Call Me Heathcliff

This is how  the senior editor of the current edition of The Atlantic Daily newsletter, Matt Season is described:

Matt enjoys watching Kate Winslet play against what one might call her English-rose type, would bring the audiobook of Charlotte Brontë’s Villette to a desert island, and returns often to a Robert Frost poem that is both nature writing and its complete opposite. (Isabel Fattal)

Curtain Call interviews Jennie Greenberry who is Jane Eyre at the current production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR:

“Jane is the kind of person I deeply admire and strive to be,” Greenberry said. “So, of course I jumped at the chance to portray her. I love that she’s so self-assured and maintains her personal integrity, regardless of the situations in which she finds herself.”

Greenberry also respects her character’s character. Although Jane has experienced a lot of trauma for someone so young, she doesn’t let that dim her kindness, compassion, joy or curiosity.

“She possesses the kind of strength I think few people have, and I love getting to explore that,” Greenberry said. (Jim Flint)

The Midnight Circle's Wuthering Heights tour is coming to Henley. The Henley Standard is delighted:

Director Nick Benjamin has co-devised the adaptation along with members of the cast, who are all in their twenties or thirties.

He says: “Wuthering Heights is so much more than just a love story. It’s a story of passion, revenge, ghosts and past wrongs.

“Catherine and Heathcliff are not your conventional lovers, they are elemental, two fires on the verge of destroying each other.

“We haven’t gone too far away from the actual set text because that is when you start getting massive complaints from people going, ‘This is not Wuthering Heights’.

“However, it is such a big book and it’s such an in-depth narrative, there were certain bits that we had to leave out and others we wanted to bring in a bit more.

“We’re focusing on the idea of the moors being almost like a secondary character.

“The moors represent the spirit world to a certain degree and a lot of the cast, when they’re not on stage as a main character, take on the role of sort of an elemental moors spirit. (...)

Nick, who plays Mr Lockwood as as well as directing, says the company felt the need to perform the story outdoors.

“A regular theatre space would have quashed the very nature of the piece,” he says. “I’ve seen quite a lot of reviews of other Wuthering Heights stage shows which said that it was very hard for them to be driven along on this story of nature when you were enclosed by four walls.”

Niamh Handley-Vaughan, who plays Catherine Earnshaw, adds: “The reason we wanted to do it outside is because nature is such an integral part of Wuthering Heights so it made sense.”

The Berkshire Eagle covers the performances of Poor Herman by Elizabeth Doss where the legacy of Herman Melville's epic literary failure 'Pierre; or the Ambiguities' is examined. The play contains the following dialogue:

AUGUSTA [MELVILLE]: This new book is a ROMANCE mother! Written in the style of the Bell brothers’ Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre! Perhaps all will go well and Herman will find a whole new audience! (...)

HERMAN: You want to be my ghostwriter? 

AUGUSTA: I’ve read Wuthering Heights backwards and forwards. Let me help you find an audience of thousands.  

El Debate (Spain) talks about writers famous for just one novel: 

Emily fue la segunda de las tres hermanas Brönte (sic). Charlotte, autora de Jane Eyre, era la mayor y Anne, la menos conocida de ellas, autora de La inquilina de Wildfell Hall, la menor. Emily Brónte (sic) murió a los 30 años de tuberculosis solo un año después de publicar Cumbres borrascosas, el gran clásico de la literatura. La trágica historia de amor de Heathcliff y Catherine que causó impresión en su tiempo desde casi todos los puntos de vista: su trama, su estilo y su fuerza invencible e inmortal en el poderoso contraste con la siempre delicada salud de su autora. (Mario de las Heras) (Translation)

Let’s not underestimate the fascinating ability of the author (or editor) of the article to write Brontë in creative and incorrect ways.

We have some Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever updates. Basically from Australia, New Zealand, UK  and Ireland: ABC (Australia), The Irish Times, Lancashire Evening Post, Otago Daily Times... Quotes about moving forward, including one by Charlotte, on Pinkvilla. AnneBrontë.org describes Ellen Nussey’s first visit to Haworth Parsonage and. her reminiscences, particularly her vivid description of that initial visit,