Last night's performance of Wuthering Heights at the National Theatre was cancelled due to Storm Eunice as reported by The Guardian and others. It was announced at 3:40pm:
Let’s start with the news that the National Theatre has cancelled its performance of Wuthering Heights as Storm Eunice brings disruption to the live sector. [...]The National Theatre on London’s South Bank said it was “sorry to announce” its stage adaptation of the 1847 novel by Emily Brontë would not take place on Friday.“We’re so sorry for the inconvenience and plan to resume performances on 19 Feb,” the theatre tweeted. (Tom Ambrose)
The Guardian also asks bookish questions to author/screenwriter Nikesh Shukla.
The book I discovered later in lifeI read Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys on holiday, and couldn’t understand why it had taken me so long to get to it.
Tor recommends Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng as one of 'Five Fantasy Worlds That Aren’t Just Magical Versions of Earth'.
The fairy lands of Ng’s novel Under the Pendulum Sun are as unlike Earth as the Fair Folk are unlike humans. Above the flat plain occupied by this world’s inhabitants, a bright sun oscillates on the end of a long string—the pendulum sun of the book’s title. Very conveniently for my purposes, Ng not only acquired the services of a physicist to determine what such a world would be like, she documented the resulting process in her 2018 essay The Science of the Pendulum Sun. Rather than settle for the first, simple model (sun on string), Ng tweaked her worldbuilding to produce a gothic setting that is perfect as a backdrop for her “Jane Eyre on LSD” fantasy novel. (James Davis Nicoll)
Another magazine discusses gothic horror and its associations with women writers.
Horror fiction has always provided a refuge for female authors, offering them a way to express feelings and actions they may not be able to in real life. Associations between women writers and the gothic horror genre are long-standing, including writing by Mary Shelley, Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier and Emily Brontë. [...]Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca used setting in a more traditional horror sense, by trapping their characters in vast mansions and letting their monsters, both real and imagined, come to life. But even those traditional settings offer the same opportunity to let fears come to the fore, ready to be shaken. (Terri-Jane Dow)
We don't know whether Wuthering Heights could be described as a 'vast mansion'.
Betevé (in Catalan) recommends several classic novels recently translated into Catalan including
4. ‘Agnes Grey’Anne Brontë. Traducció M. Dolors Ventós, 2021Ed. VienaQuart títol del Club Victòria (el cinquè ha estat també Jane Austen, ‘Mansfield Park’, de fet van començar amb ‘Seny i sentiment’) i ara la història d’aquesta Agnes Grey i la duríssima feina com a institutriu, una professió que la mateixa Anne Brontë va conèixer i que aquí retrata en tota la seva dificultat i com afectava dones tan joves. (David Guzman) (Translation)
