Evil Wuthering Dead aka Goopwood

Let's begin with a shockingly hilarious revelation. How much nowadays wellness treatments resemble Lowood techniques in McSweeney's: "Twenty-first-century Wellness Trends That Were Also Hardships Jane Eyre Suffered At Lowood School". If we had some entrepreneurial genes we could start a brand under the Cowan Bridge label. (Gwyneth, we came first).

Harper's Bazaar (Italy) celebrates Charlotte Brontë's birthday:

Tutto comincia nella piovosa brughiera inglese – non solo nel caso di Jane Eyre, ma anche nel caso della vita della sua autrice. Charlotte Brontë nasce infatti a Thorntorn il 21 aprile 1816 e cresce a Haworth, nello Yorkshire. Sua madre perde la vita quando lei ha appena cinque anni, e a prendersi cura di lei sono il padre – un pastore anglicano –, la zia materna e un’affettuosa governante. Charlotte cresce vivace e curiosa, nonostante il clima grigio in cui è immersa e il tetro cimitero sul retro di casa, e viene incoraggiata fin da subito ad applicarsi negli studi. (Read more) (Eva Luna Mascolino) (Translation)

More news outlets mentioning Charlotte Brontë's birthday are WTAM, Vox Feminae (Croatia), UPI, Cleveland.com, Vogue (Ukraine), Innovateli, Brodportal (Croatia), Aydinlik (Turkey)...

Many websites mention/explain/wonder about the Wuthering Heights references in the new Evil Dead film, Evil Dead Rise:

The cold open establishes the gory premise of what lies ahead – though, technically, the main story is told in flashback – with the writer-director fleshing out his cinematic creature in blood, cracking bones and a few Easter eggs. Together with a scalp-ripping scene you won't be able to unsee, Cronin's prologue gives fans an insight into the movie's emotional core with a little help from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. (...)

In the first few scenes, the frantic camerawork introduces Teresa (Mirabai Pease) as she's intent on enjoying her lake getaway with a good book. Her solo time with Brontë's spellbinding novel is interrupted by Caleb (Richard Crouchley), who informs her that his girlfriend, Teresa's cousin Jessica (Anna-Maree Thomas), is not faring well.

While the obnoxious Caleb couldn't give a damn about Jessica, Teresa takes it upon herself to go check on her, her copy of Wuthering Heights firmly in hand. Her cousin is "sleeping off whatever is wrong with her," as Caleb kindly puts it, with Teresa watching on her and reading Brontë, who's about to provide an unexpected layer to the story.

Teresa is only three chapters in, and we don't blame her for taking her time given she's being constantly interrupted. When she finally thinks she could get some peace and quiet, Jessica commences reciting a passage word by word in an increasingly frightful voice. A Brontë stan? Not quite. (...)

Teresa wasn't reading just any passage. The movie's opening borrows from the novel's intro where, thirty years after the main events, Heathcliff's tenant Mr Lockwood has a nightmare after reading Catherine's diary.

He dreams of a ghostly Catherine, who died years before, begging him to let her into her former room. Later on, readers find out that Heathcliff demanded Catherine's spirit to haunt him for as long as he lives, going as far as digging up her grave in an obsessive fit.

Back to Lockwood, he's left traumatised by the encounter with a child-faced Catherine who clings onto his arm and wails to be invited in. Blood spills and glass shatters until Lockwood's very realistic nightmare is interrupted by Heathcliff, well aware that Catherine's ghost may not just be a figment of his tenant's dream.

Similarly to Catherine, Jessica – whose face isn't yet shown to the audience – yowls in a melancholic, childlike voice, which slowly turns demonic. The excerpt is terrifying enough as it is, but when a Deadite asks you to let them in, those three words take on an extremely dreadful meaning.

Cronin breathes new life (or should we say death) into one of the scariest moments of Wuthering Heights, bending Brontë's narrative to the rules of the undead. But, much like Lockwood realising the profound connection between Catherine and Heathcliff that night, the filmmaker also lets the audience in on the heart of the movie. (Stefania Sarrubba in Digital Spy) 

Written and directed by Lee Cronin, Evil Dead Rise does begin promisingly with a lakeside slaughter involving Wuthering Heights, a scalping, a beheading, a ridiculous amount of vomit, and a facial shredding by an unmanned drone. (Bilge Ebiri in Vulture)

