The story of Jane Eyre needs to be retold. It has inspired generations of women - and men, for that matter - to realise they shouldn't settle for second best, or to be content to accept a role that traps and limits their ambition. But such a detailed, descriptive novel is hard to replicate on stage, and while this production holds the attention of the audience throughout, it helps if a viewer has a working knowledge of the story beforehand. This production of Jane Eyre is absorbing and draws out really well the stark treatment and difficult choices Jane encounters. It leaves an uncomfortable impression that what happens to her - and by extension, other people - needs to change. That, after all, is a reason we love theatre: to be entertained, of course, but also to be provoked and challenged. (Richard Evans)
I can't say I felt much chemistry between Jane and Rochester, although I have never really understood how the character of Mr Rochester is an attractive one.
A complex and flawed hero archetype of the 19th century, by today's standards many of his behaviours are a walking red flag. (...) While the set pieces for this adaptation are thoroughly modern, the language of the script remains true to the text. It's a stark contrast hearing Brontësque language while the cast is surrounded by glowing speakers blasting out Jane's inner narrative. (...) The ends comes as abruptly as the start, Jane and a badly injured Rochester clinging to each other as the stage falls dark - the audience hesitant to start applauding in case there is more to come. This is a bold adaptation of a much-loved classic, but it moves at such a pace you barely feel like you have time to build an affection for the characters. And while Gabriel Akuwudike is superb as the brooding Rochester, I once again found myself thinking that Jane - who is one of literature's famously strong-willed, independent, and resilient women - could do far better than him. (Cheryl Mullin) Fans of the literary heroines can visit the Brontë Parsonage Museum, where the family lived and see its impressive collection of furniture, clothes and their personal items. It is here that they wrote classics including Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. On a clear day, many walkers and literary enthusiasts head out onto the moors to visit Top Withens, a ruined farmhouse near to Haworth which is said to inspire the Wuthering Heights house. It lies on the Pennine Way and it is a challenging walk located four miles from the village, but worth it for the breathtaking views. Also tucked away in the moorlands of Haworth is the Brontë waterfall and Bridge, which offer fans an escape into the rugged landscapes that inspired the sisters. This serene post was known to be one of their favourites. (Jenna Campbell)
Essex Echo explores local people who inherited fortunes from distant relatives: People have long dreamed of inheriting a fortune from a long-lost relative, just like Jane Eyre, who receives £20,000 from an unknown uncle—and it happened more often than you might thin. (Emma Palmer) Últimas Noticias (Venezuela) explains the origins of the 48-episode Cumbres Borrascosas 1976 culebrón. La gerencia de dramáticos había decidido sacar adelante una nueva versión televisada del clásico de la literatura Cumbres borrascosas, la obra más aplaudida de la autora inglesa Emily Brontë, a la cual le apostaron fuerte, asignándole la adaptación a Delia Fiallo, quien ya había probado, con elevados índices de audiencia, su talento para atrapar televidentes. El siguiente paso fue encomendar el personaje principal masculino a José Bardina, la estrella del canal que había saboreado un éxito tras otro, de la mano de la misma escritora, haciendo pareja con Marina Baura, Lupita Ferrer y Rebeca González. Para completar la dupla protagónica, los productores escogieron a Elluz Peraza, quien ya había hecho algunas cositas como animadora en VTV y había debutado como actriz en Balumba, junto a Bardina y a Marianella Salazar, en una de las pocas incursiones de la periodista, en el campo del histrionismo. El tercer vértice del triángulo amoroso lo asumió Judith Castillo. En este caso, Venevisión hizo valer el contrato que la chica había firmado con el canal como reina de belleza. Vale comentar que, al cabo de unos meses, la joven introdujo una demanda al sentir que el sueldo percibido (mil bolívares de la época) no se correspondía con la cantidad de compromisos que debía cumplir. Logró reducir los tres años del acuerdo. El elenco quedó constituido por América Alonso, Caridad Canelón, Eduardo Serrano, Eva Blanco, Haydée Balza, Henry Galué, Humberto García, Ivonne Attas, Judith Castillo, Martín Lantigua, Mary Soliani y Raúl Xiqués, todos dirigidos por Grazio D’Angelo, en las grabaciones realizadas en La Colonia Tovar. Una vez escogido el tema Beyond the Forest de Max Steiner, Cumbres borrascosas fue estrenada el 8 de noviembre de 1976, a las nueve de la noche. Duró 48 capítulos. (Orlando Suárez) (Translation)
