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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

ITV News has a clip on The Brontës' Web of Childhood exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Forbes has a list of 'The 30 Best Classic Novels Everyone Should Read' including
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
Emily Brontë helped birth the gothic novel with this story of the doomed love between Catherine and Heathcliff, whose tortured life amid the moors culminates in avenging those who kept them apart by acquiring the home of Thrushcross Grange from Catherine’s husband. The novel illustrates the good and evil living inside all of us. (Toni Fitzgerald)
BookTrib discusses Gothic romance.
Over the centuries, women have flocked to Gothic romance. From Radcliffe on, female leads began to govern the genre, including Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre in 1847 and Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca in 1938. (Lindy Ryan)
Sydney Morning Herald reviews the novel My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown,
Reflecting on projecting herself into Jane Eyre, imaginatively assembling its fictional world through her knowledge of her own, Linda reflects “that’s how fiction works, doesn’t it?” Through her mosaic of mirrored details across various story worlds – drawn from within and outside the novel, all springing from Ida’s brain – Brown brilliantly demonstrates that’s how fiction is written, too. (Jo Case)
The Impartial Reporter reviews the stage production of Federico García Lorca's Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) at the Ardhowen theatre claiming that,
Some of the searing dialogue between the star-crossed pair has echoes of those immortal creatures of the crags – Catherine Earnshaw and the demonic Heathcliff in ‘Wuthering Heights’. (Gerry McLaughlin)
Stay at Home Artist has a new installment of her Brontë Stories: 'Moor Meeting Late July 1853'.

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