In a cheeky move, the opening scenes of "Evil Dead Rise" are actually, chronologically, the end. During an idyllic trip to a cabin by a lake presumably somewhere in California, Teresa (Mirabai Pease) is attempting to read Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" but is rudely interrupted by her friend's new boyfriend, Caleb (Richard Crouchley), and his camera drone. Annoyed, Teresa goes to check on her friend, Jessica (Anna-Maree Thomas), who hasn't been feeling well since the trio arrived at the eerily triangular-shaped cabin in the woods.
Turns out that no amount of pills or rest will help what ails Jessica, who begins reciting the exact text of "Wuthering Heights" at the precise point Teresa is reading them, a nod to the possessed Cheryl (Ellen Sandweiss) psychically calling out playing cards she can't see in 1981's "The Evil Dead." (Bill Bria in /Film)

The movie begins with three happy campers, Teresa (Mirabai Pease), Caleb (Richard Crouchley) and Jessica (Anna-Maree Thomas), vacationing in a pretty cabin by the woods. Teresa is the studious one, reading Wuthering Heights while meat puppet Caleb plays with his drone and Jessica is apparently sleeping off a mysterious sickness. (Mini Antikhad Chhiber in The Hindu)

 The opening sequence delivers two wonderfully gory deaths, a very creepy reading of a passage from Wuthering Heights, and a title card shot that’s by far the best part of the film. (Kyle Logan in Cultured Vultures)

Schon in der nächsten Szene hören wir dann auch die klassische Dämonen-Stimme – nur liest diese diesmal nicht aus dem Necronomicon, sondern aus Emily Brontës „Sturmhöhe“, was sich erstaunlicherweise als noch viel furchteinflößender erweist. (Christoph Petersen in Filmstarts) (Translation)

 The stylish intro finds us momentarily back to the woods, in an alpine house, where a young woman reads Wuthering Heights as her friend who’s across the room with her back turned starts reciting along with her friend’s silent reading (it’s naturally the “Let me in!” part).  (Rich Juzwiak)

The Philadelphia Tribune interviews the director (and actor) of the Theatre in the X which in May they will premiere a Jane Eyre production in Philadelphia:

Charlotte Brontë’s hugely successful novel comes to life thanks to the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective (PAC), which prides itself on staging rarely produced classics in unexpected site-specific locations. And “Jane Eyre“ is no exception, being produced May 11-28 at Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N. American Street.

[LaNeshe] Miller-White is also an adjunct professor in Drexel University’s Theatre Department, and in most capacities, is usually found behind the scenes. But with this show she takes to the stage, appearing in two roles — Miss Scatcherd and Mrs. Fairfax.

“I have done some acting on stage but I usually prefer to stay behind the scenes,” says Miller-White. “But this is a special twist for me and I’m having a lot of fun doing it.”

Miller-White explains her roles this way: “Miss Scatcherd is a teacher. She’s very strict and not a very pleasant person. She is generally unkind to her students, most particularly to Jane.

“On the other hand, Mrs. Fairfax is just the opposite. She’s very friendly, extremely welcoming to Jane, and serves as a sort of surrogate mother to her.” (Rita Charleston)

One mythical moment in University Challenge is mentioned in The Times:

Timothy Dalton, Orson Welles, Toby Stephens and Michael Fassbender are among the actors who have played which romantic figure, the creation of Charlotte Brontë?

“Inspector Clouseau?” one baffled student proffered to Jeremy Paxman in an infamous exchange on University Challenge.

The next series of the quiz show will expect students can do more than tell their Mr Rochesters from their French inspectors as the show’s producers warn the questions are set to get more difficult. (Peter Chappell)

Also in The Times the controversial plans for creating an asylum facility in Wethersfield are discussed:

 One of the village gems is the 13th-century St Mary Magdalene church. Among the pews is a mild-mannered, erudite man from Chelmsford who has travelled the few miles to inspect the plaque in honour of the Rev Patrick Brontë, father of Charlotte, Emily and Anne, who was curate here from 1806 to 1809. (Robert Crampton)

Still another article in The Times. Now about a radio programme: 

The Hidden History of the Attic

Radio 4, April 23, 1.30pm

Rachel Hurdley investigates the uses of the place where most of us store things we can’t quite bring ourselves to throw away, where servants and children were traditionally banished and where Bertha Mason was consigned in Jane Eyre. As well as revealing the many uses to which attics have been put over the centuries and what this tells us about us, Hurdley notes that they are actually relatively recent developments in the British domestic set-up. The story starts at the 16th-century King’s House within the walls of the Tower of London before moving to Harvington Hall and its priest holes. (Ben Dowell)

Daily Mail is all for online classes:

