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Saturday, December 09, 2023

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Krytyka Polityczna (Poland) reviews Emily 2022 and also retells a good deal of the Brontë story:
Czy w drugiej dekadzie XXI wieku publiczność nie jest gotowa na film o dziewiętnastowiecznej pisarce, który nie przedstawia jej życia w konwencji komedii romantycznej lub melodramatu?
Autorka Wichrowych wzgórz Emily Brontë jest na łożu śmierci. Pochyla się nad nią jej starsza siostra, Charlotte, i natarczywie pyta: „Jak to możliwe, że napisałaś taką książkę? Jest niemoralna i pełna zepsucia! Na pewno coś przede mną ukrywasz!”. Tak wygląda pierwsza scena filmu Emily w reżyserii Frances O’Connor, który od niedawna jest dostępny na platformie HBO Max.
Jak domyśli się każdy widz znający konwencje kina biograficznego, Charlotte ma rację. W życiu Emily jest wielka tajemnica, która może dostarczyć odpowiedzi na pytanie, jak cicha i nieśmiała stara panna, która prawie całe życie spędziła w małej wiosce w Yorkshire, mogła napisać powieść tak przepełnioną emocjami: obsesyjną miłością, toksyczną zazdrością i okrucieństwem. Po otwierającej scenie pozostała część filmu ma formę długiej retrospekcji, która udziela odpowiedzi na pytanie Charlotty. (...) (Read more) (Anna Gutowska) (Translation)
The Telegraph & Argus highlights film and TV locations in West Yorkshire:
“Finding Oakwell Hall hidden down a lane in Birstall, West Yorkshire, comes as quite a surprise,” explains Filmed in Yorkshire.
“Built in 1583, it is a rare example of an Elizabethan manor house set in 100 acres of country park and has delighted visitors for centuries, including Charlotte Brontë.” (Molly Court)
The Guardian also mentions that Knebworth House (in Hertfordshire) was one of the locations of Jane Eyre 1997.
 
The novelist Daisy Goodwin and the big sister syndrome in The Times:
Younger siblings can misbehave with impunity, but the oldest one, if she’s a girl that is, knows that everything is her fault. Wendy Darling is the older sister who tries to fix Peter Pan by sewing on his shadow. Think of the contrast between Queen Elizabeth II, the archetypal dutiful older sister, and Princess Margaret, who didn’t conceal her boredom at a lifetime of opening leisure centres in Woking. But the Queen would talk to her sister every day, even when Margaret was at her most wilful. Charlotte Brontë became an older sister to Branwell, Emily and Anne after her two eldest sisters died, and she was the one who persuaded her sisters to publish their novels alongside hers.
Songs that quote classical literature in American Songwriter:
“Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush
“Wuthering Heights” is the first single by Kate Bush. Released in 1978, the song takes its name from the Emily Brontë novel, published in 1847. Bush was inspired by the film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, which she saw on TV as a child. The song is written from the point of view of Cathy Linton, who calls out to Heathcliff, a man she is forced to marry, When I needed to possess you / I hated you, I loved you, too. The novel was controversial in its time, challenging class, morality, and religion.
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy I’ve come home, I’m so cold Let me in your window
Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy I’ve come home, I’m so cold Let me in your window. (Thom Donovan)
and on the same website a list of the top Celine Dion power ballads:
“It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”
If you’ve ever read Wuthering Heights, you know that it’s, well, intense. The novel and its ill-fated romance between Cathy and Heathcliff inspired the song “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.” Specifically, it was the disturbing scene where Heathcliff digs up Cathy’s body that inspired Jim Steinman to pen this morose love song. Dion sings with everything she has in this one (but doesn’t she always?). (Savannah Dantona)
Saskatoon StarPhoenix talks about phrenology:
Phrenology became all the rage and even writers such as Walt Whitman, Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle bought into the craze. (Joe Schwarcz)
Probably Charlotte was a much better example than Emily.

The Wall Street Journal talks about the Spotify Wrapped Playlist with an ironic perspective:
Spotify Wrapped-like postings could be introduced for many other pursuits and get much the same response from the implacably mean-spirited. When you try to impress people by describing the five “classics” you most enjoyed reading last year, someone will point out that the book’s title is “Wuthering Heights,” not “Withering,” and that the House of Usher does not refer to the singer. Anyway, what kind of loser still reads Edgar Allan Poe? (Joe Queenan)
Mariana Enríquez en La Razón (México):
"Hay una línea muy impresionante, incluso en la literatura anglosajona, de ‘mujeres y lo fantástico’. Está Mary Shelley con Frankenstein, además de las hermanas Brontë. Todas las historias de fantasmas son, en esos momentos, escritas por mujeres". (Mariana Del Vergel) (Translation)
Capri Notizie (Italy) recommends Jane Eyre for young readers:
Inoltre, non si può non menzionare “Jane Eyre” di Charlotte Brontë, un romanzo gotico che racconta la storia di una giovane governante innamorata del suo datore di lavoro e che affronta temi come la condizione delle donne dell’epoca vittoriana e la ricerca dell’indipendenza. (Anna D'Allessandro) (Translation)
Education quotes, including one by Charlotte, in La Mente es Maravillosa (in Spanish). Proper Manchester mentions that the Portico Library has a collection that includes a first edition of Jane Eyre,

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