An article on
iNews about Scarborough thinks that Anne Brontë's grave is 'eerie'.
There is a macabre feel when the wind whips over the castle grounds with a stone marking Christian deaths at the hands of Roman invaders.
The eeriness continues a five-minute walk away in front of St Mary’s Church. Here lies the grave of Anne Brontë, who came to Scarborough to weather the final stages of her fatal tuberculosis. (Emma Featherstone)
Baptist News discusses House Bill 900, 'new state legislation [which] will restrict literature allowed in Texas schools based on a vague rating system about sexual content' and which will be valid starting September 1st.
As a result of HB 900, several schools are simply not buying new books for the 2023 school year. These kinds of laws not only restrict children’s access to some books, they often result in an unavailability of all new literature or all literature in general.
Fighting against this outcome, the complaint against HB 900 points out that, “Legislators expressed concern that the overbroad language of the Book Ban could result in the banning or restricting of access to many classic works of literature, such as Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, Ulysses, Jane Eyre, Maus, Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, The Canterbury Tales, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and even the Bible.”
Even the Bible — talk about a book full of sexually explicit content. (Laura Ellis)
Banning books is simply unacceptable.
The Times features the newly-opened 'romantic bookstore' The Ripped Bodice in NYC.
Other customers included two graduates who had just finished a postgraduate degree in education, who were looking for a little romance — or a big one.
“People will say: ‘Why are you not reading the classics?’” said Emily Hollenback, 27, a new graduate seeking a job in college administration. But many of the classics are romances, she said. “Wuthering Heights is a super-toxic romance,” she said. (Will Pavia)
That doesn't mean you can't read it, though.
Have you ever made a literary pilgrimage?
Like many people I’ve been to Haworth in Yorkshire, the home of the Brontës. The day we visited was New Year’s Day and the parsonage was closed, so we walked in icy wind and rain across the moors to Top Withens, the inspiration for Wuthering Heights. We had it completely to ourselves. I’ll never forget it. (Martin Doyle)
Q. Is there a book you’re nervous to read?
In my twenties, I read a lot of the classic novels I didn’t read in college. “Wuthering Heights,” a lot of Jane Austen, “Middlemarch,” “Mrs Dalloway,” “Anna Karenina.” Since having kids, though, I haven’t read many books published before the twentieth century, let alone before 1950. I want to read Proust, for instance, but I feel intimidated. I worry I don’t have the time to really focus on it. But I will read him! I will! Someday. (Erik Pedersen)
Hypnotism, deception, murder, and madness are the counterpoints to the main melody, while the unsettling and wonderfully gothic minor movement in the book comes through governess Marion; in a warped version of Jane Eyre, she arrives to look after a lonely, odd child at another iteration of Axtoun house in 1823. (Ruth McKee)
El placer de la lectura (Spain) quotes the last lines of
Wuthering Heights as one of the 25 best endings in literature.
India Today considers that every woman should read
Jane Eyre in her 30s.
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