As well as this, there's a vast range of classes you could find yourself doing. Perhaps you'd like to get doing your best lunge during a Pilates class, or maybe blow the cobwebs away during a brain training sesh, or even unleash your inner Brontë in a poetry class. (Orla Loughran Hayes)

This is Local London reviews the theatre play Secret Life of Bees:

Likewise Eleanor Worthington-Cox as aspiring writer Lily gives impressive definition to internal moments. August and her sisters are highly cultured – literature like Jane Eyre, James Baldwin is referenced and lent out readily. (Caroline David)

Jornal Universitário do Porto (Portugal) and Herodote (France) review the film Emily:

 Por detrás de um grande enredo, deve existir uma grande banda sonora. E existe, de facto. Cada movimento, cada riso, cada gota de chuva e cada cena capturada na natureza, o grande instigador de inspiração, são soberbamente acompanhados, tanto por efeitos sonoros como pela trilha tão suis generis. O cinema de época voltou… e voltou de forma majestosa. Que volte sempre! (Inês Carolina Gomes de Oliveira) (Translation)

Dans cet Emily (2022), elle ressemble plus à une banale adolescente rebelle qu'à une grande  écrivaine en devenir, autrice de l'inoubliable Hauts de Hurlevent (Wuthering Heights, 1847), l'un des plus grands chefs-d'oeuvre de la littérature anglaise et universelle. (Isabelle Grégor) (Translation)

El Taquígrafo (in Spanish) reviews the novel Maldito Hamor by Cruz Sánchez Lara:

Y de hecho ésa es la  mayor virtud de esta novela: la de lograr una síntesis funcional y moderna de Emily Brontë, Patricia Highsmith y la novela romántica actual. (Luis Artigue) (Translation)

Funcinema (Argentina) talks about the artist Lucia Seles: 

Lucía Seles, la multifacética artista, estrena dos de sus films en el marco del BAFICI y en calidad de premiere mundial: Terminal young en Competencia Oficial Argentina y The urgency of death que participará en la sección Noches Especiales. (...) En The urgency of death es presesentada com una definicion: “siempre hasta ser enterrada de verdad respetaré a las hermanas Brontë, a los blisters y a las hermanas Ritz”. (Translation)

Bergamo News (Italy) interviews the content creator Vanessa Strabla:

Caterina Boccalatte: Quale autrice ti ha avvicinata al mondo femminista?

Tante, tantissime, infinite! Del panorama letterario italiano Giulia Blasi: mi ha dato uno scossone, ha una voce incredibilmente sincera e usa un linguaggio semplice. Credo però che la mia predisposizione arrivi da ragazzina, quando leggevo Jane Austen e le sorelle Brontë, soprattutto Charlotte. (Translation)

Glamour (Spain) recommends books for tomorrow's World Book Day:

Cumbres Borrascosas de Emily Brontë

 Cuando Emily Brontë llevó su libro a una editorial para que lo publicasen, el editor que lo leyó se negó a creer que una mujer lo hubiese escrito porque, según él, las mujeres son incapaces de crear personajes tan crueles. Al final tuvo que publicar la primera edición bajo un nombre masculino. Cumbres Borrascosas es una historia de un amor pasional y tóxico, de la destrucción que puede causar el orgullo y la venganza. Pero además es una historia de fantasmas increíble con algunos pasajes que consiguen erizarme la piel. La edición de la colección Gótica de Valdemar es la que más justicia le hace a este texto tan oscuro. (Vicky Vera) (Translation)

Esquire (Italy) does the same:

Tra i libri d’amore classici è impossibile non citare Cime tempestose di Emily Brontë.

Scritto a metà Ottocento e ambientato nella brughiera dello Yorkshire, racconta la relazione tra Heathcliff e Catherine: un legame totalizzante, ma reso complicato e distruttivo a causa della diversa classe sociale.

Emblema del Romanticismo e incentrato su temi come le relazioni, l’odio e la vendetta, questo romanzo è forse uno dei più alti capolavori inglesi di sempre. (Translation)

The Buffalo News quotes from Charlotte Brontë. SoloLibri (Italy) mentions how Van Gogh was an admirer of Charlotte Bronté's Shirley. The pseudonyms of the Brontës appear in El Periódico (Spain). A Columbia University graduate and Brontëite in Columbia News. Daily Excelsior also quotes Charlotte Brontë in an article about brothers and sisters. Folkebladet (Norway) talks about the Wuthering Heights production currently touring Norway. Finally, The Brontë Babe Blog reviews Aviva Orr's Love and Literature, a homage to The Professor.