The best Branwell death

The Stage interviews the legendary Brian Blessed:

“The best thing I’ve ever done was play Branwell Brontë in a play by John Davison with the Mexborough Amateur Theatre Guild when I was 16-and-a-half,” he says. “My death scene tore audiences apart. ‘Branwell, hold on, hold on, hold on. I can’t, I can’t. What have I done with my life?’ And then he dies. I won everything. I’ve never quite equalled that.” (Fergus Morgan)

The Telegraph & Argus publishes some hints of this year's Bradford Literary Festival:

In celebration of the region’s best known writing family, UK fashion designer Giles Deacon will be presenting his collection of luxury linen and dinnerware, which was inspired by the Brontës sisters, entitled Dinner at Wildfell Hall.
The annual Brontë Heritage Weekend will also include an extensive outdoor programme of walking tours of Brontë country, historic areas of the city and the spectacular Victorian Undercliffe Cemetery with its commanding views over Bradford. (Mark Stanford)

The New York Times interviews the poet Ocean Vuong:

What books are on your night stand?
O.V.: “A Lesson Before Dying,” by Ernest J. Gaines, “Walking in Wonder,” by John O’Donohue (in conversation with John Quinn), “A Death in the Family,” by James Agee, “Afropessimism,” by Frank B. Wilderson, “We Think the World of You,” by J.R. Ackerley, “Jane Eyre,” by Charlotte Brontë, “Hot Milk,” by Deborah Levy, “Poetics of Relation,” by Édouard Glissant, “The Sign of Jonas,” by Thomas Merton.

The Derry Journal reports a special screening of the film Spears by Gerard Lough, whose title comes from a Wuthering Heights quote: 

Fittingly, the film’s title is taken from the Emily Brontë quote; “Treachery and violence are spears pointed by both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.” 

The Irish Examiner interviews the author Jan Carson:

Des O'Driscoll: First book that really moved you:

J.C.: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

The author Laure Van Rensburg in Crime Reads talks about 'the dark side of feminism' and particularly her novel Nobody But Us... that we hope will be better than her knowledge of who wrote what:

In Nobody But Us I use Emily Brontë’s Jane Eyre to explore that double standard and the bias towards men’s behavior. When asked, most people would describe Jane Eyre as a gothic romance, and many readers root for Jane and Mr Rochester to end up together. But in my eyes Mr Rochester is not a nice man and definitely not a romantic lead: he toys with Jane — a woman much younger than him and his employee on top of it—and makes her jealous for his own amusement or to assert his power and dominance. Most readers feel sorry for him, and for his being tricked into marriage with Bertha. Personally, I feel sorry for Bertha, a woman plagued by mental illness, first betrayed by her brother and then her husband, locked away instead of cared for. We seem to be more forgiving when it comes to male protagonists and their likability. I haven’t really come across the notion of unlikeable male characters. They are normally deemed fascinating or complex. Morally corrupt male protagonists have inhabited the thriller and crime genre for a long time, from Tom Ripley, to Patrick Bateman.

Tidal Magazine talks about the latest album by Cécile McLorin Salvant, Ghost Song:

On Nonesuch, her labelmates range more broadly, from singer-songwriters to contemporary-classical composers, and though she denies that the brand has impacted her aesthetic, it’s impossible not to hear a different Cécile on the record’s opening track, a searing cover of Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights.” (Martin Johnson)

GoBookmart has a selection of 'hidden gems' of famous authors:

Villette

 This book, not as popular as Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” is nevertheless as great a classic. It follows a woman, who assumes the role of a teacher at a women’s school in the fictional city of Villette. Here, however, she falls in love with another professor, leading to tragic circumstances. This is a story of a woman’s love, and is deeply underrated. (Sakshi)

ShortList makes a list (sic) of the best debut novels of all time:

 23. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte's first manuscript, The Professor, did not secure a publisher, although she was heartened by an encouraging response from Smith, Elder & Co., who expressed an interest in any longer works she might wish to send. Charlotte responded by finishing and sending a second manuscript in August 1847. Six weeks later Jane Eyre: An Autobiography was published and it revolutionised the art of fiction. Since then Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness'. Exploring themes of classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism, there's a lot going on in Jane Eyre, but never at the expense of enjoyment. (Marc Chacksfield)

People's World reviews the latest film by Jacques Audiard, Les Olympiades, Paris 13e;

Camille’s younger sister Éponine (Camille Léon-Fucien plays the stuttering standup comic whose speech impediment disappears when she performs comedy) points out that she has the same first name as a character in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. Indeed, all the leads have literary-related names: Although he’s male, Camille is likely a reference to the female lover in Alexandre Dumas’s novel La Dame aux Camélias and Giuseppe Verdi’s operatic adaptation of it, La Traviata. Nora may refer to the wife of James Joyce, author of Ulysses, while Émilie may be meant to conjure up the Brontë sister who wrote Wuthering Heights, or possibly it’s the female version of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s treatise Émile, or On Education. But who knows for sure? (Ed Rampell)

Johan Nilsson visited the Brontë Parsonage in Haworth and writes about the Brontés (and their deaths) in Göteborgs-Posten (Sweden):

Från Haworth kan man gå rakt ut på heden och göra långa vandringar bland ljung, får och små porlande bäckar. Stigarna är leriga, regnskurarna kommer snabbt och oväntat. Allt är perfekt.

Om man vill kan man vandra till en enslig beläget ruin som eventuellt var förlagan till gården Svindlande höjder i Emilys roman med samma namn. Det är den mest kända Brontëromanen, tillsammans med storasyster Charlottes ”Jane Eyre”.

Inne i prästgården finns originalmanus och personliga tillhörigheter utställda. Bisarrt nog kan man se en näsduk med bevarade blodfläckar som lillasyster Anne hostade upp innan hon dog i tuberkulos 1849.

För det är ju det: att de dog allihop. Unga. (Translation)

Sun ThisWeek reviews Jane Eyre 2011:

Striking cinematography dominates this touching, heartbreaking, moor-dotted, well-acted film based on the 1847 Charlotte Brontë romantic classic in which an orphaned, strong-willed English girl (Amelia Clarkson) is rejected by her wealthy, neglectful, cruel aunt (Sally Hawkins); survives an education at a school run by an abusive, strict staff (Simon McBurney, et al.); overcomes her tragic, dark past when she is hired by a longtime housekeeper (Dame Judy Dench) to be the governess (Mia Wasikowska) for the French-speaking ward (Romy Settbon Moore) of a wealthy, secretive, handsome cynic (Michael Fassbender); and subsequently, is befriended by a kindhearted missionary (Jamie Bell) and his two sisters (Holliday Grainger and Tamzin Merchant) during the 1800s. (Wendy Schadewald)

InStyle (Germany) lists costume dramas for 2022:

Emily

Emily Brontë, die bereits im zarten Alter von 30 Jahren starb, schrieb nur einen einzigen Roman. Der verhalf ihr allerdings auch noch lange nach ihrem Tod zu Weltruhm, der gesellschaftskritische Roman "Sturmhöhe" zählt heute zu den Meisterwerken der britischen Literatur. Frances O’Connor rückt mit ihrem Regie-Debüt "Emily" jetzt das Leben dieser grandiosen Schriftstellerin in den Fokus und erzählt damit eine einfühlsame "Coming of Age"-Geschichte. Nachwuchs-Talent Emma Mackey portraitiert die rebellische Emily Brontë auf eindringliche Weise vor der naturgewaltigen Kulisse der Hochebene von Yorkshire. (Christine Korte) (Translation)

Hürriyet (Turkey) talks about narrative techniques and uses Wuthering Heights as an example for time frames.