Edited by Rachel CookeVirago PressISBN: 9780349018430A fond, fascinated look at women’s friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends‘A highly entertaining, often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable – or inimical – anecdote . . . Cooke has dug deep and uncovered nuggets of pure gold in every form of writing . . . a delicious book about the great power and strength of real friendship‘ (Tablet)Friendship, a timeless subject, has never been more debated, something that has to do both with the internet – the perils of WhatsApp groups, the agony of ghosting – as well as with a growing awareness that loneliness is increasing in our society. Friendship has become a matter of urgent inquiry to therapists, scientists and sociologists. We understand its importance more and more, not only as a comfort and a privilege, but as vital to our health. But it’s hard to get inside friendship: its particular intensity and its miraculous ease; its tendency to wax and wane; its ability to inspire both delight and despair.This is the territory of novels and poems, diaries and letters, comics and graphic novels – and it is where the innovative and wi
de ranging Virago Book of Friendship steps in, bringing together work by more than 100 writers. From Jane Austen to Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf, from Dolly Alderton to Sarah Waters and Meg Wolitzer and, it celebrates and investigates friendship between women from first encounters to final goodbyes, from falling out to making up again.
But there’s as much to be moved by here as to cackle over. A piercing lesser-known poem of Stevie Smith opens the bit on loneliness, and the last section – the send-offs – is just as touching as you’d expect. Here’s an incomparably tender and exact description of Hannah Arendt by Mary McCarthy. The book ends, quite properly, with the death of Helen Burns from Jane Eyre: ‘Resurgam.’ (Sam Leith)
City of Culture has also been a chance for people to take stock of Bradford's cultural history and the famous names that have come from here.Among them are artist David Hockney, playwright JB Priestley, composer Delius and the Bronte sisters."Emily Brontë, you just take it for granted that she's from Bradford," says [Seeta] Wrightson.For her, City of Culture has been a moment to look at what makes the city special. And again and again, talking to younger Bradfordians, while some might mention the Brontës, the spectacular Victorian architecture, the first free school meals or the diversity - almost everyone seems to agree that the city's food is key. (David Silito)
Well... Bradford area.
Finally, a milestone moment: Teacup Gorilla celebrates 15 years as a band with a brand-new album. This time, they’ve teamed up with Dameon Merkl (of Bad Luck City) to on an album that is scoring Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë’s timeless classic. (Alisha Sweeney)
‘The Favorites’ by Layne FargoKatrina Shaw always dreamed of becoming an Olympic ice dancing champion alongside her devoted skating partner, Heath Rocha. Their traumatic pasts created a bond that seemed unbreakable, and the sizzling chemistry in their performances launched them on a path to stardom, but then a shocking turn of events severed their relationship. Years later, an unauthorized documentary reignites the public’s fascination with Shaw and Rocha and offers them a chance to define their legacy. Fargo’s wrenching romance channels both “Wuthering Heights” and the real-life story of Olympic ice dancing medalists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, whose careers inspired legions of fans and also raised questions about the demands of fame. (Random House, Jan. 14) ( Becky Meloan)
How is a sense of wonder fostered by the deft use of intertextuality? One is reminded of Bharati Mukherjee’s self-reflexive novel, Jasmine, that interweaves elements of all three literary works — Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, and G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion — into a work of immigrant romance. (Sundeep Ghosh)
189: Which female novelist was born in 1775. Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë or Mary Shelley-
But then she gave her own take on a genre drenched in poetic naturalism with the titillating and sublimely earthy Emily Brontë adaptation Wuthering Heights (2011). (Niels Ruëll)
Written by Espido FreireIllustrated by Antonio LorenteEdelvivesISBN: 9788414059296Desde la Antigüedad, la literatura ha nutrido nuestro imaginario con inolvidables historias de amor. En las páginas de este libro encontramos amores apasionados, felices, imposibles, platónicos, clandestinos, marcados por la culpa o por el destino aciago. Espido Freire y Antonio Lorente nos ofrecen una apasionante travesía, visual y literaria, por el interior de una veintena de obras maestras de la literatur a con el amor como protagonista.
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Y así, con la fina pluma de Freire y las maravillosas ilustraciones de Antonio, revisitamos las historias de don Juan y doña Inés en El tenorio; Odiseo y Penélope en La odisea, Karen y Denys en Memorias de África; o Valentín y Molina en El beso de la mujer araña. La pregunta es casi obligada: elegir una para vivir y otra para olvidar.
