Self-doubting Spring-Cleaning

Classic books to loan from the library this Christmas on Her Campus:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. 

Dark, passionate, love, revenge. Best suited to English weather. (Miriam Blanchard)

The Guardian reviews Stuffed: A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain by Pen Vogler:

In a conclusion, in which she tries to draw things together and to look to the future, Vogler worries away at 21st-century food poverty. Somehow, though, it feels like her heart isn’t quite in it. She seems much happier quoting Charlotte Brontë or Izaak Walton than Michael Pollan or some parliamentary select committee; those who want to read about ultra-processed food should go elsewhere.  (Rachel Cooke)

The birth of new words discussed in Millennium Post (India):

Taking as our inspiration such gifted wordsmiths as George Eliot and Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and Dorothy Wordsworth, perhaps we can distil some helpful principles – some new rules, to do a Dua Lipa — for sculpting a vocabulary to describe the surreal realities that will surely come to define tense and trying times. (...)

Charlotte Brontë was a genius of such curiously compelling compounds. To her, it is likely we owe the origin of ‘self-doubt’ and ‘Wild-West’ as well as that activity to which many of us have found ourselves suddenly engaging with obsessive vigour: ‘spring-clean’, which Brontë niftily neologised in a letter she wrote in April 1848. (Kaushikibrata Banerjee)

Rachael Stirling writes about her mother's, Diana Rigg's, final days in The Observer:

Over the last five months I have been going through a vast tin trunk referred to as Pandora’s box. It was sent over from India with her when she was small. It is now stuffed to the brim with cuttings and interviews, reviews and magazine covers spanning her career from her first appearance as a sick Emily Brontë in a school play (covered in green powder for bilious effect and coughing all through everyone else’s lines) to the early 1980s, when the curator of the archive, her mother Mrs Beryl Rigg, suddenly died from a bleedout on the operating table.

Where do the Condé Nast Traveller editors go for Christmas?: 

Cornwall, England

Although I’ve lived in London for the past seven years, I will always call Cornwall my ‘real’ home. I’m fortunate to have parents heralding from the picturesque county and, having been brought up on the Wuthering Heights-esque moorlands of Bodmin, have a true appreciation of what the countryside has to offer beyond the postcard-perfect scenery it’s famed for.  (Lucy Bruton, Social media manager)

CaTine (Romania) looks for the best literary character for each Zodiac sign using the usual mumbo jumbo:

Catherine Earnshaw din Wuthering Heights este personajul potrivit pentru zodia Scorpionului. Romanul este considerat și astăzi o capodoperă a ficțiunii gotice. Catherine este un personaj umplut cu o emoție crudă și o neliniște apăsătoare. Este un personaj misterios, sensibil, dar foarte intens. Toate aceste trăsături o fac pe Catherine să fie o reprezentată perfectă a nativilor din zodia Scorpionului. (Beatrice Ioana) (Translation)

El País (Spain) reviews the documentary Una vida Bárbara:

Sin embargo, desde hace unas semanas me siento como un espectro enloquecido gritando en un páramo vacío, algo así como Merle Oberon en Cumbres borrascosas, cada vez que en redes sociales comparto algunas de las declaraciones que Bárbara Rey vierte sin tapujos en el documental Una vida bárbara (Óscar Bernàcer, 2023). (Esther López Barceló) (Translation) 

Several news outlets discuss the third position achieved by Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier with her Wuthering Heights choreography at the recent Beijing Grand Prix Final (ice skating): France24, fgsk8, Japan Today...  NRK (Norway) also mentions Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights as appearing in TV show Maskerade.