According to
EnVols, 'If you’re obsessed with Pride and Prejudice, these 7 classic novels offer the same romantic atmosphere (they’re perfect beach reads for this summer!)' And so here's Jane Eyre as a beach read then:
Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
An orphan raised in difficult circumstances, Jane Eyre refuses to submit to the injustices that mark her life. After becoming a governess at the mysterious Thornfield Hall, she meets Edward Rochester, a landowner who is as fascinating as he is enigmatic.
Darker than Pride and Prejudice, this great classic nevertheless shares one of its essential ingredients: an intelligent, independent heroine determined to preserve her freedom. Charlotte Brontë crafts an intense romance driven by a protagonist whose strength of character recalls that of Elizabeth Bennet. (Amandine Enard-Hauger)
Guyana Chronicle reviews the novel A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes. Beware of spoilers, though.
What truly makes a love story memorable is loss. Death casts a shadow over the lovers’ hopes and lends their passion gravity. Emily Brontë kills Catherine in Wuthering Heights; Erich Segal kills the beloved Jenny in Love Story; Tolstoy sends Anna Karenina beneath the wheels of a train. Even when death is absent, yearning serves the same purpose. Scott Spencer’s lyrical Endless Love sustains itself on obsession, separation and unattainability. The finest love stories rarely offer satisfaction. Instead, they leave behind hope, longing and an enduring belief in the impossible.
Curdella Forbes’s A Tall History of Sugar belongs to this tradition. (Berkley Wendell Semple)
Far Out Magazine lists '10 movies that cast the right actor in the wrong role' and one of them is
Alison Oliver in ‘Wuthering Heights’ (Emerald Fennell, 2026)
Wuthering Heights earned a lot of backlash for Jacob Elordi’s casting as Heathcliff, who is implied to be a mixed-race character in Emily Brontë’s novel, but there is just as much issue with Margot Robbie being cast to play Catherine Earnshaw, who was too old to play a character who dies when she is a teenager, and she also has too much rigidity and spunk to portray a romantic lead defined as reserved.
The obvious casting choice to play Cathy would have been Alison Oliver, who appears in the film as Isabella Linton, and has much better chemistry with Elordi. While Isabelle is an exaggerated character, it’s easy to imagine Oliver having the emotional capacity to make the role of Cathy both heartbreaking and tragically naive, based on her impressive performance in the HBO drama series Task. (Liam Gaughan)
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