A new mural of Charlotte Brontë has gone up on the strand-line walls of Kilkee beach in Co. Clare, marking the town's real historical link to the novelist: Charlotte and her husband Arthur Bell Nicholls spent a week of their honeymoon there in 1854. The mural was commissioned by Kilkee Civic Trust, the group behind the town's four-year-old Brontë Festival, with sponsorship from Creative Ireland Clare. It occupies one of four wall spaces on the strand that were once used for alley or racquet ball — a game associated with actor Richard Harris, who was known for playing it there decades ago, though the tradition has since faded.The artist behind the piece is Marcus Vallböhmer, a German-born muralist based in Farrihy, between Kilkee and Doonbeg, who moved to West Clare in 2023 with his Swiss wife after buying a farmhouse there. He described the Kilkee commission as an unusually demanding one, given the exposed conditions — weather, tides, and constant public visibility on a working beach — though he said passersby frequently stopped to admire the work and offer encouragement as he painted. (AI summary from the original by Sharon Dolan D'Arcy)
Between Seasons 2 and 3 [of House of Dragons], Mitchell filmed Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights.” He had previously worked with the filmmaker on 2023’s “Saltburn,” for which he auditioned using a Harold Pinter monologue. For “Wuthering Heights,” Fennell simply texted Mitchell asking him to play Joseph, a servant in the Earnshaw house, whose sexual depravity electrifies Cathy.“I was like, ‘If you asked me to shine your shoes, Emerald, I would do that,’” Mitchell says. “All of her characters are so vibrant and so nuanced, and there is such a vision you see in her films. She’s a one-of-a-kind, singular visionary. I’ve learned so much working with Emerald that I’ve taken forward in my career.” (Emily Zemler)
"Wuthering Heights' (Warner), de Charlie XCXMientras muchos esperaban este viernes su nuevo disco de estudio, son otros muchos los que consideran que el mejor trabajo de la revolucionaria y joven compositora británica que aceleró el pop es la banda sonora que este mismo año publicó para la revisión cinematográfica de 'Cumbres borrascosas'. (Javier Herrero) (Translation)
Si è svolto di recente, il primo appuntamento della XV edizione della rassegna letteraria "Liberamente Sopra le Righe" nell'accogliente Piazza Duomo di Telti. Protagonista della serata Maria Laura Berlinguer con il suo nuovo romanzo "La cena delle anime" - una saga familiare che narra di una tormentata storia d'amore in pieno stile "Cime Tempestose" ma dall'ambientazione tipicamente sarda. Un viaggio tra memoria, tradizioni e segreti nella Sardegna del Meilogu. (Ilaria Del Giudice) (Translation)
AnneBrontë.org publishes a post for the anniversary of Ellen Nussey's 1833 first visit to Haworth, built around her own vivid, decades-later recollections of the Brontë family, the parsonage, and a memorable moorland ramble with Emily and Anne.
A consultation on plans to build a large wind farm on moorland associated with the Brontë sisters has fallen "well short of standard", Bradford Council has said.Calderdale Energy Park (CEP) wants to install 34 turbines on Walshaw Moor, between Hebden Bridge and Haworth. Although the site lies within Calderdale, councillors said the impact on neighbouring Bradford would be "significant".Developers say the scheme could generate enough low‑carbon electricity to power about 198,000 homes a year.In its response to CEP the council said it had effectively been consulted "on an abstract concept rather than a transparent, scientifically robust infrastructure design".The South Pennine moors and the Pennine Way are closely associated with writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, who were raised at the Haworth parsonage, now a museum, in the 1840s.CEP originally proposed up to 65 turbines on the land near Haworth, reducing the number to 41 in April 2025 and then to 34 in February 2026 after saying it had listened to residents' concerns.The plans have faced opposition from campaigners, including Josh Fenton-Glynn, Labour MP for Calder Valley, who fear damage to peatland habitats and the loss of moorland used by bird species.Bradford Council said it had not been adequately involved in the consultation, raising concerns about both environmental information and engagement.It argued that key details remained unclear, including proposals for a cabling corridor that could pass through Bradford if the project goes ahead.Councillors also criticised what they described as flaws in the assessment of the "globally significant" Brontë cultural landscape, warning of potential impacts on tourism, biodiversity and historic villages.The authority added it had not been included in meetings or technical working groups linked to the environmental impact assessment.CEP has previously said the turbines would not deter visitors to the moors.A spokesperson said the company had followed all legal requirements and extended the consultation period to encourage engagement, adding it remained committed to "constructive and ongoing engagement" with the council and other stakeholders. (John Greenwood and Andrew Barton)
“Instead of people coming to the National Gallery, the National Gallery is coming to the people and reminding them of their national collections because this is a public collection,” explains Dr Janine Sykes, Kirklees Council’s curator (Visual Arts). “Our gallery in Kirklees, the Huddersfield Art Gallery, closed in 2020 as part of a huge regeneration project, Our Cultural Heart, and won’t open until 2030, it is a whole generation without a gallery, so I responded to the National Gallery’s call-out. I immediately thought about Oakwell Hall because I know there are so many amazing stories and the history here – it is the oldest property in Kirklees Museums and Galleries.”To Janine’s delight, Oakwell Hall was selected as one of the destinations for the exhibition which has been curated to encapsulate links to the Bröntes (sic), through Caspar David Friedrich’s ‘Winter Landscape’ 1811, the hall and to Birstall, birthplace of the scientist and founder of Oxygen, Joseph Priestley.Interestingly, one of the paintings located here features the work of Joseph Wright’s ‘of Derby’ ‘An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump’ 1768 which, Janine explains, links perfectly with Priestley.“As we know Joseph Priestley discovered Oxygen and carbonated water and they knew each other through the Learned Society where they would meet to swap ideas on science, so it allows us to talk about the history of Birstall,” says Janine. “The Winter Landscape by Caspar David Friedrich was from the German Romantic Movement where nature was considered very powerful. All the Brönte [sic] siblings were artistic and their novels were all part of the literary British Romantic genre. I thought wouldn’t it be amazing to somehow link this place-based history to an exhibition with The National Gallery.” [...]“What is very distinct about ‘Art On Your Doorstep’ in Kirklees is I like people to hear different voices in interpretation. It reminds us that it is our collection and for us to enjoy, and it helps to raise awareness of the public collection.”Near the old railway bridge where trains once trundled along the Leeds New Line linking Birstall to Leeds and London before its closure during the Beeching era, is Joseph Mallord William Turner’s ‘Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway’ 1844. Janine says it encourages viewers to imagine Birstall in the industrial era.“There was a lot of wealth here. When you look at Oakwell Hall it was connected to wealth. A lot of Charlotte Brontë’s friends were middle class from textiles and industry. The wider industrial connection was the railway. There was a lot of freight, whether textiles or coal, and it reminds us of the industrial past. [...]Special events planned over the summer include fun science sessions for children, a family art club and, on July 25, Janine and Programme Officer, Samuel Harrison from the Brönte (sic) Society & Brontë Parsonage Museum, will host a special tour.“There is something for everyone. Whether you are interested in engineering, there is the industrial past, there are national and global literary connections with the Bröntes (sic), there are some amazing role models. There are different stories and we are making it part of the paintings and about the place,” says Janine. (Sally Clifford)
