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Sunday, April 23, 2023

It's more than some experts. We can see it's the general consensus now. We read in World Nation News:
Some experts believe that the death of the writer Charlotte Brontë in 1855 was most likely due to hyperemesis [gravidarum] and not to tuberculosis, as stated on her death certificate.
The Blast comments on an appearance of Sarah Ferguson on the BBC promoting her new book, A Most Intriguing Lady. The blunder is not from the Duchess of York, though:
The author called the genre “fantastically delicious” and excitedly described the book as a mix between the film “Peaky Blinders” and the famous book by Jane Eyre, “Pride and Prejudice.” (Afouda Bamidele)
We are not sure we agree with this statement in The Critic:
When we erect a stately home, we plant trees in whose shade we will never sit. Its literary endurance represents this. Rightful inheritance, and the preservation of the estate, dominates novels like Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. At the conclusion to Pride and Prejudice, one might be inclined to ask which is more significant to Elizabeth Bennet: her love for Mr Darcy — or for Pemberley. (Lara Brown)
Music and literature in Los 40 (Spain) and Ara (in Catalan):
2 - Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
Con permiso de Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), que sin duda se ha convertido en la canción más conocida de Kate Bush tanto en el momento de su lanzamiento como prácticamente cuatro décadas después tras formar parte de la banda sonora de Stranger Things, uno de los temas más conocidos de la cantautora estadounidense tiene que ver con una novela: Cumbres borrascosas de Emily Brontë.
Lo cierto es que en el momento de componer Wuthering Heights Kate Bush no se había leído la obra de la autora, pero logró captar entre sus estrofas el sentido general del libro, además de hacer constantes referencias a sus protagonistas: "Heathcliff, soy yo, soy Cathy, he llegado a casa, estoy helada, déjame entrar por la ventana". (María Caridad Sánchez) (Translation)
'Wuthering heights', de Kate Bush
Inspirada en la novel·la 'Cims borrascosos', d'Emily Brönte (sic)
En temps de punk, la britànica Kate Bush va fer un debut contracultural el 1978 portant la veu al límit dels aguts per explicar la història de la Cathy i el Heathcliff. Des d’aleshores, l’amor gòtic d’Emily Brönte sona així d'espectral. (Xavier Cervantes) (Translation)
El Nacional (in Catalan) talks about recent book releases in Catalan:
Aquest curs hem celebrat la preciosa traducció que ha fet Antoni Clapés d’aquesta joia que és L’home de les tres lletres de Pascal Quignard (Quid Pro Quo) i també hem gaudit amb l’espaterrant versió de Cims borrascosos d’Emily Brontë que ens ha regalat el gran Ferran Ràfols Gesa (Viena). (Bernat Dedéu) (Translation)
Sky Tg24 (Italy) also highlights Wuthering Heights as an English literature masterpiece:
 Il capolavoro di Emily Brontë in formato tascabile. Definito dalla critica dell’epica “brutale e rozzo”, Cime Tempestose racconta la vendetta portata avanti dal disumano Heathcliff. Tomasi di Lampedusa lo descrisse come “un romanzo come non ne sono mai stati scritti prima, come non saranno mai più scritti dopo”. Il merito va all’odio, al sadismo e alle passioni represse magistralmente intrecciati dall’autrice. (Translation)
Still some Brontë sights in reviews of Evil Dead Rise::
Desta vez, há, sim, uma breve abertura com jovens numa cabana – quem diria que o demônio seria fã de Emily Brontë? –, mas toda a ação se passa, pela primeira vez, num prédio bem no meio da cidade. (Ieda Marcondes in Estado de Minas) (Translation)

The opening scene in which Jessica becomes a Deadite also features a nod to the curious powers of a Deadite in The Evil Dead. As Teresa reads Wuthering Heights, Deadite Jessica is sitting on her bed facing the other direction yet is able to read the words aloud on the page. (Jordan Williams in ScreenRant)

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