Two new exhibitions in the annual reopening of the Brontë Parsonage Museum:The Brontës and the WildCurated by Ann Dinsdale and Sarah LaycockFebruary 1 - December 31Our 2023 exhibit… Read More

We have a couple of reviews of Wise Children's Wuthering Heights in Chicago. From Chicago Tribune:So to watch an international artist of Rice’s stature, and her full ensemble-driven co… Read More

 An alert from Minneapolis:Minneapolis Institute of Art PublicPublic Tour: Inspired by BooksFebruary: Jane EyreThursday, February 16, 20236:30 pm to 7:30 pmTuesday, February 21, 202311:… Read More

There's a debate going on in Australia about whether we should 'be setting students edgy contemporary texts or the classics'. ABC has a podcast discussion about it while The Conversation has… Read More

An episode of the Spanish radio programme Un libro, una hora (Cadena SER) has recently been devoted to Jane Eyre:Jane Eyre, una novela deslumbrante29/01/2023Charlotte Brontë (Thornton… Read More

Showbiz Cheatsheet reminds us of the day Paul McCartney joked that he wanted to play Cathy from Wuthering Heights:During one 1965 interview (via Beatles Interviews), these artists were asked… Read More

A new cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights to be found in an Italian jazz album:Auditorium Band featuring Maria Pia De Vito and RaizTutto su EvaParco della Musica RecordsFranco Giacoia &nd&hell…Read More

China Daily reports the death of renowned Chinese translator Yang Yi at 104.Yang was born in Tianjin in 1919 and began publishing her translations in 1936. Huxiaoshanzhuang, the Chinese name… Read More

An alert for today from the Brontë Parsonage Museum:Creative Writing and Nature Art WorkshopSat 28 Jan 11:00am - 1:30pmBrontë Parsonage Museum, Church Street, Haworth, Haworth, Kei… Read More

Evening Standard recommends 'The best books adapted into film and TV this year including Hotel Portofino and House of the Dragon' and the list includes Emily even if it's based on the life o… Read More

The Wise Children production of Wuthering Heights gets a Chicago premiere:A co-production with the National Theatre, Wise Children, Bristol Old Vic, and York Theatre Royal in associatio… Read More

 A student production of You on the Moors Now, opens today, January 27, in Philadelphia:You on the Moors Nowby Jaclyn BackhausThe Bachelor of Fine Arts’ (BFA) Class of 2023 a… Read More

Financial Times mentions the Brontës' adventures in investment: Emily and Anne Brontë were big fans of railway shares and hurried to invest in the York and Midland line. Their sist… Read More

A new novel with obvious Brontë echoes:A Tale of Two Glass TownsNicola FriarOlympia PublishersISBN : 978-1-80074-610-726/01/2023In 1999, seven-year-old Theo has been uprooted to live wi… Read More

Yahoo! Entertainment shares the 'freedom in though' clip from Emily and Digital Trends lists Jane Eyre 2011 among '7 overlooked modern movies you should watch'.Jane Eyre (2011)Mr. Rochester… Read More

After some previews, today, January 25, is the premiere in Oslo of a new adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Later, the company will tour Norway until returning to Oslo in May:Stormfulle H&osla&hell…Read More

More hurrahs for Happy Valley in The Independent.Kirstey Porter, 49, said she loves how Happy Valley highlights Yorkshire locals’ “grit” and “humour”.“A r… Read More

An online course about Jane Eyre starting in a couple of weeks:Night School BarDurham, North Carolina 27701Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre [4-weeks, $200 suggested]from $3.00Instructor: Ho… Read More

The Telegraph has an article on 'Why Yorkshire is the real star of Happy Valley'.Fans began flocking to the area after the first series hit screens back in 2014, and with the third, and fina… Read More

A new song inspired by Jane Eyre:Jane Eyreby TitsweatIncluded in the digital album SwelterThis song was, first and foremost, inspired by our queen, Kate Bush, who normalized writing a song a… Read More

The Sunday Times interviews the actress Joanna Scanlan:Jake Helm: First book I lovedJ.S.: My head was never out of a book, whether that meant walking along with them or getting them wet in t… Read More

We report very belatedly the latest issue of The Brontë Society Gazette (Issue 88. October 2022. ISSN 1344-5940).ARTICLESWelcome by Rebecca Yorke, Brontë Society Interim Direc… Read More

Town and Country discusses 'The Enduring Appeal of the Brontë Sisters'.Ask Emma Rice to explain the extraordinary shelf life of the Brontë sisters—Anne, Charlotte, and Emily… Read More

Fine Books & Collections informs that the British Library has digitized and made publicly available some of the contents of the Blavatnik Honresfield Library. INCLUDING, Emily Bront&euml&hell…Read More