"Yo me quedaría con la de Jane Eyre para vivir porque no es tan trágica y para olvidar... casi todas", dice el ilustrador. "Yo no elegiría ninguna", dice Espido riendo. Antonio ha revisitado con su arte estos romances a nivel estético y el resultado ha sido mágico: "Quería imitar la cartelería antigua de los cines de los años 40 y 50, buscar ese estilo vintage. Elegir solo una imagen de estas historias ha sido complicado". (Maite Torrente) (Translation)
High winds met high spirits on Haworth Moor as the annual Auld Lang Syne fell run got underway on a challenging course New Year’s Eve.The challenging course sees competitors, often in fancy dress, run a 6.7 mile course from Penistone Hill Country Park up to Top Withins - believed to be the inspiration for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. (Victoria Finan)`
I can’t tell you whether Middlemarch is the greatest novel ever written. I’m not even sure you could plausibly declare any one novel “the greatest.” But I think you could make a convincing case that Middlemarch is the novel that best integrates all seven of those layers. Compare Middlemarch to earlier classics from Austen or the Brontës, and the difference is almost immediately apparent. The emotional and familial layers in, say, Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are fully developed. But the geo-political or technological forces that were transforming English society in the first half of the nineteenth century do not propel the narrative in any material way. (Steven Johnson)
Reading has proved to be a time-tested defence against my brain’s weakest impulses. But reading classics becomes a fun challenge while also providing an escape into a world and stories where there is no internet or phones. After reading the Brontë sisters, you get to feel like a (catty) literary snob too. (Divya Aslesha)
'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte BrontëIf there’s one thing the Brontë sisters could do, it’s writing. Jane Eyre was published just months before Wuthering Heights, making it a great year for the family. Both books have remained lasting favorites among literature fans. (...)'Wuthering Heights' by Emily BrontëA book considered greatly ahead of its time, Wuthering Heights made major waves when published thanks to its intense themes. Although it was once a banned book, modern readers know that it’s an important piece of literature. (Acacia Deadrick)
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte BrontëThe cursed and blessed Brontë sisters–so talented, so doomed–did it all, at least between them all. Anne died at 29, but produced the feminist classic The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Charlotte Brontë died at 30, but produced the towering masterpiece Wuthering Heights. Charlotte lived to the ripe old age of 38 and is rightly remembered for her classic novel Jane Eyre. Featuring our young heroine, it follows Jane from an abusive childhood to an abusive boarding school to a suffocating job as a governess to a disheartening stint with a cousin and finally well earned happiness. Since it captures a girl’s coming of age and blooming into womanhood, it well deserves a slot in the Best Young Adult Novels of All Time. Like Charles Dickens and other contemporaries, Brontë tells a gripping tale but illuminates social issues and grapples with weighty ideas. And always call it by its full title Jane Eyre: An Autobiography for its greatest accomplishment is the novel’s ground-breaking first person narration. It’s alive with a burgeoning consciousness and events are seen and distorted and enlivened by Jane’s perspective in ways third person narration could never achieve. Certainly Dostoevsky was paying attention. (Michael Glitz)
Wuthering Heights: The Read with Vinette Robinson. January 5, 7.00pm . BBC4's classy The Read series (a sort of Bedtime Stories for adults) continues with actor Vinette Robinson's dramatic reading of Emily Brontë's timeless classic.
Note the date of “Brigadoon” mid-January, and it wasn’t even the first show of the year. The year opened with the Black Swamp Players’ “The Moors,” which I described as “this twisted, darkly humorous tribute to the gothic fiction of the Brontë sisters.” (David Dupont)
Her film Plantation (1994) uses film footage from her own abdominal surgery (there is a lot of this, and it’s a hard watch if you’re squeamish) to explore, ultimately, the story of Bertha Mason, the “mad woman in the attic” in Jane Eyre, who is implied to have been Jamaican Creole.(Susan Mansfield)
2024 has not been a good year. Just as 2023 wasn't, and as all signs indicate, neither will 2025 and the years to come. Dark times approach and it will not be pretty. The successive economic crises, COVID-19, regional wars, and uncontrolled inflation have only brought to the forefront what the prosperity of the last third of the 20th century had swept under the rug: the very fragile foundations upon which the capitalist model is built, and how the myth of infinite growth and Western democracy are wobbling under the Lampedusian pressure that everything must change so that nothing changes.
Trump's return to power is yet another symptom of the collapse of the democratic model based on principles ultimately inherited from the French Revolution, with the nuances that workers' struggles after the Industrial Revolution and World Wars managed to introduce. Western democratic society, built upon what was once called the Welfare State, shows itself incapable of responding to the challenges of the 21st century. The climate crisis and migration crises, above all, are the perfect incubator for the serpent's egg. And it's hatching everywhere, as we can see in Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, Austria, England, Spain, Russia... and the United States. But it's in 2025's America where something new is emerging. Something truly disruptive. The rise of techno-feudalism represented by Elon Musk, though not only by him, poses a danger of enormous proportions. Because it comes at a time when AI and its sponsors should be regulated. Are we conspiracy theorists imagining that the world techno-feudalists are preparing for us is one where the only jobs reserved for the new techno-serfs will be manual labor since all those requiring intellectual work—and therefore people who can think for themselves—will be taken over and improved by AIs? What social democracy once represented has handed the fire extinguishers to the arsonists and devoted itself to fighting sterile and byzantine culture wars, abandoning the middle classes who are alienated by the new Churches of Social Networks. Not a new opium of the people, paraphrasing Marx, but the Fentanyl of the now agonizing Nixon's silent majority. The Trump-Musk alliance threatens to completely redefine the values, pacts, and agreements that maintained stability and prosperity—as precarious as one might consider it, but still the most lasting in human history—of the world as we know it. And it will not be pretty.
So we'll take refuge in our hobbies, in the things that make us happy and that we like to share, while we still can. Because sooner or later, as Niemöller would say, the barbarians will also reach our shores. On the Brontë coast, we can say that 2025 seems rather peaceful, even somewhat uneventful.
We will see the shooting of Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights film. A film that has been vilified for its casting choices using poor, biased arguments that blindly follow an agenda whose ultimate goal is to limit creators' freedom. We'll see more people making a huge fuss for reasons as futile as they are useless, but since the film apparently will finally be released in 2026, we'll have to wait a bit longer.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: "“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."
