Wuthering Heights for depressives

Lyndall Gordon reviews LEL: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon by Lucasta Miller for New Statesman America.

So it is that the life of a long-forgotten “poetess” turns out to showcase an unmarked period in English literary history between the licence of the younger Romantic poets and the moralistic cant of the Victorians. Once again Miller refreshes literary history, as in her earlier The Brontë Myth (2001), with the shifting shapes of critical ideology, sometimes simplistic, sometimes absurd, down the years. [...]
I hear the spiritual, the kind,
The pure, but named in mirth;
Till all of good, ay, even hope,
Seem exiled from our earth.
The aspiring poet sells her soul – her gift itself – for ephemeral fame, as she shifts in line with the market from one persona to another. One of her admirers, the poet Elizabeth Barrett, reflecting on Landon’s “raw bare powers”, said, “I fancy it would have worked out better… with the right moral and intellectual influences.”
This observation is borne out by the contrasting fate of the young Charlotte Brontë, another admirer of LEL, who shared a wish “to be forever known”. At first Brontë wasted her gift on romantic fancies, in thrall to the Byronic temper she and her brother stoked. But then she transformed herself under a first-class teacher in M Heger, who set a standard of sense and correctness. Letitia Landon had no such luck, and after a malicious Times exposé in 1826, the facts of which she denied, scandal crept upon her. 

Leeds-List suggests '15 Insanely Good Days Out in Yorkshire That You Don’t Need a Car For' and one of them is

Visit the village where the Brontë Sisters grew up
You can reach the picturesque village of Haworth with a 20-minute bus journey from Keighley Station. You’ll feel as though you’ve stepped back in time as you take the cobbled street up to the famWuthering Heights’. (Emma Cooke)
ous Brontë Parsonage. Here you can see their 19th century home and rare diary entries by each of the sisters. Afterwards, follow the trail up to Top Withens, which inspired Emily Brontë’s world-famous novel ‘

'Rare diary entries by each of the sisters' indeed!

Prolific North tells about a new project by Screen Yorkshire and the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council called Beyond Brontës.

Beyond Brontës has been established by Screen Yorkshire and the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council and will offer support to young people from a diverse range of backgrounds and circumstances to overcome obstacles that may be facing barriers that have traditionally prevented them from entering the screen industries.
“The screen industries are one of the least diverse sectors in the UK. This is in spite of a desire to be more representative of the population as a whole,” explained Sam Fray, 'Beyond Brontës' Programme Manager at Screen Yorkshire.
“Whilst there is strong interest in the film & TV production sector amongst our region’s young people, representation by ethnic minorities and those from working class communities remains very low. ‘Beyond Brontës’ aims to address this by supporting young people to develop the skills, confidence and connections to succeed in the screen industries.’’ (Stephen Chapman)

BQ also talks about it. And on Twitter, the Brontë Parsonage Museum thinks that the Brontës would have 'approved of this new initiative'.

Prospect features Jeanette Winterson and her literary career.

In 2017 Winterson gave a talk on modernising the institution of matrimony at the Hay Festival. The lecture touched on literary and historical examples from Shakespeare to Jane Eyre (which she described as Wuthering Heights for depressives) to point out the inequalities enshrined within marriage. “We don’t talk about women who have sex outside of marriage as fallen anymore,” she says, “but we still have double standards—the slut, the stud, the one who sews his wild oats.” And yet, she explains, “marriage is too important, too embedded, for any of us to take for granted. The fuss about civil partnerships and lately equal marriage has brought marriage into the news in a way that I think is wholly good.” (AN Devers)

On the Brontë Parsonage Blog, Richard Wilcocks shares a contemporary review of Wuthering Heights 1978.