#TeamHaworth all day long

Den of Geek! talks about the latest season of Last Tango in Halifax:

In the sham rivalry that persists between devotees of Jane Austen (comedy, marriage, assembly room balls and card games) and the Brontë sisters (tragedy, passion, storm-swept moors and ghosts), you’d peg dramatist Sally Wainwright for the Brontë camp. A Yorkshirewoman who wrote and directed a luminous biopic about the sisters in 2016, she’d be #TeamHaworth all day long. (Loulsa Mellor)

Broadway World reviews the Jane Eyre performances in Hartford:

Elizabeth Williamson in her adaptation of the classic Brontë novel has done something quite difficult. She has taken a dense and complex tale and extracted the heart of the story in a way that is captivating and entertaining at the same time. Her script moves through the action quickly, getting to the meat of Jane's tale then playing it out for audiences to savor. As someone who was only peripherally familiar with the story (oddly enough, from the 2000 Broadway musical), it was easy to follow the plot and become quickly engaged in Jane's story. Ms. Williamson also does a great job with her direction - keeping the scenes moving quickly, using the rotating stage to strong effect. (...)
Jane Eyre is one of those plays that audience members either flock to because they love the source material or stay away from because of past opinions of the piece. This reviewer's hope is that both will come and give it a chance as this new adaptation feels fresh and new and illustrates why the story has survived (and thrived) for almost 175 years. (Joseph Harrison)

BingePost briefly reviews Heathcliff Redux

Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Tales, by Lily Tuck. (Atlantic Month-to-month, $23.) Within the novella that anchors this assortment, Tuck makes use of the identical flat, fragmentary type of her most up-to-date novel, “Sisters,” to reimagine Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel “Wuthering Heights” as a story of self-delusion and inner battle in 1960s Virginia. The story is written in a collection of quick, clipped sections, generally a few paragraphs, others not more than a line or two per web page. The “restrained however remarkably arresting” consequence, our reviewer Lucy Scholes writes, is “a grasp class in digression as a story machine.”

In today's The Times Daily Quiz:

2 The chorus of which Kate Bush No 1 begins: “Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy”? (Olav Bjortomt)

A reader of The Guardian has been reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

GELBuck has enjoyed imbibing Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
I understand that this was written to discourage drinking and debauchery and encourage good and Godly behaviour. I’m not sure it would work in that way today. The heroine is a priggish and saintly character who would be hard to live with while the hero is so wet you could grow cress on him. My sympathies were more with the villainous husband who would have been great company at a party even if you wouldn’t want him to drive your wife home afterwards. Having said that, I enjoyed the ‘will they, won’t they’ melodrama of the story and there were some delicious scenes. I particularly liked the four-year-old boy being taught to drink wine, gin and brandy and swear at his mother (don’t judge!) as well as one female character proposing to disgrace her family by earning her own living!

Bookriot suggests literary tourism in ... Austin, Texas:

The hallowed research halls of the Harry Ransom Center on the sprawling Austin campus of the University of Texas are filled with nearly 1 million books and 42 million manuscripts. Brontë family writings? They’re here. (Nicole Hill)

Film Threat reviews Emma 2020:

If you are looking for an in-depth comparison between Emma, the book, versus Emma, the movie, I fear you have come to the wrong place. I never read the book or all that much Jane Austen. I’m more of a Brontë sisters kinda gal, although I have made plans to read all of Jane Austen’s books at one time or another. If it makes any of you, who are clutching your pearls at my disgraceful lack of culture, seeing Autumn De Wilde’s adaptation of the beloved novel makes me want to read the source material. (Lorry Kikta)

LiteraryHub explores the character of Ramona Quimby:

Charlotte Brontë’s heroines, sometimes churlish, but stridently devoted to a trusted few, are granted—perhaps unexpectedly—an emotional afterlife in Katniss Everdeen of Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy. An arrow-slinging misanthrope, she, like Jane Eyre and Hermione, would sooner sacrifice herself than submit those she loves to suffering. After all, Katniss loves so few people. She is flinty and withholding, Lucy Snowe—the tricksy, taciturn heroine of Brontë’s Villette— as a dystopian action hero, and Collins doesn’t shield her young readers from the scorch of trauma that sears brain and body like a torch blazing in her abdomen. (Rachel Vorona Cote)

ActuaLitté (France) talks about the British Library online exhibition, Discovering Children's Books:

Discovering Children’s Books est une ressource en ligne gratuite pour les enfants, les enseignants ou tout amateur de littérature jeunesse. Des anciens manuscrits aux ouvrages contemporains, la collection retrace l’histoire et la grande diversité des livres pour enfants.
Plus de 100 ouvrages sont d’ores et déjà numérisés dont le manuscrit original d’Alice au Pays des merveilles, intitulé Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, une version du Petit Chaperon rouge de 1810, un bestiaire datant du XIIe siècle, une carte de Branwell Brontë illustrant The History of the Young Men (Brontë Juvenilia) et un carnet des premiers écrits connus de Charlotte Brontë. (Camille Cado) (Translation)

TeacherPhili reviews the Norwich performances of Wuthering Heights. Una isla de papel (Spain) talks about Charlotte Brontë's opinion about Jane Austen's novels. AnneBrontë.org posts about Edmund Dulac's illustrations of Brontë novels.