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Daily Mail shares 'withering school reports' of famous people including Charlotte Brontë. In her case, though, it was more of an early assessment rather than an actual school report.
3. 'Reads tolerably — writes indifferently. Knows nothing of grammar, geography, history or accomplishments.' [...]
3. Charlotte Bronte: This tepid assessment of the Jane Eyre author was recorded in the Register at the Clergy Daughters' School in Cowan Bridge, Lancs, in 1824, and concluded: 'Altogether clever for her age but knows nothing systematically.' (Etan Smallman)
Independent lists 'The best non-fiction books to read in 2024' and one of them is
Reading Lessons by Carol Atherton
Not another year of Of Mice and Men, surely? It’s the same book but different, argues English teacher Carol Atherton. She writes about how the books we study at school may not change that much, but their meanings do, from her first-hand experience of teaching everything from Jane Eyre to Jeanette Winterson. 4 April, Fig Tree (Jessie Thompson)
The Mary Sue recommends Wuthering Heights as part of a list of books to read if you liked Saltburn.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
Many have said that Wuthering Heights is one of the greatest books ever written. Emily Brontë takes us to the fictional estate Wuthering Heights and the family drama that runs through generations. The Earnshaw family lives at the sprawling home. Mr. Earnshaw brings home an orphan named Heathcliff to be raised alongside his children Hindley and Catherine. It starts a chain of events that will haunt anyone who lives on the property for years.
Most of the trouble stems from the love between Heathcliff and Catherine. Heathcliff is obsessed with Catherine and will do anything to win her affection. Catherine cares deeply for Heathcliff but chooses to marry someone else due to Heathcliff’s low social standing. Spurned, Heathcliff becomes bitter yet never is far from Wuthering Heights. After Catherine dies, Heathcliff digs up her grave to be near her and begs to be haunted by Catherine’s ghost. (D.R. Medlen)
According to Times Now News, chapter 15 is the best in Wuthering Heights.
2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - Chapter 15
Catherine's feverish delirium and haunting declarations of love to Heathcliff are some of the novel's most intense and revealing moments. Brontë's exploration of the tortured relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff reaches a fever pitch, encapsulating the wild, gothic nature of their love and the novel's moody atmosphere.
St Helena Star lists '50 classics from (almost) everyone's high school reading list' including
#29. Wuthering Heights
- Author: Emily Brontë
- Score: 8,214
- Average rating: 3.88 (based on 1,651,158 ratings)
"Wuthering Heights," published in 1847, was the first and only novel by Emily Brontë, who died a year later at 30. Brontë tells the tragic love story between Heathcliff, an orphan, and Catherine, his wealthy benefactor's daughter. Considered a classic in English literature, the novel shows readers how passionate and destructive love can be. [...]
#17. Jane Eyre
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Score: 11,990
- Average rating: 4.14 (based on 1,941,542 ratings)
Charlotte Brontë—sister to Emily—speaks directly to the reader in "Jane Eyre." The Victorian novel follows the headstrong Jane, an orphan who lives with her aunt and cousins, on her quest to find her identity and true love. The novel, marketed as an autobiography and published in 1847 under the pen name Currer Bell, is written in the first person and introduces "the concept of the self" in writing.
Here's how CBR describes the 2007 adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey:
The series is like a more lighthearted version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. (Vera)
The Telegraph shares a list of 'Britain’s 10 best value cities for quality of life in 2024': one of them is Leeds and one of its selling points is being 'just a short drive away in Haworth, the home of the Brontë sisters'.

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