From Jean Rhys’s landmark postcolonial and feminist prequel to Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, in 1966 to Sandra Newman’s Julia, a powerful retelling of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four published last year, overlooked female characters are also being written into existence. Unsurprisingly, ancient myths have proved fertile territory for female-led reboots, with Margaret Atwood, Pat Barker and Madeleine Miller all going behind the battle lines of the Odyssey and the Iliad.
Coppola’s visually lush version is just one of 200-plus screen versions of Dracula, but it is, like Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, a movie that Eggers feasted on in his youth. “The stuff I was looking to for this film was all demon-lover stories,” he continues. “Stuff like Wuthering Heights. The Olivier version has contaminated everyone’s thinking about Wuthering Heights, but in the novel, Heathcliff is an asshole psychopath. And as much as he loves Cathy, he’s obsessed with her and he wants to destroy her. Ellen’s relationship with Orlok is incredibly toxic.”
Flock Theatre’s ‘Jane Eyre’May 17-26, Shaw Mansion, New LondonFlock Theatre was originally going to stage a new adaptation of “Jane Eyre” by Julie Butters in 2020. The pandemic put a stop to that. While Flock did a Zoom film of that version of the Charlotte Brontë classic, the theater group finally had the chance to stage it live this spring. The production inside the Shaw Mansion was superbly acted and directed, and it used the intimate mansion interior to great effect. (Kristina Dorsey)
Charlotte Brontë’s ringLater that year, one guest discovered a box that was hidden in an attic for many years which housed a beautiful gold ring.It was revealed that the beautiful piece of jewellery once belonged to none other than Jayne Eyre author Charlotte Brontë. The ring was inscribed "C. Brontë" alog with the date 1855.Instead of the £25 that the guest who brought it in thought it was worth, jewellery expert Geoffrey Munn valued it at an estimated to cost a staggering £20,000.What’s more, it was also discovered that the ring held a lock of the famous author’s hair, making the find even more valuable.The expert admitted she "got goosebumps" from the item but added that there was "very little reason to doubt" it was the famous author's ring.She explained: "It was a convention to make jewellery out of hair in the 19th century. There was a terror of not being able to remember the face and character of the person who had died. It wasn't an uncommon thing to happen." (Bettany Wittingham)
I think I also read Edgar Allan Poe when I was quite young, maybe 12 to 13. Then I read Lovecraft. Somewhere around that time I probably read Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, and I read some Hemingway when I was in high school, particularly the early short stories, which I still love.
We might say, then, that the novel was born of an attempt to take the witchcraft out of reading — or at least to reform any lingering witches. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, as part of its famous defense of the realist novel, would concern an avid reader of Gothic romances whose diet of haunted castles leads her into a “voluntary, self-created delusion” that later mortifies her. Likewise, a young Charlotte Brontë would bid farewell to the beloved fantasy nation of Angria she and her brother had created as teenagers. “I long to quit for a while that burning clime where we have sojourned too long,” she wrote in 1839, nearly a decade before Jane Eyre. (Andrea Long Chu)
I first show Kate Bush in Top of the Pops in 1978 and I loved the gothicness of Wuthering Heights. She was just extraordinary - there was this woman that was doing this sort of erotic mime all by herself. She was just phenomenal.
Northern Ballet’s Jane EyreA ballet performance of Jane Eyre, Yorkshire’s ultimate heroine created by Charlotte Brontë, will come to the Lyceum from 22 to 26 April.With choreography by Cathy Marston, and live music Northern Ballet’s dance actors bring this tale of romance, jealousy and dark secrets to life. (Marti Stelling)
Young Catherine Bush was just six months shy of her 20th birthday when she topped the charts with Wuthering Heights, making her the first female artist to get a UK Number 1 with a self-written song. She'd penned it the year before, when she was just 18!
The 22nd new year sale will take place at Shelter in Stockbridge on Friday 3 January with many bargains to be snapped up. (...)There are signed David Attenborough books, and a New Edition 1858 copy of Wuthering Heights. (Phyllis Stevens)
Our farmers will continue to need all our support as they fight to save their livelihoods. And on Walshaw Moor, we must all be prepared to stand up against the proposed wind farm, which is right in the heart of historic Brontë Country on protected peatland.
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Northern Echo publishes some of the anecdotes and stories of former photographer Ian Wright:
Emily Brontë’s only novel, ‘Wuthering Heights’ is known as the masterpiece of Gothic literature. Set amidst the wild and desolate Yorkshire moors, this is an intense and destructive love story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. The book explores the themes of obsession, revenge, and the darker sides of human nature.
The moody atmosphere of ‘Wuthering Heights’ itself, combined with Brontë’s powerful and poetic prose, makes this a truly haunting read. The story’s emotional depth and tragic elements linger in your mind long after you’ve finished it. (...)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
‘Jane Eyre’ is a Gothic romance filled with mystery and emotional depth. The orphaned Jane finds employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the enigmatic Mr. Rochester. Secrets hidden within the mansion’s walls, including the mysterious presence in the attic, create an air of suspense.
