BBC period drama hailed as 'best' and 'totally authentic' now streamingThe BBC film put the spotlight on the little-known story (!) of the three Brontë sisters (...)Numerous viewers lauded the programme on IMDb upon its initial release, with one 10/10 review stating: "Really excellently put together and not like any way we've seen the Brontes before."Sets and locations spot on, right even down to the regency couch that Emily is supposed to have died on."Another review was entitled: "One of the Best Bronte Biographies yet" with the viewer elaborating: "I must admit I was dubious at yet another film of the lives of the Brontes.I needn't have been,this was an excellent production." (...)To Walk Invisible is streaming on Apple TV+ and Prime Video for a fee. (Neela Debnath)
After “Frankenstein,” Elordi underwent another transformation to portray Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights.” As he channeled the Emily Brontë antihero earlier this year outside London, he was shocked when a grunt escaped from his own throat.“It was one of my first scenes,” Elordi says with a laugh. “The other actor said something, and I went ‘Wwooouuuugh!’” He re-creates his deep groan from the del Toro movie — wounded and childlike. “Because I had learned to respond to everything with a grunt. Something was still there.” (Brent Lang in Variety)
Banagher Brontë Group organised a number of events for this year's Heritage Week over the weekend of August 15th-August 18th.The Sunday began with 11am Mass in St. Rynagh’s Church and 12 noon Service in St Paul’s Church. Michael Mulqueen, standing in for the vicar, gave a lovely humane sermon.James Scully informed us that the stained glass window by A.L. More at the altar in St Paul's had the names of the Rev. Arthur Bell's family inscribed. He also showed us the graves of the Bell Nicholls family and hoped that the stonework can be restored as it needs very specialist attention.After lunch we gathered in Crank House for the showing of the world premiere of Maebh O’Regan's film Prenuptual Politics at the Bronte Parsonage regarding the marriage settlement and Arthur Bell Nicholls, featuring an interview with Ann Dinsdale, principal curator of the Bronte Museum in Haworth.We learned that once married, a woman had no right to property or money!!! Charlotte was worried about this and whether the marriage would work. They married, fell in love and she trusted Arthur to look after her father Patrick Bronte, a very bright man from a poor Co. Down family. He went to Cambridge on a scholarship. He ensured that the family were well educated so they could survive in employment. Their church school was horrid!In her early life Charlotte was a governess to two young children for £20 a year, less £4 for laundry. Her father Patrick married a well to do lady, Maria Branwell from Cornwall, in 1854. They had six children, four survived; the mortality rate in the Victorian era was very high for children, no sophisticated medicines like today. Maria died in 1821. Patrick was a jobbing vicar in St Peter's Church, Hartshead, Yorkshire. He couldn’t raise the money to buy a church from charities. Rich vicars could afford to buy a church! Patrick was a writer of poetry named “Cottage Poems”. Emily, Patrick and Branwell were known for their poetry.Nigel West gave a very important speech. He’s a founding member of the Brontë Birthplace Thornton group and a descendant of the former occupants of Hill House, now known as Charlotte’s Way. The doctor in Banagher was Robert Tearns. He practised in the building beside Brosna Lodge. Walter West, Nigel’s grandfather, crashed his motorcycle outside the clinic. Dr Robert treated him for his injuries over a period of weeks. Meanwhile the Doctor's daughter and Walter were quickly getting on famously. They got married in St Paul’s Church. Walter later bought Hill House and they lived with her great aunt and Florrie. Their son was Nigel’s father, who inherited Hill House. He lived there and in 1959 he donated Hill House to St Paul's Church.Nigel was a very important figure leading the restoration of the Brontë family’s birthplace of Thornton. He oversaw with the Thornton group fundraising, grants from Bradford City of Culture 2025 and the Community Ownership Fund. The house is now under the care of Brontë Birthplace Ltd., a community benefit society. The building is restored as a heritage destination. (...)Monday August 18th opened in the Offaly History Centre, Tullamore. At 11am the Banagher Bronte Ensemble musicians from Tullamore, Aidan Barry on guitar, Siobhan Butler on vocals and keyboard, Siobhan Godley on flute and Frank Kelly of Lusmagh, gave a recital of the music the Bronte family knew and loved.At 12pm James Scully provided a second launch of 'Let Me In: The Brontes in Bricks and Mortar' by Anne Dinsdale and Sharon White. This very fine tome can be purchased for €25. (...)Finally Dr Meabh O’Regan's enlightening and excellent film, Prenuptial Politics at the Bronte Parsonage was shown. (Eddie Alford)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe story of Jane Eyre is riveting and quite an interesting read to pick up for the fall reading season. It can also to some extent be identified as a coming of age novel. It follows the love story of Jane Eyre and the challenges she faces while growing to finally getting the freedom she deserves. The ending of the novel is also quite interesting and heartfelt, as a reader you will root for the protagonist to have a happy ending. As this is one of the most popular classic novels of all time it would be a little hefty length wise but well layered and quite a language lesson to get in. it is not written to accommodate your language deciphering capacity but is more inclined to improve and upgrade you level of language understanding. (Humaira Salim)
Thumbing through a CliffsNotes guide now is something of a revelation. The Wuthering Heights guide offers over 60 pages on Heathcliff and Cathy’s tempestuous relationship, analysis of Brontë’s writing style, biographical inspiration, and discussion questions. The author of this version of the guide, Janet C. James, has a doctorate from the University of York in England and the writing demonstrates it. One sentence about how readers might feel about Brontë’s work contains 79 words and eight commas:Men and women who, perhaps naturally very calm, and with feelings moderate in degree, and little marked in kind, have been trained from their cradle to observe the utmost evenness of manner and guardedness of language, will hardly know what to make of the rough, strong utterance, the harshly manifested passions, the unbridled aversions and headlong partialities of unlettered moorlands hinds and rugged moorland squires, who have grown up untaught and unchecked, except by mentors as harsh as themselves. (Joelle Renstrom)
Some are interpreted literally through their titles, while others draw on pop culture, such as the bonnet cap from Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale or a chase scene lifted from Wuthering Heights. (Matin Cheung)
In motion, the mood channels the cinema that [Pieter] Mulier loves: the elemental romance of The Piano, the intensity of Breaking the Waves, the brooding wilds of Wuthering Heights, and the painterly historicism of Barry Lyndon. It’s not pastiche, it’s memory repurposed, references filtered into something that feels strikingly now and yet timeless.
The Brontë Sisters UK publishes a video where she describes how the Brontës published under male pseudonyms (Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell) to be taken seriously in Victorian England
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