Jane Eyre 'can’t be boiled down to nuggets of advice'

Daily Mail features Emerald Fennell and mentions her Wuthering Heights project.

Emerald is set to direct a new movie adaptation of Wuthering Heights, it was announced in July.

The Academy Award winning filmmaker will next helm an adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic Gothic romance. 

The novel has been adapted numerous times, the most recent starring Kaya Scodelario as the tragic heroine Catherine Earnshaw in 2011. 

Sharing the news to X, Emerald shared a graphic of two hand drawn skeletons, with a quote from the book. 

'Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad,' a line said by Heathcliff after the death of Catherine.

Deadline has confirmed Emerald will be working with studio MRC for the upcoming film but no actors have yet been confirmed.

The 1847 novel was published by Emily Brontë under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, one year before her death. 

It follows the story of an orphan, Heathcliff, who is taken in by the Earnshaw family, he later grows close to their daughter and his foster sister, Cathy. 

The first known adaptation was from A. V. Bramble in 1920, with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon’s 1939 version being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. 

Born in 1818 in West Yorkshire, Emily was the fifth of six children, and spent most of her short life in the moorland village of Haworth, where her Irish father Patrick was curate.

But life dealt Emily a series of terrible blows as she lost her mother when she was three, then two older sisters when she was seven.

Following her trauma, the novelist retreated into a fantasy world, writing stories and poetry with her siblings.

The writer poured her suffering and passion into Wuthering Heights, a wrenching love story as raw as the Yorkshire Moors on which it's set. (Amelia Wynne)

Financial Times discusses capitalism and its history.

Yet as finance and business became more complex, the link from wealth to ownership of the means of production to managerial authority eroded. Railways were funded by gathering the savings of individuals who might be part of the bourgeoisie but hardly qualified as capitalists — the Brontë sisters speculated in railway stocks from the parsonage at Haworth. (John Kay)

Slate reviews The Life Impossible by Matt Haig while discussing 'the limits of the therapy novel'.

People read novels for many reasons, all of them valid. The form is capacious. The Midnight Library does seem to have been useful to many people, which doesn’t make it art but is still not nothing. Yet there’s something puritanical and dispiriting about the insistence from some readers that novels dispense morals and messages. The novelists who serve this audience end up treating fiction as a means to an end, rather than as an end in itself. We don’t expect other works of art—paintings or symphonies, for example—to provide us with self-help. The novels I’ve found most meaningful, from Jane Eyre to Never Let Me Go, can’t be boiled down to nuggets of advice or advocacy for mental health or conservation or any other cause, however worthy. The value of a work of art is simple in itself, like the value of a human being, apart from whatever utility it might have. (Laura Miller)

UMusic reports on a recent interview by Dua Lipa with Spanish writer Alana S. Portero.

At the end of her conversation with Dua Lipa, Portero reveals the theme of her next work: “It is a witches’ tale, halfway between Wuthering Heights and Federico García Lorca, and set during the Spanish Civil War. It is a gothic novel.” Portero says that she had always wanted to write a novel inspired by the “southern gothic” style, and that she has finally found the time. (Simon Müller)

Halfway between Wuthering Heights and Lorca could be anything really.