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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

We're All Still Locked Away in Rochester’s Attic

Keighley News talks about the upcoming Brontë Festival of Women Writers at the Parsonage:
A packed programme is planned as part of this year's Brontë Festival of Women's Writing.
Nineteen events will be held during the weekend, September 23 to 25, at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth.
And in a first for the festival, most activities will be available to either attend in person or watch online.
Influential female authors, poets and writers from this country and across the globe will feature.
The theme is Defying Expectations, which ties in with an exhibition of the same name currently running in the parsonage.
Co-created by historical consultant Dr Eleanor Houghton, the exhibition focuses on – and reimagines – the garments and accessories worn by Charlotte Brontë.
Festival highlights will include a performance by musicians, composers and songwriters Alexandra Braithwaite, Sophie Galpin and Beckie Wilkie of their soundtrack to the 2020 Royal Exchange Theatre production of Wuthering Heights – followed by a question-and-answer session.
Also, there will be a poetry reading by Monika Radojevic – winner of Stormzy’s #Merky Books New Writers' Prize. She will read from her collection, Teeth in the Back of My Neck.
And TV chef Rosemary Shrager will give a step-by-step cooking tutorial centred on a recipe inspired by the Brontës. Resource packs will be sent to participants cooking from home. (Alistair Shand)
The writer Candice Carty-Williams takes the Elle's Shelf Life test:
I would have blurbed if asked:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. (Riza Cruz)
Gwendolyn Kiste, the author of Reluctant Immortals (which The Eyre Guide reviews), writes in LitHub about the gothic horror of a Post-Roe America:
Or, We're All Still Locked Away in Edward Rochester’s Attic...
A decayed and graying landscape. Oppressive, miserable weather. Women who are in constant peril, and the men who put them there. This could easily be the back cover writeup for a classic Brontë novel. It could also describe the summer of 2022 after the fall of Roe v. Wade. (...)
In Wuthering Heights, Catherine simply fades away and dies for no clear reason, the Padmé Amidala of gothic literature. Famously described by her husband as “intemperate and unchaste,” Bertha Antoinetta Mason from Jane Eyre succumbs to a fiery death. Together, these women become causalities of their gender, punished for loving too freely or simply loving the wrong man.
Broadway World talks about an upcoming musical to be performed at the Wharton Center in East Lansing, MI:
In Emily's Words tells the story of English novelist Emily Brontë as she is writing Wuthering Heights. This musical utilizes a show-within-a-show construct, following both Emily Brontë's personal journey with her sisters as aspiring female writers in the 1840's, as well as the journey of Emily's fictional characters, particularly Cathy and Heathcliff. (Steph Wild)
The South Bend Tribune publishes the obituary of Audrey J. Lackman (1929-2022):
In her quiet time, she enjoyed Shakespeare, and was an amateur expert on the Brontë sisters.
Nerd Daily interviews the author K.J. Reilly:
Elise Dumpleton: Lastly, do you have any 2022 book recommendations for our readers? Any you’re looking forward to in 2023?
(...) And I’ve recently been re-reading some of the classics like Farenheit 451, Animal Farm, and Wuthering Heights—again not new, but still powerful.
Zenda (Spain) explores the work of Jean Rhys:
En Marya Zelli, en Julia Martin o en Anna Morgan, pero también en Antoinette Cosway, el inolvidable y enigmático personaje perturbado creado por Charlotte Brontë en Jane Eyre, a quien Rhys convierte en protagonista de la novela titulada Ancho mar de los Sargazos, la obra que sacó a la autora del olvido literario en el que se había refugiado durante más de treinta y siete años. (Beatriz Eduarte) (Translation)
Le Soir (Belgium) remembers the violoncellist Jacqueline Du Pré:
Sa destinée est telle qu’on pourrait la croire issue d’un roman de fiction. Qu’elle est en fait un personnage fantasmé, sorti tout droit de l’imagination de Flaubert ou d’Emily Brontë. Malgré sa vie brève, Jacqueline du Pré a indéniablement marqué de son empreinte le monde du violoncelle.  (Gaëlle Moury) (Translation)
Mundiario (Spain) talks about a donation to a local library by the journalist Esther Eiros:
El espacio Esther Eiros, Gente Viajera lo ofrece la donante a la memoria de su tía Purificación Rascado Alonso “la persona que me regaló mi primer libro de tapas blandas con poesías de Rosalía de Castro que -junto a la lectura del clásico Cumbres Borrascosas, de Emily Brontë, y de obras de Emilia Pardo Bazán- me inclinó hacia el periodismo, a escribir historias y poesía”. (Alberto Barciela) (Translation)
Dotyk (Czech Republic) quotes Charlotte Brontë on TB... that flattering malady:
Oblíbená autorka 19. století Charlotte Brontë v roce 1849, i přesto, že ji na infekci zemřely obě dvě sestry, napsala: „Souchotiny, jsem si vědoma, je lichotivá nemoc." Vznešené oběti tuberkulózy byly oblíbeným tématem i jiných autorů. Změna přišla až díky vědě. (Lenka Samuely) (Translation)
Crea Cuervos (Spain) reviews Literary Witches by Taisia Kitaiskaia and illustrated by Katy Horan
 Entre todas estas brujas que entre líneas se destaca su presencia, podemos encontrar a personajes como; Emily Brontë (1818-1848) escritora inglesa cuya obra más sobresaliente fue la novela ‘Cumbres borrascosas’; escrita bajo el seudónimo masculino de Ellis Bell con el objetivo de evitar las dificultades por las que las escritoras debían atravesar por la falta de reconocimiento a su trabajo literario durante el siglo XIX. (María Fernanda Cruz Cantarell) (Translation)

AARP quotes Anne Brontë in an article about.... tears. ¡Hola' (Spain) mentions the upcoming Emily film. A Jane Eyre hater on a list of book haters that BuzzFeed for some reason finds interesting.

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