The director of the new Wuthering Heights film, starring Margot Robbie, will be a guest at this year’s Brontë Women’s Writing Festival.Taking place in Haworth, the festival will celebrate novelists and the North, with a focus on Bradford, in its year as UK City of Culture, as the home of the Brontës. (...)Other guests include best-selling author Tracy Chevalier, who wrote Girl with a Pearl Earring, and Australian author and TV presenter Holly Ringland, reflecting on how their writing has been shaped by the Brontës’ legacy.This year’s festival theme is 'Writers From and Based in the North,' with a focus on stories shaped by northern landscapes and the influences of the Brontë sisters, and showcasing new work from northern publishers.Rebecca Yorke, Director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, says: “This year at the museum, we’ve fully embraced our role in Bradford’s growing creative story, and this continues through the festival. Packed with guests and events that inspire and ignite the imagination, we’re especially excited about the four writers we’ve worked with in collaboration with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and the Writers Project of Ghana. (Emma Clayton)
Wild Uplands has seen parts of the moors around Haworth transformed with unique art installations thanks to Bradford 2025.The installations, by four different artists, will be in place until late September.On August 27, children are invited to take part in a forest school fairy den workshop on the moors.Join Within the Wood Forest school leaders to make willow dens for mythical creatures and fairies, inspired by Monira Al Qadiri's mythical installations.The installation has been inspired by the Cottingley Fairies hoax.
LitHub is excited about the US release by Pegasus Books of a hardback edition of Graham Watson's The Invention of Charlotte Brontë.
Sue Ryding, one half of the award-winning LipService comedy duo, returns to the stage with her solo show, Funny Stuff, coming to Pocklington Arts Centre on Thursday 2 October.In 2022, Sue’s long-time creative partner, Maggie Fox, sadly passed away, leaving behind not just a legacy of laughter but a shipping container bursting with theatrical "stuff".In this humorous and creative response to grief, Sue unpacks this collection, literally and emotionally, as she struggles to part with a treasure-trove of belongings including a life-sized stuffed sheep, some ruby slippers, and even Charlotte Bronte’s knickers! (Susan McGill)
Wuthering Heights is mad enough without adding bondageEmerald Fennell’s gratuitous pornification will make her film adaptation of the strangest novel in the English language even more bizarre. (...)Certainly a lot of this is to do with the atmosphere. The Yorkshire Moors, which Brontë knew very well, is described as an untameable, unlovely place with no beginning and no end. It makes it seem as if the characters exist in some sort of deathloop – each generation burdened by the sins of the one before them.They also act strangely, often irrationally, or outside moral convention, perhaps because their lives are so isolated and they don’t really know how to behave. This is seen most explicitly in the case of Heathcliff (whose ethnicity has been questioned by academics for decades). As wild and austere as the countryside he stalks, Heathcliff hangs Isabella’s little dog, Fanny – an act which is a precursor to how abusive he will be to the wife to whom he bears no affection. He also digs up the grave of his true love, Catherine, in what seems like the ultimate act of obsession. (...)It is also easy to believe that Emily Brontë was not really of this world, holed up in the parsonage on the edge of consumption-riddled Haworth, with too many books and too vivid an imagination. There is a train of thought that she was a high Tory, intolerant of the industrial unrest of the earlier part of the 19th century, but I can’t see anything to support that view, other than the fact that the Brontës were essentially charitably minded Conservatives.I don’t want to be one of those purists who condemns Fennell for trying to be different. Obsessively faithful adaptations of famous literary works are all well and good (think of John Mortimer’s 1981 adaptation of Brideshead Revisited), but radical hot takes (such as Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon) can bring a fresh understanding of the novel and even win the source material new fans.And in any case, I don’t believe there is a truly impressive adaptation of Wuthering Heights. The 1939 version with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon has a certain sombreness which is appealing, but it is too truncated and Alfred Newman’s score makes me want to rip my ears off. Andrea Arnold’s naturalistic 2011 film (the last big cinematic adaptation) has its fans, although that does not include Arnold herself, who has expressly stated that she was unhappy with the result.
