A Jamaican male-perspective answer to Emily Brontë’s Jane Eyre (sic), Dwight Thompson’s first novel, Death Register, is a Bildung Romans (coming of age) story set in modern-day St James, Jamaica. (Ann-Margaret Lim)
Another novel,
The House of Children by Heidi Daniele is reviewed in
The Red Hook Star-Revue:
Although carefully researched, and believably set amongst the achingly familiar ruler wielding nuns of a boarding school in the same vein of “Jane Eyre” or “The Little Princess,” the novel feels devoid of much real movement or pathos. (Kelsey Liebenson-Morse)
Female First lists the favourite walks of Nuala Ellwood:
Haworth to Top Withens
Leave the bustle of the town far behind as you set out to explore Brontë country and see the desolate farmstead reputed to have been Emily Brontë’s inspiration for Wuthering Heights.
The Orangeburg Times & Democrat describes a Page Turner Lucheon event with three guest writers:
"I was getting that all kind of by osmosis," [Emily Carpenter] said, noting that her two favorite books at that time were Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" and Stephen King's "Carrie." (...)
Her love of gothic literature never really left her, and she also realized that a main character and their family "don't have to be perfect."
"She can be the underdog. I realized I really like the underdog," she said, noting that the characters in Brontë's and King's books are underdogs who eventually find their own power in their own unique way. (Dionne Gleaton)
Harper's Bazaar lists ten books to read in your lifetime:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
No reading list would be complete without Emily Brönte's (sic) gothic romance, Wuthering Heights. Written as a reaction against the popular romantic fiction of Jane Austen, it is an altogether darker and more complicated tale, set within a frame narrative and spanning two generations. Featuring some of the most beautiful prose in the English canon, its depiction of Heathcliff and Cathy's doomed love affair haunts the reader long after putting down the book. (Rebecca Cope)
Classic love stories in
The Daily Sun (Bangladesh):
Jane Eyre
Another beautiful addition to your bookshelf is this paperback Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Dive into the love story of Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester. Experience the many shades of emotions that will keep you glued to find out what happens.
Wuthering Heights
If you want to read a love story which pans over the many passionate, wild, and destructive emotions that love brings along, it is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë that you should read.
Jornal Dia Dia (Brazil) and women in literature:
Em uma triste comparação, podemos falar de Emily Brontë, que lançou o clássico O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes em 1847, e de J.K. Rowling, que lançou o primeiro livro da série Harry Potter em 1997. Com 150 anos que separam a publicação dos dois livros, as duas escritoras inglesas usaram pseudônimos masculinos para suas obras. Brontë assinava como Ellis Bell, pois na época mulheres não podiam ser escritoras e Joanne Rowling?(o K é uma homenagem a sua avó, Kathleen?), um século e meio depois, foi aconselhada por seus editores a adotar a abreviação “J. K.” por acreditarem que o público não leria o livro se soubesse que havia sido escrito por uma mulher. (Eduardo Villela) (Translation)
Cuneo Cronaca (Italy) reports a musical event that took place yesterday in Cuneo:
Sabato 9 marzo, alle 17, presso il Museo Luigi Mallé di Dronero (Cuneo), in occasione della Festa della donna, si svolge la terza edizione di "Sante, dee, eroine e ammaliatrici, un omaggio alla donna tra le opere del Museo Mallè", con il concerto multisensoriale intitolato "Melodie in petali e rime" della liutista Gabriella Perugini. (...)
La musica dialoga con i versi poetici di Anna Maria Ortese, Ada Negri, Emily Brontë, Amelia Rosselli, Contessa Lara, Marcia Theophilo, Alda Merini, Rabindranath Tagore, interpretati da Federica Dallolio, che si accostano senza retorica al tema floreale e musicale. (Translation)
The Ponden Hall-is-on-the-market news is also echoed on
You Magazine.
Lindsey Brunette reviews
Jane Eyre.
Mumu Dans le bocage... (in French) posts about
Denise Le Dantec's biography of Emily Brontë.
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