'I cannot tell what good it does – what feeling it spares – what horror it conceals'

Daily Mail and many others report the death of actor Paul Geoffrey (1955-2023), who

would go on to appear as Mr. Lockwood in the 1992 adaptation of Wuthering Heights, which starred Juliette Binoche. (Brian Marks)

Many sites, such as Business Insider, are reporting that in his memoir Pageboy, Elliot Page writes about feeling unable to take up the main role in a period drama in 2008.

Page said that although his "agents excitedly spoke of the opportunity," he couldn't quite muster up the same level of enthusiasm as the idea of wearing old-fashioned feminine garb for the role made him feel uneasy.

At the time, Page was in his early twenties and had not yet announced publicly that he (while still presenting as female) was attracted to women. According to his memoir, he was also dealing with gender dysphoria, something he had been experiencing since childhood.

"I would imagine myself in a woman's costume from the mid-nineteenth century," he wrote. "The dress, the shoes, the hair, flashed before my eyes. It was too much after having put on the mask for awards season."

"I understood that if I were to do it, I would want to kill myself," he added.

While Page did not name the film, Variety reported in 2008 that the actor had been cast in a new big-screen adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre," penned by writer Moira Buffini.

After Page dropped out, it took more than three years for the film — which was taken on by director Cary Fukunaga — to make it to theaters. Mia Wasikowska was recast as the eponymous heroine, while Michael Fassbender played the part of Mr. Rochester. 

We did indeed report the news back then.

And more about actors' lives as New York Post claims that 'Johnny Depp’s birth chart reveals why Hollywood’s biggest star fell from grace'. (Cue 'Sure, Jan' gif).

Depp has Neptune, planet of dreams and fantasy, retrograde in Scorpio the sign of sex, secrets and transformation through trauma suggesting his illusions of love take on the shape of a dark fairy tale where passions and tempers flare but love wins. It’s some real “Wuthering Heights” X Pam & Tommy s–t. For evidence see his history of commemorating his love in ink and then marring their meaning. (Reda Wigle)

Roba da Donne (Italy) features Frances O'Connor's Emily.

D’altro canto, pur non sapendo se la vita di Emily Brontë sia andata come ci viene mostrato sul grande schermo, limitati come sono documenti e testimonianze, spesso filtrate dalla penna dalla sorella maggiore, Charlotte, par chiaro che il film difficilmente lascerà insensibili chi ha già molto cavalcato nella brughiera inglese con la fantasia. Ne usciranno annoiate, probabilmente, le vecchie generazioni che di vento e pioggia battente su spianate di erica non sanno più che farsene. E Millennials e Generazione Z che così raramente ormai affollano le sale cinematografiche per film che non siano blockbuster hollywoodiani? Saranno stimolati ad andare, spinti dalla presenza di un volto noto come quello di Emma MacKey, protagonista di Sex Education, una delle serie teen Netflix più fortunate? Apprezzeranno le ambientazioni nordiche così ben studiate dallo scenografo Steve Summersgill e impreziosite dalla luce plumbea dell’autrice della fotografia, Nanu Segal? E che penseranno dei costumi di Michael O’Connor (suoi i costumi di Ammonite, The Invisible Woman, Jane Eyre e La duchessa, per cui ha vinto un Oscar), accurati nella ricostruzione ma lontani dallo sfarzo a cui gran parte delle produzioni d’epoca hanno abituato spettatori e spettatrici odierni? (Francesca Romana Buffetti) (Translation)

Electric Lit has Logan Steiner, author of a new novel about the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, After Anne, recommend '8 Books About the Lives of Women Writers' including

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

In what the New York Times Book Review described as “a feminist classic” of literary criticism, originally published in 1979 and recently reissued with a new introduction, Gilbert and Gubar explore how celebrated female writers from Jane Austen to Emily Dickinson conveyed their own life experiences of confinement through the characters they wrote. The book’s title comes from Jane Eyre, the novel in which a female character is famously kept locked in the attic, which is commonly understood as a metaphor for the ways in which women were historically imprisoned in the domestic realm. The recent reissuing of this classic text emphasizes just how much its messages resonate today.

Writing for iNews, Susie Dent quotes from Charlotte Brontë's preface to Wuthering Heights:

Using symbols for these new profanities became more popular. In her Preface to her late sister’s novel Wuthering Heights, which features such words as “damn” and “slut”, Charlotte Brontë writes: “The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does – what feeling it spares – what horror it conceals.”

According to Wealth of Geeks, Wuthering Heights is one of '10 Stories Parents Don’t Want Their Kids To Read In School'.

7. Wuthering Heights (1847)

“My interpretation of Wuthering Heights as a child was the same as my interpretation of Romeo and Juliet; I never saw them as tragedies but stories of unending love. Reading Wuthering Heights as an adult gave me a different story; that book is messed up, and as a child, you don't have the mental capacity to understand it fully,” a bookworm adds. (Gabrielle Reeder)

The Berkshire Edge reports that,

This year’s Great Barrington Public Theater (GBPT) season is set to open with the gothic mystery “The Stones.” [...]

“The story could have happened 100 or 200 years ago, but the plot is compelling enough that it could happen in current times,” [director Michelle] Joyner told The Berkshire Edge. “I said to someone recently that, with the tone of this piece, you kind of expect Heathcliff [from ‘Wuthering Heights’] to be striding across the moors. But instead, you have a confused gay school teacher in the middle of a crisis.” (Shaw Israel Izikson)

One of the clues for today's New York Times' puzzle is

36D. Everyone swoon a little swoon for “Who wrote ‘Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.’” The author is Emily BRONTË, and the quotation is spoken by Catherine about Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights.”

Radio X lists 'The 25 best albums of 1978' and that obviously includes Kate Bush's The Kick Inside which included Wuthering Heights.