2024-05-26 09:36
BBC News also has an article on the auction of the Wuthering Heights guitar:A guitar used to perform the solo in Kate Bush's breakthrough single Wuthering Heights is to be sold at auction.Th… Read More
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2024-05-26 07:58
Phantoms in Jane Eyre discussed in:Phantom Past, Pure Future: Colonial Hauntings and Temporal Disruption in Jane Eyreby Qian Xun TieThe Channel, McGill University, XV (2024), p. 24While a li… Read More
2024-05-25 07:09
The Times echoes the news of the Brussels square to be named after the Brontë sisters.Charlotte and Emily are to give their names to a newly created square in Brussels, Belgium, next ye… Read More
2024-05-25 00:21
Brontë research articles produced in Indonesia and Iraq:Revenge in Emily Brontë's Novel Wuthering HeightsLia Safitri, Asnani AsnaniJournal of Language, Vol 6, No 1The re… Read More
2024-05-24 05:33
More on the square in Koekelberg that could be named after the Brontës in The Brussels Times.Brussels is attempting to bring back the spirit of the famous Brontë sisters to the cit… Read More
2024-05-23 23:26
A chapter in this newly published Brazilian book:Ciéncias Humanas e Sociais: Tópicos Atuais Em Pesquera - Volume 4Edited by Marcelo da Fonseca Ferreira da Silva and Fláv… Read More
2024-05-23 05:35
Nippertown has a short interview with Jasmine Roth, director of the play You On the Moors Now” at the Yulman Theatre at Union College.Q: What is the action of “You on the Mo… Read More
2024-05-22 22:59
Exploring Mrs. Reed in Jane Eyre:Study of Mrs. Reed’s Multi-dimensional Image from the Perspective of Sigmund Freud’s Personality Structure Theoryby Shihan Wang and Chengyao Jian… Read More
2024-05-22 05:30
We always love an article that vindicates Anne and Financial Times does just that ahead of the 175th anniversary of her death on Monday.One hundred and seventy five years ago, a young writer… Read More
2024-05-21 22:30
Brontë scholars from Senegal and Costa Rica:Class Consciousness in Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor (1857)Alphonse SambouUniversité AssaneSeck de Ziguinchor, SenegalAT… Read More
2024-05-21 05:37
Flaunt features author Joyce Carol Oates.Oates considers on the learning lessons inherent to fiction. “You go back into another era. And then when you go back into your own life, you c… Read More
2024-05-20 22:30
A recent Bachelor Thesis in Spanish:Análisis de la conexión entre los desplazamientos, la movilidad y la subversión femenina en Orgullo y Prejuicio de Jane Austen y Jane… Read More
2024-05-20 09:36
Den of Geek wonders whether it's 'Too Late to Save Eloise Bridgerton From Her Book Fate' and claims that,It’s too late for Jane Eyre, who by rights should have told Mr Rochester in tha… Read More
2024-05-20 00:22
Some recent Russian scholar Brontë research:Тональность русскоязы… Read More
2024-05-19 09:27
This is the Coast Radio reminds us of an interesting event taking place in Scarborough in a couple of weeks:It's Scarborough's Big Ideas By The Sea festival over the next two weeks. (...)The… Read More
2024-05-19 01:21
The new (double) issue of Brontë Studies (Volume 49 Issues 1-2 January-April 2024) is available online. We provide you with the table of contents and abstract… Read More
2024-05-18 09:19
You can have your very own Brontë Parsonage as The Westmoreland Gazette reports that a similar building by the same architect is now for sale.A striking country residence, echoing archi… Read More
2024-05-17 22:51
An online alert for today, May 18. A joint event of the Brontë Parsonage Museum and The Elizabeth Gaskell's House:Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë - Fame and FortuneWednesday… Read More
2024-05-17 09:13
So, it's almost all about the new season of Bridgerton today. Tanya Gold writes in The New Statesman,And what a typical female writer Penelope Featherington (Nicola Couglan) is: shy, over-we… Read More
2024-05-16 23:14
A new production of Jane Eyre opens today in New London, CT. The adaptation was first premiered as a ZOOM film in 2020 and now has a stage production:Jane EyreAdapted by Julie Butters f… Read More
2024-05-16 05:39
