Transformation is a Constant

Filth Magazine publishes a short essay about Wuthering Heights:

Never Speak Never Touch Never Transform: Wuthering Heights as a Transgressive Object in the 21st Century. (...)

Language is transgression and the primary mode of revelation. I am ostensibly writing about Wuthering Heights but see no need to focus on it in microcosmic fashion. Much has been written about the book. Therefore let us start with a checklist of accepted facts and move on from there. The book clearly concludes the following:

(1)  we have no power to tell our own stories;

(2)  marriage is a form of economic sadism;

(3)  transformation is a constant. (Josiah Morgan)

Condé Nast Traveller looks into the shooting locations of The Railway Children Return:

Haworth’s other claim to fame is as the home of the Brontë family, and the great novelists’ family house is also featured: the Brontë Parsonage Museum, as it’s now known, is the doctor’s house in the original film and reappears in the sequel. Found on Church Street, it was built in 1779 and since 1893 has been the home of the Brontë Society as well as a museum housing manuscripts and artefacts of the sisters’ lives, open to visitors from Wednesday to Saturday (see bronte.org.uk for details). (James Medd)

The Telegraph recommends visiting Bradford over the 'overcrowded' Bath:

Another great walk is out to Haworth, there to do the Brontë sights, if you’re missing your 19th-century female novelists. (Chris Moss)

A recommendation that The Yorkshire Post has not missed.

Not everybody hates Persuasion 2022. Lifehacker kind of like it:

Austen’s books weren’t on a single reading list in all my high school years. I was, however, forced to read Wuthering Heights and Heart of Darkness and I’m still holding a grudge about that. (Melissa Matheson)

Gulf News explores angst and aggression n young adults: 

There is an argument that with an increase in published books for young teens, the spread of dark themes seems omnipresent, but there was always a Heathcliff in a Wuthering Heights or a dark tragedy just around the corner in a Shakespeare play. Flaws are intrinsic to a story, yet something did change in the recent years.
Unhindered access to social media has transformed many equations, along with an exposure where angst and aggression off screen have been normalised, live streaming of suicides on these platforms are not unheard of. (Jyotsna Mohan)

Homes & Antiques visits a Grade-II listed village rectory:

Another special piece in the room is known in the family as the ‘Brontë Box’. ‘I spotted these dolls in an antiques shop in Lewes,’ Elizabeth recalls. ‘They are early 19th-century wooden Dutch peg dolls in their original clothing. Our daughter Esme was with us and had been watching a programme about the Brontë sisters and said she thought they were the Brontës, so that’s what we’ve called them ever since.’ (Celia Rufey)

Galiciaé (Spain) talks about the writer Mariana Enríquez:

En esta novela no aparecen adultos porque en el mundo de Enríquez no existían. Era una joven friki según sus propias palabras, alguien que se abalanzaba sobre la biblioteca de sus padres y devoraba a Dostoyevski, Patricia Highsmith, las hermanas Brontë o Rimbaud al mismo tiempo que soñaba con las fantasías de Anne Rice y Stephen King y con crearlas de manera similar. (Nicolás Carreira Pena) (Translation)

rbb-Kultur (Germany) reviews the book Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King:

Nach deren Trennung bekommt die 14-jährige Carol Arbeit in einem schmucken Landhaus bei Boston, um dort die Tochter des Hauses bei der Kinderbetreuung zu unterstützen. Sie liest Charlotte Brontës "Jane Eyre", schreibt Tagebuch in deren Stil, und tatsächlich fühlt man sich in die Atmosphäre des englischen Landadels des 19. Jahrhunderts versetzt. (Jörg Magenau) (Translation)

Neues Deutchsland reviews Inland by Gerald Murnane:

Dabei erinnert der Erzähler an bestimmte Pflanzen, Farben, Fische, Landkarten, Bücher und Mädchen, an das Gras in Emily Brontës »Sturmhöhe« oder das Gesicht einer Farmarbeiterin. Es ist möglich, die Lektüre an verschiedensten Stellen immer wieder aufzunehmen, und doch schlängelt sich ein rotes Band durch das Grasland Murnanes. (Anne Hanhn) (Translation)

An alert for today,  July 21, in Ghent (Belgium): The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever in Baudelopark, 19.30h (via Nieuwsblad). Woman's Day is already putting together fall quotes for your Instagram feed, including one by Emily Brontë.