Emily Brontë had the same thoughts and problems as women today

Variety features film director Miia Tervo and her new film The Missile.

“I just love to step into the shoes of someone who lives in a different time, but people are always the same. If you read Emily Brontë, you can tell she has the same thoughts and problems as women today,” Airola said. “I don’t look for these kinds of stories – they find me and it makes me feel lucky. I see myself as an old soul.” (Marta Balaga)

Book Riot looks at some of the dangerous books banned in Escambia County, Florida.

Students in Escambia County cannot access books like The Teen Vogue Handbook: An Insider’s Guide to Careers in Fashion in their school, nor can they borrow books about Greek and Roman myths. Books meant to help understanding sexual assault, teen pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections are off the shelf, as are Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. (Kelly Jensen)

How very sad.

The Sydney Morning Herald looks at depictions of the Caribbean in literature.

Though the Caribbean is often a footnote in the works of the English canon, the great works of un-writing came next for me as a reader. One such novel was British (Dominican raised) author Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, listed by the BBC in 2019 as one of the world’s 100 most influential novels. The novel moves across locations, including Dominica, but commences in Jamaica shortly after the abolition of slavery. Wide Sargasso Sea is largely accepted to be a postcolonial feminist response to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.

The narrative takes Brontë’s “mad”, and implied racially impure character of Bertha, and provides a prequel to her appearance in Jane Eyre. Though understood to explore race, class and gender in the Caribbean, the limits of this text, told from a white perspective, in unpacking, or un-writing Brontë, and probing a post-slavery class system, have been widely examined. (Maxine Beneba Clarke)

London Unattached recommends 'National Theatre productions to get you through the winter' and one of them is Brontë-related.

Looking further ahead to March, The Dorfman Theatre will be staging Underdog: The Other Other Brontë which focuses on Anne. Written by Sarah Gordon, this new play considers sisterhood, competition, and the power of words, examining the lives of the Brontë sisters and their uneven rise to fame. (Madeleine Morrow)

Reader's Digest looks back on the time when everyone watched the music programme Top of the Pops.

There were countless other epoch-defining moments. Freddie Mercury in a fur coat singing “Killer Queen” in 1974, 19-year-old Kate Bush mesmerising viewers with a dramatic rendition of “Wuthering Heights” in 1978, Morrissey and The Smiths warbling through “This Charming Man” while swinging a bunch of gladioli in 1983. (Brendan Sainsbury)

Actualidad Literatura (Spain) 'English literature classics you should read' and one of them is

Wuthering Heights — Cumbres borrascosas (1847)

Escrita por Emily Brontë, esta es la novela del romanticismo oscuro por antonomasia. Ambientada en el Condado de York, narra la historia de amores, engaños y desencuentros entre Heathcliff y Catherine Earnshaw. Él fue adoptado por la familia de ella cuando era un niño. Ambos crecieron juntos y, aunque el resto de las personas lo maltrataban, ella le obsequió su amistad.

Ese sentimiento se transformó en amor, pero ella, creyendo que una unión con él rebajaría su posición, decide casarse con su vecino. Desde entonces, las vidas de todos los habitantes de Cumbres borrascosas son bastante desdichadas más o menos hasta el final, cuando la autora cierra con una resolución más luminosa. El libro contó con una primera recepción tibia, pero los años lo han convertido en un ejemplo de narración y construcción de personajes. (Juan Ortiz) (Translation)