Do you voraciously read the pages of steamy romantasy bestsellers by Sarah J Maas or Rebecca Yarros? Or flood your group chat with breathless recaps of the latest goings-on in TV series such as Heated Rivalry or Bridgerton? Or even immerse yourself in the divisive and challenging cinematic worlds of Emerald Fennell? If so, you surely can’t have failed to notice that in pop culture, the female gaze – storytelling that highlights the meandering, textured, sublimely messy inner worlds and wants of women – is enjoying an explosion.On TV, you can see it everywhere, in the interior lives and desires taken up by Big Little Lies, Sirens or Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington’s Little Fires Everywhere. Romantasy harbours it in the shape of powerful maidens and sex in fae (fairy) realms, while Fennell’s Wuthering Heights and Promising Young Woman are marketed with the promise of converting women’s experiences into dark beauty on the big screen. (Deborah Linton)
Instead of excavating the forgotten story of a heroic woman from history, Natasha has built a new story that fictionalises 1950s and ‘60s Hollywood and rests it on the foundations of Jane Eyre. The orphaned heroine is Aria Jones, and she, the modern iteration of Jane, has been transported from gothic England to the Chateau Marmont during the Hollywood studio era. This new setting is no less confining than 1800s rural England, and plenty of menace lurks behind the hotel’s many doors, from ghostly apparitions to sleazy film directors.Natasha’s characters are undeniably contemporary. The young women who fill the Chateau fizz with ambition, potent beauty and unmet potential. Their stories are inspired by real stars who once graced the hotel, including Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood. Aspiring actresses Calliope (who cannot be called beautiful because the word is “wholly inadequate”) and Flitter, who is “chasing beauty but hasn’t caught it yet” are tools for Natasha to explore the treatment of women under the studio system, and to show how they used what meagre power they had to take control of their own fates. A teenage Aria is welcomed into their shared bedroom where she finds sisterly love and advice amid cosy pyjama-parties and mint juleps ordered from Schwab’s.The Chateau itself is almost a character. It observes and sighs and welcomes Aria, who was orphaned at the age of 13 after her parents are killed in a gas station inferno. The reason she has come to the chateau is that it is where her aunt, the washed-up actress Miss Devine Rey, lives.The narrative shifts back and forth between young, newly arrived Aria, and a more mature Aria who has taken on the role of being a sort-of governess to Adele, the daughter of the new owner of the Chateau, gruff rock star, Theo Winchester.Like Edward Rochester, Theo has a history of excess, and a mysterious, checkered past. Though he’s more conventionally attractive than the original. [...]Aria’s goal in taking a job as Adele’s carer is to save enough money to one day break free of the Chateau. Just as Jane Eyre yearns to see the world beyond the English hillside, Aria dreams of the ocean. She is haunted by apparitions of fire, which foreshadows the inevitable fate of the building.The Chateau on Sunset is not a re-telling, however, it is a re-imagining, and Natasha has allowed herself to create new fates for the characters. There is a distinct shift in tone after the famous woman-in-the-attic-scene, with plenty of surprises as the story barrels towards its ending. (Genevieve Gannon)
Huntington Art Gallery, Large LibrarySat., Dec. 13, 2025–Mon., June 15, 2026Get a behind-the-scenes look at two centuries of the everyday lives of women writers through ephemera, letters, and journals.“From Brontë to Butler” draws on personal writings and objects to reveal the private lives and creative processes of women writers from the early 1800s to today.Anchored by Charlotte Brontë and Octavia E. Butler as chronological bookends, the exhibition brings together journals, letters, photographs, and personal items that bridge time, geography, and social context. Whether exploring family and marriage, work and gender roles, or the city of Los Angeles itself, the exhibition reveals common threads that connect individual experiences across generations.
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The exhibition also features Charlotte Brontë’s letters to her close friend Ellen Nussey, offering glimpses into the novelist’s concern for her ailing sister Anne in the wake of the deaths of her sister Emily and brother Bramwell (sic).
The Invention of Charlotte Brontë is an intelligent and impassioned account of the genesis and reception of Gaskell’s biography. Part 1 covers the years 1850 to 1854, when Charlotte, bowed beneath what Gaskell called “this pressure of grief which had crushed all buoyancy of expectation out of her,” befriended Harriet and Elizabeth and married Arthur. (Watson is on a first-name basis with his subjects.) Part 2 explores what Gaskell called the “hornet’s nest” of complaints, objections, and legal threats coming from “anyone whose name has been named,” as she despaired, “or whose grandmother’s great uncle once removed has been alluded to.” Watson’s focus throughout is on the four main players: stoic Charlotte, slippery Gaskell, adamantine Patrick, and insecure Nicholls. Stitching his story together from the novelists’ gossipy letters, including many from Charlotte to Nussey that Gaskell did not see or decided not to use, Watson marshals his material with maximum intensity, maintaining Gaskell’s narrative momentum, giving voice to the rage against Nicholls she was unable to express, and matching her rhetorical heights: “Broken in spirit,” he writes of Charlotte’s suffering, “she crawled, she knelt, then she tremulously stood until the hammer blows of tragedy rained upon her again.” [...]In 1861, after Patrick died, age eighty-four, Nicholls returned to Ireland and married his cousin. Gaskell, who died suddenly four years later, age fifty-five, regretted that she had ever agreed to undertake The Life of Charlotte Brontë. “I don’t think there ever was such an apple of discord as that unlucky book,” she told George Smith. Watson’s own book is both a tribute to Gaskell’s hagiography and a necessary afterword. His Charlotte is cannier, more complex, less certain of herself—a woman who exploited the dramatic potential of her situation before trading her genius for what he calls “serfdom” to a low-wattage man. Watson defends, while being baffled by, the character of Mrs. Charlotte Nicholls, but her trajectory is not unusual. It is Gaskell, independent wife, loving mother, and successful writer, who stands alone in the annals of nineteenth-century women novelists.The heroine of The Invention of Charlotte Brontë is not Charlotte herself, or even Gaskell, but the “invisible woman” Ellen Nussey, the novelist’s archivist and Gaskell’s co-conspirator, who “both denied she had collaborated with Elizabeth and complained that she had not been credited enough.” Nussey, who died in 1897, lived to see the parsonage become a tourist attraction. But the gray house, she wrote, was not where the Brontës had lived: “They lived in the free expansive hill moorland—its purple heather, its dells and glens and brooks, the broad sky view, the whistling winds, the snowy expanse, the starry heavens.” Her script might have been written by Elizabeth Gaskell.
