Vulture has a delightful article on why 'The Best Parts of Period Dramas Are the Sheep'. Shepherding is also just something you can do in England’s more inhospitable environments, where other forms of working the land aren’t going to turn much of a profit. That means you’ll see a lot of sheep in adaptations of books by the Brontë sisters, which are set in such cold and dreary and wet places. In the trailer for 2011’s Jane Eyre, you’ll notice Mia Wasikowska on her quest for freedom and self-determination. (There, sheep stand for all of the metaphors above as well as a symbol of civilization and stability in a world of Hobbesian cruelty.) And if you go all the way back to the 1939 adaptation of Wuthering Heights with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier? They’re riding on horseback past a big flock of sheep in the midst of their tempestuous passion. The imagery is maybe a little different here. Catherine and Heathcliff are wolves! They’re dangerous! They’ll tear the sheep around them apart. But this brings us all the way around to a point at the end of this blog post. So far, Warner Bros. has released two trailers for Emerald Fennell’s smoldering and sensual adaptation of Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi (a guy, we have already established, who is familiar with sheep-related drama). Neither trailer includes any sheep. There’s Heathcliff, shirtless in a barn, lifting hay that might eventually be fed to sheep. And Heathcliff looking out over the moors, where he should probably be tending to a few sheep. (In case you haven’t read the book, he is made to be a servant on the estate before he goes off and gets mysteriously rich. He should know about sheep.) Emerald Fennell, are you going to deny period-drama fans the pleasure of a few shots of herds of sheep? Is the movie, which includes a soundtrack by Charli XCX, going to be so bah-ratty that it doesn’t give us some livestock? Can you promise that there will be at least one sequence where we see either Robbie, Elordi, or even Hong Chau in frame alongside a sheep and that it will be metaphorically important? I know you’re not someone to turn down an on-the-nose image! Emerald, promise me sheep, and only then will I buy a ticket. (Jackson McHenry)
People will have an early chance to see whether there are sheep or not at the premieres. Average Socialite announces the LA premiere: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 5:30 PM 10:00 PM Deets: The anticipated premiere of Wuthering Heights is rolling out the red carpet in LA. A bold and original imagining of one of the greatest love stories of all time, Emerald Fennell’s “WUTHERING HEIGHTS” stars Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, whose forbidden passion for one another turns from romantic to intoxicating in an epic tale of lust, love and madness. Who You May Spot: Jacob Elordi, Margot Robbie, Charlie XCX, and more Hint for the Average Socialite: This event is invite only.
Wuthering Heights will premiere in London on February 5. Like most premieres in the capital, the movie’s stars are expected to walk the carpet from around 5.45pm. [...] Wuthering Heights will have its London premiere in the heart of the capital’s cinema district, Leicester Square at the spot’s Odeon Luxe. [...] The film’s stars including Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as well as Alison Oliver, Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Martin Clunes, Ewan Mitchell, Charlotte Mellington are just some of the stars expected to walk the red carpet. Director Emerald Fennell and pop icon Charli XCX who has worked on the film’s soundtrack is also set to attend. (Amber Peake)
Flickering Myth features the character posters for the movie. Daily Mail highlights some parts of an interview with Alison Oliver on Elle. Following Emerald's last sizzling film Saltburn, fans of the writer and director are awaiting a steamy take on Wuthering Heights, with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi leading the cast as star-crossed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff in the movie. Alison shared insight into her role as Isabella Linton in the film, adding: 'She's a very repressed character who is desperate for love. 'Emerald's interpretation of Isabella's story is the reverse of Cathy's; there's an uncorseting of her. Like she becomes undone. There's something so powerful about being underestimated.' Alison added that she learned she'd got the role after Emerald sent her a text message, after she previously worked with The Crown star on Saltburn. 'She said, if you want Isabella, she's yours,' the star revealed. In the wake of speculation that this version of Wuthering Heights will be racier than others, Alison said it will reflect Emerald's experience of reading the gothic book. She revealed: 'It's how Emerald [Fennell] experienced the book when she read it as a teenager. So it's not what's on the page, and I don't think that's what it's trying to be. 'You'll never be bored by an Emerald Fennell film. I think it will make noise, but you never know how things are going to be taken. I've learned that it's not really my business to worry about that.' (Laura Fox)
A contributor to BookClub makes the following controversial statement in an article about unreliable narrators. Following this thinking, there obviously are other books that kind of fall into similar narration/plot styles like Northanger Abbey and Jane Eyre (cause Jane Eyre is just a Northanger Abbey 2.0). (The Austen Shelf)
Sorry, but not at all.
