Widely considered one of the finest novels ever written, this timeless tale follows a young woman who, after being orphaned at a young age, is sent to a brutal boarding school. 10 years later, she accepts a job as a governess for a young girl, the ward of the enigmatic and brutish master of Thornfield Hall. Slowly but surely, she begins to fall for her erratic employer whilst she also starts uncovering his dark secrets. Directed by Robert Stevenson, best known for helming Disney’s beloved film Mary Poppins, this underrated Gothic romance from the classic Hollywood era stars Joan Fontaine as Jane and Orson Welles as Mr Rochester. Many film fans have claimed over the years that it’s one of the best adaptations of Brontë’s novel to ever be produced. It’s certainly a must-watch for viewers who have devoured recent period romances such as Wuthering Heights and The Other Bennet Sister or can’t wait for the upcoming iterations of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. One 10/10 review from an IMDb user claimed that, while other versions of Jane Eyre are just as breathtaking, fans should “see this to be fully satisfied". (Lucas Hill-Paul)
The film will be on BBC Four next Thursday, July 9, at 23:50 (GMT). Best Actress - Margot Robbie Best Supporting Actress - Alison Oliver
Sue Ryder is inviting people from across West Yorkshire to take part in the first ever Brontë Pub Walk, a brand‑new event set in the stunning countryside that inspired the world‑famous Brontë sisters. Sponsored by Bulloughs Cleaning Services, the event - taking place on Saturday August 15 at 11am - offers a choice of five or ten‑mile routes, each featuring a series of charming refreshment stops. Walkers will take in Stanbury, Ponden and the outskirts of Oakworth before finishing on the iconic Haworth Main Street. (Hannah Britton) With eight refreshment points on the full route and six on the shorter route, the Brontë Pub Walk is designed to be a relaxed, social day out, perfect for families, groups of friends and workplace teams.
Isn't Iconic probably the most overused and misused word in the English language? If you’re the type to imagine that literary genius might seep into the stones and the woodwork, England has book-loads of places to go. Jane Austen, the Brontës, Rudyard Kipling, William Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens ... you can visit the homes of them all. (...) From York, take a spin (or the train) to Harrogate for a touch of 18th century spa town elegance, or to Haworth to see the Parsonage home of the Brontë sisters and the moors backdrop that famously inspired Emily’s Wuthering Heights. (Gemma Tipton & Úna McCaffrey)
Anne Brontë.org celebrates the 200th anniversary of Patrick Brontë's gift of twelve wooden soldiers to Branwell in 1826.
Polly Teale's Jane Eyre returns to the stage in a new student production in Birmingham:
Young Rep Seniors presents Adapted by Polly Teale Tue 7 Jul–Wed 8 Jul 2026 The Studio, 7 Cannon St, Birmingham B2 5EP, United Kingdom
Directed by Jasmin Hylton Movement Direction by Ana Diego Iversen
Our Young Rep Seniors take to the stage this July with Polly Teale’s bold and imaginative adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre. This powerful retelling brings the emotional intensity of Jane’s journey vividly to life, revealing the passions and hidden struggles that shape her story. As Jane grows from a lonely child into a determined young woman, she fights to define her own identity in a world that seeks to confine her. Teale’s innovative approach places Bertha, the ‘woman in the attic’, onstage as a living, breathing embodiment of Jane’s suppressed fears and desires – creating a striking and unforgettable theatrical experience. With rich ensemble storytelling, atmospheric movement and compelling performances, our Young Rep Seniors illuminate a timeless tale of love, resilience and the pursuit of freedom. A fierce, haunting, and deeply human reimagining of a beloved classic.
A new alert from the Brontë Birthplace in Thornton. This event is also part of the Bradford Literary Festival:
Tuesday 7th July 6:30pm – 8pm (doors open from 6pm) Brontë Birthplace
Heritage researcher and Brontë Birthplace General Manager Anna Gibson explores the uncanny pull of Brontë Country—a landscape shaped as much by longing and myth as by history. Drawing on her experiences living, working, and walking across Brontë Country, she examines how moors, memories, and cherished objects become charged with meaning, and how the Brontës’ presence continues to haunt cultural memory, tourism, and heritage practice today.