Mental Floss has selected '10 of the Greatest Love Stories in Novels' including9. Jane Eyre (1847) // Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre’s road to romance with Edward Rochester is long and… Read More
2024-05-15 22:30
A Thursday Talk at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:Charlotte Brontë's Dark MasterpieceThu May 16th 2:00pm - 2:45pmThe Old School Room, Church St, Haworth, Keighley BD22 8DR, UKVillette… Read More
2024-05-15 05:24
Many of the obituaries of author Alice Munro mention the Brontës. From The Globe and Mail:Munro has created a complex world that nourishes readers in different ways as they too love, su… Read More
2024-05-14 22:30
Another online alert for today, May 15:Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronté - A FriendshipWednesday 15 May 2024, 19.00 hAn online talk in partnership with Elizabeth Gaskell's HouseF… Read More
2024-05-14 07:34
A Zoom alert for tomorrow, May 15:Summer Series: Medical and Digital Humanities Online Lectures hosted by the Literature and Science Forum15 May (15:00 BST) Dr Claire… Read More
2024-05-14 05:37
Broadway World shares a video of the first look at Julie Benko in rehearsals for Theatre Raleigh's production of Jane Eyre the Musical, which opens on May 29th.Rehearsals have beg… Read More
2024-05-13 05:33
Far Out Magazine travels through Yorkshire in five films and one of them isWuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2011)If you like Haworth’s central street, full of independent shops and ea… Read More
2024-05-12 22:30
The National Student Reading Project "Un Libro Tante Scuole" (One Book, Many Schools) culminates with a special event dedicated to Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights." On Saturday, May 1… Read More
2024-05-11 23:56
Emily Brontë, Teenage Necromancer by Don Zolidis, a horror comedy play released in 2022, is now making the rounds in the school theater circuit. Last year it was performed at the Salesi… Read More
2024-05-11 09:10
The Telegraph and Argus also echoes the story about the Brontë Parsonage Museum receiving a grant to install toilets at long last.A £100,000 grant has been awarded to improve visi… Read More
2024-05-10 22:30
A special screening of Wuthering Heights 2011 in Bradford:Wuthering Heights 2011Director: Andrea Arnold Cast: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Nichola Burley, Oliver Milburn … Read More
2024-05-10 05:31
Museums Association lists all the recipients of the £24m arts council funding including the Brontë Parsonage Museum:The Bronte Society£100,000 to install fully accessible, e… Read More
2024-05-09 22:33
A new production of Wuthering Heights opens today. March 10 anddddddA co-production of Sommerblut Kulturfestival und Theater im BauturmWuthering Heightsby Emily BrontëDirector Frederik… Read More
2024-05-09 05:15
BBC News reports that the Brontë Parsonage Museum has finally got funding to build toilets for visitors.The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth is to offer visitor toilets for the f… Read More
2024-05-08 22:30
Paint company Dulux Heritage has introduced a new limited edition version of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. As part of their Heritage Editions collection, this release reimagin… Read More
2024-05-08 05:29
A contributor to Bustle recommends '7 Books That Expanded My View Of The World' and one of them isWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysJean Rhys’ 1966 feminist take on Jane Eyre was my introd… Read More
2024-05-07 22:55
Wuthering Heights and the fictionalized Emily biography Todo Ese Fuego are discussed in the Reading Club of Santurtzi, Spain:Santurtzi Irakurketa Kluba / Club de Lectura Casa Torre Jaur… Read More
2024-05-07 05:39
An opinion column on American politics on Summit Daily begins as follows:I just reread “Jane Eyre” for the third time. It is not a perfect novel. It has some improbable coi… Read More
2024-05-06 23:31
A news sholas chip for this new bouquet of lowers. “The hcle Island”. Literary space and intertextuality in Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean RhysBeatriz M. Goenaga CondeÍSTMICA… Read More
2024-05-06 05:36
The Irish Times reviews Mitski's show at 3Arena, Dublin.Stepping behind the shrouded fabric, the Japanese-American pop star’s silhouette grows and grows. Soon she towers over the venue… Read More
