Named after the Brontë siblings, Branwell and Charlotte are two sweet kittens up for adoption at the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria.Branwell and Charlotte are two of the most happiest kittens and would make wonderful companions, according to AWLA spokesperson Erin Shackelford. Branwell is a handsome black and white male kitten, and Charlotte is a beautiful gray and white female kitten. (...)If interested in talking with the adoption and veterinary teams about caring for an FeLV+ cat, please email info@AlexandriaAnimals.org or call 703-746-4774. And don’t forget to read more about Branwell and Charlotte by checking out their entire profiles!
To dive deep under the skin of Bush’s esteemed ‘Wuthering Heights’, revisiting the allure of its source material reveals some interesting parallels and distinctions between each work of art. Influenced by Emily Brontë’s novel of the same name, Bush’s reimagining was no easy task. Authored in 1847 and published under her pseudonym Ellis Bell, Brontë’s literary work has attained the status of a universal cultural touchstone, one that Bush admits became difficult to capture within “such a short piece of prose”.Although the novel’s setting lies amid the Yorkshire moors, the song transpired within the confines of a South London suburb during March of 1977. As London surged with the raw fervour and intensity of the punk movement, exuding an atmosphere of vehement discontent, Bush embarked on crafting a pop composition that would accurately depict the novel’s tone while infiltrating a profound echo across culture and entertainment. The night naturally lent itself to a magical work of art, as Bush revealed to her fan club in 1979, “There was a full moon, the curtains were open and it came quite easily”.However, while one might envision Bush immersed in the world of aged stories for inspiration, the song’s backstory suggests otherwise. In truth, Bush didn’t delve into the book herself, rather, she stumbled upon the concluding ten minutes of the 1967 BBC mini-series adaptation. She then composed the entire song in a span of just a few hours. Yet, those concerned that the song lacks a literary connection need not worry, as it remains rife with references to the novel and its central character, Catherine ‘Cathy’ Earnshaw. (Read more) (Kelly Scanlon)
One of Kate Bush’s most famous tracks is named after Emily Brontë’s love epic, Wuthering Heights. Bush tells a similar story in her 1978 track. Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy / I’ve come home, I’m so cold / Let me in your window, she sings, taking on the plights of Brontë’s main character, Catherine Earnshaw. (Alex Hopper)
Red: Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteChosen by Laura Sims, author of How Can I Help YouIt may seem like an odd pairing at first: Emily Brontë and Taylor Swift? But bear with me. Though its setting is late winter, I first read Wuthering Heights in autumn; now the season always brings to mind those stormy, shrouded moors, the backdrop to Heathcliff and Catherine’s exquisitely tormented love. I often find myself listening to Kate Bush keening the lines to her “Wuthering Heights” around that time… and similarly, the season draws me to Taylor Swift’s Red. Though it’s true that some key tracks are set in autumn, it’s more the album’s autumnal tone—like the novel’s—that stirs me: both works glow with an intensity of emotion like the last burst of color in the trees, and both brim with longing for what’s lost or in the past.I can hear Heathcliff, post-Catherine, in the lines of “All Too Well,” a by turns mournful and fierce breakup ballad, singing, “Time won’t fly, it’s like I’m paralyzed by it;” and I hear Catherine, in spectral form, telling Heathcliff, “I’ll follow you, follow you home,” in “Treacherous.” I hear her again in “The Last Time,” singing, “Found myself at your door / Just like all those times before.” But it may be the title track, “Red,” that best expresses the synchronicity between these two works separated by hundreds of years. Everything has a color: the blue of “losing him,” the dark gray of “missing him,” but most of all, “loving him was red / Oh, red / Burning red.”It’s true that the album and novel couldn’t come from more disparate worlds; you won’t find the class conflict, crippling illness, and frequent premature deaths of the 1800s in Red, just as you won’t see signs of our contemporary urban landscape or hear strains of pop music’s ferocious positivity in Wuthering Heights. But it’s their shared core that matters, one that holds obsessive, troubled love, haunted and haunting lovers, and, most of all, the “burning red” of all-consuming feeling.