Anna’s History:
After completing her MA in Heritage Studies at the University of Manchester, Anna Gibson joined the Brontë Birthplace on Market Street, Thornton, Bradford, as its first General Manager. The building was acquired through the combined support of more than 700 individual investors, together with funding from Bradford City of Culture 2025, The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Community Ownership Fund, and the Rural England Prosperity Fund. Now managed by Brontë Birthplace Limited, a Community Benefit Society, the house opened to the public in March 2025.
The Guardian discusses Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey's potential impact: The contemporary relevance of The Odyssey is a key issue in the film’s potential impact. Mary Beard, professor emerita of classics at Cambridge, says she is hoping for “the Wuthering Heights effect” and suggests there are deeper questions at play behind the surface narrative. “Films always bring people’s attention back to the ancient world and of the whole modern resonance of the classics. What are the big questions raised by the Odyssey and are they still ours? What does it mean to go home? What does war do to those left behind? Where does the boundary between civilisation and barbarity really lie?” (Andrew Pulver) A list of best books "of all time" on Collider: 'Wuthering Heights' (1847) This might seem like it’s establishing a pattern of jumping back 50 years with every new entry, but that’s not the case (promise). Wuthering Heights is a real classic, since it’s not far off being 200 years old, which is wild to think about. It would've been very out there for its time, one would imagine, in terms of how dark and angst-filled it’s willing to get as a story about love… kind of? But not really a love story, being more centered on obsession and a dangerous kind of passion. You get a very strong feeling in your gut from reading Wuthering Heights, and such an experience has proven hard to translate and capture on screen, though that hasn’t stopped various people from trying. With Wuthering Heights, you do just have to read it, or maybe listen to it in full, and then it’s pretty easy to see what all the hype (a hype that has persisted for nearly two centuries) is about. (Jeremy Urquhart)
An AI-generated article on BookClub recommends Jane Eyre as a read for teenagers. Several Italian websites ( Attoricasting, Teatroecrtica) announce auditions for an upcoming Wuthering Heights production: La produzione Virginy L’Isola Trovata seleziona attori e attrici per le prossime produzioni teatrali, tra cui Cime Tempestose, con Giulio Corso e Federica De Benedittis. Lavoro retribuito. Periodo di lavoro: autunno 2026. (Translation) A new episode of the Behind the Glass podcast is now online: Behind The Glass: A Parsonage Podcast Sam and Mia are joined by Dr Alessandra Pino, an expert on the intersections of the Gothic, food, and cultural memory. She co-authored The Gothic Cookbook, which digs into food themes and motifs in classic and contemporary novels from the 19th century to the present day. We look at how food is used in the Brontës' Gothic novels Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, and why Margot Robbie's Cathy poked her finger into aspic... Say hi! Let us know if you enjoyed the episode.
Via @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social we share with you : Wuthering Heights in Translation, a new online exhibition developed in collaboration with third-year English Studies students at the University of Nantes. The exhibition examines the many afterlives of Emily Brontë's novel, tracing its ongoing transformation through translation, adaptation, and rewriting across languages and media.
From the Yorkshire moors to the Philippines, from Japan to Brazil, by way of Turkey, Mexico, and France, students from Nantes Université (FLCE) invite you to discover the many lives of Emily Brontë’s classic novel. Created by third-year students majoring in English as part of their Cultural Translation course with Laëtitia Saint-Loubert,, this online exhibition explores how Wuthering Heights has travelled across languages, cultures, and media. Through interactive maps and digital timelines, the online exhibition Wuthering Heights in Translation traces the novel’s many journeys through its translations, adaptations, and rewritings across diverse cultural and historical contexts. How do you translate the untranslatable? What happens to Gothic aesthetics, gender relations, or the violence of passion as they cross linguistic, cultural, and medial boundaries? From adapt ations for young readers to ballets inspired by the novel, from book covers that reinvent its visual world to costumes that bring its characters to life, from the translation of proper names to epistolary rewritings and imagined accounts of Heathcliff's enigmatic youth, these projects offer a wealth of new ways to rediscover Wuthering Heights. Others explore the novel's silences, ellipses, and unresolved mysteries, inviting visitors to investigate, play, and reflect on the many transformations of this enduring classic. Collaborative, creative, and digital, this project showcases the vitality of a novel that, for nearly two centuries, has continued to be translated, adapted, reinvented, and reinterpreted around the world.
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