More reviews of Emily today. From La estatuilla (Spain):No todo es logrado en esta primera propuesta de la cineasta británica, ya que el ritmo es disparejo, lo cual propicia el alarga… Read More

A new production of Polly Teale's Brontë opens today, January 20, in Hertford, UK:The Company of Players presentsBrontëby Polly Teale20th – 28th January 2023 at 7:45pmThe Lit… Read More

According to Financial Review, Frances O'Connor's Emily 'is a skilfully told tale, but it’s almost certainly not the story of Emily Brontë'.O’Connor, who has also written th… Read More

In December 8, a new film about the Blavatnik Honresfield Library and how it was saved was screened as part of a special event at the British Library in London. Now, the film has been made a… Read More

A contributor to LitHub sums up the reviewers' approach to the fact that Emily is not a biopic but a fictionalised account of the life of Emily Brontë:EmilyBleecker Street, February 17B… Read More

The text of a recent French adaptation of Jane Eyre has been published:Jane EyreAdaptation théâtrale par Imago des FramboisiersISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-2322436927June 2022Jane… Read More

First of all, on this day in 1820 Anne Brontë was born in Thornton. Happy 203rd, Anne!We are not sure that this metaphor of Brexit as Bertha Mason crafted by The Telegraph actually work… Read More

A current exhibition at The Burton Art Gallery in Bideford, Devon with  some of Paula Rego's Jane Eyre lithographs:Paula Rego: An Enduring Journey January 7 – February 20, 20… Read More

Allure reduces the novels of Charlotte Brontë and Jane Austen to mere romances not taking into account how significant they were in many other aspects.Romance books, in actuality, have… Read More

An alert for today, January 16 in Springfield, OH:Read This! Book ClubMonday, January 16, 2023 6:00 PM – 7:30 PMClark County Public Library, Gaier Room201 South Fountain AvenueSpr… Read More

Los Angeles Times reports that the Wise Children production of Wuthering Heights in Los Angeles has been cancelled due to the extreme weather conditions in L.A.:The entrance to the Gold… Read More

 A new poetry collection in Estonian, Italian and English with poems by Emily Brontë:Tiibade hääl/The Sound of WingsPoetry collection by Emily Brontë, Cesare Pavese… Read More

CulturalAttaché interviews Ian Ross, composer of the music and songs of Emma Rice's Wuthering Heights:Craig Byrd: I haven’t seen every Kneehigh show and every Wise Children show… Read More

Another sequel of Jane Eyre this one centred in the Rochester family:Rochester's Redemption: Opium Wars and Victorian Morality: A Jane Eyre Sequelby Elizabeth K. Fong, Ph.D.ISBN-13 ‏ : … Read More

InDaily (Australia) reviews Emily.It is a pretty tale about a clever girl with an adventurous streak, an accomplished pianist and confident French speaker who is so shy she hides in the cupb… Read More

Joanna Campbell-Sloan's Jane Eyre Chronicles has a new volume:Death of a Gentleman: Book #4 in the Jane Eyre Chroniclesby Joanna Campbell-SloanISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8835497218June 2022A… Read More

If (Australia) describes the film Emily as Frances O’Connor's ode to young women and misfits.As a teenager growing up in Perth, O’Connor had always felt drawn to the wild la… Read More

Via The Stage or The Guardian we report the death of the English author, essayist and playwright Fay Weldon CBE (1931 – 2023)Picture Source: Open Media Ltd., CC BY-SA 4.0, vi… Read More

The Sydney Morning Herald gives 4 stars to Emily.Frances O’Connor’s Emily Bronte biopic isn’t much interested in answering the questions: what, when, where and why. It assu… Read More

The Wise Children's production of Wuthering Heights opens today, January 11, in Los Angeles: Bram Goldsmith TheaterLA PremiereThe Wallis presentsWuthering HeightsJanuary 11-22A National… Read More

United by Pop interviews writer Laura Wood about her latest novel, Agency For Scandal.Can you share with us why you decided to call those who work at the Aviary, the Finches?The idea fo… Read More

Another independently published recent Jane Eyre sequel:Jane and Edwardby Dolores HoweyISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8833594315If you love Jane Eyre, you’ll love this story of romance… Read More

Macquarie University's The Lighthouse reviews the film Emily.The film then flashes back to some years earlier, as Charlotte and Emily prepare to go to school to train to be teachers. Mackey… Read More

Two new instalments of Skye Warren's Rochester series:Behind Closed Doors: A Rochester Novellaby Skye WarrenEvil Eye Concepts, IncorporatedISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1951812966April 2022Marjo… Read More

The Nerd Daily interviews the author Natasha Lester:Elise Dumpleton· Book that made me want to become an authorN.L.: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë.Films made in the Bradfor… Read More