The Eyre Guide now tackles of the question of 'What if … Jane and Rochester’s wedding was not interrupted?' An inspirational, empowering... but mostly cutie Bront(i)ë book:
CICO Books ISBN: 978-1800655751 January 2026
Step into the atmospheric worlds of the Brontë sisters’ novels with these INSPIRATIONAL and EMPOWERING quotations. From Emily’s Wuthering Heights to Charlotte’s The Professor and Jane Eyre and Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, here you’ll find the most iconic lines from all of their much-loved works. Thanks to their power and originality, the Brontës’ novels and poetry hold enduring appeal and provide endless inspiration, even 200 years after the sisters were born. Covering themes including independence, resilience and gender roles, here you’ll find empowering quotes from these pioneering sisters who rebelled against the limitations of their time. Relive the emotional power and passion of their novels through lines on romantic love, and discover haunting quotations on the supernatural and the beauty of nature. Designed with stunning typography and illustrations, this beautiful book is perfect for keeping to hand, whether you want to find guidance, solace or use the quotes as a stepping-off point for exploring more of the Brontës’ works.
The Independent and many, mnay other sites report or comment on Margot Robbie's 'codependency' on Jacob Elordi during the filming of Wuthering Heights. In a recent cast interview with Fandango, the Barbie actor opened up about what it was like to work alongside Elordi. “I'm so codependent with people I work with, and I love everyone so much, and I'm always that person who's so devastated when a job's over and I never want it to end,” she said. “I think I developed that quite quickly with Jacob, too.” Robbie then recalled the Saltburn actor’s behavior on set, noting how he was always around whether he needed to be or not. “I don't know if Emerald told you to do this or you did this,” she told Elordi while referencing the film’s director, Emerald Fennell. “But I remember the first couple days on set, he would just be always in the vicinity where I was, but like in a corner, watching Cathy.” “I didn't tell him to do that,” Fennell chimed in. “I actually had to ask him to leave.” The Suicide Squad actor continued, explaining that she had gotten so used to Elordi being around, she began to look for him and was “unnerved” when she discovered he was not watching her. “I felt quite lost, like a kid without their blanket or something,” she added. Elordi agreed that he felt the same way about his co-star, calling it a “mutual obsession.” “If you have the opportunity to share a film set with Margot Robbie, you're going to make sure you're within 5 to 10 meters at all times, watching how she drinks tea, how she eats her food ... She's just like an elite actor,” he said. (Brittany Miller)
Music Talkers discusses why 'Charli XCX’s Wall of Sound Makes the Wait for Wuthering Heights Worth It'. Three tracks from Charli XCX have been released so far in anticipation of her upcoming album Wuthering Heights. This piece will focus on Wall of Sound, her latest release. Taken together, the three tracks feel like a kind of loading screen for the album. The first two tracks, House featuring John Cale and Wall of Sound, have a distinctly cinematic quality, as if they exist mainly to build atmosphere and tension. That said, they still sound great. Chains of Love feels like the most fully realized song of the three. As a die-hard Charli fan, these tracks give me no clear sense of where the album is headed. Wall of Sound in particular feels more epic and cinematic than anything I have heard from her before. The track unfolds like one long breakdown, stretching and hovering rather than resolving. Somehow, Charli has already sold me on the album before it is even out. Maybe she is a master at this, or maybe I am just easily persuaded. With Brat being such a massive success, it is hard to predict where Charli will go next. She may have been working on something entirely different alongside Brat, or perhaps its overwhelming popularity pushed her instincts in a new direction. Brat was undeniably influential. Like ripples spreading across water after an impact, its sound quickly echoed outward, with other artists drawing directly from Charli’s ideas. Watching this happen in real time has been fascinating. I have rarely seen other major artists so openly mirror one person’s work. I will not name names, but the point stands. It only underscores how influential Charli really is. In the end, Wall of Sound tells me almost nothing concrete about Wuthering Heights. It is soft, swaying, and leaves the album feeling wide open with possibility. In the next few weeks, Wuthering Heights will be released, and we will finally get some answers. (Peter Källman)
Image (Ireland) is giving away two tickets to the Irish red carpet of Wuthering Heights. Want to see it first, before the masses? We’re giving away two tickets to the exclusive, highly anticipated red carpet Irish premiere in Dublin on Tuesday, February 10. With a special post-screening after party, we can’t think of a better way to celebrate the upcoming Valentine’s Day weekend.