Charlotte Brontë’s vivid descriptions and portrayal of a strong, independent heroine make this a timeless classic. The book explores themes of love, morality, and resilience which are woven into a narrative that is as haunting as it is empowering. (Richa Saxena)
Another vivid memory involves travelling to The Tan Hill in North Yorkshire to cover Columbia’s dramatic adaptation of Jane Eyre, starring Susannah York and George C. Scott. (Patrick Gouldsbrough)It's funny to see that even products like Twilight are questioned and its TV remake plans some woke-washing. On Screenrant:
According to some fans, Twilight’s brooding romantic antihero is a formative crush, a Byronic vampire with a well-hidden heart of gold, and a well-meaning figure who is unfairly maligned even among the franchise’s own fandom. According to others, Twilight’s Wuthering Heights-inspired love interest is a possessive, controlling monster, and his version of vampirism is terminally cringe. (Cathal Gunning)Also in Screenrant, more vampires in this review of Nosferatu 2024:
In the context of Nosferatu, it is clear that Death is Orlok and the maiden is Ellen. However, as much as Orlok scares and repulses Ellen, she also has an irrepressible bond with him. He is her first love, no matter how evil he is. In this way, Nosferatu twists the "Death and the Maiden" into an unexpected love story. Ellen must move on from Orlok's manipulation and try to hold onto her true love, Thomas. While Nosferatu is certainly scary at times, and unabashedly gothic, it is more like Wuthering Heights than it is Dracula. (Megan Hemenway)La Opinión de Málaga (Spain) recommends this Spanish edition of Wuthering Heights, illustrated by Marjolein Bastin:
Anne Brontë.org and The House of Brontë describes the joyous triple wedding that took place on December 29, 1812, when Patrick Brontë married Maria Branwell in Yorkshire alongside another couple (William Morgan and Jane Fennell), while Maria's sister Charlotte Branwell simultaneously married Joseph Branwell in Cornwall.Cumbres Borrascosas
Emily Brontë
Translated by Nicole d'Amonville Alegría
Illustratd by Marjolein Bastin
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ISBN: 9788410206175
Edited by Amber K. Regis, Deborah WynneEdinburgh University PressEdinburgh Companions to Literature and the HumanitiesISBN Hardback: 9781474487610December 2024
- Explores the relationship between the works of the Brontës and the visual, musical, plastic and performing arts
- Presents authoritative critical assessments of the representation of the visual, musical, plastic and performing arts in the work of the Brontës
- Discusses a broad range of the Brontës’ own artworks, including recently discovered materials
- Includes thoughtful and provocative readings of how the Brontës’ writings have been adapted and transposed across artistic media, including film, television, radio and digital cultures
- Explores the vital and sometimes disruptive role played by art in the heritage, tourism and creative industries built upon the Brontës’ lives, images and reputations
The Brontë family produced and consumed art across a range of media and genres. Haworth Parsonage and the local region proved a crucible of inspiration not only for Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, but also for their parents. Here were fostered the creative ambitions of four of the nineteenth century’s most provocative novelists, poets and visual artists. In turn, the Brontës now sustain heritage, tourism and creative industries that adapt and disseminate their lives and work, their likenesses and words, across the globe: in books, on a plethora of screens (film, TV, computer and phone), in discarnate audio (radio and podcasts) and embodied on stage. The essays collected here offer the first panoramic and sustained examination of the Brontës’ lives, work and legacies in relation to the visual, musical, plastic and performing arts, tracing their influences and transformations across the lives and cultural afterlives of this extraordinary literary family.
We are hiring a Programme (General) Manager!We are thrilled to announce an exciting new role at the Brontë Birthplace: Programme Manager. Thanks to generous grant funding, this position will help drive the development of our treasured site, shaping it into a thriving cultural and heritage hub for the community. It’s an incredible opportunity to play a key role in preserving and celebrating the legacy of the Brontës.The Programme Manager will oversee various projects (including assisting the Management Committee in setting up the Birthplace business ready for our visitors), This role is central to ensuring the long-term impact and success of the Birthplace’s mission to honour literary history while creating vibrant opportunities for Thornton.
Gothic horror is having a moment in film right now. From Robert Eggers’s “Nosferatu” to Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” the end of 2024 into next year is looking to be a big season for sickos. Further in the future, we have Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,” a Netflix adaptation of “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” and an ambiguously described YA reimagination of “The Phantom of the Opera” at Disney+ — all three of which immediately garnered online controversy and outrage after their announcements. (Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff? Really?) These misguided attempts to capitalize on the Gothic moment seem to forecast another trend of the decade’s second half — this is going to be the decade of bad Gothic horror. (Samantha H. Chung)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë had a profound impact on me with its prose and exploration of love and morality. Brontë’s descriptions of her native moorlands and how the landscape shapes the characters’ behaviours captivated me. The relationship between the two main characters is one of the most memorable and emotionally complex in literature. Wuthering Heights is a classic that will stay with me.” (Hayley Poh, 17)
The oddity of Ellen and Orlok's connection has been confirmed by the movie's director, Robert Eggers. In an interview with The Verge, Eggers said, "It was always clear to me that Nosferatu is a demon lover story." He goes on to compare Nosferatu to the classic gothic novel, Wuthering Heights. (Megan Hemenway)
Infobae (Argentina) and El Imparcial (México) list Wuthering Heights 2026 as one of the books that will soon be adapted for TV or film.
Sutton FosterBroadway star Sutton Foster became a household name this year thanks to her lead role in the musical adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Her electrifying performances and heartfelt interviews about her passion for theatre earned her admiration across the globe. ( Shrikrishna Iyer in Masala!)
