And yet, these authors still did it

The best film to see this week on TV, according to The Guardian, is Frances O'Connor's Emily:

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Emily

The romances of the Brontë sisters have fallen out of fashion lately: Andrea Arnold’s rough-hewn Wuthering Heights and the Mia Wasikowska/Michael Fassbender Jane Eyre are the most recent adaptations, over a decade ago. But writer-director Frances O’Connor had the smart idea to make this biopic of Emily, the middle sister and author of Wuthering Heights, as if she and her siblings were characters in one of their own novels. It’s given weight by an excellent Emma Mackey, who handles the shift from wild-child to ardent adult with aplomb. O’Connor takes some liberties with history, but she’s crafted a character study that chimes beautifully with its literary inspirations. (Andrew Pulver)

Saturday 24 June, 10.05pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

Several Italian reviews or mentions of Emily are also available: Il Cittadino, Il Resto del Carlino, Stol (in German), everyeye, La Nuova Savona, Spettakolo!, The Wom,  ...

Sojourners publishes an article about "the transgressive wisdom of Emily Dickinson" with some Brontë references:

When Emily Dickinson first read the novel Jane Eyre, she didn’t know the name of its author. At the time, Charlotte Brontë wrote under the pseudonym Currer Bell, and her work was the subject of controversy. The British Quarterly Review referred to Bell as “a person who ... combines a total ignorance of the habits of society, a great coarseness of taste, and a heathenish doctrine of religion” and said, “the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority and violated every code human and divine ... is the same which has also written Jane Eyre.”

When Dickinson returned Jane Eyre to the friend who lent it to her, she sent it with a bouquet of box leaves and a note that makes it clear she’d heard the gossip on Bell. She wrote, “If all these leaves were altars, and on every one a prayer that Currer Bell might be saved — and you were God — would you answer it?” Years later, when Brontë died, Dickinson wrote the following elegy: “Oh, what an afternoon for heaven, / When ‘Brontë’ entered there!”

As Dickinson’s biographer Alfred Habegger notes, this elegy not only grants Brontë salvation but also “made heaven the beneficiary.” Even in these brief notes on Brontë, we can see some of the common themes of Dickinson’s poetry. There is the impulse to engage with (and even affirm) the ideas of God and heaven but also the impulse to subvert rigid and exclusive notions of theology. (Caroline McTeer)

The novel Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott is discussed in Tampa Bay Times:

Since its origins in the 18th century, the Gothic tale has often built horror upon the invasion or imprisonment of women’s bodies, their loss of personal autonomy to evil forces — see Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” or Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” for memorable early examples. (Colette Bancroft)

A review of the novel At the Edge of the Woods by Kathryn Bromwich in The Toronto Star:

 A fever dream of a novel with a hothouse atmosphere that’s cranked high, “At The Edge of the Woods” stands out for authorial bravado. The slim volume might bring to mind stylish literary classics, from “Wide Sargasso Sea” and “Heart of Darkness” to “Wuthering Heights” and “Rebecca,” but first time U.K. novelist Kathryn Bromwich serves a delectable if bizarre wilderness tale that’s wholly her creation. (Brett Josef Grubisic)

The Washington Examiner reviews the book The Art of Darkness. The History of Goth by John Robb:

One of the most interesting things The Art of Darkness brings to light is the tendency of Gothic art and music to arise from rural settings. Describing the clubs that cropped up in the early days of Goth as being located in a “broken heartland” of “post-industrial … satellite towns, mill towns, [and] dead towns,” Robb distinguishes the ethereality of Gothic Britain — “the green and ghostly land” — from the urban flavor of punk predecessors. An aesthetic movement that originated in such undead places, inheriting the spirit of the Brontës’ “windswept moors,” was often brought to life by youngsters on “the dole queue” who thought they had no future. (Emma Collins)

Also in The Tampa Bay Times after a long column on sisters, Trump and De Santis, the columnist Barry Golson ends the article with good advice:

That’s the ticket for me. Learn from the young. How to avoid the long, painful pandemonium around us? Music! Strike up the band! Don’t overdose on political news, read some good books. Twain. Dickens. The Brontë sisters.

Yes! Sisters!