It’s no secret that I am a full-time Emerald Fennell hater. I saw Saltburn (2021) and walked out of the theatre in a state of shock at how bad it was. By now, I’m sure you’ve seen the trailer for her upcoming Wuthering Heights adaptation, starring Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, set to the sweet sounds of Charli XCX echoing through late 18th-century Yorkshire. I even reread Wuthering Heights to see if I could gain any insight into Fennell’s vision here, and to be honest, I’m more baffled than ever as to how she is going to make this work. [...]To return to Wuthering Heights, there are rumours that Fennell might not be directly adapting the novel, instead envisioning Robbie’s character as an upper-class woman reading the novel and imagining herself as Cathy. This would explain the bizarre sexual imagery that takes up the vast majority of the trailer. I am more open to her doing something strange with the material than I am to a direct adaptation, as I do not think she will be able to do justice to a direct adaptation. I still doubt I will like it, as I think turning a revered classic into TikTok-style dark romance is cheap and sinister.I’m not necessarily against somewhat anachronistic adaptations. Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 Romeo + Juliet has a lot of fun with costuming and setting, but retains its reverence for the material through its dialogue. Emerald Fennell will not be able to do justice to the source material, and I doubt she cares enough to do so. Maybe the film will surprise me, but her track record with me is not exactly stellar. Emily Brontë will be rolling in her grave. (Jessie Betts)
Her debut novel It Comes from the River was released earlier this year, exploring the resilience of women and their power to effect change when they work together. At the front of the book is a quote from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre which mentions the mythical creature ‘the Gytrash’, a dark presence which hovers in the background of each of the women’s stories. Jane, who was told stories of it, describes it as ‘a North-of-England spirit… which in the form of horse, mule or large dog, haunted solitary ways’. Bower explores the folklore, whilst keeping the narrative anchored in the lived experiences of the women. (Laura Reid)
Many fans have noticed a parallel between "Invisible String" and Charlotte Brontë's Victorian-era novel "Jane Eyre," when Mr. Rochester finally professes his love for the titular heroine."I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame," Rochester says.However, the chorus of "Invisible String" also resembles the closing dialogue in "The Sun Also Rises," Ernest Hemingway's wartime novel that draws a tragic line between wanting and having. [...]"Mad Woman" thematically resembles "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys, a prequel to "Jane Eyre."The premise of "Mad Woman" can be easily connected to the oft-cited proverb from "The Mourning Bride" by William Congreve: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."However, Swift's use of the word "mad," an adjective that can mean both angry and crazy, feels very intentional. Once again, it calls to mind "Jane Eyre."When Jane finally agrees to marry Mr. Rochester in Brontë's novel, it's revealed that he already has a wife named Bertha Antoinette Mason, who's been locked away in his attic."Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family — idiot and maniacs through three generations! Her mother, the Creole, was both a mad woman and a drunkard!" Rochester tells Jane. "Bertha, like a dutiful child, copied her parent in both points."Rochester claims he imprisoned Bertha because she lost her mind, painting it as a genetic illness — passed down from her mother, specifically.Jean Rhys gives Bertha a more sympathetic backstory in her 1966 novel "Wide Sargasso Sea." The prequel reimagines how Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress, became "Bertha" in her unhappy marriage to Rochester. In short, she was driven to madness by his patriarchal cruelty.At one point in the novel, Antoinette scolds her new husband for believing lies about her family."I know what he told you. That my mother was mad and an infamous woman and that my little brother who died was born a cretin, an idiot, and that I am a mad girl too," she says.She adds: "There is always another side, always."Antoinette's old nurse Christophine also denounces these rumors, accusing Rochester of greed and betrayal: "You want her money but you don't want her. It is in your mind to pretend she is mad."The themes of "Wide Sargasso Sea" are reflected in "Mad Woman," which fans believe was inspired by the sale of Swift's music recordings without her consent."Every time you call me crazy, I get more crazy, what about that? And when you say I seem angry, I get more angry," she sings. "And there's nothing like a mad woman / What a shame she went mad / No one likes a mad woman / You made her like that." [...]"Evermore" contains possible references to Dickinson and Brontë. [...]"Evermore" also contains another "Jane Eyre" parallel in the first verse: "Writing letters addressed to the fire."After Rochester's marriage to Bertha is revealed, Jane flees. She sends letters back to his estate, only to return months later and discover it has burned down.In "Evermore," this image seems to represent misunderstanding and regret, all the words Swift left unsaid — but for Jane, the fire is a cleansing force. In killing Bertha, the fire allows Jane to marry Rochester and gives her a second chance at love.The title of "Dear Reader" evokes the most iconic line from "Jane Eyre."The title "Dear Reader" is another likely reference to "Jane Eyre," which features one of the most beloved lines in English literature: "Reader, I married him."Like Brontë's protagonist, Swift breaks the fourth wall and addresses her audience directly throughout the song.However, Swift flips the script with "Dear Reader," the final track on "Midnights (3am Edition)."Even though many readers consider Jane Eyre a feminist figure, especially by 19th-century standards, she still follows the typical path of women in literature. Much like her contemporaries Elizabeth Bennett and Jo March, all known as independent and headstrong characters, Jane's story still culminates in marriage.Even today, female leads are expected to land a man by the end of the story.However, at the end of "Midnights," Swift stands alone. Instead of treating a man as the prize, she keeps the spotlight trained on her own accomplishments, regrets, and lessons learned along the way.While it's not exactly a triumphant conclusion ("No one sees when you lose when you're playing solitaire"), Swift creates a fascinating tension by evoking Brontë's famous line, only to undermine its implications. (Callie Ahlgrim)
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)Jane Eyre begins on a dreary November day—"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day..."—setting the tone for the gothic novel. Autumn remains a key backdrop throughout the novel, including when she travels to Thronfield Hall for the first time (her first morning there was "a fine autumn morning"). It's a definitive autumn classic. (Any Brontë novel, honestly, makes great fall reading.) (Emily Burack)
St Hilda’s College is Jane Eyre from Jane EyrePrincipled and intelligent, St Hilda’s is a college that triumphs with its quiet strength and integrity – much like the beloved heroine of Charlotte Brontë’s famous novel. (Hannah Becker)
Wuthering Heights 1939by William WylerFacultad de Filosofía, Humanidades y Artes (FFHA) de la Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ)October 8, 20.30 hPresented by Carlos Cerimedo (TLS Diario)
Curated by Dr Janine Sykes, the exhibition explores Charlotte’s connections with Margaret Wooler, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor, highlighting key places in Kirklees – such as Roe Head, Red House and Oakwell Hall – that were integral to these friendships.Located in the historic Green Room at Oakwell Hall, the exhibition features a portrait of Charlotte.Coun Carole Pattison, Leader of Kirklees Council, said: “Oakwell Hall has always been a place where stories come alive and this new exhibition adds a deeply moving chapter.“Charlotte Brontë’s friendships, rooted right here in Kirklees, remind us of the power of connection, support and shared history.“As someone who knows and loves this area, I’m proud to see our local history brought to life in such a meaningful way.“I hope visitors enjoy learning more about Charlotte and the people who supported her.”The exhibition is kindly supported by the former Friends of Red House, the Friends of Oakwell Hall, and the Brontë Parsonage Museum.To accompany the exhibition, a free series of six creative workshops from Artists in Residence Amy Foster and Natasha Jackson will run in August.Participants will create their own miniature ceramic books, inspired by the tiny handmade books Charlotte created as a child. These will be displayed as part of a community miniature library permanently installed at Oakwell Hall.The group will also co-design and build a ceramic wayfinder that will be installed in the park, marking the start of the Brontë Way. (Dominic Brown)
4. HathersageThe pretty village of Hathersage boasts rich historical, industrial and literary associations, said to be the inspiration behind Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece Jane Eyre. In and around the village are also areas associated with the legend of Robin Hood, whose lieutenant Little John is buried in the churchyard of St Michael’s. (Emma Walker)
Launching Saturday 12th July, discover the friendships that shaped a literary icon in our brand new permanent exhibition at Oakwell Hall’s Green Room.Explore Charlotte Brontë’s lifelong connections with Margaret Wooler, Ellen Nussey, and Mary Taylor, and see the stunning portrait of Charlotte Brontë at the heart of the display.Plus! An exciting programme of workshops and events celebrating Charlotte’s friendships is coming this Summer – details coming soon!Opening Times:Weekends & Bank Holidays: 12 noon – 4pmTuesdays to Thursdays during Kirklees School Holidays: 12 noon – 4pmEntry to the exhibition is FREE – donations are very welcome!Visit us at Oakwell Hall and step into Charlotte Brontë’s world of friendship, inspiration, and legacy.Supported by Friends of Oakwell Hall, the former Friends of Red House and Bronte Parsonage Museum.
