Emily Brontë, Biofiction and Film

An alert for today, September 14, in Sydney, Australia. A talk organized by the Australian Brontë Association:

Emily Brontë, Biofiction and Film

Talk by Stephanie Russo

Saturday 14 September 2024, 10.30am

Castlereagh Boutique Hotel, 169 Castlereagh Street (near Park Street), Sydney

Emily Brontë is not only one of the most famous novelists in English history; she is also the subject of novels, television series and films in her own right. However, while novelists write into the gaps of the historical record, the notoriously enigmatic and fanatically private Emily is a particular difficult subject for biofictions. In this talk, I trace how a wide range of novelists and screenwriters have represented Emily Brontë’s life, writing career and death over the past century. I focus, in particular, on the persistence of the belief that there must have been a secret romance that holds the key to deciphering Wuthering Heights.