A wuthering tenderness

Vulture reviews Renae Simone Jarrett’s play Daphne.

That veil of vagueness is drawn across Daphne as a whole. The setting is contemporary and the clothes, by Oana Botez, are slouchily hip, but the rest of the details of the world outside Winona’s spooky old house, and sometimes even inside it, are wrapped in haze. What Winona and Daphne do, or did, back in the implied city from which Daphne came, is a mystery. What Daphne’s doing here, other than making tea, wandering through the woods, and — like Psyche and Belle and Jane Eyre and the second Mrs. de Winter before her — generally becoming more and more unnerved by her seemingly beautiful but increasingly oppressive and ominous partner-owned living situation? Also unclear. (Sara Holdren)

UVU Review marks the 20th anniversary of the play Farewell to Eden by Mahonri Stewart.

“Farewell To Eden,” an original play written by Mahonri Stewart, was originally performed at UVU when it debuted in 2003. It was met with sold-out shows and massive critical acclaim. This year marked the play’s 20th anniversary.  

The production returned after an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign. It was performed in the Ragan Theater at UVU, with some of the original cast returning, including Margie Johnson as Georgina Highett, and James Arrington returning to the director’s chair.  

Set in Victorian England, the play follows Georgina, a high-strung woman with no serious interest in romance and burdened with the weight of her family’s reputation. However, several events and the arrival of a mysterious stranger create a change in her character. The play skillfully portrays the intricacies of English society, drawing inspiration from examples like Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, and Sense and Sensibility. (Elijah McPherson)

A reference to David Austin's Emily Brontë roses in The New Yorker:

Emily Brontë, another of my favorite David Austin roses, blooms with what I call “a wuthering tenderness,” and when the Emily Brontës are blooming I always think of my first reading of “Wuthering Heights,” as a teen-ager in Beijing. Mystified and electrified, I held on to the book as though it offered a refuge for my mind, but I now suspect that I was only pretending to understand the passion and the drama in the story. (Yiyun Li)

Wuthering Heights is one of several perfect books for autumn according to The Bubble.

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte

If you haven’t yet picked up this well-loved classic, then this is your sign to do so. There is no more thrilling place to spend your autumn than in the wild Yorkshire moors, haunted by the passionate souls of Bronte’s ill-fated lovers, Cathy and Heathcliff. This novel epitomizes the gothic genre, with its isolated setting acting as the backdrop for Cathy’s psychological deterioration and Heathcliff’s rage, heartbreak and desire for vengeance. Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ is a unique exploration of human passion and the lengths one will go to for love. Further feeding into the gothic atmosphere are the uncanny hints towards the supernatural, with ghostly hands reaching through windows and graves being opened, terrorizing the reader with suspense. Bronte’s expertise is in her ability to create characters that we both despise and yet pity at the same time, exposing the dichotomy of humankind, as no one is perfect, and we all contain aspects of good and evil. (Bella Farley)

And, as reported by Telecinco (Spain), Wuthering Heights is also one of 20 classics to read in your lifetime according to AI.

L'École normale supérieure - PSL (France) interviews Sandrine Maufroy, translator of a newly-released book: Les Femmes dans l'espace littéraire moderne, a compilation of articles by Dutch writer Carry Van Bruggen (1881-1932).

Parus en feuilleton au cours de l’année 1916 sous le titre Littérature moderne, ces articles analysent ce que les œuvres et la vie littéraires font comprendre de la place des femmes dans la société. Consacrés pour l’essentiel aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles – Madame de Staël et George Sand, F. Schlegel et Heine, Walter Scott, Shelley et Byron, Dickens et Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë... –, ils offrent un premier aperçu de la réflexion stimulante conduite ensuite par l’écrivaine dans Prométhée, son grand essai sur l’histoire intellectuelle européenne et l'essor de l’individualisme à l’époque moderne. [...]

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Ce livre nous fait parcourir un siècle et demi de littérature européenne, il nous donne le plaisir de retrouver des figures et des œuvres familières (Madame de Staël, Charlotte Brontë et Jane Eyre, les romans de Charles Dickens, la poésie et la prose de Heinrich Heine...) tout en nous offrant des perspectives parfois inattendues. (Translation)

La razón (Spain) features writer Pilar Adón.

Siendo apenas una niña, con el estallido de los días azules contorneando las siluetas de sus pueriles sueños, Pilar Adón se encaramaba a la pequeña biblioteca que tenía su madre en casa y devoraba las historias de las hermanas Brontë o de Virginia Woolf, con independencia de si la profundidad de los textos de estas autoras era enteramente asimilada a una edad tan temprana. «Llevo toda la vida leyendo a mujeres», reconoce. (Marta Moleón) (Translation)

The Scarborough News announces it's going to start a series of article on local ghost stories called... Coastbusters.

There are often Ghost Tours at The Grand Hotel, and as the seaside town is where famous writer Anne Brontë was laid to rest, could her spirit be exploring the town? (Louise Hollingsworth)

Finally, an alert for today, in Aználcazar, Spain: The Club de Lectura de Aználcazar has a talk about Wuthering Heights.