It's difficult and inadvisable to judge based on second-hand opinions in a preview and probably selecting the juiciest statements. So we won't do it, we won't enter into this controversy avant la lettre. But we reiterate what we said in previous posts: each creator can do whatever they want with the story, it's nothing more than that—a story. We might like it more, less, or not at all. And we'll say so. But we think it's wonderful that the novel remains sufficiently alive to be capable of generating new or extreme visions. As for what Emerald Fennell has done, judging by what we've read, her vision might be more Ken Russell than Luis Buñuel. More Bruce LaBruce than Andrea Arnold. Is that bad? Not really. Will we like it? Well... let's talk about that in six months.
Emily Brontë’s classic novel has witnessed at least 14 film and TV adaptations till date, but Saltburn director Emerald Fennell’s tailoring promises to be different. For starters, it will feature Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi — both promising and gorgeous Australian actors — as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. And second, it’s been generating quite a bit of buzz for its potential to offer a fresh, and potentially "shocking," take on the well-known story. (Sanjana Ray)
But the best headlines are the ones from Italians: " La versione ad alto tasso erotico con Margot Robbie turba il pubblico delle proiezioni test" (Movieplayer); "Cime Tempestose secondo Fennell: erotismo e scandalo infiammano Dallas" (Sbircia La Notizia); "Cime tempestose di Emerald Fennell fa discutere per l’approccio esplicito e provocatorio al classico di Emily Brontë" (Unita.tv)
The Banagher Brontë group have arranged three days (16th -18th) of Celebrating the Brontë connection with Banagher – register with www.banagerbrontegroup.com. The final day on Monday 18th Offaly History are ‘Balloonamania Belles and the Brontes’ morning (from 11am to 2pm) including a musical recital by the Banagher Brontë Ensemble, launch of ‘Let me In: The Brontës in Bricks and Mortar’ by Ann Dinsdale and Sharon Wright; followed by a talk on early female balloonists by Sharon Wright and a screening of Dr Maebh O’Regan’s film on Charlotte Brontë’s marriage settlement. Offaly Heritage Centre has an open afternoon the same Monday and Thursday 21st for those who want to explore the library and research facilities. (Amanda Pedlow)
En la cima del cerro más alto de la Pampa Húmeda, allí donde los pastos tiemblan ante el ruido de una motosierra y las sombras de viejos contratos de obra pública aún se arrastran entre las grietas del suelo, se alzaba una mansión en ruinas. Nadie sabía bien si se llamaba Cumbres Borrascosas, Residencia Olivos o Casa Rosada, pero todos sabían quiénes vivían dentro: Karina Earnshaw y Mauricio Heathcliff.Ella, la hermana menor del Libertario, guardaba en el pecho la frialdad de los jinetes del Apocalipsis y, en la cartera, la lapicera con la que firmaba los destinos ajenos. Él, patriarca de un linaje desgastado llamado PRO, todavía creía que podía mandar con un solo gesto de cejas.Ambos se amaban desde lejos. Desde el despecho, desde la falta de opciones, desde la humillación negociada. Como Catherine y Heathcliff, no podían estar juntos, pero tampoco separados. Y así, entre portazos y planillas de Excel, se fundó esta nueva alianza política que nadie pidió, pero que todos esperaban. Como un divorcio anunciado que decide, por miedo a la soledad, celebrar segundas nupcias. (...)Como en Cumbres Borrascosas, nadie entiende bien por qué están juntos. Él la odia, pero no puede dejar de mirarla. Ella lo necesita, pero lo desprecia. En cada gesto de cariño hay una amenaza velada. En cada renuncia, una puñalada por la espalda. Son esos matrimonios políticos que no duran, pero tampoco se disuelven, porque su mayor temor no es fracasar, sino quedar solos. (Iván Nolazco in Tribuna de Periodistas) (Translation)
L’œil vert aux aguets, qui scrute intensément tout ce qui s’oppose à lui. La posture dynamique, comme un athlète prêt à bondir. Le charme sauvage d’un Heathcliff de retour aux Hauts de Hurlevent pour tourmenter Cathy, l’héroïne de ces Wuthering Heights rêvés par Emily Brontë en 1847. (Valérie Duponchelle) (Translation)
India Today lists the most popular Gothic Novels, including Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. The Sun talks about UK pubs with their own campsites, like the Wuthering Heights Inn in Stanbury. The Stratford Herald shows pictures of the recent Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever event.
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