Nicola FriarOlympia PublishersISBN : 978-1-83543-521-2December 12, /2024When King Zamorna of Angria dies suddenly and Queen Mary vanishes without a trace, the kingdom is thrown into turmoil. With no heir to take the vacant throne, all eyes turn to the king's estranged younger brother, Charles Townshend - a man who turned his back on the crown years ago.Determined to uncover the truth behind Zamorna's death and Mary's disappearance, Charles must unravel a web of secrets that threaten not only his life but the very future of Angria. Haunted by whispers of betrayal, conspiracies, and revelations about allies and enemies, Charles must decide who he can trust before he becomes another casualty in a game of power and revenge in a blood-soaked Angria.Death in Angria is a gripping tale of power and greed, inspired by the early fiction and paracosmic worlds of the famous Brontë siblings.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëVeranda presents some floral arrangements inspired by classical novels:
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a powerful tale of resilience, independence, and self-respect. The story of Jane, an orphaned governess, emphasizes a woman’s right to voice her desires and assert her identity despite societal constraints. Through themes of love, morality, and autonomy, Brontë crafts a timeless feminist narrative. (Pritinanda Behera)
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Lush arrangement of various ferns flowers and mushrooms on a textured surface
A loose composition of dried grasses, mixed ferns, and wildflowers (yellow goldenrod and aster) evokes the untamed vegetation of the Yorkshire moors in Emily Brontë’s novel, reflecting the tumultuous passion between fated couple Heathcliff and Catherine. Nestled in layers of moss, twigs, and stone, purple clematis and beautyberries bring color reminiscent of the moorlands’ heather-covered hills. (Catherine Lee Davis)
Best Costume Design Of A Play Or MusicalValérie Thérèse Bart - Jane Eyre - The Alley Theatre
Best Leading Performer in a New Production of a PlayNiamh Handley-Vaughan - Wuthering Heights - UK TourRenny Mendoza - Wuthering Heights - UK TourBest New Production of a PlayWuthering Heights - UK TourBest Supporting Performer in a New Production of a PlayNadia Lamin - Wuthering Heights - UK TourOscar Mackie - Wuthering Heights - UK Tour
Arts Minister Sir Chris Bryant said: “I cannot wait to experience the spectacular programme of cultural delights next year that will tell Bradford’s story to the world, showing off the district’s rich cultural heritage and diverse artistic talent, from the Brontë sisters and David Hockney to artist Deepa Mann-Kler’s interactive cookbook celebrating Bradford’s best recipes. (...)There will also be a re-imagining of the Jungle Book by the Akram Khan dance company, a celebration of the sounds, stories and voices of the South Asian creative underground – Dialled In, visual artworks on display in the moorland that inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and a residency with Opera North. (Ruth Hoggarth)
Head of BBC Arts and Classic Music TV, Suzy Klein, said: “I’m proud to support our partnership with Bradford UK City of Culture with a series of our BBC Arts programmes to showcase the area’s rich cultural history.“From Bradford born Vinette Robinson’s star turn in The Read’s Wuthering Heights, partly shot on location on the Yorkshire Moors, to spotlighting some of the brilliant people behind the scenes for the launch in Bradford’s Big Bash, and the Big Tasty Read – another important campaign we’re running with the Reading Agency and Bradford Literature Festival to support the nation’s hunger for great books.” (Liana Jacob)
Participants in the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, an event held at locations around the world each July, where participants gather en masse to dress up as musician Kate Bush and learn and perform the dance routine from her 1978 song 'Wuthering Heights'. This year, Dublin marked the event in Fairview Park, raising money for Women's Aid. (Alan Betson)
(Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, and Daphne du Maurier: Moors, Peat, and Haunting in Three of Their Novels)Anna Juliet ReidNuevas Poligrafías. Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada, Núm. 10, Agosto 2024Este artículo examina el tema del acecho en tres novelas inglesas: Wuthering Heights, de Emily Brontë; Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë, y Jamaica Inn, de Daphne du Maurier. Las novelas analizadas son narrativas regionales y me enfoco en los condados de Yorkshire y Cornwall, respectivamente. Mucha de la crítica literaria del género gótico se ha centrado en el gótico femenino, los espacios domésticos, candados y llaves, y la claustrofobia, pero este articulo propone un acercamiento diferente a las novelas dentro del campo del ecogótico. En lugar de sólo enfocarse en los espacios interiores, se enfoca en los espacios exteriores dentro del gótico doméstico, en particular los pantanos, los cuales caracterizan las novelas mencionadas. Estos espacios exteriores son ambivalentes: de una manera son sublimes y, de otra, representan lugares de libertad. Se argumenta que los escenarios moldean a los personajes, en particular a Heathcliff en Wuthering Heights, y realzan la importancia de los pantanos y la turba en el paisaje. La turba tiene cualidades de preservación de los cuerpos que han sido depositados en este tipo de suelo. No se descomponen, lo cual nos hace especular acerca de su edad. ¿Serán cadáveres de miles de años o víctimas de un crimen reciente? Los fantasmas del pasado, sean reales o imaginarios, se levantan para desestabilizar las nociones de lo conocido.This article examines the theme of haunting in three English novels: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier. The novels analysed are regional narratives, focusing on the counties of Yorkshire and Cornwall respectively. Much of literary criticism has centred, within the Gothic genre, on the Female Gothic, the domestic space, locks and keys, and claustrophobia. However, this article proposes a different approach to the novels within the area of EcoGothic. Rather than focusing on the interior spaces, it focuses on the outside spaces within this domestic Gothic, in particular the moorlands that characterize their novels. These exterior spaces are ambivalent. On the one hand, they are sublime, and on the other hand, they represent a place of freedom. The article argues that landscape shapes the characters, in particular Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, and it highlights the importance of moorland and peatland in the landscape. Peat has preserving qualities and bodies lain to rest in this kind of soil do not decompose, leading to speculation as to their age. Are they thousands of years old, or victims of a recent crime? I argue that the ghosts of the past, whether real or imaginary, rise up to destabilise notions of the known.
