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Between Two Books (Florence Welch): ‘Villette’ by Charlotte Brontë
Did you know that Florence Welch has a book club? The Florence and the Machine singer periodically shares her book picks with her Between Two Books book club. This season’s pick in Villette by Charlotte Brontë. This lesser-known title from the author of Jane Eyre follows a young 19th-century woman as she leave England to take a teaching job in Belgium.
Villette is “an autobiographical study of solitude and unrequited love,” noted the Between Two Books Instagram. (Megan Elliott) 7. The married Belgian professor Constantin Heger inspired which character in the novel Jane Eyre? (Olav Bjortomt) In a since-deleted post, the same X user also uploaded a screenshot to the platform of a text conversation with an “industry insider” who alleged that two songs on Charli’s Wuthering Heights album were “ripped” from Ferreira demos dating back to 2018 and 2015. Ferreira responded to those claims via Instagram comments as well, sharing, “Your industry ‘insider’ is wrong. Close but wrong…It isn’t worth the trouble bc I know how the world works.”‘ Ferreira is, however, credited as a featured artist, co-writer and vocal producer on Wuthering Heights track “Eyes of the World.” (...) When asked for comment, her management team shared the following statement with Billboard: (...) “Ahead of the Wuthering Heights album release, a standard review process was conducted on a small number of tracks from the album, including fragments of material originating from earlier sessions. This process involved managers, legal representatives, artists and producers, and included a thorough review of archival materials and demo recordings. (Lyndsey Havens)
Fennell tan sólo se interesó en adaptar medio libro y a unos pocos de sus personajes, pero no perdió oportunidad para sembrar sugerencias eróticas visuales y auditivas, así como insinuaciones de bondage y S&M. Lamentablemente, más que una obra estimulante, nos conduce por el terreno del fan fiction calentón, ese universo de fantasías juveniles o amateurs, a la vez morbosas y puritanas, desahogo sin literatura, “plagio” legitimizado y cursilería masturbatoria desenfrenada. (...) Este ejercicio de estilo muestra una obsesión física muy oportuna en tiempos de looksmaxxing, en que todo mundo es bello y nadie quiere tener sexo (aun cuando lo tengan en exceso). Pero lo importante es que nos obliga a preguntarnos qué significa y para qué sirve una adaptación de la literatura al cine (especialmente al tratarse de un clásico). Y la respuesta tal vez es que sirve para ayudarnos a diferenciar el melodrama de la tragedia. ( Naief Yehya) ( Translation)
On Wednesday, 8 April at 6.30pm, the Boiardo cinema theatre in Scandiano (RE, Italy) will host a special screening of Wuthering Heights 2026, where the audience is invited to knit along, with dimmed lights to keep needles and eyes busy at once. The initiative grew out of a Friday knitting group led by Katia Tosi accoding to Il Resto di Carlino. The writer Katriona O'Sullivan shares her cultural touchstones in The Irish Examiner. Regrettably, she chooses the wrong sister: I loved Charlotte Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (sic). It’s a classic. I love a dramatic love story and it’s the ultimate bad love story. I love its imagery and its language, the way land is used to depict emotions. I was a cool kid that was with a gang who were robbing cars but reading Wuthering Heights at the end of the day, but I couldn’t tell them. You can't smoke your smokes at the back of the bike sheds while you're reading Charlotte Brontë (sic again). Teasing becomes taunting, care becomes control and sexy times on the sofa become furious spats over Christmas presents (“You gave me a brooch made of teeth, Albert!”). The relationship is coercive, yes, but perhaps also co-dependent: Victoria’s panic keeps her obedient. A scene in which she reads from Jane Eyre signals the gothic fate which, [Daisy] Goodwin imagines, Albert might have planned for her. (David Jays) AnneBrontë.org shares an 1853 Easter letter from Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey, in which Charlotte declines a visit due to her duties as a vicar's daughter while also defending Lucy Snowe as a deliberately less idealized heroine than Jane Eyre.