Cape Cod Times reviews a local production of Sense and Sensibility:

There’s a showstopper Heathcliff moment between Marianne and Willoughby (Erik Kochenberger), as music swells and the cast switches to slo-mo to capture the instant when romance blooms on the moors or, actually, in the Playhouse aisle. (Gwenn Friss)

iNews recommends 'cheap' UK holiday destinations. In Yorkshire:

Howarth (sic), known for its Brontë legacy and the Keighley & Worth Valley steam railway that passes through, has a scattering of character properties. Weavers has guesthouse rooms and cottages that cost from £315 for three nights in August, or £95 for a double room, weaversofhaworth.com. (Sophie Lam)

LitHub and perfect writing spaces:

In an era of Instagrammable writing desks and thousand-dollar writing coaches, it helps to remember that someone like Charles Dickens literally wrote himself out of poverty by hand, with only paper, pen and ink, and a multitude of candles. I visited the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, Yorkshire, and stared at the single table where Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë all sat and penned their respective masterpieces: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, along with various other novels and poems. The lighting couldn’t have been very good back in the nineteenth century, during those cold Yorkshire winters.

And yet, these authors still did it. (Winnie M. Lee)

RogerEbert.com discusses blind casting in cinema:

Non-traditional casting can be very successful in escapism, but it can also serve realism. When Andrea Arnold re-imagined Heathcliff as a Black man in “Wuthering Heights” (2011), she brought new dimensions to the tragedy (it should be noted that her casting of a Black man in the part actually has some basis in the novel). (Brandon David Wilson)

The Evening Standard talks about the band The Last Dinner Party:

Their visual identity is as important to them as the music. On stage, they wear gothy, medievalish gowns and corsets (think Midsommar crossed with Wuthering Heights-era Kate Bush). (Elizabeth Aubrey)

Inside the Magic and the Future of the TV Series You:

Chronologically, it moves from “Wuthering Heights” and Candace’s obsession to “Desperate Characters” with Beck. Next came “Don Quixote,” a book he lent to Paco that inspired a Disney film. “Crime and Punishment,” mirroring his time with Love Quinn. (Corrina Murdoch)

A visit to the revamped National Portrait Gallery in The Guardian:

Downstairs, below the Tudors, it becomes the greatest rock concert on Earth. Elton playing with Bowie; Queen with Pink Floyd. Annie, Dusty, Shirley, Kate. In my head, I’m blasting Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocket Man, Wuthering Heights and Club Tropicana. (Katy Hessel)

Best Products thinks in the birthday gifts 'for your wife' (half cliché, half sexist):

Brontë Sisters
Has there ever been a trio who knew how to tug at the heartstrings quite like the Brontë Sisters? We can’t think of any, and we absolutely adore this beautiful, clothbound box set of Anne, Charlotte, and Emily’s greatest works, including Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. (Jamie Kenney)  

More clichés. Soy Aire (Spain) lists the novels 'every hopeless romantic' should read:

 3. "Jane Eyre" de Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre es una heroína fuerte e independiente que desafía las normas sociales de la época. La novela aborda la lucha de Jane por encontrar su propia identidad y alcanzar la realización personal. La relación entre Jane Eyre y el señor Rochester está llena de obstáculos, secretos y sacrificios. A través de su amor, la novela explora temas de lealtad, redención y perdón. 

2. "Cumbres borrascosas" de Emily Brontë

Los personajes principales, Catherine y Heathcliff, viven una historia de amor intensa y tormentosa que trasciende las barreras sociales y morales. Brontë explora la línea borrosa entre el amor y el odio, y cómo estos sentimientos pueden coexistir en una relación. La relación entre Catherine y Heathcliff es compleja y está llena de conflictos emocionales. (Kimberly Aguilera)

La Vanguardia (Spain) talks about TB as a 'literary' disease and the Brontës are mentioned, of course. A 'full baroque' lip-synch performance of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights by David Campbell on Australian TV in 9Now. Guerrillero (Cuba) mentions Emily Brontë and ... plants. On a lighter note, sexual sadism in literature in Corren (Sweden) mentions Heathcliff and Cathy.

Quotes territory now: Soulmate quotes in Seventeen and renewal of votes in Tuko,