1 Wuthering Heights, by Emily BrontëIt took me a while to get into this book but now it is permanently in my heart. I love the convoluted storytelling — the first person narrator, a stranger passing by who stays the night with a bewildering family, dreaming strange dreams. Then the narration switches to the family nurse who tells a story from generations ago, which explains the current circumstances. I also love the wildness of the characters — their jealousies, pains, passions and obsessions — as well as the unabashed antisocialism of the world contained at Wuthering Heights and the love story at the heart of the book. [...]10 Jane EyreCharlotte BrontëBefore there was “Wuthering Heights,” there was “Jane Eyre.” I will never forget reading the first chapter and the shock of recognition — the narrator is a young girl living with a family she is tangentially related to, and she longs for freedom. In time, she becomes independent (after a series of hardships which she endures stoically) all the while earning her living and finding love in the end. I love her for her plain, sturdy, sensible character. I identify with her.
The Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeSeries: Thursday NextThe book that taught me what “surrealist writing” could be. I love this example of Jane Eyre‘s influence on literature. It’s hilarious and absurdist and if I had a child, it’s possible I’d have named them Thursday. (Tika Viteri)
Told the British Library holds a copy of every publication published in the UK — but didn't find my own books amongst the Austen and Brontë... 😂🤷♀️
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Absolutely loved my time there earlier this week. A very welcome distraction from Westminster ! pic.twitter.com/Wm0EsWchZ5
No obstante, incluso esa literatura considerada heteronormativa, podría ser subvertida y cuestionada, llevando así la situación al absurdo y poniendo a ese lector heterosexual convencido en un incómodo brete. “A mí Jane Eyre me parece una novela bastante queer en un sentido laxo porque, obviamente, el concepto de lo queer es histórico y posterior al siglo XIX”, comenta Rodrigo García Marina. “El trato que se da alrededor del deseo en Jane Eyre no es para nada convencional. ¿Convierte esto a Charlotte Brontë o a sus lectoras en lesbianas? Por el contrario, Sartoris, de Faulkner no versa sobre estos temas. ¿Podemos los lectores LGTB leer esa novelas? ¿Faulkner está para nosotrxs? ¿Vamos a ser capaces de entenderle?”. (Eduardo Bravo) (Translation)
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever' is coming to Fairview Park in Dublin on Saturday, July 30 – inviting people to do their "finest Kate Bush garb" for a group performance of the iconic dance routine in support of Women's Aid. (Emily Greenberg)
Wuthering High School (2015)"Wuthering High School," a television film based on the 1847 Emily Brontë novel "Wuthering Heights," is a story of revenge and obsession. The film takes the premise of Brontë's original story and updates it to modern-day Malibu, California — and let's just say that the scenery change from dark and dreary to "always sunny" doesn't exactly work. So where does James Caan fit into all of this? Well, he plays Mr. Earnshaw, of course, the father to the protagonist Catherine "Cathy" Earnshaw (played here by Paloma Kwiatkowski).It's important that we don't understate Caan's performance here. Playing a concerned father, Caan knocks his role in "Wuthering High" out of the park in a way that only he can, and his chemistry with Paloma Kwiatkowski really sells their roles as father and daughter. Of course, the melodrama of "Wuthering High" brings it down a peg or two, and unless you're currently in high school yourself you might not see as much value in this film as you might in others on Caan's filmography. Regardless, if you really want to see Caan play a struggling father, there are far better movies on this list. (Michael John Petty)
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak.Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”–Charlotte Brönte
Paula Rego: Secrets and StoriesBBC4, 9pmPaula Rego, who died in June, is generally accepted as one of the leading figures in contemporary British painting, although she was of Portuguese origin and British only by marriage and long residence. This revealing 2017 documentary, made by her son, the film-maker Nick Willing, is fascinating. Growing up in a repressed and troubled middle-class household in fascist Portugal, Rego poured her fears and imagination into painting, including illustrating texts such as Jane Eyre or Peter Pan. Willing uses interviews new and old and home video footage to great effect, but the strongest element is Rego herself, opening up about the darkness behind her work. (Ben Dowell)
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