BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... shit that she writes, and she never changed. Maybe if she'd been a big flop she would have become Emily Brontë." He laughs at the idea. "Maybe not." ( Ryan Gilbey ) The Times Literary Supplement reviews Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth: In the voice of the social historian, Worth explains and tries to be fair to the workhouse system. It was “the first attempt at social welfare...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
The Business Desk carries a curious piece of information concerning the upcoming new TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights : THE Topping Pie Company of Doncaster has produced a number of pies for scenes in the new classic adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, which is being produced by independent production company Mammoth Screen for ITV1. Large 2.5kg Yorkshire Farmers pies and...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Let's begin our newsround with Jeannette Winterson's article in The Times with the irresistible title of Jeanette Winterson leaves her mobile phone in the Aga - and blames it on Emily Brontë : IT HAS BEEN A BAD WEEK; first I dropped my mobile phone down the loo, and then I gave it the Iraq treatment in the top oven of my Aga. (...) But it was Emily Brontë's fault anyway...
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
... has been named the best-loved author of all times. And she beat William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, and Oscar Wilde. The creator of “The Famous Five”, “Malory Towers” and “Noddy” series, she wrote more than 700 stories over a 40-year career, and has sold over 500 million books around the world. Around eight million of her books are still sold worldwide every year, including...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Some new editions of previously reported (and reviewed) books on BrontëBlog: A paperback edition of Janet Gezari's Last Things ( review ) Last Things . Emily Brontë's Poems Janet Gezari ISBN13: 9780199543298 ISBN10: 0199543291 Oxford University Press Paperback, 196 pages Aug 2008 And Laura Joh Rowland's The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë ( review ) has tw o other...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Oxford University Press have generously offered to give away a set of three reissued Brontë novels: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre , Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . To enter the competition, you only have to answer the following question: When were these three novels published? (the year/s is enough) The answer must be...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Very slowly, the Gordon Brown Heathcliffgate incident is calming down, but there are still several mentions in the press. Sarah Evans in The Birmingham Post : It is hard to find anyone who wants our country to be run by Heathcliff, the anti-hero of Emily Bronte's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Ever since our Prime Minister, apparently with no shade of irony, acceded to the suggestion by...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Sawas dee khrap from ThailandThis could end up being a long blog as I haven't written one for a while we're talking Emily Bronte sort of length.So I left you in Khao Lak where I was staying for 5 days. After 1 day I was pretty damn bored. Sedate beach life is ok for some but I was bored after about 3 hours. I went out for a few drinks in the evening and there was nobody my own age I'm...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Philippine Entertainment Portal selects some novel adaptations with particular interest for Pinoy audiences. Among them: Hihintayin Kita sa Langit (1991). This tragic-romance movie, directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyna, was based on Emily Bronte's only novel Wuthering Heights. Although the movie was not based on a local novel, we've added it to the list because it's considered one of the...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Gary Dexter investigates Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Newspapers today seem to be in a Wuthering Heights mood. To begin with, The Telegraph wonders how Wuthering Heights got its name. Emily Brontë explained the origin of the word 'wuthering' in the novel itself: 'Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr Heathcliffe's dwelling. "Wuthering" being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed,...
The Atma Jyoti Blog (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
How Emily Bronte found her Divine Self No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven’s glories shine, And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear. O God within my breast, Almighty, ever-present Deity! Life, that in me has rest, As I, undying Life, have power in Thee! Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts: unutterably vain; Worthless...
Translation Blog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
As we learn on page 2 of Emily Brontë's famous novel, Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr Heathcliff's dwellings, "wuthering" being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather....
Sassymonkey Reads (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (also on my A-Z list - a double whammy!) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (another A-Z double whammy.) Untamed: A House of Night book by Kristen Cast and PC Cast (preordered) Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest (I have an ebook file) The Umbrella Man and other Stories by Rohld Dahl (own it) Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke...
A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 . The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling 5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6. The Bible - I've read parts, does that count? 7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10. Great Expectations - Charles...
