The Times of India collects quotes from famous books that "are perfect Instagram captions"... sigh, sign of the times:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: "“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."
From Jean Rhys’s landmark postcolonial and feminist prequel to Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, in 1966 to Sandra Newman’s Julia, a powerful retelling of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four published last year, overlooked female characters are also being written into existence. Unsurprisingly, ancient myths have proved fertile territory for female-led reboots, with Margaret Atwood, Pat Barker and Madeleine Miller all going behind the battle lines of the Odyssey and the Iliad.
Thumbs up to retellings, but we would also like a similar powerful leading article against censorship or cancel culture.
More Robert Eggers discussing his
Nosferatu 2024 version on
Inkl:
Coppola’s visually lush version is just one of 200-plus screen versions of Dracula, but it is, like Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, a movie that Eggers feasted on in his youth. “The stuff I was looking to for this film was all demon-lover stories,” he continues. “Stuff like Wuthering Heights. The Olivier version has contaminated everyone’s thinking about Wuthering Heights, but in the novel, Heathcliff is an asshole psychopath. And as much as he loves Cathy, he’s obsessed with her and he wants to destroy her. Ellen’s relationship with Orlok is incredibly toxic.”
The Day recollects the best theatre productions seen in the local area:
Flock Theatre’s ‘Jane Eyre’
May 17-26, Shaw Mansion, New London
Flock Theatre was originally going to stage a new adaptation of “Jane Eyre” by Julie Butters in 2020. The pandemic put a stop to that. While Flock did a Zoom film of that version of the Charlotte Brontë classic, the theater group finally had the chance to stage it live this spring. The production inside the Shaw Mansion was superbly acted and directed, and it used the intimate mansion interior to great effect. (Kristina Dorsey)
Daily Express lists the most valuable treasures found on BBC's
Antiques Roadshow:
Charlotte Brontë’s ring
Later that year, one guest discovered a box that was hidden in an attic for many years which housed a beautiful gold ring.
It was revealed that the beautiful piece of jewellery once belonged to none other than Jayne Eyre author Charlotte Brontë. The ring was inscribed "C. Brontë" alog with the date 1855.
Instead of the £25 that the guest who brought it in thought it was worth, jewellery expert Geoffrey Munn valued it at an estimated to cost a staggering £20,000.
What’s more, it was also discovered that the ring held a lock of the famous author’s hair, making the find even more valuable.
The expert admitted she "got goosebumps" from the item but added that there was "very little reason to doubt" it was the famous author's ring.
She explained: "It was a convention to make jewellery out of hair in the 19th century. There was a terror of not being able to remember the face and character of the person who had died. It wasn't an uncommon thing to happen." (Bettany Wittingham)
I think I also read Edgar Allan Poe when I was quite young, maybe 12 to 13. Then I read Lovecraft. Somewhere around that time I probably read Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, and I read some Hemingway when I was in high school, particularly the early short stories, which I still love.
Vulture explores the world of
Dungeons & Dragons:
We might say, then, that the novel was born of an attempt to take the witchcraft out of reading — or at least to reform any lingering witches. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, as part of its famous defense of the realist novel, would concern an avid reader of Gothic romances whose diet of haunted castles leads her into a “voluntary, self-created delusion” that later mortifies her. Likewise, a young Charlotte Brontë would bid farewell to the beloved fantasy nation of Angria she and her brother had created as teenagers. “I long to quit for a while that burning clime where we have sojourned too long,” she wrote in 1839, nearly a decade before Jane Eyre. (Andrea Long Chu)
I first show Kate Bush in Top of the Pops in 1978 and I loved the gothicness of Wuthering Heights. She was just extraordinary - there was this woman that was doing this sort of erotic mime all by herself. She was just phenomenal.
The Star looks into what to look out in theatres in Sheffield next year.
Northern Ballet’s Jane Eyre
A ballet performance of Jane Eyre, Yorkshire’s ultimate heroine created by Charlotte Brontë, will come to the Lyceum from 22 to 26 April.
With choreography by Cathy Marston, and live music Northern Ballet’s dance actors bring this tale of romance, jealousy and dark secrets to life. (Marti Stelling)
Coincidentally,
Radio X reminds us how young she was when she did that:
Young Catherine Bush was just six months shy of her 20th birthday when she topped the charts with Wuthering Heights, making her the first female artist to get a UK Number 1 with a self-written song. She'd penned it the year before, when she was just 18!
The 22nd new year sale will take place at Shelter in Stockbridge on Friday 3 January with many bargains to be snapped up. (...)
There are signed David Attenborough books, and a New Edition 1858 copy of Wuthering Heights. (Phyllis Stevens)
This opinion piece by Robbie Moore MP in
The Telegraph & Argus reminds us about one of the open issues of 2024:
Our farmers will continue to need all our support as they fight to save their livelihoods. And on Walshaw Moor, we must all be prepared to stand up against the proposed wind farm, which is right in the heart of historic Brontë Country on protected peatland.
TellyVisions recaps what is known about
Wuthering Heights 2026 and its release date.
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