Do it all in f*** falsetto

Several news outlets talk about the new Channel 4 documentary on Emily Brontë presented by Lily Cole:

Actress Lily Cole, who this year was controversially made creative partner of the Brontë Society, presents this look into Emily Brontë’s only novel, Wuthering Heights (stop thinking of Kate Bush), and how the prejudices she face then have similarities with the struggles of women today.
The Secret World of Emily Brontë is on Channel 4 at 18.05 (Ian Wolf in On of the Box)

Documentarist Angus MacQueen is behind this engaging film presented by Lily Cole. Two hundred years after the birth of Emily Brontë, it explores the author’s world and the impact of her novel Wuthering Heights, which contemporary critics believed to have been written by a man. (Mike Bradley in The Guardian)

Emily Brontë was just 30 years old when she died 200 years ago, having completed just one novel. It turned out to be a special one, because although Wuthering Heights was indifferently reviewed on its release, its insights into the insanity of romantic love have made it an enduring classic. Actress Lily Cole looks at Brontë’s strange life. (Paul Whitington in The Irish Independent)

It’s 40 years since Kate Bush took an 1847 novel and transformed it into one of the most unique songs of the 1970s. Of course for many, Wuthering Heights had been an inspiration for many long before that song became synonymous with gloriously bonkers pop. Like Kate Bush, model and actress Lily Cole is a big fan of Emily Brontë’s work, and in this documentary she explores the author’s world and that ground-breaking novel. (Kevin Courtney in The Irish Times)

To mark 200 years since the birth of Emily Brontë, the actress and model Lily Cole heads to Haworth to explore the life of the Wuthering Heights author. Cole, who heads out on to the wild and windy moors dressed like a 1970s glam-rock bassist, was seduced by the romance of Heathcliff as a teenage Brontë fan, but now feels troubled by the violence and patriarchal oppression within the book. Despite this, she admires Brontë’s “ballsy attitude”, something she shares with lifelong Emily Brontë buff Patti Smith, whom she interviews here. (The Times)

It’s 40 years since Kate Bush took an 1847 novel and transformed it into one of the memorable songs of the 1970s. Of course, Wuthering Heights had been an inspiration for many long before that song became synonymous with gloriously bonkers pop. Like Kate Bush, model and actress Lily Cole, pictured, left, is a big fan of Emily Brontë’s work and in this film she explores the author’s world and that ground-breaking novel. Just a shame the 2011 movie version starring Kaya Scodelario doesn’t get an airing straight after. (The National)

Lily Cole explores the author’s world and the groundbreaking novel she produced, Wuthering Heights. (The Daily Edge)

mxdwn interviews Jimmy Urine on his cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights. He is very... colourful about it:

I was like, if I’m gonna cover Kate Bush, I might as well cover ‘the’ song, ’cause I noticed she started getting a lot of thinks recently, her old stuff just started popping up in TV shows, and no one ever touches “Wuthering Heights.” They never cover “Wuthering Heights,” ’cause it’s very iconically Kate Bush, but not necessarily a classic song that people put into movies, commercials, or wanna cover. So, fuck it, I’m gonna do fucking do that one and I’m gonna fucking do it all in falsetto because I can fucking do falsetto and I’m not gonna not put any drums on the motherfucker. I’ll make it all analog synth like fucking Vangelis and Tangerine Dream came into the music and then I came and sang in falsetto like Kate Bush over it.
A lot of actual love was in that one. Like I said, there’s other songs I’ve covered where I love the artist, but that’s not my favorite song, but I just did a better version of it. (Brian Furman)

The Guardian reviews Literary Landscapes: Charting the Worlds of Classical Literature, edited by John Sutherland:

The Wuthering Heights entry (by Sutherland, as it happens) is full of illuminations: “Heathcliff,” he writes, “seems never to have been born of woman but to have been generated by the landscape in its cruellest moments.” But by its end, the novel has encompassed “the rich landscape in its possible tenderness as well as its violent excess”.
This piece is followed in the book by a reproduction, spread over two pages, of an uncharacteristic, unpeopled painting by LS Lowry, Wuthering Heights, from 1942, illustrating, despite its essentially peaceful tone, the epic loneliness of the landscape. The picture thus adds a harmonic to the novel, which is where the book really comes into its own. (Simon Callow)

