One tweet from Stephen Fry boosted the appeal last month to save a secret £15million treasure trove of literary masterpieces, which are at risk of being split up and sold after staying hidden for a century.
Following Fry’s intervention, I can reveal that T.S. Eliot’s trustees, 56 years after his death, have donated £50,000 to help save the manuscripts of Charlotte Brontë, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns for the nation. (Richard Eden and Juliet Conway)
But what most catches the eyes is the extraordinary trove of Brontëana. There are seven exquisitely produced miniature books written, illustrated, and bound by the teenage Charlotte, chronicling adventures in her imagined world of Glass Town. We have always known that, after Emily’s death, Charlotte found a notebook of her younger sister’s poetry, but it has been assumed that the verses themselves were irretrievably lost. Yet now here that notebook is, filled with 31 Emily Brontë poems in her own hand for academics and enthusiasts to pore and purr over. (...)Yet hold awhile. Jane Austen continues to grow as (please don’t hit me) a global brand. The Brontës inspire more and more generations around the world. Scott has always been venerated on the Continent, and especially in this year of the 250th anniversary of his birth his reputation is resurgent in his homeland, the Scotland whose identity he more or less invented. To the Scots, Rabbie Burns is more than a national bard; he is a personal friend. (...)Sotheby’s has agreed to hold off the sale until November, allowing a new-forged and unprecedented consortium of British libraries (Oxford’s Bodleian; the British Library; the Brotherton, in Leeds; the National Library of Scotland; inter alia) time to raise the needful, a gulp-inducing $21 million. Their plan is to keep the collection whole in name and substance, but collaborating and sharing elements with their most natural homes. To Abbotsford, the vast mansion Sir Walter built that now serves as the Scott museum; to Jane Austen’s House, in Hampshire; to the Haworth Brontë Parsonage Museum; to the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, in Alloway. Public access remains the key. The palpable physicality of the handwritten is especially to be prized in our Digital Age. You can almost hear the scratch of pens racing across the paper in these astonishing diaries, letters, and notebooks. (..)Reader, as Charlotte B. liked to apostrophize, perhaps you can help?
The New York Times interviews the writer Alice McDermott:
What kind of reader were you as a child? Which childhood books and authors stick with you most?
A.MD: (...) By the time I was ready for my own high school summer reading list, I was grateful for “girl books”: “Wuthering Heights” and “Jane Eyre” and “Rebecca,” “Silas Marner,” “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” Of course, we were also assigned classics like “The Great Gatsby” and “A Farewell to Arms” and “Great Expectations,” but I knew by then that not everyone read books in the same swooning way I read them.
Favourite authors, whose books you always devour?
Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Strout or Margaret Atwood.
Coming back to the film, Dhadkan was released in 2000 and has been directed by Dharmesh Darshan. The romantic drama is inspired by the novel Wuthering Heights and also features Mahima Chaudhary, Parmeet Sethi, Kiran Kumar, Sushma Seth and Manjeet Kullar in pivotal roles.
Mr. Lockwood, the frame-narrator of Wuthering Heights, describes a feverish nightmare in which, during a blizzard, he sees a child outside his window begging to be let in. He is so undone by the appearance of this wraith that he drags its wrist across the broken pane of glass, until its blood soaks his bedsheets. “Terror made me cruel,” he says.
The Yorkshire Moors, England, UK
The wild and bleak scenery of the Yorkshire moors are central to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. All of the Brontë siblings were both inspired and oppressed by the haunting beauty of the moors that edged their isolated home in Haworth, West Yorkshire. The ruined farmhouse of Top Withens, which looms out of the brooding moorland nearby the Brontë Parsonage, is thought to have been the inspiration for Heathcliff's dwelling in Emily’s haunting masterpiece. (Rachel Truman)
Brontë’s traditional novel tells the story of a young girl’s effort to make something of herself in the world, from the autocracy she undergoes as a poor orphan under her Aunt’s shelter and the horrible situations she lives in at Lowood school to the dark mysteries she experiences in her role as Governess at Thornfield Hall, the home of the mysterious and attractive Mr. Rochester.
Strong-willed and resilient, Jane longs for the freedom that Victorian England denied the women, and her tale continues as a timeless instance of a woman’s courage to choose her direction in life in the face of suffering and ridicule. (Elvisa Dabre)
Heathcliff é um jovem órfão que foi adotado pela família Earnshaw. Odiado por Hidley e apaixonado por Catherine, seus novos “irmãos”, Heathcliff passa por muitas humilhações e decepções quando os seus pais adotivos morrem. A história de amor entre Heathcliff e Cathy, é marcada principalmente pela vingança. (Translation)
Wedding quotes, including one by Charlotte Brontë, in R.S.V.P. (México). Summer 2021 at the Parsonage Garden is the latest entry on the Brontë Parsonage Museum News section.
Finally, some websites and social media are sharing this poster for the upcoming Frances O'Connor film Emily. It's not official, as far as we know, but looks quite plausible.
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