Matt enjoys watching Kate Winslet play against what one might call her English-rose type, would bring the audiobook of Charlotte Brontë’s Villette to a desert island, and returns often to a Robert Frost poem that is both nature writing and its complete opposite. (Isabel Fattal)
“Jane is the kind of person I deeply admire and strive to be,” Greenberry said. “So, of course I jumped at the chance to portray her. I love that she’s so self-assured and maintains her personal integrity, regardless of the situations in which she finds herself.”Greenberry also respects her character’s character. Although Jane has experienced a lot of trauma for someone so young, she doesn’t let that dim her kindness, compassion, joy or curiosity.“She possesses the kind of strength I think few people have, and I love getting to explore that,” Greenberry said. (Jim Flint)
Director Nick Benjamin has co-devised the adaptation along with members of the cast, who are all in their twenties or thirties.He says: “Wuthering Heights is so much more than just a love story. It’s a story of passion, revenge, ghosts and past wrongs.“Catherine and Heathcliff are not your conventional lovers, they are elemental, two fires on the verge of destroying each other.“We haven’t gone too far away from the actual set text because that is when you start getting massive complaints from people going, ‘This is not Wuthering Heights’.“However, it is such a big book and it’s such an in-depth narrative, there were certain bits that we had to leave out and others we wanted to bring in a bit more.“We’re focusing on the idea of the moors being almost like a secondary character.“The moors represent the spirit world to a certain degree and a lot of the cast, when they’re not on stage as a main character, take on the role of sort of an elemental moors spirit. (...)Nick, who plays Mr Lockwood as as well as directing, says the company felt the need to perform the story outdoors.“A regular theatre space would have quashed the very nature of the piece,” he says. “I’ve seen quite a lot of reviews of other Wuthering Heights stage shows which said that it was very hard for them to be driven along on this story of nature when you were enclosed by four walls.”Niamh Handley-Vaughan, who plays Catherine Earnshaw, adds: “The reason we wanted to do it outside is because nature is such an integral part of Wuthering Heights so it made sense.”
AUGUSTA [MELVILLE]: This new book is a ROMANCE mother! Written in the style of the Bell brothers’ Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre! Perhaps all will go well and Herman will find a whole new audience! (...)HERMAN: You want to be my ghostwriter?AUGUSTA: I’ve read Wuthering Heights backwards and forwards. Let me help you find an audience of thousands.
Emily fue la segunda de las tres hermanas Brönte (sic). Charlotte, autora de Jane Eyre, era la mayor y Anne, la menos conocida de ellas, autora de La inquilina de Wildfell Hall, la menor. Emily Brónte (sic) murió a los 30 años de tuberculosis solo un año después de publicar Cumbres borrascosas, el gran clásico de la literatura. La trágica historia de amor de Heathcliff y Catherine que causó impresión en su tiempo desde casi todos los puntos de vista: su trama, su estilo y su fuerza invencible e inmortal en el poderoso contraste con la siempre delicada salud de su autora. (Mario de las Heras) (Translation)
Let’s not underestimate the fascinating ability of the author (or editor) of the article to write Brontë in creative and incorrect ways.
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| An edition of Charlotte's juvenilia with her copy of William Finden's The Maid of Saragoza from Finden’s Landscape and Portrait Illustrations of Lord Byron’s Life and Works. |
If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him) Scott, Byron, Camp[b]ell, Wordsworth and Southey Now Ellen don't be startled at the names of Shakespeare, and Byron. Both these were great Men and their works are like themselves, You will know how to chuse the good and avoid the evil, the finest passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting you will never wish to read them over twice, Omit the Comedies of Shakespeare and the Don Juan, perhaps the Cain of Byron though the latter is a magnificent Poem and read the rest fearlessly
All too soon he would be dead, leaving behind brokenhearted friends and lovers but also a new literary archetype: the proud, moodily introspective and sexually magnetic Byronic hero, half Apollo, half Satan. Examples range from Alexandre Dumas’s dark avenger, the Count of Monte Cristo, and Emily Bronté’s tempestuous Heathcliff to the myriad bad boys and brooding heroes of modern romance novels. (Michael Dirda)
After five years in Bude, Cornwall, Rhys moved to Cheriton Fitzpaine in 1960, and it was there that she returned to the public eye as a writer, most notably with Wild [sic] Sargasso Sea. Written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Wild [sic] Sargasso Sea imagines the background to Mr Rochester's marriage from the point of view of his wife, later the 'madwoman in the attic'.The book won the WH Smith Literary Award in 1967, and has grown in reputation ever since, including being named by Time as one of the '100 best English-language novels since 1923. It was included on the 'Big Jubilee Read' list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected in 2022 to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
According to research, nearly a quarter of movies and TV shows shot in this area have been romances.Films have included several Brontë-related classics, such as the 2011 Oscar-nominated version of Jane Eyre, the 1992 adaptation of Wuthering Heights – starring Juliette Binoche as Cathy and Ralph Fiennes as Heathcliff – and the 2022 movie Emily. [...]To compile the data, a list of the UK's 430 largest towns and cities by population was initially drawn up.Each location's page on IMDb – the online film and TV database – was then analysed, with the total number of productions and those featuring in the 'romantic' genre being recorded.Places with less than 50 productions were discounted, before the percentage of romance films for the remainder was calculated. (Alistair Shand)
Mad Men made period dramas cool, after the genre had long suffered a reputation for being exclusively concerned with Austen, Dickens, Brontë, and their ilk. (Ben Protheroe)
Non avevo mai visto la brughiera quando ho letto per la prima volta Cime tempestose, ma è il paesaggio più vivido e attraversato dal vento che io abbia mai incontrato: la natura più nuda, selvatica, minacciosa che abbia formato la mia immaginazione. Ho conosciuto ogni radice di erica e ho sentito sbattere forte le finestre sferzate dalla pioggia e dalla voce di Catherine Earnshaw che cerca Heathcliff, e cercando lui cerca sé stessa. Nella neve o nell’erba che cresce tra le pietre, con gli abeti piegati dalla bufera. Talmente più di un paesaggio e così parlante: come un’anima in pena, come un cuore selvaggio. (...) (Translation)
Words & Music: Seasons GreetingsMonday 25 December, 5pm – 6.15pmIn this festive edition of Words & Music, actors Dominic West and Gemma Whelan read poetry and prose exploring everything that makes for a magical Christmas: family and friends, festive food, the giving of gifts, wintery weather, angels, shepherds, and three wise men.With texts by C.S Lewis, Anne Brontë, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a feast of seasonal music from classical to contemporary.