Cinematographer Linus Sandgren is going to have a busy schedule next year. The Swedish-born DP has in the past worked with David O. Russell, Damien Chazelle and Gus Van Sant, but it’s only in these last few years that his stock has really risen up.First off, Sandgren is replacing Greig Fraser as DP on Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Messiah,” and that one’s set to shoot in August/September 2025. It also now looks as though he’ll be reteaming with his “Saltburn” director Emerald Fennell on her “Wuthering Heights” movie, set to shoot in January. (Jordan Ruimy)
As a rustic peasant dance, the waltz had been around for decades before the Strausses appeared. And because the man held the woman much closer than was customary in 18th and early 19th-century dances, and the flowing three-in-a-bar movement encouraged flirtatious swirling, it had a lurid reputation. There’s a telling passage in Anne Brontë’s novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, set in the 1820s, where a clergyman intervenes to stop a village dance when people start waltzing (“No, no, I don’t allow that!”). (Richard Morrison)
Eggers acknowledges that “film dorks” may find themselves overawed by Craig Lathrop’s extravagant production design, Linda Muir’s gloomy but stylish costumes, and Jarin Blaschke’s careful cinematography that captures moonlight with a spooky luminescence. However, he hopes audiences will also be immersed in the emotions. “A big inspiration was Wuthering Heights – the novel, not any film version – where Heathcliff really is a bastard. Does he love Cathy? Or is he obsessed with her, and he needs to own her, possess her, and destroy her?” (Nick Chen)
How have your reading tastes changed over time?In high school I loved the emotional, dark and moody stuff: Keats, Byron, Shakespeare sonnets, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Wuthering Heights,” “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” In college, there was a lot of eyeliner and underlining Milan Kundera, and coffee and Raymond Carver.
Online freebies galore: Hollywood has the opera stages of the world outgunned when it comes to turning literary classics into fodder for the silver screen, and YouTube has taken advantage of it by establishing a curated channel of them called “Cult Cinema Classics.” (...) Also on the list are (...) 1970’s “Jane Eyre,” with Susannah York and George C. Scott. (Sue Gilmore)
Work Experience Student Scarlett’s favourite 2024 read is…Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëIn a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere…As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house, Wuthering Heights.It is a place he will never forget.There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young.How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge – and continues to torment those in the present.How love can transgress authority, convention, even death. (Joni Boyd)
The Brontë Sisters explores the restored home of Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell in Manchester, examining her literary career and close friendship with Charlotte Brontë while revealing details about their correspondence and mutual support as female writers in Victorian England.
by Anne BrontëTranslator: Ferran Ràfols i GesaViena Edicions. Col·lecció: Club VictòriaISBN: 9788419474223October 2024Després de dècades d’abandonament i silenci, la ruïnosa mansió de Wildfell Hall ha estat llogada per una dona sola amb un fill al seu càrrec. La presència de la nova llogatera desperta immediatament la curiositat de tot el poble: qui és aquesta dona misteriosa, distingida i solitària, que defuig qualsevol contacte social?Mentre la dama es converteix en l’objecte de les murmuracions dels veïns, el jove Gilbert Markham no pot evitar sentir-se fascinat per ella i pel seu passat enigmàtic, que, malgrat totes les tafaneries que circulen al seu voltant, és encara més terrible i tortuós del que es poden imaginar.Anne Brontë desplega amb una gran originalitat narrativa —en què es combinen cartes creuades amb un diari personal— una història summament intrigant. En una època dominada per la literatura gòtica, la petita de les Brontë ens exposa el veritable terror per a una dona del seu temps: estar lligada per matrimoni a un marit abusiu, dominat pel maltractament i l’alcoholisme, del qual era pràcticament impossible fugir.
Wuthering HeightsWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a timeless Gothic novel, that revolves around the story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. The haunting setting and eerie vibe make this book a perfect pick.Jane EyreWritten by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre is filled with Gothic elements. Although it has some romantic touch but it still would be a perfect pick for a gothic novel.
Jane Eyre 2011In Jane Eyre, director Cary Fukunaga and screenwriter Moira Buffini transform Charlotte Brontë’s romantic novel of profound love into a moody tale of the gothic imagination. In an exclusive Focus Features interview, Buffini describes the heart of the novel as a “vulnerable young woman in this creepy old house.” Mia Wasikowska plays Jane, the poor orphan who takes up residence in the spooky estate of the formidable Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender) and his peculiar housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax (Judi Dench). “Neither a radical updating nor a stiff exercise in middlebrow cultural respectability, Mr. Fukunaga's film tells its venerable tale with lively vigor and an astute sense of emotional detail,” writes the New York Times. Crowning it the best adaptation of Brontë’s novel, Screenrant wrote that “no other [film] has captured the essence of the novel the way that” Fukunaga’s version does.