A couple of new Brontë-related papers have been recently published:
by M.F. Rabbi Journal of Pundra University of Science & Technology, Volume-4, Issue-1, January-2025 Issue, p. 61
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a classic piece of Gothic and Romantic literature from the 19th century, and its plot intricately integrates the characters’ psychological makeup with the physical surroundings. By examining how the geographical surroundings of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, in particular, both influence and are influenced by the inner lives and experiences of its residents, this study examines the notions of space and psychogeography in Wuthering Heights. By analyzing these two different settings, this paper makes the case that Brontë reflects social and individual divisions like freedom vs restriction, nature versus civilization, and passion versus repression through spatial dichotomies. According to this account, psychogeography studies how these landscapes function as active agents in the formation of characters’ identities and their intricate relationships rather than just serving as passive backgrounds. This study also looks at how Brontë’s book subverts conventional Victorian ideas of home and belonging by presenting a wild, surreal landscape that represents rebellious impulses and unwavering passions. Characters like Heathcliff and Catherine are depicted as symbols of the untamed and strange moor through the novel’s use of elemental forces, such as storms, winds, and isolation, which blur the lines between the internal and external worlds. This paper traces the influence of place as a dynamic, destabilizing force within Brontë’s fictional world and examines how Wuthering Heights embodies a proto-psychogeographic study that emphasizes the psychological impact of space on human behavior and identity through an analysis of spatial metaphors and imagery. In the end, this paper makes the case that Wuthering Heights’ psychogeographic elements help to depict a world ruled by wild forces and emotional extremes, providing a critique of Victorian social values through its radical reworking of spatial relationships.
by Ouana Alassane Sekongo, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d’Ivoire Ziglôbitha, Revue des Arts, Linguistique,Littérature & Civilisations Université, n°17, Vol.2 – Mars 2026
In nineteenth-century England, Victorianism was an ideology based on the principle that men are more rational than women. As such, it divided the societyinto two distinct spheres, which were the private sphere for women and the public sphere for men. This paper aims to highlight that Brontë coins the character Jane, an educated and defiant girl who subverts these social norms and works hard to enterthe public space just as men. In addition to textual evidence, the article relies on Judith Butler’s (1990) theory of deconstructing gender norms in order to demonstrate how Brontë’s novel questions the Victorian gender system and opens doors for women to express themselves and reveal their talents. The study concludesthat after defying the ideology of Victorianism, Jane has not only got access to formaleducation, but also worked in the public sphere as a teacher. She, therefore, standsas a resilient an emergent girl, serving as a role model for 21st century women.
My favourite classic reads I was soon drawn to the Brontë sisters. It wasn’t just the books, of course, it was also their story. How could you not feel pity at their situation but also envy that they were able to share their writing with their siblings? I have a battered anthology of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall right by my desk. Charlotte’s Jane Eyre will always call to me. The writing is deceptively simple but the story fascinating, if chilling, and the heroine, as in so many of their books, ahead of her time.
If you're interested in a diva imbroglio of Sky Ferreira accusing Charli XCX of using old songs of hers for her Wuthering Heights album, then this is your news story. Movie Locations shares the filming locations used for Wuthering Heights 1970. The Apollo cinema in Mazamet has partnered with a new cinephiles' association (Cinémotions81) and a reading club (J'MLire) to launch a monthly themed programming cycle. The inaugural cycle is Brontë-themed, running through April with four films — Téchiné's Les Sœurs Brontë, O'Connor's Emily, Arnold's Wuthering Heights, and the 2026 Wuthering Heights — with membership-discounted tickets and a social evening to close the series. Chaque semaine, Cinémotions81, association de cinéphiles, vous proposera une programmation choisi par ses membres ! Ce mois-ci sera consacré au cycle BRONTË, en partenariat avec l'association J'MLire "Les Soeurs Brontë" (1979, de Téchiné avec Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier et Isabelle Huppert) le mercredi 1er avril à 18h30 le dimanche 05 avril à 14h "Emily" en VOSTFR (2022 avec Emma Mackey) mercredi 08 avril à 18h lundi 13 avril à 20h30 mercredi 15 avril à 18h lundi 20 avril à 16h15 "Les Hauts de Hurlevent" (2011 avec James Howson, Kaya Scodelario) mercredi 22 avril à 18h (en VF) lundi 27 avril à 20h30 (en VOSTFR) "Les Hauts de Hurlevent" (2026 avec Jacob Elordi, Margot Robbie) vendredi 24 avril à 18h (en VOSTFR) suivi d'un échange d'impressions avec J'MLire et soirée conviviale au bar de l'Apollo ! mercredi 29 avril à 18h (VF) lundi 4 mai à 20h30 (VOSTFR)
An alert for tomorrow, April 6 in Porto Alegre, Brazil:
Sala Redenção, R. Eng. Luiz Englert, 333 - Farroupilha, Porto Alegre - RS, 90040-040, Brazil April 6, 3:00 – 6:00pm “O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes”, lançado em 1847, foi o único romance de Emily Brontë. A violência e paixão como retratou a relação entre os personagens Catherine Earnshaw e Heathcliff, na remota e hostil charneca do Morro dos Ventos Uivantes, escandalizou a sociedade vitoriana. Com o passar do tempo, a obra tornou-se um clássico da literatura inglesa e foi várias vezes adaptada para a televisão e o cinema.ç Wuthering Heights 1992 + Talk with Fatimarlei Lunaderlli
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