3. HaworthThe literary allure of Haworth is a constant draw for book-lovers in Leeds, but it's even more special at this time of year. Nestled in Yorkshire's rugged moorland, it's just a short train ride away from the city. Famously, it's the home of the Brontë sisters. Fans of the iconic tale Wuthering Heights will have read about Christmas in the fictional lodgings Thrushcross Grange and the Heights itself. This could be the perfect opportunity to escape into your favourite novel. On a dedicated Brontë bus, you'll be able to witness the landscapes that directly inspired Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, which are even more magical at Christmas. (James Connolly)
2. HaworthThe home of the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne is always beautiful during the Christmas season. The rough, moody moorland surrounds the village, home to the Brontë Parsonage Museum, the former home of the Brontës. Haworth hosts a magical festive experience, which takes place across the four weekends leading up to Christmas. The village is lit by twinkling fairy lights and beautiful shop windows and the event includes traders, choirs, carol singers, processions and parades. (Liana Jacob)
Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn KisteThis vampire book explores the story of two women, Bertha Mason (from Jane Eyre) and Lucy Westenra (from Dracula), who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in the 1960s, after surviving encounters with two classic literary characters: Dracula and Mr. Rochester. The novel delves into their lives when Dracula and Rochester unexpectedly return to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, creating a shocking turn of events.Praised for its exploration of the two women put to the side in their original works, Reluctant Immortals puts these two forgotten women at the forefront, allowing them to explore and tell their own stories. (Kennie M)
There is a frieze of Minton tiles, a beautiful East Window, a Millennium Window designed by the congregation, an altar rail by Robert Thompson (‘The Mouseman of Kilburn’) and a painting of Christ by Hans Richter-Damm. The church has a historical connection to Charlotte Brontë as her friend Ellen Nussey lived nearby in Brookroyd House. (Adam Cheshire)
The idea of seeking out a deathbed is creepy. It's one thing to find oneself in an old house, where such events must have been common, quite another to go in search of them. And yet, if you were to tell me to choose between a hotel where Dostoevsky or Jane Austen had spent a week, and one with no literary connections, I'd follow in the writers' footsteps. And if the housekeeper of Dove Cottage or the Brontë parsonage slipped me the keys and said I could spent the night there, I wouldn't say no. I might avoid the chaise-longue where at least one of the Brontës coughed their last, but it wouldn't be these writers' deaths I was thinking about as I prowled around, but the life they lived while here.
The Times (South Africa) interviews the crime writer Karin Slaughter. Talking about her influences:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. When I first started writing the Grant County series, I used some names from Wuthering Heights and one of the most hilarious reviews I got early on was from someone complaining that what I had written in Blindsighted was not Wuthering Heights. (Bron Sibree)
Vorige keer stak ik nogal de loftrompet over Anjet Daanje en Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris. Ook buiten mijn artikel in Brabant Cultureel galmde ik luidruchtig mijn lof rond. Daarbij ben ik zo een simpele mens dat ik denk dat iedereen het met mij eens ik. Dus trof het mij nogal dat twee zeer belezen vrienden het boek niet overdreven boeiend vonden en het ‘maar met moeite uitgelezen’ hadden. Onvoorstelbaar in mijn ogen, maar ik acht hun mening hoog. (...)Nadat ik dat via mijn eigen woorden van vijfentwintig jaar geleden opnieuw bedacht had, voelde ik mij niet langer onzeker ten opzichte van mijn belezen vrienden. Het boek van Anjet Daanje had mijn verbeeldingskracht meer geprikkeld dan de hunne en dat hoeft niet per se te maken te hebben met meer of minder gelezen te hebben. De teksten van Daanje fascineerden mij zo omdat ik er Charlotte, Emily en Anna Brontë in zag rondwaren. Zij zagen dat niet. Of ze dachten: ‘Nou en?’Anne, Emily en Charlotte Brontë en nogmaals Emily Brontë geschilderd door Branwell Brontë.Anders dan ik vinden zij Emily Brontë misschien helemaal niet dat magische raadsel dat je bij lezing en herlezing steeds weer versteld doet staan, maar de autistisch aangelegde domineesdochter uit de negentiende eeuw die zij natuurlijk ‘eerstens’ was. Mijn eigen verbeeldingskracht gaat misschien niet alleen met haar boek Wuthering Heights op de loop, maar ook met haar als mens. In mijn hoofd zit zij, honderdvijfenzeventig jaar na haar dood, nog steeds te schrijven. En in dat van Anjet Daanje ook. (Translation)
Cumbres borrascosas – Emily BrontëUno de los grandes títulos que sigue pasado de generación en generación, es esta novela que fue estrenada por primera vez en 1847 bajo el seudónimo de Ellis Bell; esta novela está ambientada en los años 1770 hasta 1800, trama que cuenta la apasionada per trágica relación entre Heathcliff y Catherine, amor que ha dado paso a diferentes adaptaciones cinematográficas, tales como ‘Jane Eyre’ y hasta diferentes musicales que se han proyectado a través de teatros de todo el mundo. (Translation)
Screenrant describes as follows Kaya Scodelario's Cathy in Wuthering Heights 2011
deeply unlikeable Cathy. (Alisha Grauso)
Brontë Parsonage Museum in HaworthThere’s a reason why Yorkshire is often referred to as ‘Brontë Country.’ The literary sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne lived in Yorkshire and the wild moors were often a key setting for their novels.Image of a living room space at the Brontë Parsonage in Haworth England in YorkshireThis chaise is supposedly where Emily Brontë died. Photo credit: Marcie CheungOne of the top things to do in Haworth is to visit the Brontë Parsonage Museum where the women lived with their family for most of their lives.It’s a super detailed museum and a must-visit for literary fans. You can read many of their letters and see some of their clothing and personal items.There’s also a great kids’ area with activities plus a dress-up area for both adults and kids!
Zuko doesn't end up with Katara in Avatar: The Last Airbender, but that doesn't stop fans from latching on to the episodes where they were a possibility. Zuko is a dark prince with a heavy destiny — a regular Heathcliff-type. Pairing a Byronic hero with a do-gooder love interest will always be popular. (Vera W.)
Sorozatwiki (Hungary) announces the appearance in streaming on HBO Max (Hungary) of the film Emily.
