Gothic sketches

Among the books that Financial Times recommends for 'hobbyists and self-improvers' is the following:

In The Artist’s Sketchbook, senior curator at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum Jenny Gaschke draws on her expertise to compile a guide to artists’ sketchbooks, from Leonardo da Vinci to the present day. In Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator EH Shepard’s sketches, she highlights how preliminary tracings help to perfect the final work, while collages by the fashion artist Julie Verhoeven illustrate how sketchbooks can become invaluable repositories for scraps of inspiration. One of Gaschke’s desires in writing the book was, she says, to “encourage everyone to use a sketchbook”. (Rachel Rees)

The Arts Desk reviews Andrea Arnold's Bird.

Arnold treats animals compassionately in her films – the pet spaniel hung by its collar on a fence in Wuthering Heights, the tethered horse cared for by the sexually abused girl in Fish Tank, the foredoomed subject of the documentary Cow. It might be gleaned that she respects them more than humans with their capacity for cruelty and degeneracy. (Graham Fuller)

Screen Rant lists '10 Classic Gothic Books & Stories That Defined The Genre' including

Wuthering Heights (1847)

Written By Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a defining title in both gothic literature and romanticism, and the heartbreaking yet strange love triangle between Cathy, Heathcliff, and Edgar proves this. There are multiple Wuthering Heights adaptations worth watching, too, each of which offers a unique take on the Earnshaws and Lintons growing up around the Yorkshire Moors and grappling over choosing love and social status.

The romance between Cathy and Heathcliff, and later Edgar, is even more impactful across the generations. The non-linear narrative adds detailed layers to Heathcliff’s point of view, especially.

It’s quite creepy when Heathcliff digs up Cathy’s grave and embraces her decaying corpse, but this also represents his never-ending love for her in life and death, which is a rather gothic image. The Emily Brontë biopic Emily, which is partially fictional, delves into the author writing Wuthering Heights, and it’s definitely worth checking out for a better understanding of how her novel changes the gothic genre. (Rebecca Sargeant)

Diario Siglo XXI (Spain) interviews writer Laura Blanco Villalba on a similar topic.

Me estoy dando cuenta de que, quizás, me estoy colando al hablar de literatura vampírica en vez de novela gótica. ¿Qué me dices?

Me parece muy interesante que lo menciones, porque la literatura gótica nos ha dado novelas de fantasía y también muchas otras que no lo son. De un lado tenemos Drácula, Frankenstein, El extraño caso del doctor Jekyll y el señor Hyde… y de otro Jane Eyre, El fantasma de la ópera, Rebecca, Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo y un largo etcétera.

A lo mejor por eso mi imaginación ha enraizado ahí, en ese cruce de caminos entre la literatura del XIX y el componente maravilloso. La verdad es que yo no fui consciente de que había escrito una novela gótica hasta que mi correctora me lo señaló. Me sentía más cómoda con la denominación «fantasía costumbrista». Afortunadamente, un mismo libro puede tener muchas etiquetas y creo que ambas se ajustan a La Sirin. (Eva Fraile Rodríguez) (Translation)