Psychological thrillers

A couple of the Brontës' works as psychological thrillers in The Guardian:

Although sometimes perceived as a new publishing trend, psychological thrillers have always been popular, said Harriet Tyce, a former criminal barrister and author whose most recent novel is It Ends At Midnight. Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre are all early examples of the subgenre, she explained.

“As a genre it’s been traditionally more popular with female authors and readers – who make up the majority of book buyers, let us not forget – perhaps because its exploration of the terrors that can be hidden in domestic settings are so strong and resonant to women who are trapped by patriarchal structures within the home.” (David Barnett)

The Yorkshire Post features Catherine Warr and her book A Yorkshire Year. 

“The pleasure for me”, says Catherine, is to get readers to explore further. So, I take them, I hope, into unknown territory, and beyond things that they already know. Like the Brontë sister. Everyone knows quite a lot about them, and there’s really little for me to add.

"Their dissolute brother Bramwell [sic], however, is quite another matter – to me, he’s the strangest of those Howarth [sic] children, and by far the most interesting in his relative obscurity, and his being a true misfit. The ‘Brontë tea towel economy’ just bores me to tears!” (Phil Penfold)

We prefer the attitude of poet Robert Powell, also interviewed by The Yorkshire Post:

Name your favourite Yorkshire book/author/artist/CD/performer.

It's a three-cornered fight between Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, and Kes, by Barry Hines. Other living authors I relish are Simon Armitage and Sally Wainwright, and the two we have lost, and whose work still gives me great pleasure, are Ted Hughes and Winifred Holtby. (Phil Penfold)

Madame Figaro (France) interviews Siri Hustvedt.

Vous écrivez également sur des femmes écrivains, comme Jane Austen et Emily Brontë. Les considérez-vous comme vos « mères littéraires » ?

Oui. Je les ai lues pour la première fois quand j'avais 13 ans, et elles continuent de m'influencer. Bien que les romans d'Austen aient été déformés par Hollywood et des hordes de fans sentimentaux, son travail est en fait tout entier tissé d'ironie et de critique sociale, particulièrement envers un monde qui asservit les femmes. Et Les Hauts de Hurlevent est un roman si radical, si déroutant et rempli d'ambiguïtés, que je ne m'en suis jamais remise. C'est pourquoi j'ai écrit dessus : pour me plonger, quitte à m'y embrouiller, dans ce que je ne peux pas résoudre. De nombreux lecteurs en ont proposé des interprétations jusqu'à le transformer en ce qu'il n'était pas. Je considère ce livre comme une bombe philosophique, une œuvre qui bouleverse bon nombre des frontières que nous tenons pour acquises, celles entre l'homme et la femme, entre soi et l'autre, entre la personne et l'environnement. (Minh Tran Huy) (Translation)

Notas de prensa (Spain) interviews writer Ángeles Caso.

q. ¿Qué debemos heredar de estos desheredados?

R. El coraje y la fortaleza que tuvieron para escuchar su propia voz. Cuando todo el mundo te dice que las niñas no saben escribir, pintar o investigar bien, ¿dónde encuentras el coraje y la fuerza para defenderte y conservar tu talento? Llevo una camiseta de las hermanas Brontë: Charlotte, Emily y Anne. A ellos les dediqué mi novela. Todo este fuego. La forma en que estas mujeres se respetaban a sí mismas más allá de todas las convenciones sociales y pagaban precios muy altos, este respeto por lo que realmente tenían dentro de ellas… (Heberto Corrales Domínquez) (Translation)

Sixth Tone features Shanghai's female-friendly bookshop, which is been more and more successful since it opened in 2020.

It’s easy to see why Wang’s business has prospered. A three-story space just across the road from the trendy Tianzifang neighborhood, Xinchao Bookstore styles itself as the city’s first and only independent women’s bookstore.

The interior resembles a set from the “Barbie” movie. Between bright pink walls, rows of bookshelves are stuffed with titles by female authors ranging from Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters to the Japanese feminist Chizuko Ueno. (Fan Yiying and Liu Shuhuan)

El Independiente (Spain) on saying goodbye.

De estos otros adioses que son el envés del acto soberano y libertino de marcharse voluntariamente de los sitios está llena la literatura del XIX, aunque tal vez el cesante Villaamil de la novela Miau de Pérez Galdós sea la manifestación más estomagante y estructurante de estos adioses forzados de cuantas hemos conocido, con permiso de la honesta fuga de Jane Eyre o de los más contemporáneos y más prosaicos ceses de los entrenadores de fútbol, valga el de Vicente del Bosque por todos ellos, que fue despedido del Real Madrid por no tener, ni de lejos, el charme para el tiro de cámara ni los ojitos azules del efímero Carlos Queiroz, mucho más guapo, desde luego, que el genio salmantino. (Pablo Sánchez Chillón) (Translation)

Far Out Magazine has actress Jemima Kirke list her favourite books and one of them is Wuthering Heights. iNews features Hebden Bridge and mentions its proximity to Brontë country as one of its good things. BBC Countryfile has a guide on Hathersage that mentions the Charlotte Brontë connection.