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. A couple of alerts for tomorrow, July 25:
Sat 25 Jul, 10:00am Meet at the Brontë Parsonage Museum Shop
Emily and Lucy, founders of Soft Girls Who Hike, coined the term “soft hiking” - a more accessible, gentle approach to the outdoors that prioritises enjoyment over endurance. They have since built the Soft Hiking Club, an online community connecting soft hikers around the world. The movement has clearly resonated, generating over 11 billion views on TikTok and growing a combined audience of 100,000+ followers across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Their work has been featured in Insider, Forbes, Time Out, and CNBC, among others. This walk will take you from the Brontë Parsonage Museum, up across Penistone Hill, to the Brontë Bridge situated at the ‘meeting of the waters’. The walk will include various stops along the way where museum volunteer, Paul will be shedding light on the Brontë story and its connection with the landscape. Ticketholders for this event are entitled to discounted entry to the Museum at £9 (General concession ticket), as well as a choice of a ‘Team’ badge (Team Anne, Team Emily, Branwell and Charlotte badges).
Sat 25 Jul, 1:00pm Oakwell Hall & Country Park, Birstall, WF17 9LF
Discover the National Gallery through Brontë eyes. Oakwell Hall and Country Park is one of the hosts of the National Gallery's nationwide exhibition, ‘The National Gallery: Art On Your Doorstep.’ Fourteen life-size reproductions of National Gallery paintings are to be displayed throughout the Country Park. Join us at Oakwell Hall for a fascinating curator-led tour exploring when the Brontë sisters visited the National Gallery—twice!—and what the Gallery looked like during their time. Learn about their visits, the artworks they encountered, and how these experiences may have influenced their writing. Each selected painting on the tour is paired with a hand‑picked literary quote from one of the novels, offering a rich and atmospheric connection between the art and the world of the Brontës. Perfect for adults with an interest in literature, history, or art, this unique experience brings together storytelling, heritage, and visual culture.
Man fined £1,000 after fly-tipping at Penistone Hill A Rogue waste carrier has been fined for dumping rubbish. He was working without a licence and left a large pile of waste at Penistone Hill Country Park. Bradford Council’s Environmental Enforcement Team was alerted to the fly tip in early May 2025 in the park's car park, a popular spot in Haworth known for its Brontë heritage and scenic views. The dumped rubbish included household and commercial waste such as furniture, timber, doors, cardboard, black bags, and general refuse. (Harry Williams)
Hathersage, one of the UK's most beautiful places to visit, according to Derbyshire Times: Literary connections Hathersage has strong literary connections - having inspired Charlotte Brontë while she was writing Jane Eyre. The nearby North Lees Hall also became the main inspiration for Thornfield Hall. (Tom Hardwick)
Ranker proposes to list a list of film adaptations according to the biggest changes they made to their original material: There Are No Sex Scenes In Emily Brontë’s ‘Wuthering Heights,’ But Plenty In The 2026 Movie Adaptation. Emily Brontë’s book is not steamy. It’s tragic, gothic, almost asexual - in fact, the star-crossed lovers Cathy and Heathcliff are soulmates, no sex needed. When society doesn’t allow them to marry because he’s poor, things become tragic and toxic, and with time love becomes obsession, and its beauty becomes withering. The movie has some of those elements, but it’s not interested in the yearning, but the lust between Cathy and Heathcliff, especially once she’s married Edgar, showing them having sex numerous times (there’s also a scene with the servants having S&M sex, for some reason). Director Emerald Fennell has said the film is inspired by how she felt reading the book when she was 14, so it makes sense that the yearning, in her eyes, involved lust. In turn, it logically follows that one of the things she was interested in adapting was creating this much more sexually forward version. (Rafa Boladeras)
The Booker Prizes interviews classicist and Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judges, Mary Beard:
What book made you fall in love with reading as a child? How and why did it capture your imagination? I don’t think I ever ‘fell in love’ with reading. And I don’t feel ‘in love’ with it now. Reading has always been much more embedded in my life than that (as necessary as eating and sleeping… and most of us aren’t ‘in love’ with sleeping). What books do I remember from all those years ago? Any number… Beatrix Potter’s Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, Jane Eyre and the Guinness Book of Records.
