Meet the Brontë Bros Experiencing the Particular Suffering of Exile

The Midnight Circle's Wuthering Heights tour arrives at Stortford and the Bishop's Stortford Independent has an article about it: 

Set against captivating backdrops, this passionate retelling promises an immersive journey into the depths of love, obsession and the wild beauty of nature.

The production brings to life the tumultuous tale of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, weaving a narrative of desire, revenge and the haunting echoes of the past.

As the sun sets over the College grounds, audiences will be transported to the windswept Yorkshire moors, where love and loss collide in a whirlwind of emotion accompanied by movement, music and immersive elements.

Nick [Nicholas Benjamin] said: “Wuthering Heights is known as one of the greatest love stories ever told, and while I’m not disputing that accolade, I often feel that it falls a little short of doing the text justice.

“Yes, there’s love, but there’s also lust, betrayal, pain and vengeance, all wrapped up in the mystical spirituality that is the moors.

“Cathy and Heathcliff are so much more than ill-fated lovers. They’re elemental. A burning fire constantly on the brink of destroying each other.” (Paul Winspear)

HerZindagi lists seven books to be read by women in their 20s:

Wuthering Heights

In a novel by Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights preaches about doing things we love and forgiving one another. [Really?]

Jane Eyre 

Written by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tells the story of an orphan's girl journey through life, filled with struggles and complexities.

Jean Rhys and art forged in loneliness in The Conversation:

Wide Sargasso Sea, published when Rhys was 76 and all but forgotten in literary circles, was the culmination of her talent. A work both of genius and of long hard labour, it was also a complex fusion of Rhys’s life with literature: a lushly imagined prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. In it, Rhys channelled her experience of the particular suffering of exile into the character of the young Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway, the first Mrs Rochester.

Following an arranged marriage to an unnamed Englishman who is desperate for her dowry, Antoinette’s journey from post-slavery Jamaica to incarceration in the attic at Thornfield Hall is only marginally more dramatic than Rhys’s own trajectory from Dominica to Devon. It was a route that took her via Paris, London, and latterly Cornwall, with a brief stay in Holloway Prison, charged with assault. (Carol Lefevre)

The Irish Times interviews the writer Karin Slaughter: 

Martin Doyle: Which writers, living or dead, would you invite to your dream dinner party?

K.S..: Flannery O’Connor, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë, and Dorothy Parker so we can make fun of everybody who’s not there.

Meet the Brontë Bros in Time Out:

There’s nothing quite like the simple pleasure of getting stuck into a good book. From TikTok bookshelf tours, sad girls books and the Brontë Bros (a.k.a Timothée Chalamet and Jacob Elordi), Marc Jacobs and his reading hour or Dua Lipa’s Service95 Book Club, if you didn’t already know, reading is cool again. Or, as Kaia Gerber said earlier this year, ‘reading is so sexy’. (Sydney Evans)

Jagran Josh lists classic books teens should read:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, this amazing book follows the tragic and unique life of Jane as she falls in love with Mr. Rochester.

Students can easily take a look at these books for reading in their free time. Books are a human’s best friend. Reading a book daily can help teenagers and young adults to boost their creativity and imagination. It also develops their perspective of looking at different things. (Akshita Jolly)

Blue Mountains Gazette prepares the next edition of the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever. Hotel Owner announces that the Old White Lion in Haworth is on the market.