Inspired by Charlotte Brontë

A couple of sites tell about
Joan Bakewell receiving a BAFTA Fellowship and thanking Charlotte Brontë in her speech.

The BAFTA Fellowship was given to 86-year-old arts doyenne Joan Bakewell, described by Kirsty Wark as “still impossibly cool”. Bakewell said her career inspiration was Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, whose determination that women should express themselves as men do made a major impression on her aged 12. (Michael Hogan in The Telegraph)

Journalist and broadcaster Baroness Joan Bakewell was honoured with the Bafta Television Fellowship.
She told the ceremony she had been inspired by Charlotte Brontë at the age of 12, and had been determined to make it in a male-dominated industry.
"It has been a long journey, and along the way I've had the encouragement and professional support of many, many women, making their own bid to [have] as much a chance as men. And possibly earn as much. That would be nice." (BBC News)

The Telegraph also has an article on what the Arctic explorers read and quotes from what Apsley Cherry-Garrard wrote in his 1922 memoir The Worst Journey in the World.

Cherry-Garrard offered advice to those donating books: “We were very well provided with such authors as Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Bulwer-Lytton and Dickens,” he began. “With all respect to the kind givers of these books I would suggest that the literature most acceptable to us ... was the best of the more recent novels, such as Barrie, Kipling, Merriman and Maurice Hewlett. We certainly should have taken with us as much of Shaw, Barker, Ibsen and Wells as we could lay our hands on,” he adds, “for the train of ideas started by these works and the discussions to which they would have given rise would have been a godsend to us in our isolated circumstances.” (Lucy Davies)

The Spinoff (New Zealand) reviews The Porpoise by Mark Haddon.

There are echoes of Jane Eyre as a dramatic finale suggests there’s hope for the 21st century woman, but the message is it’s likely to be at the detriment of women’s health and sanity. Nonetheless, as demonstrated by the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, women are stronger together. It’s a powerful message Haddon conveys: the “twenty-first woman rises”, she is stronger now, her voice is being heard, “she runs with a band of women across rolling grassland, over hard, packed sand, through fine columns of leaf light through trees…They become a thousand arrows falling from a clear sky, into bark, into grass, into fur, into flesh…Then they are the wolves…tearing out the slippery liver of and kidneys of the man who kidnapped her.” (Chloe Blades)

Revista de Arte (Spain) features the 1928 silent film The Wedding March.

Escribe Román Gubern, coordinador del ciclo: [...] “Pero esta serie de relaciones seductoras cubriría un amplísimo espectro, como ya había ocurrido en la historia del teatro (Shakespeare, Lope de Vega) y de la poesía –que habían precedido en varios siglos a la industria del cine– así como el posterior de la novela (Flaubert, Brontë). Y así las pantallas ofrecieron esta amplia gama de emociones: desde el amor auténtico al amor fugaz, pasando por el coqueteo trivial y el amor fingido, insincero e interesado. Toda esta serie de sentimientos, muy rica en matices y que el cine ha sabido expresar a través del primer plano de los rostros y la iluminación, está ilustrada en el ciclo cinematográfico que aquí presentamos”. (Translation)

La Razón (Spain) on Balthus and his Wuthering Heights-related paintings.

[Sabine Rewald, curator at the Met] explica en «Balthus: Cats and Girls» que al pintor le interesaba esa dualidad de la adolescencia como resultado de su pasión por «Cumbres borrascosas». De hecho, cuenta que fue el primer artista en Francia en intentar ilustrar la novela de Emily Brontë, aunque no terminaría el proyecto. «Balthus se identificaba profundamente con este libro y (en sus dibujos) otorgó a Heathcliff sus propios rasgos, mientras que Cathy tiene los de su futura esposa, Antoinette de Watteville», escribe Rewald. Las ilustraciones para «Cumbres borrascosas» le servirían como base de la mayor parte de las obras que realizaría más adelante. (D. Mendoza) (Translation)