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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 12:00 pm by Cristina in , , , , ,    No comments
An article on rabies on The Citizen tells the well-known Emily Brontë anecdote:
Emily Brontë self-cauterised a bite wound from a rabid dog with a red-hot iron, down to the bone.
That’s not only as badass as it gets – which is entirely on-brand for the author of Wuthering Heights – but it demonstrates the absolute horror of contracting rabies prevalent at that time, and the terror it induced in its potential victims. (Kathryn Kure)
Ph Museum reviews the photobook Our Hidden Room by Mohamed Hassan.
These are the hidden rooms of the title; the literal version of the darkroom, the psychological version that finds its reference in works like Jane Eyre, The Yellow Wallpaper and all their offspring, as well as the localised version where the dark spaces of family, religion, politics, and history all meet. (Colin Pantall)
Apparently, at least according to Shemazing, Jane Eyre's is one of '7 plot twists that will have you throwing the book across the room'.
Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Brontë
A classic for a reason, I have to imagine Jane Eyre’s twist shocked audiences in the eighteenth century [sic] just as much as it shocks modern readers. A twist that inspired an entire spin off novel (read ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ by Jean Rhys afterwards), it will keep you guessing up to the end.
Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard.
But there is a terrifying secret inside the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall. Is Rochester hiding from Jane? Will Jane be left heartbroken and exiled once again? And what are the dark presences lurking around Thornfield Hall? (Amber Saunders)
According to The Yorkshire Post, Haworth is among the '10 best villages in Yorkshire for remote working'.
5 - Haworth
With Brontë heritage and rugged moorland on the doorstep, Haworth is both inspiring and relatively affordable. Although, broadband trails behind better-connected spots. (Liana Jacob)
WCIA has a clip of recommendations for your TBR list, and one of them is Wuthering Heights. Writer Sophie Hannah reveals to News24 the advice she'd give to Jane Eyre but it's behind a paywall so we'll never know (in full):
This isn't a fashionable opinion but given what Mr Rochester had to contend with, I think she should have forgiven him almost immediately.

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