Primordial Passions

Charlotte Brontë's mourning ring is still on the news: The Smithsonian Magazine, Daily Trust (Nigeria), Dusty Old Thing, IFL Science! and The Mary Sue carry articles on it.

Bustle recommends contemporary Gothic novels based on classic books:

If you like 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë, read 'The Poison Thread' by Laura Purcell

Jane Eyre follows its eponymous heroine to a lonely old manor house, where she falls in love with the master, only to learn that he keeps his supposedly insane first wife locked in the attic. Laura Purcell's The Poison Thread also centers on a woman who may or may not be insane: Ruth Butterham, an accused murderess, who claims that the clothes she sewed for her victims were cursed. (...)

If you like 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë, read 'The Lost History of Dreams' by Kris Waldherr

Wuthering Heights weaves its way into the lives of the Earnshaws, the Lintons, and the Earnshaws' adopted son, the foundling Heathcliff, as betrayal and anguish compound through generations of wrongdoing. In Kris Waldherr's The Lost History of Dreams, a woman attempts to air her family's convoluted history by telling the tale of her aunt and uncle's love affair to a post-mortem photographer. (Kristian Wilson)

Spiritual Direction explores the Easter Mysteries And The Mystic Way:

This profound truth is perfectly portrayed in Emily Brontë’s Classic Romance Wuthering Heights. However, the word Romance is far too soft, too sweet, too sentimental to describe the potent primordial passions that drew the lovers, Heathcliff and Catherine together to become as one. Catherine can only describe her love, not just by saying that she loves Heathcliff, but that she is Heathcliff and he could say the same through his love for her.
Their ultimate desire for love which is the ultimate desire of all real lovers is perfectly depicted in the first film ever made that tried to portray this love on screen. When in death they were finally laid side by side, the individual wraiths of each rose from their tombs and merged into each other to become in death what they desired in life. Then as one, they went out into their beloved paradise, the bleak Yorkshire Moors where their love was first ignited. (David Torkington)

The Fergus Falls Daily Journal talks about the author Julie Klassen:

Her primary influences are the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen and many of her settings are places she finds interesting like coaching inns and circulation libraries, but she’s also done extensive research into that period of time including taking trips to England to ensure accuracy. (Johanna Armstrong)

Cosmopolitan quotes from Wuthering Heights on a list of 'love quotes'.In The Atlantic, a grandmother asks for suggested reads for her sixteen-year-old granddaughter:

If your granddaughter would like something more challenging, there’s Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye; Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre; Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest andThe Picture of Dorian Gray; Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude; Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love; and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. These are all texts that my colleagues encountered in high school and still remember today. (J. Clara Chan)

Rutland Herald reviews a local production of The Turn of the Screw:

“She is very innocent at the beginning, a parson’s daughter who has been in a church for her whole life,” [Laura] Erle said. “She decides to become a governess because she has read ‘Jane Eyre,’ and I think fantasizes about what being a governess is and what that life could lead to. (Jim Lowe)

Samantha Leach describes her love/sex life in Glamour:

As an English major with a taste for melodrama, I loved the idea that I was involved in something that felt impossible to label—it seemed even bigger, more complex, realer. A Farewell to Arms and Wuthering Heights were some of my favorite books. I wanted a guy like Heathcliff to love me so much that he’d dig out my corpse from a grave. So on we went, silently but in tandem.

Loop (Trinidad and Tobago) interviews young writer Tamika Gibson:

What were some of the books you enjoyed as a young adult reader and a few of your favourite authors?
TG: A lot of Nancy Drew, Famous Five, and Secret Seven. I read classics over and over. 'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean Rhys is one of my most memorable books from my teenage years because of its language and complexity.

The Berkshire Eagle interviews the author Lauren Groff:

Benjamin Cassidy: [Heidi]Pitlor once said to me, "There's nowhere you can hide as a writer in a short story. It's a much more unforgiving form, and I think everything's kind of magnified. In a novel, it's sort of a house instead of a room." Do you agree with this description? Why or why not?
A: I do think this is true, at least in the way that I write stories; I don't know if it's empirically true of all writers. When you're in a house, you're aware of the other rooms of the house without their reality necessarily pressing in on you; in a closed room, all elements of the room are present, at least subconsciously, in your thoughts. If you write a novel, you don't have to know the contents of the room above you until you go up the stairs to explore it; you can leave the first room behind you and return to it later. Henry James spoke of stories as "loose, baggy monsters," and that relaxed nature gave us wildly strange books like "Wuthering Heights," "Moby-Dick," and "A Brief History of Seven Killings."

Joblo lists several writers/directors who would make a good team:

Cary Fukunaga/Guillermo Del Toro: If you have seen Fukunaga's Jane Eyre, you know there is already a similarity with Del Toro's Crimson Peak that could make for a match made in heaven....or hell if it were. (Alex Maidy)

Vulture, Amica (Italy) and Moviepilot (Germany) review the film After:

Todd’s heartthrob drove a muscle car and knew passages from Wuthering Heights— details that the screenwriters happily maintained — but he was also domineering; his flirtatious teasing could come off as abusive, and his tendency to police Tessa’s whereabouts could feel controlling. (Joseph Bien-Kahn)

Il tutto citando principalmente due libri: Cime tempestose (Ah, quanto ci manca il simpatico, vecchio Heathcliff!) e Orgoglio e pregiudizio. Emily Bronte e Jane Austen. Attrazione per l’eccesso e salutare equilibrio. (Rosa Baldocci) (Translation)

Tessa besucht an der Uni ein Seminar, wo sie für Jane Austens Stolz und Vorurteil argumentiert. Emily Brontës Werk Wuthering Heighs (Sturmhöhe) spielt eine wichtige Rolle und romantische Dates gehören bei ihr in geschlossene Bibliotheken. Zuletzt bewirbt sie sich für ein Praktikum bei einem Verlag.
Zu jeder literaturinteressierten Protagonistin gehört außerdem ein Traummann, der sich ebenfalls für Bücher interessiert - und vorzugsweise die Merkmale eines Mr. Darcy oder eines Heathcliffe aufweist. (Esther Stroh) (Translation)

Culturopoing (France) reviews the DVD edition of the film The Triple Echo 1972:

Le travestissement génère parfois d’étranges déclinaisons visuelles autour d’une imagerie romantique contaminée ; un peu gothique, à la Hauts de Hurlevent, comme en témoigne cette fuite du jeune homme en robe de soirée à travers la forêt, tentant d’échapper à son poursuivant. (Olivier Rossignot) (Translation)

Cuarto Poder (Spain) talks about female mental health issues:

La literatura y el cine han alimentado el estereotipo de las mujeres con trastornos mentales con personajes como Bertha Mason, en ‘Jane Eyre’, una esposa en el ático al acecho del señor Rochester. O como Catherine Earnshaw, en ‘Cumbres Borrascosas’, tóxica con quienes la amaban. Eran las locas, las que destruían todo lo que las rodeaba. Las noticias también han contribuido a esta idea, asociando a estas mujeres con el peligro y la agresividad, personas de las que conviene alejarse. (Susana Ye) (Translation)

Neeo (Spain) announces that Paramount Channel will broadcast Jane Eyre 2011 tomorrow (17:45h); Ink Trails reviews Jane Eyre, the novel.