Beautiful Monster

ITV Calendar covers the Emily Brontë celebrations at the Parsonage in a two-minute video. BBC One's Songs of Praise (Today, 15.15 BST) has a segment devoted to Emily:

Inspiring Christians
200 years after the birth of Emily Brontë, Aled Jones is in Haworth in Yorkshire exploring the Christian upbringing of the author of Wuthering Heights, and we revisit other Christians who have inspired us over the last 12 months.
Aled meets Isobel Griffiths, a Brontë enthusiast, in the former Brontë home of The Parsonage in Haworth, now the Brontë Museum.  Isobel reveals the Brontë sisters upbringing and how Emily was an unconventional vicar’s daughter.
Up on the moors Aled speaks to Dr Simon Marsden about the how he thinks Wuthering Heights can be interpreted as having Christian and biblical themes within it.

The Daily Telegraph (Australia) publishes a funny article about the effects of reading Emily Brontë:

Emily Brontë ruined my life.
From the moment I read Wuthering Heights as an impressionable 16-year-old, I was done for. Horrible Heathcliff with his wild moods and even wilder hair was a literary love bomb, blasting Mr Darcy into smithereens in my mind. (...)
My problem with it is, where do you go when one of the first classics you read is Wuthering Heights? There’s no returning to Anne of Green Gables.
Not only did it set me on the misguided path of seeking the ultimate antihero as my partner in life and being perpetually disappointed I couldn’t find someone who enjoyed storming about the hills of an evening, it also made me realise I could never be as driven as the author. (Kerry Parnell)

More Brontë celebrations in The Sunday Herald. (Note: Why is so difficult to illustrate articles about Emily Brontë with portraits of... Emily Brontë?  It can't be so hard to check your sources beyond Google Images) (And yes, we know that Christopher Heywood thinks is a genuine portrait, but the Brontë Society does not).

Her 19th century tale of intense love and revenge, played out against the windswept backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors, is considered a classic of English literature.
Despite Wuthering Heights being her only novel, Emily Brontë's influence endures through the generations and events have been taking place to mark the 200th anniversary of her birth, which falls tomorrow.
Friday evening saw a gathering in Haworth, West Yorkshire, at The Brontë Parsonage Museum, led by best-selling novelist Kate Mosse. The I Am Heathcliff event featured 16 contributors reading short stories inspired by the novel's Byron-esque character. (Maureen Sugden)

Miss Malini lists books to 'fall in love with reading':

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Although Wuthering Heights is now a classic of English literature, the book had polarising reviews. It was an extremely controversial book at the time because of its unusually stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty. It talked about and also challenged the strict Victorian ideals of the day regarding subjects from religion to gender inequality. This book has been an inspiration to many people and it makes for a powerful read. An English poet referred to it as a beautiful monster and that is what is truly is. It’s a piece of history and will have you hooked to it from the start. (Atmaj Vyas)

The Independent (Ireland), Reforma (Mexico) and La Vanguardia (Spain) also celebrate the bicentenary. La Repubblica (Italy) joins in listing several of the Wuthering Heights TV/film adaptations.

Per il bicentenario di Emily Brontë eventi e mostre nelle brughiere dello Yorkshire dove è ambientato il suo romanzo adattato più volte al cinema, dal '39 con Laurence Olivier e Merle Oberon al più recente adattamento di Andrea Arnold in cui lo zingaro è un attore nero. ( Silvia Fumarola) (Translation)

Politiken (Denmark) mentions Emily but talks basically about Kate Bush and the recent Most Wuthering Heights Ever Day:

Det er et skørt syn midt på en lummer søndag. Vi er på Balders Plads på Nørrebro, og det er, som om vi har lavet en boble, hvor man må gøre, hvad man har lyst til. Det nyder alle. Efter vi har øvet og danset koreografien fra musikvideoen til den engelske sangerinde Kate Bushs ’Wuthering Heights’ i to timer, er der fri dans. Og der bliver virkelig danset. En ældre kvinde snurrer rundt i høj fart med en selfiestang i udstrakt arm. Hun skal have det hele med.
De to forgangne timer har nok ikke virket mindre skøre, hvis man kiggede forbi. Her har omkring 100 kjoleklædte mennesker i rødt opført den danske version af arrangementet ’The Most ’Wuthering Heights’ Day Ever’ – den mest ’Wuthering Heights’-agtige dag nogensinde. (Charlotte Kjærholm Pedersen) (Translation)

The Business Post also celebrates Kate Bush's anniversary.

The Japan Times reviews On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë by Judith Pascoe:

While being a scholarly investigation into the reception of a classic of English literature in a foreign culture, the book also reveals itself to a be a personal journey of self-discovery, questioning the academic focus author Judith Pascoe once had, oblivious to narratives beyond a narrowly defined discipline of “English literature.” (Damian Flanagan)

A walk on the moors, with a Top Withens stop in The Wakefield Express:

Whilst the path was paved all the way to Top Withens; it was never discernible more than about 10 meters ahead.
Beyond the Top Withens ruins [of Wuthering Heights fame, albeit not remotely similar to the house described in the novel] leave the Pennine Way going right at a clear sign post indicating a Millennium Way circular route. (Caroline Spalding)

The Daily Express turns to a body language expert for looking for the most romantic royal wedding (yes, that's a thing):

Judi James told Express.co.uk Diana and Charles’ wedding was “by far the most romantic” in generations. (...)
“Then there was the archaic but 'perfect' romantic storyline that had been a feature of romantic fiction from the Brontës to DuMaurier to Bridget Jones's Diary. (Francesca Specter)

ABC (Spain) celebrates the talent of the painter Rafael Romero de Torres:

En una ocasión un periodista le preguntó a Jorge Luis Borges qué le parecía la poesía de Antonio Machado. El genio de Buenos Aires le respondió con uno de sus frecuentes sarcasmos, no exento de humor: «¿Acaso Manuel tenía un hermano?». No se sabe si el escritor pretendía ensalzar al mayor -en cuanto a edad- de los Machado o rebajar la maestría de los versos del autor de «Soledades», pero la anécdota sirve para ilustrar cómo en no pocas ocasiones la fama de un artista eclipsa el talento de sus parientes y allegados más cercanos. Ejemplos son Anne Brontë, Heinrich Mann o Zenobia Camprubí, en el campo de la literatura; Pierre Curie, en el de la ciencia; o Rafael Romero de Torres en la pintura. (Rafael Verdú) (Translation)

A new daily article in The Point today (in Catalan) commenting Wuthering Heights (she is really taking her time to read the book). NBC 4 New York's Bill's Books will discuss Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights on today's programme. A Writer's Guide to Studying Wuthering Heights by Sara Santamaria on The Writer's Ward. Beautiful pictures of Haworth and a poem, courtesy of Maggie Gardiner on the Haworth and the Brontës Facebook group.