Just Watch officially declares that ' Wuthering Heights Is No Longer This Year's Most Provocative Film'. Move over, Cathy and Heathcliff, we've got a new band of controversial characters to dissect and discuss as we move into the second half of 2026. Should audiences be careful what they wish for? From the moment of its release on Valentine's Day this year, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights sold a lot of tickets on the promise of A-lister debauchery, but many fans left the cinema a little disappointed with the level of spice. Perhaps it was fate, perhaps it was creative programming, but a far more provocative movie was premiering at the Berlin Film Festival that very same night: Rosebush Pruning. (Rory O'Connor)
Apart from Haworth's Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, today will also see the same event at Clevedon's Marine Lake and Bristol's College Green, as reported by BBC: Dozens of Kate Bush fans are celebrating her most famous song, Wuthering Heights, with a recreation of the dance from the music video. Dubbed "the most Wuthering Heights day ever", the event at Clevedon's Marine Lake and Bristol's College Green raises money for the charity SARSAS (Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support). The event will take place today, ahead of the singer's birthday on 30 July. "It's enormous fun learning the dance, it's a real challenge as it's not straightforward, and it's not just for the ladies, we welcome everybody," said organiser Bridget Pairaudeau from Bristol. The Clevedon event is believed to be the only one where dancers celebrate on land and in the water at the same time. Last year, the event raised just over £1,000 for SARSAS. "They were delighted that we danced for them," said Pairaudeau. (Jonathan Holmes)
Conciencia (Mexico) has an article on Emily Brontë with a picture of Charlotte Brontë.
A couple of recent Indian scholarly Brontë-related papers: Dr. Suvam Nath SharmaDrishti : the Sight # Vol.- XV, Issue - I (May, 2026-October, 2026), pp 122-126
The Brontë novels possess canonical status because they refuse exhausted historical meaning and maintain resistance to singular interpretation across generations. Reading the Brontë canon through the lens of weird fiction and contemporary theory reveals how these works systematically dismantle Victorian moral certainties and domesticity’s illusory stability. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë wrote texts that expose moral nihilism as an affective condition wherein established ethical frameworks prove radically inadequate to comprehend human experience and desire. Rather than offering reassurance, these novels stage the eruption of the numinous within domestic interiors supposedly secured by convention. Heathcliff’s demonic force, Bertha Mason’s mônstrum-like presence, and Helen’s recognition of her husband’s fundamental vacancy all constitute manifestations of this numinous threat that dissolves selfhood’s boundaries. Reconsidering the Brontë canon through weird fiction’s diagnostic apparatus illuminates how Victorian comfort depends upon elaborate denial and repression of forces that exceed rational explanation and moral categorization. The permanence of moral chaos and numinous danger in these works constitutes their enduring philosophical wisdom for contemporary readers who inhabit moments of ideological hardening and moral certainty. Women, Autonomy, and Resistance in Victorian Fiction: A Study of Jane Eyre
Pallavi Bhardwaj. Ritu Sharma and Simran Kamboj
Journal of Technical Education, Vol. 49 Special Issue No. 1 April 2026, p. 116
Victorian literature frequently reflects the rigid gender hierarchies embedded within nineteenth-century British0 society. This paper explores the theme of women’s autonomy and resistance in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë within the socio-cultural framework of Victorian England. The novel critiques patriarchal authority and redefineswomanhood through a protagonist who asserts moral, emotional, and economic independence. Through an examination of Jane’s psychological development and key narrative moments, the study argues that Jane Eyre anticipates feminist thought and serves as a foundational text in Victorian feminist discourse. All you need to evoke Wuthering Heights is a bit of mist. That's the conclusion of what we read in British Vogue: Wuthering Heights And Bella Hadid Both Played A Part In This Couple’s Dorset Wedding. (...) The couple were married at St Peter’s Church in Knowle at 1.30pm on 20 June. “The weather wasn’t quite what we’d imagined,” she remembers. “We’re such summer people, which is why we chose the summer solstice. Instead, we woke up to the most incredible mist, which did give the start of the day a romantic, atmospheric feel. It was very Wuthering Heights." (Rebecca Cope)
The Times picks four children's books to read now:
Witch Light by Zohra Nabi As the Emily Brontë quote at the beginning makes clear, we're in the wild, wuthering world of the gothic imagination. (Lucy Bennerman)