2024-05-05 22:30
Tasha Suri's What Our Souls Are Made has been translated into Spanish:La esencia de nuestras almas: Un retelling de Cumbres borrascosasTasha SuriEdiciones UranoISBN: 97884191301292024A… Read More
2024-05-05 08:50
The Collector publishes an article vindicating Anne Brontë:Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?In her classic novels, Anne Brontë fearlessly championed women’s issu… Read More
2024-05-05 00:47
A composition workshop dealing with Wuthering Heights begins tomorrow, April 6, in Roma, Italy:Workshop di scrittura scenica e composizione per attrici e attoricon la regista Martina Badiluz… Read More
2024-05-04 11:02
A new upcoming novel about Charlotte Brontë is announced in The Irish Times, Charlotte by Martina Devlin:Lilliput Press have acquired world rights for Charlotte by Martina Devlin. The n… Read More
2024-05-03 23:48
A recent Brontë-inspired poem featured in:Spectral Realms No. 20A Weird Poetry JournalEdited by S. T. JoshiCover artwork Pinckney Marcius-Simons, La Vision du Demon (Vision of a D… Read More
2024-05-03 05:32
The Guardian thinks that the pleasure of reading needs to return to classrooms.Too much of what is valuable about studying English was lost in the educational reforms of the past 14 years. A… Read More
2024-05-03 05:01
A new thesis:Wuthering Heights and The Picture of Dorian Gray: Victorian Novels and Gothic Modificationsby Olivia BaloghThis thesis includes a textual examination of Wuthering Heights… Read More
2024-05-02 05:45
The London Review of Books has a really interesting review of Emily Brontë: Selected Writings edited by Francis O’Gorman.Gondal provided Brontë with a great deal of practice… Read More
2024-05-01 23:18
Neo-Victorian fiction and anything related to in this compilation of essays:The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-VictorianismEdited by Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. MaierPalgrave MacmillanISBN: 978303… Read More
2024-05-01 11:02
Of course, the death of Paul Auster (1947-2024) is all over literary news today. Even with some Bronté mentions:While to some critics such experimentalism brought to mind the deconstr… Read More
2024-05-01 00:49
A new scholarly book with some Brontë-related content:Romantic Women’s Writing and Sexual TransgressionEdited by Kathryn Ready, David SiglerUniversity of Edinburgh UKISBN: 82… Read More
2024-04-30 05:20
Gay Times reviews Underdog: The Other Other Brontë.Directed by Natalie Ibu, it moves at a punchy pace, with two acts of about an hour each. Stylistically it’s an unusual peri… Read More
2024-04-29 23:25
A new Brontë-related article: Ángeles del hogar y el retorno de lo dionisíaco sobre relecturas y transposiciones de Jane EyreMaría Luz Revelli, Universidad Nac… Read More
2024-04-29 05:38
This is Local London has a young reporter review Underdog: The Other Other Brontë.‘Underdog’ explores the relationships of the Brontë sisters beneath their authorial wo… Read More
2024-04-28 23:24
A new scholarly book with obvious Bronté connections:Virginia Woolf and the Lives, Works, and Afterlives of the Brontësby Hilary NewmanLexington BooksISBN: 978-1-66694-022… Read More
2024-04-28 09:32
Everything Theatre interviews the actor James Phoon, Branwell in Underdog. The Other Other Brontë Sister at the National Theatre:Dave B.: What can you tell us about Underdog: The Other… Read More
2024-04-28 00:49
A new book exploring the Brontës and their dogs:Grasper, Keeper and FlossyThe Brontë Family Dogs in Fact and in Fictionby Jane SunderlandEthics PressISBN: 978-1-80441-218-3&nb&hell…Read More
2024-04-27 09:47
Keighley News reports that a public forum is to be debate the controversial plans for a wind farm near Brontë country.Campaigners say the planned 65-turbine development on Walshaw Moor… Read More
2024-04-27 09:29
An alert from Sydney, Australia:The Autobiographical Details in Charlotte Brontë's Novelsby Syrie JamesSaturday 27 April 2024, 10.00 AMCastlereagh Boutique Hotel, 169 Castlereagh Street… Read More
2024-04-26 05:34
Church Times reviews Underdog: The Other Other Brontë.In part, this piece seeks to rehabilitate Anne from the shadow of her sisters, Charlotte and Emily. On the whole, it does this… Read More
2024-04-25 23:05