Country Life features a 'mesmerising portrait' at Norton Conyers, one of the houses said to have inspired Thornfield Hall in Jane Eyre. Sister Charlotte is only the second most noteworthy Charlotte linked to the house — and by coincidence, she was born in the same year that her more illustrious namesake visited Norton Conyers. Charlotte Brontë came to the house in 1839, and was — according to her friend Ellen Nussey — much impressed by the house in general, and in particular a dark tale that was part of the Graham family history. 'Like any good novelist, Brontë used her impressions of several houses to build up a picture of Thornfield, Mr Rochester's country seat in Jane Eyre,' Gervase Jackson-Stops wrote in Country Life in 1986, shortly after Sir James took over the the stewardship of the house. 'Yet Norton Conyers, which she visited in the summer of 1839, as governess to the then-tenants' grandchildren, contributed one of the most important ingredients in the book — the Graham family legend of a madwoman confined in the attics.' The woman in question was referred to as 'Mad Mary', as Lady Graham herself explained in a 2003 article in Country Life. 'Who she was, whether servant or family, is not known,' Lady Graham wrote. 'Perhaps she was a servant who had children by "master" and who suffered from epilepsy or post-natal depression rather than madness.' Although Brontë's connection to Norton Conyers was well known for many years, confirmation of the existence of the attic didn't come until part of the long refurbishment work undertaken by Sir James and Lady Graham removed some panelling to reveal a previously hidden staircase. Sir James — whose family have owned the house since the mid 17th century — asked for a hollow-sounding panel to be investigated, and his hunch proved correct: stairs up from the 'Peacock Room' to an attic room were uncovered. There seems little doubt then Brontë based her timeless tale in large part on Norton Conyers. ‘We believe that the house inspired Thornfield Hall and the mad Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre,’ observes Lady Graham. (John Goodall)
The Eyre Guide wonders 'What if… Bertha Mason had killed her brother?' This is a new French book with plenty of Brontë-related content:
Edited by Pascale Denance L'Harmattan ISBN: 9782336479477 January 2026
Emily Dickinson et Charlotte Perkins Gilman écrivaient dans un contexte difficile. Bien des obstacles auxquels ces autrices étaient confrontées apparaissent en mise en abyme dans leurs textes. Sans cesse présentifiés par nos lectures successives, ces derniers annoncent un futur qu'ils contribuent à créer : filtre précurseur des textes théoriques et de la réalité à venir, ils transcendent toute appréhension figée de l'être et du temps.
The book contains the chapter: Figures archétypales de rebelle dans trois romans du XIXe siècle : Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre et Middlemarch Comme beaucoup de romans majeurs du XIXe siècle, Pride and Prejudice de Jane Austen, Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë et Middlemarch de George Eliot privilégient l’exploration d’une conscience de femme et l’expression d’une protestation politique et sociale en posant un regard sur le monde d’un point de vue différent. La lecture proposée ici se fait à partir de l’étude de la réécriture de trois figures archétypales de rebelle : Lilith, Antigone et la femme de Barbe Bleue. Ces archétypes fournissent des modèles identitaires à des formes différentes d’engagement politique : la révolte radicale et sans concession, la fuite, et enfin une lutte pragmatique contre l’injustice. On peut mettre au jour la présence d’une combinatoire de ces divers paramètres dans chacun des trois romans considérés et montrer ainsi la force, mais aussi les limites de ces archétypes en tant que modèles identitaires.
A contributor to Her Campus shares her favourite classics including Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre is one of my favorite novels; it is a beautiful, complex story with innumerable plot twists and layers of meaning. The novel is written from the perspective of the titular character, a lonely, reserved orphan girl, who desperately longs to find a family and a sense of identity. This novel is another 10/10 for me; I highly recommend it. Read my article on Jane Eyre to find out more about the novel. (Katherine Stevenson)
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