The throes of a sort of moral earthquake

ET Canada is still taking for granted that Emma Mackey will be playing Emily Brontë soon.

A former literature student, Mackey will next take on the role of Brontë in “Emily”. Explaining there were “lots of elements that felt right” about taking on the part, the actress has a set of requisites when choosing the characters she plays. (Rachel West)

Shoosmiths uses Shirley by Charlotte Brontë in order to explain what Luddites are/were.

Being scared of new technology and seeking its elimination isn’t a new fad. In 1779, the apocryphal weaver Ned Ludd is said to have broken two stocking frames, a type of mechanical knitting machine, in a fit of rage.

He certainly wasn’t the first to rail against unwelcome new technology and he won’t be the last. To be a Luddite was to court potential disaster. Rushed through as an emergency measure, the UK Parliament passed the Destruction of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1812 which made breaking frames punishable by death. As Charlotte Brontë noted about the widespread disorder in her novel Shirley, ‘the throes of a sort of moral earthquake, were felt heaving under the hills of the northern counties.’

Screen Rant, based on IMDb rating, ranks the '10 Best Gothic Romance Movies', including

7/10

Jane Eyre (2011) - 7.3

Jane Eyre is one of the most influential stories in the genre. It has been adapted numerous times, but the 2011 adaptation, starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, finally strikes the correct balance between the gothic and romantic elements of Charlotte Brontë's text. A series of mysterious happenings at Thornfield cause Jane to be ill-at-ease: strange laughter coming from a room upstairs, things in the house being set on fire in the middle of the night, and a violent encounter that leaves a man nearly dead.

Rochester, a classic Byronic hero, adds to this mystery by his avoidance of the subject and his refusal to give any clear explanation as to what is happening.

6/10

Wuthering Heights (1939) - 7.6

Wuthering Heights is another classic of the gothic romance genre. This film adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë focuses on the first half of the narrative, smartly excluding the troubles of the second generation and making for a more streamlined, modest telling of Cathy and Heathcliff's story.

When a man comes upon Wuthering Heights on a stormy evening, he's met with cruelty and cold indifference by Heathcliff (played brilliantly by Lawrence Olivier), the master of the house. The dark interior and the sprawling moors provide a setting that lends itself to a supernatural paranoia felt by both the characters and the audience. This story leaves ambiguous whether or not anything truly paranormal is going on, or if Heathcliff's grief has simply driven him mad. (Madilyn Ivey)

In Vogue (Spain), Spanish writer Olga Merino recommends books by women writers to be read in October. We have the three sisters there:

‘Cumbres borrascosas’, de Emily Brontë

Cumbres borrascosas, de Emily Brontë recomendaciones libros

“Un novelón con tintes de tragedia clásica donde los páramos de Yorkshire, peinados por el viento, lucen en su máximo esplendor gótico. Una pasión arrebatada, el amor de ultratumba entre Catherine Earnshaw y el salvaje Heathcliff, el gran héroe byroniano. Con un plus: la traducción es de Carmen Martín Gaite”. Más información: Alba editorial.

‘Jane Eyre’, de Charlotte Brontë

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“Una infancia de hospicio, un trabajo de institutriz pobretona y un matrimonio convulso. ¿Caben más ingredientes victorianos en una sola novela? Inolvidable el personaje de la loca encerrada en el desván. Y una frase para el recuerdo esculpida en piedra: «No soy un pájaro y ninguna red me atrapa». La traducción, también de Martín Gaite”. Más información: Alba Editorial.

‘La inquilina de Wildfell Hall’, de Anne Brontë

La inquilina de Wildfell Hall, de Anne Brontë recomendaciones libros

“La posteridad ha sido injusta con la pequeña de las hermanas Brontë, pues esta novela no desmerece en absoluto el crédito de la estirpe. Causó un gran revuelo cuando se publicó, en 1848, por su osadía: la protagonista se atreve a abandonar el hogar conyugal por maltrato. Un texto protofeminista”. Más información: Alianza. (Translation)

Spark Notes has a quiz challenging readers to distinguish between actual lines from Wuthering Heights or Sam Smith's lyrics.