Strangeness is a compelling feature of Emily’s life, and of her novel, and is the foundation upon which the film builds her character. From the first track of Abel Korzeniowski’s score, Emily Brontë is nestled firmly in an atmosphere of the witchy otherworldly. An all female choir shrieks like an unsettling howl of wind as young Emily runs over the moors, her dark hair loose (in marked contrast with the prim, blonde do of her sister and competitor, Charlotte). There is a lot of running over the moors, especially in the rain: mirroring the crazed back and forth of her characters Cathy and Heathcliff, this fictionalised Emily is equally enamoured with being a girl, standing upon a moor, asking it to pour terrible weather all over her and respond to the unpredictable energy roiling within.Emily is played by Emma Mackey, best known as the literature-loving Maeve from Sex Education. She is perfectly suited to reveal Emily’s secrets: pale and interesting with beguiling features. And she carries through into Emily Maeve’s air of punk-alternate rebellion. Her performance of shy-girl genius is restrained, almost tentative, which works against some of the clichés that she and her character are made to weather. For example, there is a scene where Emily and her lost and rampaging brother Branwell stand together and scream into the wind the words “freedom of thought!” until Emily reaches the level of reckless abandon that Branwell is urging her to find. They then sport matching inner-arm tattoos of the same phrase (cue: spate of freedom of thought tattoos for Christmas). Mackey’s sensitivity, as well as the ominous beauty of the moors around her, mean this scene misses, just, falling into the well-worn groove that the Leo and Kate “I’m flying Jack!” scene in Titanic created. [...]When Emily sits at her writing desk it’s only when she opens the window that she can begin. The restless world of wind in trees meets her searching mind and there she starts to scrawl. There is an insinuation that there is something … other out there that feeds the creative spirit, as much as the landscape and wider capacity of the world itself. Ultimately though, in a touching scene that suggests that Emily’s fearlessness inspired Charlotte’s later novels, the act of opening the window symbolises the act of giving yourself the freedom to write. And that is the film Emily’s final reflection in the mirror on this elusive life: that Emily Brontë wrote brilliantly wild things because she let herself be wildly brilliant. (Claire Mabey)
If a work is good in its own right, then having a twist shouldn’t really impact the experience of reading it – and in the case of classic literature, some of those twists are common knowledge. I recently read Treasure Island, knowing that one of the characters was a bad guy, but it transpired that that revelation is meant to be a twist. There’s every chance that you’d read Jane Eyre or Rebecca with knowledge of the narrative and the turns it’ll take in the back of your mind. Some plot twists are so influential, we know them and we see them in the books that came down the line. (Reece Goodall)
The Brontë sisters have all written excellent books, but this one is my favorite. It’s a coming-of-age tale about Jane Eyre, a girl who must deal with significant adversity until she creates her own happy ending. There were jaw-dropping twists, and a romance that I’m still unsure how to feel about. Assuming you haven’t read this novel yet, this fall is the perfect time to start. (Sydney Gray)
Emily Brontë’s acclaimed novel ‘Wuthering Heights’ is a classic tale about dysfunctional family dynamics, infatuation and undeniably unlikeable individuals. But once you adjust to the confusing family tree and unsympathetic characters, this novel makes for a fascinating read on a stormy night.Brontë’s characters are complex and detailed; a reader might not particularly like them, but they will be interested to find out what makes them tick. Heathcliff is an outsider, surrounded by people who mistreat him. Perpetuating this hatred, Heathcliff then becomes the monster others expect him to be. There are so many angles and perspectives to view this novel from that a literature lover cannot help but be intrigued. (nicolehayness)
La británica Daisy Johnson, con apenas treinta años, se ha ido asentando como un valor seguro de la literatura de las islas británicas. Con un estilo que se asienta en los parámetros clásicos de la novela de terror, destaca por aportar una voz personal, firme en un estilo. Ha sido comparada con Shirley Jackson y Stephen King y, más allá, con los ambientes brumosos y decrépitos de las hermanas Bronte. (César Prieto) (Translation)
The story opens with the cormorant being delivered to the cottage on a crisp October evening. The nephew (protagonist) quickly takes it upon himself to feed and entertain the bird in whichever way he can, promising to keep it away from his wife and son. The wife takes no special interest in its arrival, dismissing it as an ugly and monstrous creature, a little too unusual for a pet. “The cormorant was a Heathcliff, a Rasputin, a Dracula.” It is kept in the family’s backyard in confinement, alongside a white crate and some straw for warmth. Sadly, no amount of warmth seems to abate the true and raw nature of the bird as it injures the author multiple times in the story. (Shamita Patharkar)
Pictures you say? Oh, alright then. #Haworth pic.twitter.com/O0tfJHJBLw
— Brontë Parsonage (@BronteParsonage) November 28, 2021
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (1847)A contributor to Literary Hub blames her 'First Marriage on Jane Austen' and brings up the fact that,
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.
Austen certainly isn’t the only literary celebrity among Anglo-American authors whose work inspires interest in her life. Captivated by the dark drama of Wuthering Heights, we visit Haworth, home of the famous Brontë family; drawn into Emily Dickinson’s poetic vision, we tour the unassuming clapboard farmhouse where she slowly retreated to a life of solitude and poetry. (Wendy Jones)In her column for Grazia, writer Rebecca Manning Reid also refers to Jane Austen, though we think she needs to (re?)read the Brontës' works.
Books by Austen and Brontë are exciting, pacey and often very funny. They’re absolutely grade A chick lit.If Sense and Sensibility were they written in 2019 it would be published under pink covers with glittery shoes on the front and male literature critics would wrinkle their noses at it.A columnist from The Telegraph claims she took up Dame Barbara Cartland's advice on 'the health-giving virtues of honey' and
while everyone around me was coughing like an ailing Brontë sister, I survived this winter without so much as a sniffle – and with a growing respect for the Dame’s health tips from beyond the grave. (Jane Shilling)Town and Country recommends '8 Shows and Movies to Watch If You Love Victoria', including
Jane EyreAnd The Times has a quiz to find out how ‘well watched’ you are. One of the questions is
If the Victorian era is your passion, consider watching the 2006 adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's gothic novel, which stars Ruth Wilson. (Caroline Hallemann)
Your favourite Sarah Lancashire role is . . .Brontë Babe Blog reviews Without the Veil Between, Anne Brontë: A Fine and Subtle Spirit by DM Denton. On AnneBrontë.org, Nick Holland announces that he will be publishing a new book on the Brontës in 2020 on Ellen Nussey and her friendship with the Brontë family.
a) Still Raquel from Corrie, I’m afraid.
b) She was great in Wuthering Heights.
c) The lead in Kiri, a challenging series about child abduction. (Stuart Heritage)
Let’s also hope that the TV adaptation doesn’t put people off – which almost happened when vermontlogger watched a “dreary” version of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë:We don't think the TV series is that 'dreary' and off-putting.
I thought, that is one book I am never going to read. Recently though there have been several warm recommendations on TLS, and then the other day at the library there was a handsome new hardbound copy. So now I’ve read it and I’m glad I did. It is indeed sombre but it is also consistently absorbing, the moral story of a principled woman suffering from the trials of hateful male oppression and the attentions of censorious society. The writing has an impressive ethical force.
'Jane Eyre The Graphic Novel' by Charlotte Brontë, adapted by Amy Corzine, John M. Burns, and Terry WileyFirst Post (India) comments on how books written in times and places different from where you live are... you know... different from what you are used to.
If you love the dark, gothic vibe of Jane Eyre, just wait til you see the art in this graphic novel. As in the original, orphaned Jane Eyre accepts a governess-ship at Thronfield Hall, where she finds herself drawn to its owner, the mysterious Mr. Rochester. (Melissa Ragsdale)
Usually when you read a book that was written years ago, in another country, you notice differences: differences between the world in the book and the world outside your window. If you read Wuthering Heights in Bengaluru, for instance, as I did in 2004, the desolate Yorkshire moors described by Emily Brontë in the 1840s can seem a far cry from the bustle of a thriving, contemporary Indian city.Huffington Post UK recommends '8 Page-Turning Picture Books To Enjoy With Your Kids This Christmas', one of which is
I personally take pleasure in these differences: I appreciate learning about different times and different cultures, different countries and different centuries. In truth, most of my historical and geographical knowledge comes from reading works of literature! I also enjoy the puzzle of unexpected vocabulary, unfamiliar customs and specific topical references.
But more importantly, these very differences emphasise the overwhelming similarities. There is so much that is universal about the human experience: we were all children once, we have all had parents, we all face death, we are all capable of love. Patterns repeat across human history: there are cycles of repression and liberation, of optimism and pessimism, of inward-looking and outward-looking. Wuthering Heights is a book set in Yorkshire but it is also a book about dark and destructive passions: the fierce attraction between man and woman, the contrast between isolation and company, and those timeless human qualities of jealousy, cowardice, pride, loyalty and love. The setting is the wrapping paper — it’s there because that is when Emily Brontë was writing — but the heart of the book is inside, and it’s not only relevant to the introverted daughter of an English country parson, it speaks directly to you and to me. (Henry Eliot)
I Am The Seed That Grew The Tree, Fiona Waters, National Trust / Nosy Cow, £25Bustle recommends several book box sets, including the recent Brontë Collection by Arcturus Publishing.
