Moa Martinson till Elena Ferrante och Beyoncé är hon fotbollscoach boken igenom, en som jublar och hejar på sina spelare med tillrop som "yes" och "wow". (Clara Bock) (Translation)

Neue Westfälische (in German) describes the bookshelves of local people:

Sie mag Fantasy, darunter die „Twilight"-Saga, in der sie Parallelen zu „Jane Eyre" sieht. Sylke Pilk ist sicher, dass ihre Begeisterung für den Film „Tanz der Vampire" in jungen Jahren auch ihren literarischen Geschmack geprägt hat.Zu ihren persönlichen Highlights gehört auch „Jane Eyre" von Charlotte Brontë, „Sturmhöhe" dagegen weniger. „Die Charaktere sind mir zu verdorben", sagt sie. (Translation)

The Bluestocking Salon posts about Wuthering Heights. An article by Elena Lago, "Rain, Wind and Sunshine Between the Pages of the Brontë Sisters" in The Sisters' Room.