The specific quote is: “In winter nothing more dreary, in summer nothing more divine, than those glens shut in by hills, and those bluff, bold swells of heath.” (Wuthering Heights, Chapter 32) My favourite adult classics also feature picturesque countryside and sprawling mansions but are a tad bleaker: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Both gothic thrillers about a marriage doomed by a dark past. Tom's Guide alerts that Wuthering Heights 1939 is leaving the HBO Max platform at the end of July: Though the black-and-white romantic drama depicts only half of Brontë's Gothic classic and eliminates all of the second-generation characters (sorry kids!), it's widely acclaimed for its lush, deliciously melodramatic treatment of the source material. (Christina Izzo) Haworth Best known as the home of the Brontë sisters, Haworth combines literary heritage with breathtaking moorland scenery. Its cobbled main street is lined with independent shops, tearooms and galleries, while nearby Penistone Hill Country Park and the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway offer plenty to explore beyond the village. (Daniel Smith)
Today's special report shows how films such as Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights have fuelled interest in visits to Yorkshire, whose beautiful moorlands were so central to its cinematography. Mental Floss lists some of the "most devastating love confessions in literature". Wuthering Heights is in there: "He is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights. (Selection by Logan DeLoye) Well, there are many Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever events all across the globe. But there is only one in Haworth. And it happens tomorrow, July 26:
Sunday, July 26, 202611:00 AM – 1:30 PM (Check-in at 10:30 AM) The Old Cricket Pavilion (Penistone Hill Country Park) (Main dance performance & practice) Parson's Field (Next to Brontë Parsonage Museum) (After-party and post-dance picnic)
Join us for day like no other ... a celebration of all things Wuthering Heights, Kate Bush and Emily Brontë in the stunning setting of the Haworth moors Learn the steps and wavy arm movements, with help from our dance leaders, and join in the mass dance with hundreds of other "Kate's" from around the country and the world! Become a Kate for the day - long red dress, flowing wind-tossed hair, singing out passionately to the elements Enjoy musical and poetic tributes to the song, its singer, its setting and the book which inspired it Hear a poem composed by Kate Bush herself for Emily Brontë's birthday Help us raise funds to protect this iconic landscape to inspire generations of Kate's and Emily's to come.
Church Times reviews This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë by Deborah Lutz: In a rapidly changing intellectual environment, two developments have affected the work of the historical biographer over the past two decades. First, digitisation has made it possible to read vast swaths of printed matter online, including obscure sermons and newspaper articles, and even some manuscripts, without leaving the study. Second, with privacy under erasure, biographers are empowered to go where their predecessors feared to tread with regard to the body and its functions. Both developments are evident in the making of This Dark Night, a book that demonstrates what can be achieved when a scholar-critic of Lutz’s stature applies her empathic imagination to the hidden life and writing practices of her elusive subject. Lutz has a particular interest in the materials that writers used in the Victorian age, the subject of a previous study. In the preface to her new book, she writes; “Keeping slips of paper and a pencil nub nearby, Brontë mastered a peripatetic kind of creativity, interwoven with household work, daydreaming, and exploring her native landscape.” Out on the moors by day and under the stars by night, she scribbled poems on scraps of paper and later transcribed them in drafts written in ink. Lutz argues that “the page worked for her as a sort of frame or foundation on which to build the poem. Similar to those samplers she made as a girl, the letters, words, and lines accumulated like cross-stich across and down the sheet.” Signs of digging her quill pen into the paper while writing remain legible, we are told. As Emily and her sisters prepared their poetry and fiction for publication, they acquired notebooks with thin leather covers the colour of oxblood. When opened, they would easily lie flat. Lutz’s close readings of the texts convince us of the power of a poetic vision inspired by nature and the elements. Her treatment of Emily’s writing materials reminds us that creation is work. (Dr Michael Wheeler)
Women lists "the classic books everybody is reading" this summer: Forget hot girl summer — for readers, it's decidedly a classics girl summer. According to data from Google Trends, interest in books you might not have read or even thought about since high school English class is way up. This includes some of the standard books you'd find on Rory Gilmore's reading list, like "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë and "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger, but some titles surging in popularity are unusual picks for the book girlies. (Amanda Manen)
Andrés Muedano: What are you working on next? Tara Menon: I am working on both a second academic book and a second novel. My academic book is an exploration of anger and the novel. I have noticed that readers often label books “angry”—they might say, for instance, “Jane Eyre is a furious book” or “Naipaul’s novels seethe with rage,” but it’s never been clear exactly how they make those determinations. In my book, I ask: what does it mean for anger to be embedded in a novel, rather than simply expressed by one of its characters? What are the formal characteristics of anger in fiction?