Esto fue algo que el propio Eggers quiso priorizar, tomando inspiración de las versiones previas de Nosferatu, desde la original de F.W. Murnau hasta la de Werner Herzog en 1979. El director señaló la importancia de enfatizar en esa perspectiva femenina desde el inicio, convirtiendo la narrativa en una historia de "amante demoníaco", con ecos de la intensidad emocional de Cumbres Borrascosas. (Magela Muzio) (Translation)
Eggers told me Death and the Maiden was on his mind while adapting Nosferatu, as well as countless other classic tales about love being supplanted by obsession or self-annihilation, from The Daemon Lover to Wuthering Heights. (David Crow)
It was in the spirit of exiting my comfort bubble that I first agreed to attend “The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever”: an annual event where Kate Bush fans mark her birthday by recreating the film clip to her song Wuthering Heights. If my friend had invited me on April Fools’ Day, I’d have assumed she’d made the whole thing up – but it was July. (Emma Wilkins)
Maria Branwell (1783-1821)Born and raised in Penzance, Maria met Patrick Brontë while visiting her aunt and uncle in Yorkshire, which means, yes, she was the mother of British authors Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë and their poet/painter brother Branwell. (LJ Trewhela)
Me cabrea que 'Mujercitas' o los libros de Jaen Austen o las hermanas Brontë se consideren muchas veces una cosa light, sin peso ni trasfondo, porque lo tienen, y mucho. No, no son libros o pelis para chicas, son libros y pelis para todo el mundo. Porque las historias merecen la pena y porque también hablan de cosas importantes y porque, de paso, permiten que afloren muchos de esos porqués que dan lugar a conversaciones o reflexiones. (Ana Requena Aguilar) (Translation)
Elena Poniatowska: Por favor, háblanos de ti, Eve…E.G.: (...) Contar con una genealogía literaria es, además de legítimo, absolutamente necesario, y parecería que las jóvenes no tuvieran derecho a ella. Cuando empecé mis estudios formales yo sólo leía a mujeres anglosajonas y, casi siempre, decimonónicas. Mis grandes referentes literarios eran las hermanas Brontë (enfáticamente Emily), Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Margaret Mitchell, Colleen McCullough y Erica Jong, quien enfrentó un juicio por pornografía. A Virginia Woolf la leí hasta los veintitantos. Pero no conocía autoras con las que me sintiera culturalmente vinculada, y tuve que buscarlas. (...)A un nivel estilístico me reconozco fuertemente influenciada por María Luisa Bombal, Luisa Valenzuela, Inés Arredondo, Rosario Castellanos y por ti, Elena. Y también, dicho sea de paso, por Emily Brontë, Murasaki Shikibu, Flannery O’Connor y Angela Carter. (Translation)
Parade lists Christmas poems including Anne Brontë's Music on Christmas Morning. The poem also features in this year's AnneBrontë.org holiday post. and video.
Set in 1800’s England, Jane Eyre tells the powerful story of a young orphan who longs for a sense of belonging. Jane is an outspoken and strong-willed character whose views are part-inspired by Brontë’s own life experiences. The novel follows Jane’s courageous journey from her difficult childhood, through her education to her transition into adulthood, in her search for emotional connection. She falls in love with the mysterious Edward Rochester, who is harbouring an unthinkable secret, and the shocking revelation drives Jane to choose between her desire for acceptance and her moral values.Just one piece of our jigsaw library, this 252-piece double-sided puzzle features a beautiful illustration from an iconic scene on one side, with an extract from the book on the other, making it the perfect gift for both book lovers and puzzlers.
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A new exhibition will focus on how the many TV and film adaptations of Brontë novels have impacted on the village where the siblings lived and worked.From Haworth to Eternity: The Enduring Legacy of the Brontës takes place at the parsonage museum, from February 1, 2025.Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre in particular have been adapted numerous times for the small and big screen.A parsonage spokesperson says: "The enduring legacy of the Brontës has been fascinating visitors to Haworth for over 175 years, shaping the village."From the first literary pilgrims and souvenir hunters to those inspired by the many film productions and adaptations, Haworth has become synonymous with the family."Next year the museum will explore perceptions of Haworth, the parsonage and surrounding moorland, starting with From Haworth to Eternity. As filming begins for the latest Brontë adaptation – Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie – the new exhibition will focus on how the many previous film and TV adaptations of Charlotte, Emily and Anne’s novels have impacted the village. It will include letters, manuscripts, souvenir albums and items from the museum’s drama archive." (Alistair Shand)
Lucy Powrie was 15 years old when she first read Anne Brontë’s 1847 novel Agnes Grey and instantly, intensely, fell in love. “There was just this moment of, I suppose, feeling like I’d come home. I’d found something that was just better than anything I had ever found in my life.”Already a wildly enthusiastic reader, she had been blogging about books since the age of 12, and hosting a book review channel on YouTube since she was 13. Discovering Anne Brontë, followed immediately by her older sisters Emily and Charlotte, opened the door to a new world: “They were everything that I didn’t realise was out there.”She started talking about them on her blog and channel, “and I realised very quickly that there were a lot of people who also loved the Brontës and wanted to talk about them because they didn’t have anybody to talk about them with [either].”Powrie is still only 25 but – as is doubtless apparent – she is not a person who believes in hanging around. In October she was appointed the chair of the Brontë Parsonage Museum at the family’s former home in Haworth, making her the youngest leader of one of the oldest literary societies in the world. She is now the guardian of the legacy of some of the most fiercely loved writers in all of English literature. (Read more) (Esther Addley)
The Safekeep is in some ways hard to characterize. The author has said that the first book she fell in love with as a child was The Secret Garden, and there is a lot in this book that evokes the great manor house novels—Bleak House, Jane Eyre, Rebecca—the setting (and its ghosts) as much a character in the book as the people inhabiting it. (Chloe Schama)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is brimming with complex characters and moral ambiguity, weaving a tale of passion and obsession. While often viewed as romantic, it explores how love, in its raw and destructive form, can fail to conquer all. (Leight Patrick)
Eggers wanted to retell “Nosferatu” through Ellen’s eyes to add “more emotional and psychological complexity,” he says. “It is the demon lover story. Like in ‘Wuthering Heights,’ does Heathcliff love Cathy or does he want to possess and destroy her? (Brian Truitt)
Prelude to Ecstasy - The Last Dinner PartyMaybe because it was because they looked like a bunch of Brontë heroines raiding the dressing-up box or maybe it was because they did something as verboten as playing unironic, full blooded guitar solos, bu tThe Last Dinner Party seemed to get up a lot of people's noses this year. (Alan Corr)
Redacción Rosario (Argentina) recommends Wuthering Heights.
