Brontë Shout-Out

The Daily Telegraph walks the Brontë country:

Walk that follows in the Bronte sisters’ footsteps

It's one thing to imagine the places from your favourite novels, it's another to take a 7km walk through them. (...)

The Brontë family lived a 6km walk away, in the Haworth Parsonage, and these wild moors were regular stomping grounds for Emily and her sisters (and fellow novelists) Charlotte and Anne. It’s little wonder this beautifully stark and moody landscape and some of the structures huddled upon it inspired their writing.

Though the Top Withens farmhouse doesn’t match Emily’s description of the remote Wuthering Heights in the novel, she’s believed to have based its location on this spot. Today Top Withens is a hiking destination, well signposted from Haworth, and one of three places with Wuthering Heights links on the 7.2km Brontë Connection circuit. (Kara Murphy)

Literary Hub compiles some selections from the early reviews of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea:

In 1966, after more than a quarter century in obscurity, the Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys published what is now considered to be her masterpiece. Wide Sargasso Sea is an astonishing, hallucinatory fantasy about the early life, and eventual psychological disintegration, of the first Mrs. Rochester—aka Bertha from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. (Dan Sheehan)

Chicago Reader reviews the film Perpetrator:

So once a pink-clad light in the darkness is snatched away and risks being dimmed forever, it’s unlikely the mysterious heavy breather responsible isn’t gonna be lionized as a criminal genius who gets to meet the Joker. At least not when we’re introduced to the heroine of Reeder’s Perpetrator, the street-savvy, low-level teenage thief Jonny (Kiah McKirnan). Throw in a Brontë shout-out less than ten minutes in, you know there’s feminist vengeance in store. (Andrea Thompson)

The road back to love literature in USA Today:

Remember the excitement of getting a new book for Christmas or your birthday? The mystery that you suspected lay hidden between the covers? The very scent of an adventure about to begin with those simple but resonant first sentences from Herman Melville’s "Moby Dick" or Charlotte Brontë’s "Jane Eyre" — “Call me Ishmael” or “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” (Michael Pierson)

 SingTao (China) learns new words while loving Jane Eyre. 

One of my favourite novels is Jane Eyre by the 19th century English author Charlotte Brontë. I have read Jane Eyre at least three times and am reading it again. I last read it over 30 years ago in the 20th century. Reading it again in the 21st century is an eye-opener for me. The expression "eye-opener" is used to describe something that surprises you and teaches you something new. Reading Jane Eyre in the 21st century is an eye-opener for me because the writing now seems quite archaic. The word "archaic" means old-fashioned or outdated. Many young people will consider 19th century English archaic. (Michael Chugani)

Wealth of Geeks lists Francis Ford Coppola's movies:

Even today, Dementia 13 feels more like a Corman picture than a Coppola production. Its low production values and dragging script feel very similar to cheapies such as the Edgar Allen Poe adaptations Corman made throughout the '60s. But Coppola’s script borrows heavily from The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights to tell a psychological tale about a family torn apart by greed and in-fighting. (Joe George)

Delirium Nerd (in Portuguese) explores Wuthering Heights in some detail:

A melancolia e crueldade em “O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes”

Emily Brontë nasceu em 30 de julho de 1818 e foi a quinta de seis crianças, crescendo em Haworth, no condado de Yorkshire. No entanto, ela vivia isolada na periferia da cidade, confinada à convivência com sua família, a igreja e o cemitério. A tranquilidade e a rotina de sua vida eram algumas das coisas que mais lhe davam prazer, permitindo-lhe viver em seu mundo imaginário, compartilhado às vezes com sua irmã, Anne.

Essa sensação de isolamento é perceptível em seu único livro, O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes. Ao longo da narrativa, podem ser notadas semelhanças com a sua própria realidade. Isso revela suas preocupações e pensamentos, como a tristeza de deixar seu próprio mundo para se aventurar em outros ambientes. Também se observa a reprodução de detalhes de sua vida doméstica na obra, criando uma atmosfera de isolamento e fechamento, na qual os personagens vivem de maneira eremita. (Sofia) (Translation)

Noticias de Gipuzkoa (Spain) reviews the film Las Chicas Están Bien by Itsaso Arana:

De hecho, esa sensación de vacío, esa huella fantasmática habita en Cumbres borrascosas de Emily Brontë, otra referencia del siglo XIX presente en Las chicas están bien un filme de 2023 que se funda sobre un abrazo entre lo clásico y lo moderno. (Juan Zapater) (Translation)

Expressen (Sweden) reviews Min bokvärld by Kerstin Ekman:

Kanske att man vågar stå för vad man ser. För kraften och sanningen i fantasin – som Emily Brontë i ”Svindlande höjder”, ännu en av Kerstin Ekmans favoritromaner. (Ulrika Kärnborg) (Translation)

Culture.pl (Poland) talks about the paintings of Konrad Krzyżanowski:

Wraz z nowym postrzeganiem natury w dobie romantyzmu rosło także znaczenie zwierząt domowych: koty pojawiają się w poezji Keatsa i Shelley, William Blake zilustrował "Odę na śmierć ulubionego kota" Thomasa Graya, a w powieściach sióstr Anne i Charlotte Brontë, jak wskazywała Katherine Rogers, stosunek do tych zwierząt staje się wyznacznikiem wrażliwości człowieka. (Piotr Policht) (Translation)

A Brontëite in a random interview in Plant City Observer. Gulf News shares pictures of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum hunting in Yorkshire. On the Brontë Parsonage Museum Facebook Wall there's a picture of the visit of the boygenius trio at the Parsonage.