A new Jane Eyre derivative providing a backstory to the character of Sophie (like Bianca Pitzorno did in La Bambinaia Francese in 2005):Sophie in the Shadows: A Jane Eyre Story Gabriell… Read More

 More reactions and comments to the release of the US trailer of Emily:A highlight at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, actor Frances O’Connor’s directorial debu… Read More

Well, this is not an advert (but if the good people of Aston Martin want to give us something for this promotion we will happily oblige). Check out the latest advert for the Aston Martin DBS… Read More

Next February 17th, Frances O'Connor's Emily will be premiered in the US. Bleecker Street is the distributor and has just released the US trailer and poster:Many US outlets talk about i… Read More

Via Legacy we have known the death of the composer Jerry Williams (1955-2022);Jerry's profession included arranging, performing, conducting, and composing. Jerry loved live performance, and… Read More

The Telegraph & Argus reports that a decision about the future of the Red House is imminent:A decision expected shortly on turning a former museum into holiday accommodation and a w… Read More

The Death of Anne Brontë is a short film that describes... well the death of Anne Brontë. No Scarborough, no Ellen Nussey and a well-meaned but prudish and eventually manipulative… Read More

Broadway World interviews Sam Archer and asks him about his roles in Wise Children's Wuthering Heights.The Wallis presents the Los Angeles premiere of Wise Children's Wuthering Heights, open… Read More

 A couple of Wuthering Heights recent scholar papers:Wuthering Heights: The Elements Of Mystery, Horror And Romance Ruhee Bano, Ainaab Tariq and Asma ArshiVegueta. Anuario de la Fa… Read More

Hyde Park Herald looks into the new theatre productions in Chicago:Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s WorldStage Series returns with “Wise Children's Wuthering Heights,” groundb… Read More

A new paper published in an Indonesian scholar journal:The Woman Struggle In The Novel Jane Eyre By Charlotte Brontë And Entrok By Okky Madasari: Comparative LiteratureRima Sarah, Agry… Read More

The Telegraph complains about falsely sexualizing asexual historical figures. Raunchy period dramas are erasing asexual people by wrongly sexualising celibate historical figures, campai… Read More

A Romanian publication and an Italian thesis:Guvernante picarești la Emilia Lungu-Puhallo și Charlotte Brontë (Picaresque Governesses in Emilia Lungu-Puhallo’s and Charl… Read More

The best roast dinner in the country is in Haworth. Yorkshire Live knows everything about it:The Hawthorn is a Georgian gem nestled in the heart of Haworth in Brontë country. It is a fa… Read More

2022 has been quite a year. Not many times History (with a capital H) happens in our lifetime. The death of Queen Elizabeth II was not only the death of a monarch but the end of an era. We e… Read More

The Buffalo News reviews Betsy Cornwell's Reader, I Murdered Him:Adèle Varens, daughter of a French prostitute, takes center stage as a teenage vigilante in Victorian London, exacting… Read More

 In Art-Exhibitions:In Books:In Brontë news:In Memoriam 2022:In Movies-DVD-TV:In Music:In Theatre-Dance: Read More

The Yorkshire Post has the latest news on the Brontë birthplace.While the Parsonage at Haworth – where the sisters wrote their novels – is a world-famous tourist attraction… Read More

A new paper on the early reception of Jane Eyre in Spain:The Birth of a Myth The Early Spanish Reception of Charlotte Brontë and Jane Eyre (1850s-1901)Marta Ortega Sáez, Universi… Read More

Brisbane Times checks some of the films which will be premiered in January in Australia:EmilyAustralian actor Frances O’Connor debuts as writer-director with what looks like a lush fic… Read More

For some unknown reason, this post that was scheduled to appear some months ago, it never did. Our apologies:A new compilation of stories and artwork about the Brontës edited by Nicola… Read More

Kate Bush is arguably one of the unexpected stars of 2022. Vogue (France) talks about her:We didn't need to wait for Stranger Things to recognize the talent of the British artist and her bew… Read More

An Italian dissertation thesis (Tesi di Laurea) and a review of a recent French edition of Brontë novels (Shirley and Villette):Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: A comparison of the 20… Read More

The Telegraph reports that a new series based on My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows is due to air late next year and their subsequent book is mentioned as… Read More

This is an edition in French of Wuthering Heights following the style of the Cranford series published by McMillan a the end of the 19th century:Les Hauts de HurleventEmily BrontëRBA … Read More

Wired discusses the changes in the romantic literary genre:Pride, prejudice, madding crowds, or simply the wreckage of a first marriage washing up on the Cornish coast: All of these can be o… Read More

