Extensively Unfortunate Situation

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Emily

For more than 20 years, Frances O’Connor has been a familiar face to fans of British period dramas, having played Fanny Price in Mansfield Park (1999) and the title character in Madame Bovary (2000). So it seems appropriate that she’d make her debut as a writer-director with this “biopic” of Emily Brontë, which takes plenty of fun creative liberties to paint the famed author as a rebel outcast who bucks convention and the restrictions placed on women at the time to follow her passion and write Wuthering Heights. (Jennifer M. Wood)

A couple of websites talk about the latest Emerald Fennell film, Saltburn, and how Wuthering Heights was a direct influence: Folha de S. Paulo (Brazil), Ciak Magazine (Italy) and Pro-TV (Romania).

Military Press interviews the writer Amanda Flower:

Elise Cooper: How would you describe Emily [Dickinson]’s personality in your book?

AF:  This is my best interpretation of the real Emily. She likes to investigate, a good judge of character, ignores societal class, and is loyal. She is also bold, caring, curious, confident, and blunt. She was probably her father’s favorite because he gave her special treatment.  She enjoyed wandering around and instead of not telling her to stop bought her a dog for protection. The dog is real and so his name Carlo, a character in Jane Eyre. 

Carlo is St John Rivers's dog. 

The unluckiest movie couples on CBR:

Jane & Rochester Have an Extensively Unfortunate Situation in Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is based on a novel of the same name by Charlotte Bronte. The prequel novel The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys imagines and explores more of Rochester's past with his family and his first wife.

Everyone in Jane Eyre is exceedingly unlucky. They're unfortunate not because of mistakes of fate, but because they suffer the consequences of other people's abuse and avarice, which compounds into great consequences. Jane's parents passed away from an illness, leaving her to be raised by a cruel extended family who then sent her away to an even more abusive school.

Jane is kind and self-contained, yet insecure because of her upbringing. Mr. Rochester feels like he never got a chance to live his life because he was forced into marriage with someone who is also a victim of her own parental trauma. That doesn't excuse the wild situation he continues when he tries to court Jane, of course. In another world, Jane and Rochester may have been a well-matched couple from the start, but they become a toxic movie couple because of their circumstances. Their life grows more and more complex because of Rochester's tangled past and inability to navigate his present properly. (Vera)

Stars Insider (in Dutch) says, verbatim, that Charlotte Brontë was absolutely gorgeous:

De Engelse romanschrijver en dichter, die ook de oudste van de beroemde Brontë-zussen was, was absoluut een plaatje. (Translation)

Well, you know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But in this case, we think it's just lazy journalism (lazy AI probably).

A scientist with Brontë interests in RiPost (Italy). Mrs Sydney's Famous World's Smallest Library reviews the upcoming Jane Eyre abridged for children by Patrice Lawrence