Growing up, the White Lotus star felt a "deep need" to be "normal", but she realised it was OK to be different like the people she admired, including Jane Eyre - the fictional bildungsroman in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
Aimee explained: "Growing up, I felt a deep need to be 'normal', but then I realised all my favourite people, all the people I admired, were weird - even my favourite characters, like Jane Eyre.
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The Naked Scientists interviews Richard N. Zare, who is the co-author of a paper that presents a new model for describing the will-o’-the-wisp phenomenon: Xia Y, Meng Y, Shi J, Zare RN (2025)
Unveiling ignis fatuus: Microlightning between microbubbles. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 122(41):e2521255122.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2521255122Richard - It's something called Ignis Fatuus, which I guess is Latin for foolish flame. It's a luminous phenomenon witnessed over the centuries by observers around the world. People have attributed all types of things to it, often pretty scary, lost souls, babies that haven't been baptized who have died, all types of folklore. It was reported in the literature by the Chinese long ago. William Shakespeare refers to it, and Henry IV, even Charlotte Bronte has it in Jane Eyre, this Ignis Fatuus, or Will of the Wisp, as it's often called.
An enriching and haunting tale of grief, generational trauma and the weight of the past, Emily Brontë’s stunning novel “Wuthering Heights” is a must-read for lovers of literature. Brontë spins a tale of unresolved agonies that tear their way into the present, as a new tenant finds himself unraveling the tangle of broken relationships that rose and fell between his own house and the estate on the nearby moors.
A masterwork of the gothic style, a sense of mourning clings to every page of “Wuthering Heights” like creeping fog on the moors. The tempestuous relationship between the headstrong Catherine and the sullen Heathcliff is threatened by external and internal forces alike; what is left unsaid between them echoes outwards and pulls the ones around them into their tragedy. Brontë writes with incredible force, decisively exploring how abuse and grief send ripples of pain into future generations through just a handful of characters.
Gothic novels are already best suited to being read in the colder, darker months of the year, and “Wuthering Heights” is so exceptional among them that it deserves top priority on your list for this autumn. Thrilling, tragic and ultimately, rather hopeful, “Wuthering Heights” is a stunning work of literature undeniably deserving of the title of “classic.” (Natalie Salter)
Book Club Chicago celebrates the paperback publication of
The Favorites by Layne Fargo. Warning: blunder is coming.
This Rogers Park Author Combined ‘Wuthering Heights’ And Ice Dancing Into A Bestseller. (...)
The names Katarina and Heath may bring to mind another famous fictional romance. Undertones from Charlotte Brontë’s (!!!) gothic classic “Wuthering Heights” are plentiful in “The Favorites,” including a sibling ice-dancing pair that the couple competes against (the Lins, standing in for the Lintons in the book). You can also find some Brontë pseudonyms as character names. (...)
“When I first came up with the idea, I completely doubted it. And even the whole time I was writing it, I was kind of like, ‘I’m really into this, but will anyone else like this? Like ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ice dancers?'” (Gwen Ihnat)
BBC's Book at Bedtime lists several 'second novels'. And yes, technically,
Jane Eyre is a second novel... but, well, as
The Professor was only published posthumously, it's a bit forced.
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (1847)
If “Pride and Prejudice” is the pinnacle of Romantic Comedy, then “Jane Eyre” can certainly be nominated for the coveted title of Greatest Love Story Ever Written. It was actually Charlotte Brontë's second novel, but the first to be published, her earlier effort being “The Professor” which did not appear in print until much later.
One of the most passionate novels of all time, it was regarded as revolutionary on its publication due to its heroine's conscious awakening, her thoughts and feelings becoming the focus of the narrative.
Jane is morally conservative, but the book deals with more radical notions including sexuality, religion and proto-feminism due to the nature of her fierce spiritual outlook, which is consistently at its core, driving the novel's questioning and searching tone.
Finding love and attaining happiness with the Byronic Mr Rochester is the crux of the tale, and there is a fair amount of hand- wringing heartbreak along the way.
AOL discusses the so-called British countryside fall fashion trend:
Ever since I read Wuthering Heights during my senior year of high school, I’ve had a fascination with the moors. (And, okay, maybe Heathcliff, too.) Is it any wonder, then, that said fascination would translate to the current British countryside style trend sweeping the … well, not the moors, but the fashion world? (Jamie Allison Sanders)
So, when the latest trailer for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights was released to the soundtrack of Charli XCX, you would think that my natural inclination for era crossing would be satisfied? Truthfully, I’m not entirely sure.
You see, as much as I enjoyed watching A Knight’s Tale inject a modernised soundtrack into a medieval tale, I can’t say it added much artistic edge. It was simply an easy trope to ignite entertainment and an elementary level of joy. Ultimately, I think there is a similar argument to be made in the case of Fennell’s upcoming project.
She has dialled the sexuality of this Victorian love story up to ten and has enlisted the voice of modern pop culture to do so. While you may say the same can be said for Bridgerton, which regularly used string quartet adaptations of chart hits, I would argue that the project did so to open the doors of accessibility to what has traditionally been a very secular genre. (...)
Wuthering Heights, however, feels more obnoxious in its approach. It’s playing to a gallery of viewers obsessed with highlight reels, soundbites, not songs, and not to thought-out artistic crossovers that they can quickly label “iconic”. I don’t genuinely see what purpose is served to Charli XCX, an artist who has perennially pushed traditions in pursuit of sonic innovation, by juxtaposing her music with a salacious and misrepresented tale of Victorian romance. (Callum MacHattie)
Business Insider lists all possible details you may have missed in
10 Things About You 1999. We knew about the reference when Kat (Julia Stiles) asks for more female writers in her literature class: "What about Sylvia Plath? Or Charlotte Brontë? Or Simone de Beauvoir?”, but we missed this other thing:
In another scene, you can spot Kat reading "The Brontës: Three Great Novels," a compilation of three of the Brontë sisters' most famous works: "Jane Eyre," "Wuthering Heights," and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall." (Gabbi Shaw)
And here it is. It's hard to see, but it's the Oxford University Press paperback from 1994.
Pierce Brosnan’s Bond still feels like a classy elder statesman of action stories, while Timothy Dalton represented a kind of Byronic take on Bond, the sort of Bond that our moms loved because he felt like a brooding hero out of a Brontë novel. (Dalton’s Heathcliffe in the 1970 Wuthering Heights remains unmatched.) (Ryan Britt)
A little harsh. Bella’s self-abasing devotion is hardly new. “You can have my soul. I don’t want it without you – it’s yours already,” she tells Edward, like an overwritten Cathy talking to Heathcliff. The titles New Moon and Eclipse describe Bella’s total darkness with Edward gone. It’s not far from Jane Eyre on that monster Rochester: “He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun.”
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