A new Brontë-related paper:Structuralism In Jane Eyre: Interaction Of Binary Oppositions In Buildungsromanby Shruti SharmaCEMJP, 32(1), 83–91This paper explores Jane Eyre by… Read More
2024-04-25 05:35
Offaly Live reports that the first ever Banagher Brontë Festival was a great success.By all accounts the inaugural Banagher Brontë Festival held last weekend to celebrate Charlotte… Read More
2024-04-24 22:30
A new scholarly paper just published:Opening an Existential Windown into Wuthering Heights, and the MetamorphosisSarah H. Lognion, McNeese State UniversitButler Journal of Undergraduate Rese… Read More
2024-04-24 05:58
A contributor to Financial Times writes about reading famous authors' letters.I’m all for Madame Constantin Héger’s approach. She discovered that Charlotte Brontë was… Read More
2024-04-23 22:15
The Brontë drinks have a new limited edition bottling:Charlotte's ReserveA limited edition bottling from The Brontë Liqueur Company, released to mark the bicentenary of the birth o… Read More
2024-04-23 05:58
Houston Press reviews Alley Theatre's Jane Eyre.Williamson’s play is unfailingly faithful to its source material while being downright breezy in comparison to the 466-page brick that i… Read More
2024-04-23 04:41
Two recent young adult retellings of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights:Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heightsby Tanya Landman (Retold by), Emily Brontë (Author)Union Square & CoISBN: 9… Read More
2024-04-22 05:26
Express looks at Gentleman Jack's filming locations.While it's believed that talks with the BBC could lead to a revival of the much-loved show in the future, with Sally vowing that she hadn'… Read More
2024-04-21 23:45
This game has apparently a lot of Wuthering Heights. And, as a we didn't know really very much about what was going on, we have asked our friend Co-pilot. What he says sounds plausible:Limbu… Read More
2024-04-21 09:25
Several websites report the open day at the Brontë Birthplace today, April 21, before the refurbishment, the best way to celebrate Charlotte Brontë's 208th anniversary:The birthpla… Read More
2024-04-21 09:19
Several events at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, celebrating the 208th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë:Date: Friday 19 April, 7pm - 8:30pm (GMT)Parsonage Unwrapped: Charlotte Bront&e&hell…Read More
2024-04-21 09:05
An alert from the Brontë Parsonage Museum for today, April 21:Celebrating... Charlotte Brontë: Brontë's BotanicalsA watercolour workshop with Julia Ogden.April 21st 2024 11:30… Read More
2024-04-20 22:45
An amateur production of Jane Eyre. The Musical is going on these days in Fort Lee, New Jersey:Park Players Productions Inc.Jane Eyre. The Musicalby Paul Gordon & John CairdThe Church of… Read More
2024-04-20 07:28
Houston Chronicle reviews Alley Theatre's take on Jane Eyre.The Alley has totally upped its game with Elizabeth Williamson’s smart and poignant adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s c… Read More
2024-04-19 22:30
Tomorrow, April 21, if you are near Thornton do not miss the opportunity to visit the recently saved for the public Brontë Birthplace. Christa Aykroyd publishes in her Facebook wall:For… Read More
2024-04-19 06:09
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 W… Read More
2024-04-19 05:02
This weekend in Brussels, the Brussels Brontë Group April Weekend is held:TalksSaturday 20 April 2024 (morning)Université Saint-Louis, Rue du Marais 119, Brussels.10.00 Talk by V… Read More
2024-04-18 05:37
Reviewing the novel What Kingdom by Fine Grabol, The Washington Post claims that,The mad have long haunted the borderlands of our fiction. Consider the attic-bound wife in “Jane E… Read More
2024-04-17 22:30
This weekend in Banagher, IrelandBanagher Brontë Festivalorganized by the Banagher Brontë GroupApril 19-21April 19, 7.00pmBack Lounge of Corrigan’s Corner PubAn Evening… Read More
2024-04-17 05:33
Broadway World shares a video of Alley Theatre's Jane Eyre.Get a first look at Alley Theatre's production Jane Eyre in all-new video. Directed by Eleanor Holdridge (Ken Ludwig's Lend Me A So… Read More
2024-04-16 22:30
An alert from the Bronté Parsonage Musuem for tomorrow, April 18:The Brontës And The 19th-century Art WorldA Thursday Talk at the Brontë Parsonage MuseumThursday 18 April, 2… Read More