Kilkinure and its residents are fictional, but they stand in for a nation’s real trauma in a new six-part BBC series. The Woman in the Wall strikingly retells an unspeakable — and too often unspoken — chapter of not-so-distant history as a gothic horror. The first episode opens with a Brontë-esque scene of a woman waking on a misty rural road and ends with a Poe-inspired sequence of a body being hidden in an intramural grave. (Dan Einav)
Strange Unearthly Things By Kelly CreaghWhere are all of our Jane Eyre fans? This next release is for you! Strange Unearthly Things follows Jane Reye, a psychic artist who draws the supernatural spirits she sees. When Jane is invited to an English manor, Elias, the young owner of the estate asks her to participate in a study. But, not everything is as it seems and she’s starting to see a correlation between Elias and the spiritual activity in the manor. Will Jane be able to save him from a horrible fate? (Paige Lobianco)
Martin Chuzzlewit is one thing, but when the original manuscript of a beloved work like “Jane Eyre” seems to be the next target, the detectives kick into even higher gear, fighting to protect Charlotte Brontë’s famous characters.This book came to me at the recommendation of a friend, and I was immediately interested because “Jane Eyre” is one of my all-time favorite books. I fell in love with it when it was required reading in one of my college English classes, and it remains one of the few books I’ve read more than once. I’d advise readers of “The Eyre Affair” to have at least a basic understanding of the plot of “Jane Eyre” ahead of time, as it figures prominently into the story. (Theresa Bourke)
Strands of stories like Wuthering Heights, where spirits find their way into the real world, and fantasy and reality are hard to separate - these themes are also reflected in John Connolly’s latest book The Land of Lost Things. (Ruth Kennedy)
When did you realize you wanted to work in higher education, or was there a moment in time when you decided this was the career path you wanted to take?(...) I took a course on the Victorian Novel, taught by the great Ule Knopfelmacher, and I had an advanced PhD student for my discussion section leader named Lisa Jadwin.During a meeting with her about a paper I was writing on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (still one of my favorite novels), Lisa asked me whether I had ever considered grad school in English. Well, until that time I hadn’t.
Jane Eyre. Originally published under the pen name Currer Bell, Jane Eyre has secured Charlotte Brontë’s position as one of the greatest Victorian novelists. Written in the first person, the novel follows Jane as she goes from being an orphan living with her cruel aunt, to a boarder and teacher at an awful school called Lowood, to a governess for the mysterious Mr. Rochester, whose house hides a terrible secret. In addition to being an exciting Gothic romance, Jane Eyre is considered a key text in the feminist canon. First
published: 1847. (...)
Wuthering Heights. Emily Brontë’s only novel tells the tortured love story of the foundling Heathcliff and his adoptive father’s daughter, Catherine Earnshaw. Bad boys abound in literature, but Heathcliff is a force of nature. When Catherine betrays him, he exacts revenge on everyone around her, including Catherine’s daughter. Will there ever be a stranger, darker romance? Wuthering Heights is a passionate exploration of the destructive power of spurned love that glitters through the centuries. First published: 1847 (Michelle David)
The most fascinating thing about Judith, in Bluebeard’s Castle, is her keen awareness that she’s living out a gothic thriller in real time. Judith becomes fascinated by the Bluebeard myth, and yet struggles to break free of Gavin’s control. Biller cites classic novels like Clarissa, Jane Eyre, and Tess of the d’Urbervilles as inspiration for Judith’s story. (Julia Glassman)
Literary types may prefer another establishment, in England’s Lake District, where Charlotte and Emily Brontë, walked the halls.
Not really. Particularly in Emily's case.
Tanpa disadari, romansa dan mortalitas kerap memoles tema literatur dunia. Meski cinta tetap membara dari tiap goresan—atau ketikan—tangan para penulis hingga kini, tetapi penggalian mortalitas manusia tetap jadi topik awet. Seperti Wuthering Heights karya Emily Brontë, dan rangkaian puisi sastrawan Chairil Anwar yang tertampung dalam Aku Ini Binatang Jalang.
La Mente Es Maravillosa (in Spanish) quotes from Charlotte Brontë. Screenings of Emily in Città di Brugherio, Leccofm and CiaoComo (Italy). Canarias7 (Spain) mentions that the film is on the Spanish streaming platform Movistar+. Koha Jone (Albania) misquotes Emily Brontë (the quote is not hers). The blog of the Brontë Society of Japan presents the book Walking with Anne. Particularly the articles by Jane Sunderland on Anne Brontë and Agnes Grey.
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