Literary references aplenty

Sussex Express presents the first poetry book by nature writer Richard Williamson, The Flights of the Mind:

There are literary references aplenty too with his Black Redstart a homage to Adlestrop by Edward Thomas and The Peregrine inspired by Tennyson’s Eagle. The Brontë sisters feature in his Ring Ouzel. (Joe Stack)

Crisis Magazine publishes a review of Wuthering Heights from a Christian perspective, which is almost a eulogy of Nelly Dean:

The light of Christianity penetrates the darkness of the novel in the words and actions of Nelly Dean. It is she who attempts to bring the plot’s protagonists to their senses. She warns Heathcliff that “[p]roud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” These words of wisdom will serve as the very defining moral and motto of the novel. The whole story is the weaving of the sad sorrows brought upon the main protagonists by their own pride. 

The wisdom of Nelly’s words, and the suspicion that they are the words of the author speaking vicariously, are present in an exchange with Catherine, in which Nelly emerges as an incisive Christian theologian. (Joseph Pearce)

Vogue lists the most expected period dramas for 2022: 

Emily

Emily Brontë, who died aged 30, just a year after the publication of Wuthering Heights, is the subject of Frances O’Connor’s ambitious directorial debut. With Emma Mackey in the titular role, it imagines her tumultuous coming of age as a reclusive rebel in the Yorkshire moors. (Radhika Seth) 

The Daily Sabah lists the toughest books to read according to 'research' (which research it is not said):

"Jane Eyre" is a bildungsroman, in other words, a story that shows the development of a character from past to present. The book takes on the life of Jane Eyre, who was orphaned at a young age and left boarding school to work as a tutor in a mansion. Things take a turn for the worse when Jane Eyre falls in love with the mansion's mysterious lord. The writer questions Christian morality at its foundation. What makes this challenging to read: The constant change of narration between characters. (...)

Brontë released "Wuthering Heights" under the pseudonym Ellis Bell since women writers were not taken seriously at the time. The novel is considered one of the classics of English literature today and is the author's first and last book. Although it may seem like a romance novel at first glance, it reveals the oppression of the Victorian era and its negative reflections. Things that make the book difficult to read: Mid-Victorian language and the slow unfolding of the plot.

A top 10 of stories retold from the POV of a minor character in The Independent:

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys, 1966. Prequel to (so not quite “retold”) Jane Eyre, told by Mr Rochester’s wife, the “madwoman in the attic”. Nominated by Sonia Nolten, Ann Howarth, Emzles and Alastair Meeks. (John Rentoul)

The Seahawk reviews the UNCW’s production of The Moors:

UNCW’s ‘The Moors’ mixes 19th century Brontë class and comedy with Hitchcock’s horror and suspense. (...)

Set on the dreary, haunting moors of England, this story features a twisting roller-coaster ride of events and secrets that cannot help but pull the audience in, only to keep them in the dark. Early uncertainty in the show is reminiscent of Hitchcock’s mysteries such as Rebecca, with all the beauty, class and attitude of society women in Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre. (Kiley Woods)

The Canberra Times reviews Siri Hustvedt's Mothers, Fathers, and Others; 

There is also an essay on the difficulties of interpretation presented by Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, which Hustvedt has been reading since she was 13. (Amy Walters)

Also in The Canberra Times, a review of This is the Canon by Joan Anim-Addo, Deidre Osborne, and Kadjia Sesay George:

The authors focus unduly on the programmatical, moralising aspects of their 50 books. Wide Sargasso Sea is shorn of much of its (considerable) charm by concentrating on themes and issues.  (Mark Thomas)

The Halifax Courier celebrates the 20th anniversary of the local company Fuel Storage Solutions based in Thornton:

From Brighouse to a historic chapel in village where the Brontë sisters were born this business continues to grow. (...)

Thornton is a village on the outskirts of Bradford which is best known as the birthplace of the Brontë sisters. (Ian Hirst)

Grown-up escapes in the UK in The Times:

The Black Swan, Oldstead, North Yorkshire
Cue your Cathy and Heathcliff moment. Calm down, pedants. We know Haworth was Emily Brontë’s inspiration for the dramatic Wuthering Heights landscape, but we’re taking literary licence and suggesting you drive a little further north to combine the wily, windy moors with this excellent adults-only, Michelin-starred restaurant with rooms. (Lisa Grainger)

The San Diego Union-Tribune reviews The Regency Book of Drinks by Amy Finley:

A longtime lover of the novels of Austen and Charlotte Brontë, as well as an expert in cocktails and cocktail history, Finley came up with the idea of writing a book that combined the “Bridgerton” sensibility with her now-encyclopedic knowledge of all things boozy. (Karla Peterson)

The Herald (Zimbabwe) reviews Harare North by Brian Chikwava:

It is under the chestnut tree that the anti-hero meets Cde Commander Mhiripiri (MFH). It may be an epitome of love, hope, and spiritual connectedness as in Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre”, but because it is a rare tree susceptible to attack from the chestnut blight, the solution it offers is ephemeral. (Elliot Ziwira)

Bomb Magazine interviews the writer Samantha Hunt:

In Hunt’s first book-length work of nonfiction, The Unwritten Book: An Investigation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), she again dwells in the liminal space between real and unreal, acknowledging and often celebrating phenomena that lack rational explanation. She attends a conference for people who can commune with the dead, or so they say; seeing these mystics mill about in daylight weakens her belief, but not before she secures a book blurb from Charlotte Brontë. 

La Stampa (Italy) reviews the Italian new translation of Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë:

Charlotte Brontë era un’amica geniale, curava la tristezza con l’immaginazione

La romanziera Elizabeth Gaskell ricostruì la vita della compagna dopo la scomparsa, su richiesta del padre. Attraverso lettere e viaggi ne raccontò l’infanzia, i lutti, la passione per la politica e il disegno, il talento. (Alessia Gazzola) (Translation)

Vogue (Spain) talks about the essay by Noelia Cortés, La Higuera de las Gitanas:

Lo que habría podido ser y no fue es un pensamiento que orbita en torno a la higuera de Cortés. Esos higos inalcanzables en las ramas más altas del árbol. Igual que Virginia Woolf se preguntaba en su Habitación Propia cómo habría sido Orgullo y Prejuicio si Jane Austen no hubiese tenido la necesidad de ocultar bajo la mesa el manuscrito cada vez que se abría la puerta de la estancia, o cómo habría sido Jane Eyre si Charlotte Brontë no hubiese estado tan enfadada con el mundo, Noelia Cortés se pregunta: “¿estoy yo a tiempo de escribir mi propia literatura en igualdad a las demás?” La respuesta está en este ensayo, que necesitaba ser escrito y leído. (Alba Correa) (Translation) 

Culturopoing (France) reviews the film Dead of Night 1945:

Des influences gothiques, évoquant Jane Eyre ou Le Secret derrière la porte (The Christmas Party d’Alberto Cavalcanti), à ces éléments victoriens, tels que la calèche, le spectre de l’enfant, ou le miroir, c’est tout un pan de l’Histoire anglaise qui se retrouve propulsé en pleine après-guerre. (Jean-François Dickeli) (Translation)

A reader of The Press & Journal quotes Emily Brontë in a letter to the journal; quotes by Charlotte and Emily Brontë in Donna Glamour (Italy) and DiLei (Italy). Le'ts Fox About It reviews The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner.