A Teasingly Cursory Peek into a Remarkable Family

The Reviews Hub publishes a review of The Brontë: A Musical currently being performed in London:

The Brontës: A Musical gives us the briefest skip through the lives of the four siblings. The show starts mid-thunderstorm with the Brontë children hiding in fear and playing games to take their minds off the outside terrors. These games rapidly emerge to story telling and we get a glimpse of how their creativity might have been formed. (...)

The core cast play their roles very well as do the support cast, who take on a range of supporting roles. However, the overall narrative is scant on detail and structure. It’s a bit like being on an open-top tour bus of a city. You’re ticking off things, but never really seeing them. Here, all the major life events are there, but like the tourist on the bus, you’re just gliding past them and not getting any detail. (...)

The above said, The Brontës is a very watchable show. Victoria Hadel directs with confidence, and despite it being a bit laboured in parts, it gives us a teasingly cursory peek into a remarkable family. It will leave you wanting more, just not more of the same. (Sonny Waheed)

In praise of intertextuality in LitHub:

I also remember The Wasteland any time I think more generally of intertextuality, the literary theory that suggests that all works of literature are derived from others. They can be deliberately intertextual—think Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre, or Joyce and Homer. There is also latent intertextuality, influences or references that creep into a writer’s work without deliberate effort. (Dur e Aziz Amna)

Victoria Hislop shares in Reader's Digest the books that changed her life:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

 This was the first truly “adult” novel I ever read. I was 13 years old and it was revelatory.

Apart from I Am David, I had never been drawn into any story at that point. So suddenly reading a fantastic work of literature like Wuthering Heights was transformative. It switched me on to reading!

Many things about Brontë’s novel have been a big influence on me in my own writing, not least the use of “place” as character.

The two houses in the book, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, are as influential to the plot as any of the people. And I always have this in mind in my own writing.

Teaching Expertise compiles 'compelling coming-of-age books':

Jane Eyre is a classic piece of literature that needs little to no introduction. The heroine has to learn to love, be vulnerable, and keep her head straight all while there is a brooding yet caring presence in her midst. ( Louise Pieterse)

RTÉ talks about the All Together Now Festival:

In a total gear-change, music ensemble Glasshouse had thousands singing along to covers of Prince and Kate Bush, with Raspberry Beret and Wuthering Heights the stand-outs for me. (Aoife Ryan-Christensen)

Playbill and Broadway World announce that the Wise Children's Wuthering Heights production will be performed in Brooklyn, next October.

Nació Digital (in Catalan) talks about being in love from a biological point of view:

"Sigui quina sigui la substància de la qual estan fetes les ànimes, la seva i la meva són idèntiques", són les paraules que va escollir Emily Brontë per definir l'amor a Cims borrascosos l'any 1847. Dos segles després, la forma de verbalitzar l'enamorament, abans tan intensa, ha canviat en la cultura popular. No obstant això, la ciència darrere de l'amor es manté intacta, independentment de l'època: s'activen els mateixos recursos i sistemes que impulsen a seduir i desitjar la presència de la persona estimada. (Yaiza Sánchez) (Translation)

Metropolitan Magazine (Italy) has no doubts about the pioneer feminism of the Brontës: 

Charlotte, Emily e Anne Brontë: pioniere del femminismo

I primi nomi che vogliamo citare a proposito di personaggi storici importanti per il femminismo sono quelli delle tre autrici inglesi. Le celebri sorelle Brontë hanno conquistato intere generazioni di lettori grazie ai loro bellissimi romanzi, segnando un’epoca e rivoluzionando anche la storia delle donne. Chi infatti non conosce Wuthering Heights o Jane Eyre?

A causa di una vita difficile, le tre sorelle sin da giovanissime si appassionano al mondo della letteratura, restando colpite dalla magico potere delle storie. Si lasciano trasportare in mondi e vite parallele, rivendicando il proprio diritto di libertà e di pensiero.

Le tre autrici inglesi oggi sono considerate personalità di spicco nella letteratura femminista mondiale, anche se nella loro epoca non furono capite del tutto. Charlotte, Emily e Anne fecero della scrittura la propria ragione di vita, affrontando nei libri tematiche in grado di atterrire i lettori del loro tempo. In una società in cui solo gli uomini potevano avere una voce, le tre sorelle riuscirono a conquistarsi un diritto fondamentale: l’indipendenza. Ciò fu possibile anche attraverso i personaggi femminili delle loro opere: eroine rivoluzionarie e coraggiose, con le quali è impossibile non entrare in empatia e immedesimarsi. (Francesca Mazzini) (Translation)

We still have a couple of news lingering on. On the one hand, the Emily trailer is still on Deseret News, the UBJ... and on the other and the literary locations study on The Independent, PR News Blog, Talker...

The West End Best Friend reviews the Edinburgh Fringe production of Classic! Friendship quotes, including one by Charlotte, in Today. Peakd posts about Wuthering Heights.