Cinemanía (Spain) recommends Wuthering Heights 2011, which is fine. The piece about the film and the novel is spotless and insightful. The only thing: the author seems to confuse Emily with J.K. Rowling in the use of napkins to write her novel. "Yo soy Heathcliff", dijo Catherine Earnshaw. Y la historia de la literatura tembló. Emily Brontë acababa de escribir (en servilletas, apenas tenía papel)(????????) una de las novelas más emblemáticas de la tradición anglosajona, una de las historias de amor más infelices y arrebatadoras de todos los tiempos, 260 páginas de crueldad y desencuentro, de desamor desabrigado y escarpado como el abismo que la propia autora creó y colocó entre Heathcliff y Cathy, el kilométrico páramo que separaba Wuthering Heights de Thrushcross Grange, el salvajismo de la civilización, el corazón de la razón. Podría parecer que una historia así no debería suscitar el interés de una directora como Andrea Arnold, más inclinada –ya lo demostró en Wasp o en Fish Tank– hacia el drama urbano, el realismo social y la brutalidad infantil. Y sin embargo, la directora sorprende con una lectura fiel, que aunque prescinde del armazón más aparatoso de la obra (elimina el juego matrioskal de narradores) apunta a su más pura esencia, dispara al corazón mismo de la novela y empata con ella, consigue lo que Cumbres borrascosas logró en su momento: que al leer aquella historia de amor nos doliera el cuerpo. Pero su verdadero acierto es que para transmitirnos la esencia de Cumbres borrascosas no renuncia a su estilo, a su manera de contar las cosas. Su versión del clásico es casi muda (las palabras que intercala –"me has roto el corazón, me has matado"– son como puños golpeando en el estómago), la violencia y el barro y la mugre se hacen más explícitas, el lenguaje está inspirado en el de las barriadas de Essex, y su banda sonora son los animales, los gritos, el viento, las palmadas, el dolor… convirtiendo la adaptación en algo más parecido a un poema. Que Heathcliff sea más negro que en la novela quiere decir que la directora tampoco ha abandonado los temas que la inquietan y en los que le gusta ahondar: ¿qué sucede cuando un niño crece rodeado de violencia y sin amor? "Emily Brontë era Heathcliff", diría Andrea Arnold, "y todos podríamos ser él". (Andrea G. Bermejo) (Translation)
In the video for her 1978 song “Wuthering Heights,” Kate Bush wears a red dress and red flowers in her hair as she twirls, swoops, beckons and poses through a grassy plain. She’s mesmerizing, acting out the aching lyrics — “Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy / I’ve come home, I’m so cold” — in indelible gestures that I’ll admit I’ve stood in front of the screen mirroring more than once. Each summer, locations around the world host “The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever,” where people get together in cherry-colored dresses and recreate the dance. Here are gatherings in Melbourne, Atlanta, Edinburgh and the original performance that inspired them all in Brighton, from 2013. Many events are scheduled for this weekend, including one in the English coastal town of Folkestone, whose organizers have put together a tutorial for how to do the dance. It looks a little intimidating when you see Kate Bush kicking her leg up near her ear on each refrain, but, as one of the instructors in the tutorial says: “The point isn’t to look brilliant; the point is to make sure we have lots of fun.” Thanks to Ann Shaller, a reader from Orange County, Calif., who’s been known to dance her own Nelken Line, for the recommendation. ( Melissa Kirsch)
Freie Presse (Germany) asks some local booksellers for recommendations, and Wuthering Heights is one of them. Uncommon Content thinks that The Other Bennet Sister is closer to Jane Eyre than Jane Austen. More Recent Articles
|
%20(1).v1.jpg)