Getting kids started early on poetry is a good idea, before they find a reason to be scared of it. And this bumper anthology of nature poems from the National Trust – one for each day of the year – is the bee’s knees. Fiona Waters hasn’t skimped on the greats: there’s verse here from Emily Brontë, Carol Ann Duffy, Christina Rossetti and all the Williams (Wordsworth, Blake and Shakespeare). But Frann Preston-Gannon’s gorgeous pictures really do make it accessible. (Nancy Groves)
siente verdadera admiración y entre las que encuentran un hueco especial algunas grandes escritoras de la literatura universal como las hermanas Brontë, Doris Lessing, Jane Austen, Alejandra Pizarnik, Colette, Dujna Barnes e incluso María Zambrano (estas tres últimas sobre las que incluso ha publicado algún artículo en revistas literarias), y de quienes disfruta no solo la fuerza de su literatura sino la fuerza con la que se han mostrado ante la vida, algunas de ellas en momentos históricos muy difíciles para la mujer y más en un mundo como el de la escritura. (Mercedes G. Rojo) (Translation)Also in Spain, Qué Leer finds a Brontëite in writer Carmen Posadas:
11. ¿De quién es fan? (literariamente hablando) De Proust, de Emily Brontë, de Santa Teresa, de Dickens, de Cervantes por supuesto. (Anika Lillo) (Translation)Metro claims that, 'Researchers find that nice men have more sex'.
they did a study of 3,000 men and 1,500, anaylising the data from their dating profiles, and found that the men who tend to get laid most often are outgoing, emotionally stable, and conscientious. Outgoing might have sounded like an obvious, but emotionally stable and conscientious aren’t always the qualities used to create a fictional romantic heroes, but it looks like women are more interested in the kind of men who treat them well than moody Heathcliff types. (Rebecca Reid)Yesterday, AnneBrontë.org marked the anniversary of the death of Ellen Nussey. A shelf of one's own (in Portuguese) posted about Wuthering Heights.
Though you couldn’t exactly call Henry James macho, an element of repression, an almost masculinist sense of etiquette, was crucial to his aesthetics, and Dostoevsky was found wanting for similar reasons to George Sand, George Eliot, and Mrs Oliphant. Dostoevsky’s novels, with their exclusively male heroes consumed in acts of bearded brooding, may seem an unlikely cause for feminist revisionism. But when Angela Carter was asked to identify her favourite woman writer, she cursed herself for naming Emily Brontë (“who’s pure butch”) because, as she told a friend, “if one is talking about these qualities of sensitivity, vulnerability and perception traditionally ascribed by male critics to female novelists”, Dostoevsky was “the greatest feminine writer who’s ever lived”. (Leo Robson)Linda's Book Bag features the release in paperback of A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney.
A Secret Sisterhood is a must read for any fan of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf, but equally for anyone interested in history, society and literature. The bibliography and footnotes make for fascinating reading and again, it took me ages to read the book because I found myself following up some of these independently. A passing reference to Roger Fry had me looking up his paintings, for example. I think A Secret Sisterhood is a book to be savoured and returned to frequently over the years.Anne Brontë in York on AnneBrontë.org.
The history of literature is much more queer than your English teachers let on. Shakespeare’s gayness is still glossed over or purposely omitted from textbooks. Homer’s Iliad has been censored since ancient times, with screenwriters still playing down the homosexual relationship between “cousins” Achilles and Patroclus. Possibly-lesbian correspondence was equally suppressed. None of Ellen Nussey’s romantic letters to Charlotte Brontë survive, while Brontë’s 1854 letter to Nussey begs her to burn it after reading. Yale undergrad Rebecca Shoptaw is tackling this erasure of LGBTQ history head-on by adapting classic works into progressive web series. Her opus is the unabashedly queer Middlemarch, which sees George Eliot’s self-described study of Victorian provincial life recreated in a 2017 Connecticut college dorm. (Hannah Ongley)While some scholars have made a case for a romantic relationship between Charlotte and Ellen, it is a fact that Charlotte's letter asking Ellen to burn her correspondence has nothing to do with this and all to do with her husband worrying about said letters getting in the wrong hands.
Tre andra filmer som utspelar sig i Yorkshire som ibland kallats för God's own country (liksom en hel del andra platser i världen): Ken Loachs uppväxtklassiker "Kes - falken" (1969), "Allt eller inget" (1997) om strippande stålverksarbetare och Andrea Arnolds leriga Emily Brontë-filmatisering "Wuthering heights" (2011). (Helena Lindblad) (Translation)20 Minutes Montpellier (France) is proud of its first local book tree, which includes a copy of Jane Eyre. A Lady in London recommends '15 Inspiring Books That Will Make You Fall in Love with England', including Wuthering Heights.
Which literary figures – dead or alive – would you invite to a dinner party? Dickens and Thackeray – although it would have to be when they were getting on, because I hate people having rows. And Charlotte Brontë and Keats. (Hannah Beckerman)Times of San Diego reviews the stage production Withering Heights by Roustabout Theatre.
Mayhem, delirious mania, split-second character changes and two tour de force performances. Oh, and audible dyspepsia. And a fart. Can’t have a silly spoof without that.And more Wuthering Heights-inspired humour as The Huffington Post includes the novel on a list of Twenty Classic Novels (As Onion Headlines).
David Ellenstein directs this inspired insanity, which excels more in the characterizations than the text itself.
The gray, moorish set was designed by Scott Amiotte. The costumes (Elisa Benzoni) are just right, minimal changes marking maximal character delineation. The sound effects (Melanie Chen) are terrific, and the lighting (Curtis Mueller) is highly effective (mirror ball and all). The lights for the graveyard scene are killer. And of course, everything turns blood-red with each death.
Even if this isn’t your cup of comedy, you’ve got to marvel at Schein’s insanely gifted malleability of face, voice, accent and gender, not to mention his agile physicality. And Johnson’s inherent wackiness and mastery of humor, anger and canine impersonation.
Off-the-wall? For sure. The guys, the play, the acting, the whole enchilada — wildly over-the-top. You’ll get a bellyful, for sure. (Pat Launer)
20.Wuthering Heights: Man reacts very poorly to being friendzoned. (Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts)BookerTalk has compiled a list of '10 literary fathers to love or dislike' including Heathcliff.
The brooding protagonist of Emily Brontë’s Gothic novel Wuthering Heights fathers a sickly child called Linton whom he despises. Heathcliff harshly uses him as a means to exact revenge on the Lintons over the death of his beloved Cathy, to the extent of forcing him into a marriage.Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb features John Pfordresher, author of the forthcoming book The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece.
Q: How did you come up with the idea for this book, and how did you research it?
A: There’s a story here. I participated in a panel discussion about Jane Eyre for the NPR syndicated radio program “The Diane Rehm Show” several years ago.
Subsequently a young literary agent e-mailed me asking if I would be interested in writing a book about how Brontë was able to write what she termed “my favorite novel.”
