It is troubling

More interviews with Emerald Fennell, promoting her new film Saltburn, keep mentioning Wuthering Heights one way or another. In Buzzfeed:

Ada Enechi: I have to ask about THAT graveyard scene. There was definitely a level of uncomfortability when watching that scene and it made me question what else could have been removed that we weren't privy to as we rarely see the whole cut. What other scenes of that level were removed from the final cut?

E.F.: (...) It is troubling, it's about grief. It is about the horror of grief and the horror of love. It comes directly from the Gothic tradition because there's a scene in Wuthering Heights, one of my favourite books of all time, where Heathcliff digs down to get to Cathy's coffin and the subtext is very much to do a similar thing. So what we have in the film is not completely outlandish given the genre. 

Eurogamer has visited the British Library's Fantasy: Realms of the Imagination exhibition:

I don't know much about the Brontë sisters, but this little book has to be seen to be believed. I know the picture is slightly blurry but even up close, in person, I couldn't read it, the writing is so small. It's the writing of a 13 year-old Charlotte Brontë, and containes the Glass Town story The Search after Happiness. (Robert Purchese)

The best historical fiction of 2023 according to The Sunday Times: 

Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell

Europa Editions £14.99

Karen Powell’s debut novel, The River Within, was a tale of class, grief and love set in 1950s Yorkshire. Her second travels further back into that county’s past and revisits the lives of its most famous writing family, the Brontës. The story of moorland isolation, early deaths and burgeoning creativity is a familiar one, but Powell, with Emily as her first-person narrator, gives it new energy, capturing the vulnerability of the three sisters and their determination to make the most of their talents. (...)

Fyneshade by Kate Griffin

Recently there has been no shortage of gothic tales in which spirited, Victorian-era governesses confront mysteries in remote settings. Kate Griffin’s Fyneshade (Viper £16.99) finds original ways of presenting well-worn tropes. Rejected by her family and separated from her lover, Marta — Jane Eyre but with an icy heart — is sent to gloomy Fyneshade. There she finds a pupil who cannot be taught, a dangerously seductive antihero and a house full of secrets. No innocent herself, she tries to turn events to her advantage in Griffin’s dark, inventive story. (Nick Rennison)

The Herald recommends the documentary Wonderland: Gothic (Sky Arts, free to view, Tuesday, 9pm):

The term gothic has been affixed to many art forms, covering everything from Wuthering Heights and The Hound of the Baskervilles to the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and Hitchcock’s Rebecca. It’s a style, a mood, that we think we know, but do we really? (Alison Rowat)

Jornal Opçao (Brazil) quotes the last words of several writers. Including Charlotte Bronté:

“Não vou morrer. É verdade? Ele não nos separará. Nós somos muito felizes.”

A escritora britânica Charlote Brontë (1883-1924) estava casada havia nove meses quando faleceu, aos 38 anos, de câncer. É autora do romance “Jane Eyre”. (Euler de França Belém) (Translation)

Which of course are the "last words" according to Elizabeth Gaskells's Life of Charlotte Bronté and... Charlotte Brontë didn't die of cancer. That was her mother.

Iconic romances in films in Cultture (in Spanish):

Wuthering Heights 1939

Cumbres borrascosas es un gótico taciturno, y la película en blanco y negro se presta bien a ese tono. Los actores y la suntuosa partitura contribuyen a subrayar el carácter lúdico del romance central. Cumbres Borrascosas es una trágica historia de amor, pero las líneas entre Heathcliff y Cathy son tan bellas que su amor poético perdura más allá de sus circunstancias. Cuando Laurence Olivier fue elegido para el papel de Heathcliff, Vivien Leigh intentó hacerse con el papel de Cathy, pero afortunadamente Merle Oberon se quedó como Cathy porque su interpretación fue maravillosa. (Translation)

Carmilla Online (Italy) reviews the Italian edition of Alasdair Gray's Poor Things and mentions the Brontës several times: 

Nell’estate del 2010 librerie e centri commerciali esposero edizioni di Cime tempestose di Emily Brontë recanti in copertina un bollino stampato in vernice rosso sangue, al cui interno si leggeva: «I libri preferiti di Bella e Edward».  (...)

Per via di un paradosso piuttosto comune in letteratura sembra quasi che Povere creature!, romanzo di Alasdair Gray del 1992 (oltre dieci anni prima dell’uscita di Twilight) finalmente approdato in Italia grazie a Safarà, prenda avvio proprio da questa vicenda. Anche Gray menziona Brontë più di una volta, e lo fa all’interno di una narrazione concentrica costruita attorno al manoscritto (fittizio) di un medico scozzese che racconta la storia del suo matrimonio in ottica romantica, mettendo insieme i capisaldi del romanzo gotico inglese. (Read more) (Sara Mazzini) (Translation)

Il Giornale (Italy) talks about the After saga:

E questo rimane l'aspetto fondante del racconto stesso: Cime Tempestose racconta una delle storie d'amore più tossiche che siano mai state raccontate in letteratura, ma questo non ha mai minato il suo valore intrinseco. (Erika Pomella) (Translation)

ORF (Austria) loves moors:

Sie stehen für das Raue, Melancholische und Unzivilisierte, literarisch nobilitiert, seit Heathcliff in Emily Brontëes Wutherings Heights/Sturmhöhe durch die trübe Moor- und Heidelandschaft streift, sich gegen die Naturgewalten und seine stürmische Leidenschaft stemmt und daraus dämonische Stärke bezieht. Kate Bush hat das Moor dann noch hysterisch schrill intoniert. (Translation)

Far Out Magazine lists the 157 favourite books of Art Garfunkel and Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are there.