Los Angeles Times interviews Samantha Morton on her role as Circe in The Odyssey 2026: But Morton doesn’t believe in bogging herself down in research, not since starring in a British TV production of “Jane Eyre” when she was 19 and carried around a heavily highlighted copy of the Charlotte Brontë book, despairing whenever the adaptation deviated from the novel. From that point on, she stuck to the script and her own imagination. (...) Morton first came to New York as a teen to do press for “Emma,” returned a year later to promote “Jane Eyre” and then couldn’t bring herself to leave, “sofa-surfing” at friends’ apartments so she could immerse herself in the city. “New York stole my heart,” Morton says. It’s where she first got into literature, devouring Charles Bukowski, roaming the aisles at the St. Mark’s Bookshop, checking out movies from Kim’s Video and gobbling hash browns and eggs over easy at the Waverly Diner. (Glenn Whipp)
Dorset Magazine interviews the actor Martin Clunes, Mr Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights 2026: Sometimes the right project is simply too good to turn down. Wuthering Heights was a fantastic job – I loved every minute of it, and Margot and Jacob and everyone on that production were lovely. I’m lucky that I still get offered work that interests me. The moment it stops being enjoyable, I’ll stop doing it. (Claire Bowman) INA (France) traces how Kate Bush's 1978 hit " Wuthering Heights " spawned a worldwide annual tradition of red-dress flash mobs, with two taking place in France this year: at the Bon-Repos abbey on July 25 and in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris on July 26, 2026. Sa reconnaissance viendra bien plus tard. Au cours du XXe siècle, Les Hauts de Hurlevent s'impose progressivement comme un classique de la littérature mondiale grâce à ses nombreuses adaptations au cinéma, à la télévision et au théâtre. Kate Bush participera, elle aussi, à cette redécouverte. Car, contrairement au roman dont elle est inspirée, sa chanson connaît un triomphe immédiat. Sortie en pleine période où s'affrontent le punk et le disco, à rebours des tendances dominantes, elle s'impose en tête des classements britanniques et détrône même le groupe ABBA. Du jamais vu pour un premier titre et une artiste inconnue. Lorsque Kate Bush découvre ce récit gothique, ce n'est pas en ouvrant le roman d'Emily Brontë, mais en regardant une adaptation télévisée diffusée par la BBC. Elle n'a alors que 16 ans. Fascinée par l'atmosphère sombre du récit et la puissance tragique de ses personnages, elle finit par lire le livre et se sent particulièrement proche de son héroïne, Catherine, surnommée Cathy, dont elle partage le prénom. Elle décide alors de transposer l'histoire dans le langage de la pop. À l'âge de 18 ans, elle compose Wuthering Heights en une seule soirée, au piano. Sa chanson s'inspire d'une scène emblématique du roman : celle où le fantôme de Cathy apparaît à la fenêtre de Heathcliff et tente de le convaincre de la laisser entrer. Kate Bush prête alors sa voix à l'héroïne disparue : « Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home, I'm so cold, let me in-a-your window... » ("Heathcliff, c'est moi, Cathy. Je suis revenue. J'ai si froid. Laisse-moi entrer par ta fenêtre..."). En quatre minutes de musique, la chanteuse parvient ainsi à condenser toute la passion, la mélancolie et le