This seemed to me an interesting project because I’ve been for many years fascinated by the creative process, the “how” great writing emerges. So we wrote up a book proposal and W. W. Norton generously accepted it.
The answer to “how” seemed to me, insofar as it’s possible to scrutinize the creative process, to be a biographical question.
And so I learned all I could about Charlotte Brontë through the major biographies from the classic account of Elizabeth Gaskell up to recent accounts by Winifred Gérin, Juliet Barker, and Claire Harmon [sic], as well as reading all of Brontë’s letters and other writings, both the juvenilia as well as her other published fiction. (Read more)
Historic anniversaryBBC Radio Leeds Johnny L'Anson magazine (1h 10 min into the show) featured Simon Armitage this morning talking about the Mansions in the Sky exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
John Appleyard, Liversedge
The name of Ellen Nussey may not be too familiar to many readers but she was a lifelong friend of the author Charlotte Brontë whom she met at Roe Head School, Mirfield in 1831. Ellen was the 12th child of John Nussey a clothing merchant of Birstall Smithies, near Gomersal in West Yorkshire.
In the 1840s Ellen and Charlotte were regular visitors to Oakwell Hall, a young ladies boarding school. Ellen Nussey’s early home was the Rydings at Birstall which partly inspired ‘Thornfield Hall’ in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. The Rydings property is still partly visible on the Leeds road(A62), near the crossroads with A652 Bradford road.
The Nusseys last rented home, where she died aged 80 years old in 1897 was Moor Lane House, which is now the Gomersal Park Hotel.
After Charlotte Brontë’s death in 1855 Ellen defended her memory and reputation in a number of letters, some of which can still be seen in the University of Leeds. April 20 is the 200th anniversary of Ellen’s birth, she is buried in the graveyard at St Peter’s Church in Birstall.
In 2001, audiences watched Anna Karenina shadowed around the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre stage by an ominously gesturing dark figure and a mysterious cellist, which musically beckoned her to tragic fate as the story unfolded. That’s the combination of music, movement and theater one can expect from the work of Great Britain’s Shared Experience Theatre, deploys imaginative language words and dramatic movement to tell the stories of classic novels and plays. This month, The Rep turns to another Shared Experience adaptation, Polly Teale’s telling of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë’s dark psychological tale of a young governess’s life at Thornfield Hall, the estate of the mysterious Edward Rochester. Reviewers have called the original English production a “masterpiece of storytelling,” and director KJ Sanchez has an impressive roster of actors to spin the tale, most of whom are new to Milwaukee audiences.Christiane Amanpour chooses her ten favourite books for the New York Times:
April 25-May 21 (Paul Kosidowski)
“Jane Eyre” Charlotte BrontëThe Times' latest paperback picks include
As a schoolgirl this book had an enormous impact on me. It’s not just one of the great works of English fiction, but many describe how it morphs its meaning to suit all seasons of the reader’s life. The story of the evolving emotions and thoughts of a young girl who reaches womanhood and falls in love with an older man evokes a great romantic love. But on the other hand, the story of his wife, hidden away — descending into madness — caused me frissons of deep fear at the mental illness which was very much the unspoken unknown then, and in my own childhood. At the end of the day it’s an important work for all boys and girls to read, because of its highly developed, complicated and wonderful female heroine.
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
Most Britons who have made it to an advanced age will recall that plague of their childhood years, “galloping consumption”. Romanticised as the poets’ disease (Keats, Emily Brontë, Orwell, et al), tuberculosis principally ravaged the unsanitary lower classes. This fine, persuasive, moving novel chronicles the moment when this horror was largely abolished: 1949-51, when the NHS came into being. (John Sutherland)
In the pantheon of movies about women writers the path veers towards the British: Austen, Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Director Terence Davies gives audiences a new vision of the female writer, both in geography and personality with his Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion. With a sensitive and nuanced performance from star Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion will certainly please literary buffs. (Kristen Lopez)The Minneapolis Post quotes dialogue from the film:
Here’s a snippet of Davies’ often witty dialogue:Metro interviews the director of the film:
“Did you say something to him to shock him?”
“Only that I just finished reading ‘Wuthering Heights.’ And he was scandalized.”
“Have you read it?”
“No. So I told him that to condemn a novel he had not read would be like going to Sodom or Gomorrah and being disappointed that neither were Philadelphia.” (Pamela Espeland)
Your films are not known as being humorous, but the first half of “A Quiet Passion” is a laugh riot. (Matt Prigge)Citizen reviews discussed in The Huffington Post:
As John Waters told me, “You’re really good at misery and death.” And I am! But I wanted this to be funny. I didn’t want it to be solemn. They were very learned people. They were like the Brontës — they had read everything. She not only wrote 1,808 poems; she wrote three volumes of letters, for god’s sake. It was an enormous output. And she loved gardening, and she loved to improvise on the piano. She may have not gone too many places, but she had a rich inner life.
I have been thinking about all of this as I approach the end of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. While in some ways I would like to review this much-loved book, I can't get past the feeling that I don't really have the right. After all, writing any book seems to me to be such a herculean effort that it would be impossible, or at least arrogant, of me to review it. And given the subjective nature of reading, is it possible to apply any kind of star system to such a complicated beast as a work of fiction? (...)If you do it, please do not engage in discussions which ignore historical and sociological context. Buzzle lists Jane Eyre among classics that are 'super sexist':
So, perhaps I will take a step into a brave, new(ish) world of citizen reviews and write about Jane Eyre. I'll just remember that I'm not critiquing Charlotte Brontë, but joining a discussion with other booklovers about my favourite topic: books. (Fleur Morrison)
Jane Eyre is another classic literary proto-feminist character, but boy is there a lot of sexist nonsense going on around her. Mr. Rochester might be the mean, grumpy man of her dreams, but he locks his wife in the attic rather than deal with her mental illness sensitively. And doesn't tell his girlfriend about it. And we're supposed to accept him as our romantic hero. He's less openly sexist than Jane's creepy cousin St. John... but that's a pretty low bar to clear. (Charlotte Ahlin)Pionero (Cuba) lists literary pseudonyms:
Ellis Bell, Currer Bell y Acton Bell: Estos fueron los seudónimos que usaron Emily, Charlotte y Anne Brönte (sic). Las tres hermanas escritoras ocultaron su identidad para crear tres clásicos de la narrativa inglesa: Jane Eyre, Cumbres Borrascosas y La inquilina de Wildfell Hall. (Marcía Rodríguez) (Translation)Ten books to read before you are thirty according to Eva (Vietnam):
“Đồi gió hú” của Emily Bronte:An excerpt of the upcoming book Mr Rochester by Sarah Shoemaker can be read on Wattpad. Ruang 92 (in tagalog) posts about Agnes Grey.
Cuốn tiểu thuyết kể về tình yêu ngang trái của Catherine và Heathcliff. Tình yêu của hai người hoang dại và mãnh liệt như chính vùng đất họ sống. Sau tất cả những bi kịch, những ghen tuông, những đau khổ giằng xé nhưng cuối cùng họ vẫn được chôn cất bên nhau.
Chuyện tình này gây ám ảnh cho tất cả người đọc. Nhưng độc giả vẫn không cưỡng lại được mà muốn đọc cuốn sách lần nữa bởi tình yêu hoang dại của hai nhân vật đầy hấp dẫn và bởi nghệ thuật văn chương đỉnh cao của tác giả. (Translation)
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