Daring and Ravishing

The Buffalo News reviews Betsy Cornwell's Reader, I Murdered Him:

Adèle Varens, daughter of a French prostitute, takes center stage as a teenage vigilante in Victorian London, exacting revenge on men and relieving them of their valuables in Betsy Cornwell's dazzling, fiercely feminist riff on Charlotte Brontë's classic, "Jane Eyre."  (...)

This page-turner of a thriller remains remarkably faithful to Brontë's original  while breaking new ground with its fascinating protagonist; the title plays off a Brontë quote: "Reader, I married him."

Cornwell dedicates her book "for all the attic girls." (Jean Westmoore)

Tbe best films of 2022 according to The Spectator include Emily: 

The life of Emily Brontë is an enduring object of fascination. So small, the life, so sparse, so limited. Yet it delivered those magnificent poems and Wuthering Heights. How could this be? Genius, I suppose, paired with a vivid interior life. But as neither of those are cinematic, Emily imagines what could have led her to write as she did. It’s a ‘speculative biopic’, and modern, but there’s no Billie Eilish on the soundtrack or breaking of the fourth wall or jokey intertitles or any of those larks, which is a mighty relief. Instead, it’s daring, and ravishing. If you’d asked me if Emily might have ever tried opium, or had a passionate affair with a sexy curate, I’d have laughed in your face. But here I absolutely bought it.  (Deborah Ross)

Also in The Spectator the best new year celebrations in literature:

In Wuthering Heights, New Year’s Day is also the day assigned for young Cathy and Hareton’s wedding. (Alice Dunn)

El Tiempo (Colombia) y El Nacional (in Catalan) also recommends the film and Le Devoir (Canada) says it is "a superb biography".

Zenda Libros talks about a new Spanish translation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. The preface is from Espido Freire, the author of Querida Jane, Querida Charlotte:

De niña había leído con placer las novelas en las que Jane Austen describía las relaciones de distintas hermanas, y le había fascinado no solo la obra de las Brontë, sino también la historia personal de las tres hermanas. (Translation)

Cécile McLorin Salvant's cover of  Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights is one of the songs of the year in Will Hermes list as published in WAMC Northeast Public Radio. The song is also in the list of Daniele Casandro in Il Internazionale (Italy).