Naoise Dolan writes about her novel The Happy Couple in The Irish Times.
It follows that the traditional marriage plot will change in art as it has in life. The popular idea is that 19th-century female novelists romanticised marriage – Eliot, the Brontë sisters, and, above all, Austen. A “Jane Austen ending” is supposedly a happily-ever-after. But when we look at post-wedding life in Austen’s novels, the success rate of marriage seems mixed at best.
Absolutely, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall are clearly novels by female novelists who romanticised marriage.
Vanity Fair (France) lists TV series featuring family feuds for fans of Succession. It comes with a blunder:
Bloodline (2015)On sait ce que provoquent les phénomènes d'ostracisation au sein des cellules familiales depuis Les Hauts de Hurlevent de Charlotte Brontë [sic]. Chez les Rayburn, Heathcliff s'appelle Danny. (Maxime Jacob) (Translation)
Looper lists 'Movies That Tell Radically Different Versions Of The Same Story' including
The Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane EyreBertha Mason is a supporting character in Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre" and its numerous film adaptations, as well as a serious threat to the romance between Jane and her employer, the brooding Edward Rochester. Mason was Rochester's first wife, a notable beauty with a fiery temper that eventually drives her to insanity and forces Rochester to lock her in the attic. Rochester can't divorce her due to her mental illness, but also can't marry Jane, no matter how often Bertha breaks out of her confinement, sets fire to Thornfield Hall, and tries to kill him. However, she solves the issue by throwing herself off a roof, which conveniently allows Jane and Rochester to tie the knot.The 1966 novel "The Wide Sargasso Sea" retells "Jane Eyre" from two perspectives: Bertha, who is named Antoinette Cosway in the text, and Rochester. The book and the 1993 Australian film adaptation by John Duigan (the first of several feature and TV versions) posit the idea that her marriage to Rochester is a sham, engineered by the greed of their respective families; once their union is set, Rochester locks her away due to her gender biracial status, which leads to her madness and all it produces. The 1993 "Sargasso Sea" strips away the perspectives in the novel, but clearly sympathizes with Antoinette's tragic fate. (Paul Gaita)
Los Angeles Times features actor Bel Powley describing her as follows:
Bel Powley isn’t one of those English actors who is forever starring in period pieces and stuffy literary adaptations.Despite features that practically scream “Brontë heroine” — pale skin, sorrowful blue eyes, dark hair — the 31-year-old has earned a reputation for playing opinionated, fast-talking young women figuring out their path in the world — characters brimming with wit and frantic energy who feel instantly familiar to a modern viewer. (Meredith Blake)
Sade wrote "Paradise" on her first-ever trip to Jamaica after reading the novel 'Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys'. (Edward Tomlin)