What ensues is a love triangle right out of Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre if Heathcliff or Mr. Rochester were ... a vampire? (You also have to substitute being beguiled by a vampire for being willingly in love with a suitor.) Aging mansions, castles, stagecoaches, distraught women in nightgowns, and a madman in an asylum are all present and accounted for. No Gothic trope is left untouched, and the film is all the better for it. (Scott Phillips)
Non-binary musician Shy Charles’ Celtic harp cover of Spice Girl’s 2 Become 1.May the record show that 2 Become 1 IS a Christmas song, and arguably the most overlooked one – it even topped the charts on Christmas 1996. (...)But wait – you haven’t fully experienced the cover without seeing the Wuthering Heights inspired video.As well as featuring Shy performing the song, the video stars Shon Faye (UK Vogue columnist and author of bestselling The Transgender Issue) as Catherine Earnshaw/Linton and Otamere Guobadia (writer and poet) as Heathcliff, and Martha Swales (gardening influencer) as Nelly in narrative scenes.The whole video was filmed in just one day in one central London location – far, far away from the Yorkshire moors in which it is made to appear to be set.Shy shared: “I think our video brings together so many classically festive things; period drama, ghost stories, snow – I mean what could be more Christmassy than a doomed, jealous love between a two certifiably insane young people who are pretty much siblings?”“Shon and Otamere are a beautiful queer version of Cathy and Heathcliff – they really look the part and they have given Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi some big shoes to fill for their version that’s being made,” they added. (Dayna McAlpiue)
Edward Rochester from Jane Eyre: "Next year, I will endeavor to be more honest with my partners about my feelings. And my wife. And my syphilis." (Kyrie Gray)
Best Costume Design Of A Play Or Musical: Sarah Jo Martens -Best Direction Of A Musical: Breanne BrennanBest EnsembleBest Lighting Design Of A Play Or Musical - Breanne BrennanBest Music Direction & Orchestra Performance - Sue GedernerBest MusicalBest Performer in a Musical - Emily KeinerBest Scenic Design Of A Play Or Musical - Breanne BrennanBest Supporting Performer In A Musical - Gabriella George
Haddon Hall has played Mr Rochester’s Thornfield Hall in three adaptions of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre – Franco Zeffirelli’s 1994 film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and William Hurt, the BBC’s 2006 serial adaptation starring Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens, and Cary Fukunaga’s 2011 film starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. (Phil Bramley)
Emily 2022A biographical film directed by Frances O'Connor follows Emily who desires personal and artistic freedom but locks her seat due to family and society. However, she finds ways to channel her creativity.To Walk Invisible 2016Directed by Sally Wainwright follows three sisters who face problems while taking care of their father and alcoholic brother. However, the sisters are talented writers and overcome obstacles to publish novels.Jane Eyre 2011A romantic gothic drama film directed by Cary Fukunaga follows a governess named Jane Eyre who manages to find her true love, Edward. However Edward has a dark secret that destroys Jane's life. (Khurajam Roger Singh)
Kelly-Anne Byrne, DJ/broadcaster: Kate Bush: Wuthering Heights“Lately, dance floors are increasingly driven by speed, so it’s always nice to throw a curveball. I recently played a disco/house set all night and ended on this; people lost their minds with emotion. A guy said to me, ‘You’ve some balls to play that’. Well, I don’t have balls, but I certainly know a good tune.” (Tony Clayton-Lee)
Another adaptation of the gothic love story is set to hit cinemas – this time by Oscar-winning director Emerald Fennell (of Saltburn fame).Set on the West Yorkshire moors, Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel focuses on a conflict between two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons. At the heart of the story is the passionate yet destructive relationship between an orphan adopted by Mr. Earnshaw named Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) and Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine (Margot Robbie).Emerald Fennell’s take on the classic tale will land in cinemas on 13 February 2026, just in time for Valentine’s Day. (Charlotte Vossen)