A Spanish book about women writers, including the Brontës:Más allá de AustenDiez mujeres que cambiaron la literaturaAna Cemborain Pérez, Cristina Blanco Vázq… Read More

The Yorker explains to us why we should read Wuthering Heights this Christmas:Often, Wuthering Heights finds itself lumped in with the prim-excess romance classics of its time.  Althoug… Read More

The Intelligencer may be a bit late (about a decade or so) in commenting on the classic novels and zombies trend.It’s out of control: Zombie anti-historical movies like Abraham Lincoln… Read More

 An exhibition in an art gallery of Buenos Aires, Argentina with a Brontë connection:Tocar el Veloby Leticia ObeidCurated by Marcos KrämerGalería HacheLoyola 32, Buenos… Read More

The Bookseller discusses the deal for publication of the upcoming book by Eleanor Houghton:Icon Books has scooped up the rights to cultural historian Eleanor Houghton’s biography of Ch… Read More

Penguin Random House Spain has republished a translation of Wuthering Heights in their new collection Grandes Clásicos:Cumbres Borrascosasby Emily BrontëTranslated by Nicole d'Am… Read More

The Sydney Morning Herald is looking forward to Emily, which opens in Australia on January 12.EMILY (January 12)Frances O’Connor reconstructs Emily Bronte’s own story to match up… Read More

Jessie Kilguss is a former actress who switched to songwriting and singing. Now she enters in Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights galaxy of covers:There aren’t too many people who I trust to… Read More

The theatre of the year 2022 includes Emma Rice's Wuthering Heights according to Prospect Magazine.Wuthering Heights (National Theatre and regional tour)This boisterous adaptation saw Emma R… Read More

 A couple of recent covers of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights:The Australian singer and songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke (Performed live in Sydney NYE 2019/2020):(via Noise11)The Brazilian s… Read More

Keighley News features the forthcoming temporary exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum: The Brontës and the Wild, opening on February 1st.A main element of the exhibition… Read More

The latest installment of the with Edith Bowman Soundtracking podcast is devoted to Emily:Episode 340:Frances O’Connor & Abel Korzeniowski On The Music Of EmilyThere are so ma… Read More

Today marks the 174th anniversary of the death of Emily Brontë, when she turned 'her dying eyes reluctantly from the pleasant sun' according to her sister Charlotte. What with Emma… Read More

A poster which is almost vintage now:QuoteArtisanCharlotte Brontë - HopeOriginal Art Print Poster Photo Gift Wall Decor - Sisters Anne Emily AuthorsThis original design features Charlot… Read More

 The West Australian interviews Frances O'Connor about her film, Emily:Yet O’Connor’s interest in the true tale underpinning Wuthering Heights wasn’t purely academic … Read More

You know, warm feet and that:SOCTOPUSStoreCharlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre SockWelcome to the world of Soctopus; our Midlands-based family run Sock business. We design ‘fun for your f… Read More

The Huffington Post has put together a couple of Christmas gifts lists and this Brontë puzzle makes it onto both: '6 Gifts For Grandparents That Aren’t Tins Of Shortbread Or Hand… Read More

From Well Read Company:Wuthering Heights Book Purse, Emily Brontë Book Bag, Book Clutch, Book Crossbody Bag, Book Shaped Handbag, Literary GiftHandmadeMaterials: faux leather, pu, vegan… Read More

Slash Film ranks 'The 16 Best Food Movies' and one of them has Brontë references.4. The Trip (2010)IFC FilmsA British television series inspired four movies released in the U.S. between… Read More

Exactly that, a pretty Jane Eyre edition:Jane Eyreby Charlotte BrontëHardcover artwork by Laci FowlerHarper Muse ClassicsISBN: 978-0785294788Pretty Books Painted EditionsThis remarkable… Read More

 A Zoom alert for tomorrow, December 17:Kelsay Books' Zoom ReadingsDec 17, 2022 01:00 PM Mountain TimeFeatured readers Rita Maria Martinez • Paul Bone • Yasmin Mariam Kloth &b&hell…Read More

The Guardian looks into the success of Netflix’s Wednesday.Especially for a teenager with a kid-friendly rating, Wednesday speaks with the critical self-awareness and acumen of yo… Read More

 But just in the UK. In the US it will be released next March. This edition has no extras as far as we know:Emily (DVD) (2022)Warner Bros12 December 2022Emily tells the imagined life of… Read More

After being closed as a museum, Mary Taylor's Red House may now at least get a blue plaque according to The Telegraph and Argus.Built in the 1660s, Red House was run as a museum from 1970 du… Read More

Yes. Exactly that that you were looking for. Old-style coffee mug coasters Brontë-style:UniversalZone6 coasters with Complete Novels by Brontë Sisters. Six Coffee Mug Coasters with… Read More