RadioTimes praises Ruth Wilson:

Ruth Wilson has firmly established herself as one of the nation’s best-loved actors, thanks to her stellar turns in Luther, Jane Eyre and BBC1’s recent adaptation of her own family’s story, Mrs. Wilson. (Kimberley Bond)

The Atlantic and literary parties:

That being said, not all fêtes are actually that fun: The author Alexander Chee explains how one scene in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette made him consider just how useful parties are for exploring a character’s anxieties and insecurities. (J. Clara Chan)

The Star (Malaysia) quotes from Charlotte Brontë:

The moral of the story is simple; if the investment promise sounds too good to be true, then it is very likely to be so. The 19th century novelist Charlotte Brontë once said: “Look twice before you leap.”  (Yap Ming Hui)

The quote is from Chapter IX in Shirley.

More virtual (Cleveland) theatre awards. On Broadway World, the BWW-CLE Tributes:

Martin Céspedes for an outstanding season of choreographic excellence including his work on Jane Eyre @ Cleveland Music Theatre (...)
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL THEATER PRODUCTIONS: Jane Eyre @ Cleveland Musical Theatre (Roy Berko)

Bustle mourns the possible closure of HMV:

The first time I learned how to dance was when I saw Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" music video for the first time. I saw it on TV, recorded it and rewatched until the tape blew. "You know you can just get the CD?" I remember my dad saying, but not really knowing what it meant. That Christmas, he gave me the single, and when I asked him where he got it from, he took me to the store — HMV. There, I saw reems and reems of plastic coated discs, like the one I had held in my hand and treasured. (Emma Madden)

Books in 2018 in an article in The Guardian which mentions Jane Eyre indirectly:

"You brought it on yourself, longest friend. I informed you and informed you. I mean for the longest time ever since primary school I’ve been warning you to kill out that habit you insist on and that I now suspect you’re addicted to – that reading in public as you’re walking about.” Such behaviour, the speaker continues, is unnerving, disturbing, deviant, much to the bemusement of the errant flâneuse, who wonders why it’s acceptable for a terrorist to promenade with Semtex, but beyond the pale for her to do the same with Jane Eyre.
The characters are from Milkman, the novel by Anna Burns that scooped this year’s Man Booker prize and lobbed a rock into the literary millpond: a winner who included the local food bank in her book’s acknowledgements, who went on the news and announced she’d be declaring “one hell of a change in circumstances” to the Department for Work and Pensions, and who turned the recent history of the Troubles into a compelling narrative that spoke to repression and segregation everywhere. Her victory was, as one Guardian writer pointed out, a beacon of hope for those suffering from “shit life syndrome”. (Alex Clark)

This is really a perplexing commentary in El Mundo (Spain):

Algo parecido les sucedió a las hermanas Brontë, autoras de libros cuyos títulos causaban retortijones. Cumbres borrascosas es el ejemplo por excelencia. Lees ese título y ya no pegas ojo en toda la noche. A su manera, las hermanas Brontë eran capaces de poner los pelos de punta con sus libros: historias de mujeres atormentadas y de niños infelices, maltratados por sus padres y maestros. (Carmen Rigalt) (Translation)

Erm... Jane Eyre, Villette, Agnes Grey, Shirley... what's scary about those titles?

Ctxt (Spain) reviews How to Suppress Women's Literature by Joanne Russ:

Cumbres Borrascosas fue definida como una novela sobre el mal hasta que Emily Brönte (sic) admitió su autoría; entonces, se convirtió en una historia de amor. (Nerea Balinot) (Translation) 

Clepsidra Timpuliu (in Romanian) posts about Wuthering Heights. Philip Hamlyn Williams posts about William Smith William's family and his personal connection to it.