Heathcliff, the cat and the transfixer

Berkeley Library News explains what data mining is:

But first, what is text data mining?
Crack open a popular English language novel written in the 1850s — say, Brontë, Hawthorne, Dickens, or Melville — and you’ll notice a difference between how the authors describe male characters and female characters.
For example, the word “mind” might be used when describing a man, where “heart” is more likely to be used about a woman. Male characters might “get” something, while female characters are more likely to have “felt” it. But as the 20th century rolled around, these differences faded.

An article on Eidos mentions Villette and Jane Eyre:

A friend once complained to me for recommending Charlotte Brontë’s Villette to her, commenting that it was too depressing, and she wished Brontë had given it a happy ending like Jane Eyre. I didn’t tell her that was precisely why I preferred Villette: I love a good, sad story that doesn’t leave the reader with a tidied-up happy ending. My friend’s reaction, it seems, is indicative of the majority opinion. (Jill Bergen)

Bookselling This Week and a Brontëite cat:

 Emmett is fluent in Russian and spent the majority of the summer reading Tolstoy. Just kidding. Emmett prefers the Brontës and likens himself to Rochester, but he is more akin to Heathcliff. Emmett’s favorite hobby is catching bugs and letting them fly around in his mouth before he eats them (see... definitely a Heathcliff). To see more of Emmett’s adventures, follow #DammitEmmett on Instagram. (Liz Button)

Pen America interviews the journalist Zahra Hankir:

Lily Philpott: What was the first book or piece of writing that had a profound impact on you?
I was an introverted, imaginative, and pensive child; I’d often sit for hours in my room reading Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jane Austen and Emily Brontë (my mother was a fan of the latter two authors).

Andrea Busfield and his sentimental life in the Daily Mail:

The first time I encountered him, I was transfixed. Rugged and brooding, he showed me how all- consuming love could be.
I was only nine when Emily Bronte’s Heathcliff ruined me for all normal men. Lying on the sofa with a fever, I’d watched the film portrayal with Timothy Dalton. When I read the novel a few years later, I knew that if I was going to lose my heart to someone, this was how it would be.
Heathcliff’s love was bitter, greedy and eternal. I had no sympathy for his inamorata, Catherine, when she died. She settled for less by choosing a more conventional partner, and got what she deserved. I’d have waited for Heathcliff.
In fact, I’ve spent a lifetime waiting for him. But while, at 49, I’m alone, childless and possibly destined to remain that way, I’d far rather be single than settle.
Because while, four decades on, I recognise that Heathcliff is not the greatest ambassador for love, I can’t relinquish the ‘all-or-nothing’ ideal he represents. After Heathcliff came Mr Rochester, Mr Darcy, Rhett Butler and Ragnar Lothbrok from Vikings. In short, I yearn for strong, silent and fearless. (...)
In contrast, I probably expect too much. But no one has to wrestle with these expectations except me. And I’m fine with ‘just me’ if Heathcliff never materialises. 

Daily Times (Pakistan) has a reminder of the actress Madhubala:

Sangdil was a great movie, the second one of Madhubala-Dilip Kumar pair.
It was based on adaptation by writer Ramanand Sagar of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. This film was produced and directed by RC Talwar. This was one of the best romantic films I have seen in my life. Music by Sajjad Hussain and lyrics by Rajinder Krishen are superb. (Amjad Parvez)

Theatre Weekly reviews the recent Edinburgh Fringe Wuthering Heights adaptation:

Overall, a dramatisation of Wuthering Heights should serve to enlighten those who have not read the book, not further confuse those who have. These core technical faults, both in planning and execution, leave their mark on the show and draw away from the experience as a whole. However, if you are familiar with the story and wish to see the core cast envisioned through impressive talent, then it is this production of Wuthering Heights you should seek to see. (Ian Kirkland)

The Spinoff asks for better writing about disability:

Earlier writing hasn’t been totally without authenticity; the recognition by a disabled reader of character, plot and action that’s accurate, realistic, insightful and relatable – the hallmark of the best writing about disability. The short story The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, directly confronts the fearful stereotype of the Madwoman in the Attic in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. The Yellow Wallpaper is a feminist text on the treatment of women, and of depression. (Robyn Hunt)

A video in Televisión Universidad de Concepción (Chile) recommends Wuthering Heights:

En nuestra sección Letras, estuvimos con la book blogger, Francisca Cordero, quien entregó recomendó libros clásicos.
Entre el material comentado destaca Cumbres Borrascosas de Emily Brontë. (Translation)

Keighley News stills thrills with the Brontë Parsonage Museum at Haworth in UK's top 500 Lonely Planet's 'unmissable experiences'. An article in The Star Florida begins with an Anne Brontë quote. Kultura Onet (Poland) publishes a literary quiz with a Brontë-related question.