2024-04-16 05:34
Houston Press features Alley Theatre's production of Jane Eyre.Company member Chris Hutchison scores two firsts in the Alley Theatre production of Jane Eyre, now on stage. It's the first tim… Read More
2024-04-15 22:30
A new student production of Jane Eyre. The Musical opens tomorrow, April 18, in Marshall, TX:The TBU School of Communication and Performing Arts through the Department of Music and The… Read More
2024-04-15 05:40
The Guardian's week in theatre included Underdog: The Other Other Brontë, giving it only 2 stars.Underdog: The Other Other Brontë is part of another new theatrical surge: rema… Read More
2024-04-14 22:30
Several Mexican websites report the death of the actress Lorena Velázquez (1937-2024). She was a prolific Mexican performer who became known as the "Queen of Fantastic Cinema" fo… Read More
2024-04-14 09:34
The education plans of the Brontë Birthplace are discussed in The Telegraph & Argus:Now the modest terraced house, on Market Street, is in public ownership, thanks to a crowdfunding… Read More
2024-04-13 23:43
According to Pink Desert's website, Pink Desert is a fashion brand focused on empowering women through affordable, fashionable, and exclusive clothing designs. Founded in 2010 by Darci… Read More
2024-04-13 09:28
Express has a review of Underdog: The Other Other Brontë giving if 4 stars out of 5.In a typically kick-ass Northern Stage production, director Natalie Ibu brings the women to vivid, ra… Read More
2024-04-13 01:39
The ChapterHouse Theatre Company is back touring the UK with Wuthering Heights:Wuthering HeightsAdapted by Laura TurnerDirected by Antony LawChapterhouse Theatre Company is proud to present… Read More
2024-04-12 06:18
BBC News reports that plans to build houses in Brontë Country have been rejected.Plans to build houses in an area made famous by the Bronte sisters have been refused.An application had… Read More
2024-04-11 22:40
A new production of Jane Eyre (in the Elizabeth Williamson adaptation) opens today, April 12, in Houston, TX:Alley Theatre presentsJane Eyreby Elizabeth WilliamsonAdapted from the novel by C… Read More
2024-04-11 05:37
Financial Times reviews Underdog: The Other Other Brontë, giving it 3 stars out of 5.“What’s your favourite Brontë novel?” demands Gemma Whelan’s Charl… Read More
2024-04-10 05:19
Offaly Independent has an article on what to expect from the first ever Banagher Brontë Festival which will be held over the weekend of Friday to Sunday, April 19-21.The weekend wi… Read More
2024-04-09 22:36
A new production of Jane Eyre. The Musical opens tomorrow, April 11, in Tigerville, SC:Jane Eyre, The MusicalApril 11-April 20 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pmBillingsley Theatre S-23-117, Tigervil… Read More
2024-04-09 05:53
Screen Daily reports that producer Alison Owen may be working on a new screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights.The company’s output has tended towards female-centric stories, but O… Read More
2024-04-08 23:08
This is talk which was given recently at the CFP: Adapting In and Out of the Classroom: The Third LFA/AAS online conference (22-24 February, 2024);Antonija PrimoracNo laughing matter? Teachi… Read More
2024-04-08 05:30
Good News Network has an article on book-lovers' Britain, based on a recent poll of 2,000 people.Further into the countryside of West Yorkshire, visit Haworth, the #1 most beloved literary s… Read More
2024-04-07 22:30
Two new retellings for young adults (13+) of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights that were first published in 2020, are now republished:Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heightsretold by Tanya Landm… Read More
2024-04-07 09:22
A few more reviews of the National Theatre's production of Underdog: The Other Other Brontë. 3 stars in Liam O'Dell:Anna and Emily Brontë bear the brunt of foul-mouthed, opportunis… Read More
2024-04-07 01:50
The British author Lynne Reid Banks (1929-2024) passed away a few days ago. She was best known for her debut novel The L-Shaped Room (1960) and the children's novel The Indian in the Cupboar… Read More
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