mystère qui font encore aujourd'hui la force du roman d'Emily Brontë. (...) Si Wuthering Heights est devenue une chanson culte, c'est autant grâce à la voix singulière de Kate Bush qu'à l'univers visuel qu'elle a construit autour du morceau. Son timbre aigu, presque irréel, se mêle à des sonorités éthérées pour donner vie à un personnage fantomatique directement inspiré de Cathy Earnshaw. Mais c'est surtout le clip qui va marquer durablement les esprits. Conçue avec le chorégraphe Lindsay Kemp, célèbre pour avoir notamment formé David Bowie à l'art du mime, la chorégraphie contribue à l'atmosphère hypnotique du morceau. Dans une première version du clip, Kate Bush apparaît sous les traits du fantôme de Cathy, vêtue d'une longue robe blanche vaporeuse. Filmée au ralenti, évoluant parmi des effets visuels qui accentuent l'étrangeté de la scène, elle semble flotter entre le monde des vivants et celui des morts. Une seconde vidéo est ensuite réalisée pour le marché américain. Le décor change, mais pas la chorégraphie. Cette fois, la chanteuse danse au milieu de la campagne anglaise dans une robe rouge flamboyante qui deviendra sa tenue emblématique. Plus épurée et plus facilement identifiable, cette version va peu à peu s'imposer dans l'imaginaire collectif et devenir l'une des images les plus célèbres de la culture pop britannique. C'est d'ailleurs ce clip qui est à l'origine de The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever. Chaque année, à l'occasion de l'anniversaire de Kate Bush - et d’Emily Brontë, née un 30 juillet, elle-aussi - des milliers de fans à travers le monde enfilent la fameuse robe rouge et reproduisent les gestes envoûtants de la chanteuse. De Londres à Melbourne, en passant par Paris, cette chorégraphie née à la fin des années 1970 continue ainsi de rassembler. L'archive ci-dessous nous entraîne dans l'événement organisé en Bretagne en 2024. (Florence Dartois) (Translation)
Several news outlets talk about the last edition of Jeopardy! (July 23, 2026): Final Jeopardy today was in the category “AUTHORS“ The clue: “She sometimes signed letters “Charles Thunder” The answer: “Who is Charlotte Brontë?” ( Lizzy Buczak in Parade)
The album was recorded across Iceland, New York, and Berlin, and draws inspiration from poetry, literature and visual art. de Oliveira weaves in mythology with references to Milton's Paradise Lost and the poetry of John Keats, Emily Brontë and Anne Sexton. (Kayla Sandiford) En esto se gastan los jóvenes lucenses su Bono Cultural: «El "GTA VI" y "Cumbres Borrascosas" son los grandes éxitos de este 2026» (...) Cuentan que esta ayuda cultural es más usada por las chicas que por los chicos, aunque esto no significa que estos últimos no acudan a comprar obras literarias al establecimiento. «Ellas vienen, principalmente, en busca de novelas románticas. Cumbres borrascosas vendió muchos ejemplares por el estreno de la adaptación en cines». (Andrés Quintán) (Translation) An AI includes Jane Eyre in a list of great stories never getting old on Bookclub. The Brussels Brontë Blog recounts a guided day trip through lesser-known Brontë sites in Lancashire and West Yorkshire — Cowan Bridge, Leck, Tunstall Church, Kirkby Lonsdale, and Wycoller — checking off several long-sought locations tied to the sisters' lives and Charlotte's Jane Eyre. More Recent Articles
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