A Fire Blazing in Your Soul

From time to time, the Branwell-wrote-Wuthering-Heights BBC (Big Brontë Conspiracy) reappears. This time is an article in a Polish magazine Viva! from someone who apparently has read Eryk Ostrowski's book Tajemnice wichrowych wzgórz... Check this previous post (and others) to know more about the context.

Tajemnice sióstr Brontë – czy słynne „Wichrowe wzgórza” napisał  w rzeczywistości mężczyzna – Brawnell Brontë?  

Siostry żyły na odludziu, na wrzosowiskach, nikt dobrze ich nie znał. (...)

Losy sióstr Brontë – Charlotte (ur. 1816), Emily (ur. 1818) i Anny (ur. 1820) są cały czas odkrywane. W Anglii mówi się nawet o trwającej od dziesięcioleci Brontomanii. Do domu, w którym mieszkały pisarki, ciągną tysiące turystów, jak do Graceland Elvisa Presleya. Jakie tajemnice skrywają siostry Brontë, czy Emily była naprawdę autorką „Wichrowych wzgórz”? Dzisiaj podważa się jej autorstwo tej powieści. Jaką rolę pełnił w tym domu brat Branwell Brontë? (Agnieszka Dajbor) (Translation)

The News Bayside recommends the Shake and Stir production of Jane Eyre:

Jane Eyre will set a fire blazing in your soul. Brontë’s gothic tale of a spirited orphan in search of love, family and a sense of belonging will blaze its way to the Frankston Arts Centre in August. Audiences can witness one of the most iconic pieces of English literature retold in a faithful yet fiercely original new stage adaptation from the nationally renowned Shake & Stir Theatre Co (Animal Farm, Dracula).

The Corowa Free Press joins in with this recommendation. Warley Woods Community Trust is also eager to attend another touring Jane Eyre production, the Heartbreak Productions open-air one.

BFI explores the original locations of the film The Railway Children:

We then see the doctor’s house from the perspective of the edge of the graveyard. The house is one of the most famous houses in the whole of Yorkshire: the Brontë Parsonage. The building was home to the famous literary sisters and is today a museum dedicated to their lives and work.
We get a closer view of the parsonage once Peter has got the doctor’s attention. We see a shot of its main entrance when he goes in to collect his medical kit. The building is preserved today thanks to the Brontë Society. Doctor Forrest and Peter leave the parsonage through its distinctive stone-pillared gates. Again, it’s exactly as it is in the film. (Adam Scovell)

The Dewsbury Reporter celebrates the Dewsbury Minster Church:

Over the years many celebrated men and women have worshipped in the Minster Church.
Perhaps the most famous of them being The Reverend Patrick Brontë, who was curate at the church from 1807 to 1809.
He was the father of the famous Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Ann (sic) – who would learn much about the church from their father as they were growing up.
Charlotte and Ann would also attend services at their father’s former church when they came to study and teach at Healds House in Dewsbury Moor, and also at St John’s Church, Dewsbury Moor. (Jane Chippindale)

What to read in a rainy day, according to The Daily Star:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Along the same vein, contributor Shehrin Hossain says, "A rainy day spent indoors is like inhabiting a small, sad, secret realm—like the one Cathy and Heathcliff shared, suspended forever in lost childhood, shrouded in perpetual yearning. The rain makes me feel like that a lot, makes me miss something I can't quite place."
"And there are the atmospheric details of course. The sound of the wind coming off the moors—the fire crackling in the grate—Nelly knitting in the light of the fire—the wash of white noise enveloping everything as a jilted Heathcliff rides away into the night."

Cheap things to do on holidays according to The Face:

Walking… for fun? That’s right. If there’s one thing the UK has in abundance, it’s woods to wander through and hills to climb. Trick yourself into thinking you’re abroad by walking along the Welsh coastline on a sunny day, breathe in the fresh Scottish air as you attempt the West Highland Way, or reenact Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights music video on the Yorkshire Moors. (Olive Pometsey and Felicity Martin)

New summer books in The Young Folks:

What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri (July 5)

Macmillan’s Remixed Classics are so fresh and exciting and this Wuthering Heights retelling by fantasy author great Tasha Suri is no exception. Told from both Cathy and Heathcliff’s point of view, this invokes the same gothic atmosphere of the original but also adds a more hopeful perspective, focusing on the characters’ shared South Asian identity and their growing relationship as the two find solace and escape in one another on the moors. (Brianna Robinson)

Dear Author reviews the book. 

Two magazines talk about jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant;

 Her new album, Ghost Song, also one of the year’s best, features more of her original writing, as well as some modern covers: Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” and Sting’s “Until.” But the effect is similar: Songs are thrown out of their historical context to mix vintage theatricality with contemporary irony, vocal/piano recitals with push-and-pull small-combo jazz, anything to shake the song loose from the fashions of its day to make us confront the timelessness of human nature. (Geoffrey Himes in Paste)

Ghost Song je rozhodně hudebně nejčlenitější album Cécile McLorin Salvantové, a také albem s největším podílem jejích vlastních písní v neprospěch coverů a standardů, byť píseň Kate Bushové Wuthering Heights inspirovaná románem Emily Brontëové Na Větrné hůrce práci na albu podle zpěvačky odstartovala a dala jí směr. (Ondřej Bezr in Lidovky) (Translation)

El País (Spain) talks about the actress Isabelle Adjani:

Muchas veces se ha insinuado que su comportamiento en los rodajes ha sido problemático, lo que en el caso de Las hermanas Brontë (1979), de André Téchiné, le habría supuesto una rivalidad vitalicia con la otra grande de su generación, Isabelle Huppert. Adjani declaró en 2014, durante una entrevista al diario Libération, que si en los ochenta Huppert acaparó los mejores papeles del cine francés fue gracias a su relación sentimental con el productor Daniel Toscan du Plantier. Dos años más tarde, sin embargo, zanjó la cuestión en otra entrevista con L’Express asegurando que el supuesto pique era una invención de los medios que solo se sustentaba en que las dos compartían nombre de pila. (Ianko Lòpez) (Translation)

Spoiler Time ( in Spanish) interviews the actress and film director Ruth Platt about her new film Martyrs Lane ;

Sebastián Saco: ¿Dónde nace la idea de La huésped maldita?

Ruth Platt: (...)  Por otro lado, para esta historia me inspiré en las historias de misterio gótico femenino de las novelas de Brontës y de Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), historias de fantasmas de Wilkie Collins y las grandiosas películas de Guillermo del Toro. (Translation)