Paese Italia (Italy) interviews the cast of the Gianni Clementi adaptation of Wuthering Heights that returns to the Sala Umberto in Roma next week. A pointless Brontë mention in the title of an article in Irish Mirror. Alfemminile (Italy) lists Jane Eyre among several other immortal love stories. A new Spanish publication of Wuthering Heights with the 1943 original illustrations of Fritz Eichenberg:
by Emily Brontë Translation by Rosa Castillo Alianza Editorial - Alianza Clásicos ISBN: 979-13-7009-304-4 September 2026
Cuando el señor Earnshaw regresa a Cumbres Borrascosas con un niño huérfano llamado Heathcliff, la vida en la agreste campiña de Yorkshire se altera para siempre. La presencia del muchacho despierta recelos, celos y tensiones en la familia, pero también un vínculo profundo e indomable entre él y Catherine, la hija del señor Earnshaw. A medida que crecen, la pasión entre ambos se vuelve tan intensa como imposible, atrapada entre las rígidas convenciones sociales, el orgullo familiar y la brutalidad del entorno que los rodea. La llegada de los Linton, refinados y acomodados, abre un nuevo frente de rivalidades y deseos que desencadenará una cadena de venganzas, obsesiones y amores condenados. Entre tormentas, páramos desolados y secretos que atraviesan generaciones, Emily Brontë (1818-1848) construye una historia feroz y magnética sobre la fuerza devastadora del amor y la incapacidad humana para escapar de sus propias pasiones.
Via Revista De Arte.
In Brontë footsteps A walk that’s full of history as one that the Brontë sisters would have been familiar with on the wild moors. Start at Stanbury bus terminus and walk uphill on Back Lane. At the first road junction, continue following the road as it changes from a hard surface to a rough track. Just beyond a parking area, the rough track divides. Here, take the right-hand track uphill to the gate and cattle grid at the top of the incline. Go through the gate and on to open moorland to where the track divides into three – follow the right-hand track and continue uphill all the way until you reach the ruin of Top Withens farm, thought to have inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. At this point, you can head back down to Stanbury or go a little further for some incredible views. Walk to the rear of the building and take the narrow well-defined path leading steeply uphill and slightly to the right, in a north westerly direction. Follow this narrow path across moorland and keep right when you reach a point where another narrower path bears left. You will shortly see the Delf Hill trig point ahead. At the trig point take in amazing views all around, from Boulsworth Hill and Pendle Hill to the left, across the Yorkshire Dales, and beyond. Back in Stanbury, head to traditional village local, Wuthering Heights Inn. The pub also has a campsite with spectacular views. Top Withens Distance: Around two miles Start/finish: Stanbury bus terminus, Hob Hill, at the western end of Stanbury Main Street Difficulty: Suitable for most reasonably fit occasional walkers Parking: Limited parking near the bus terminus, but there is an informal parking area 300 yards up Back Lane, where the walk route passes. Parking is also available in Haworth village, around 1.7 miles away Pub: Wuthering Heights Inn, Stanbury (Kathryn Armstrong)
A columnist from The Edinburgh Evening News is sad and indignant that the Meadows Festival has cancelled next year's event, which includes The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, because of the lack of volunteers and the sad state of affairs when it comes to funding art-related things.
A Christmas Carol is part of the Victorian gothic literary tradition, which includes some of history's most adapted and influential works, including Stoker's Dracula, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Brontë's Jane Eyre. (Marko Djurdjić) Forbes has an article on the forthcoming Wuthering Heights musical which will premiere in Seoul during January. Screen Daily reports that the first awards contenders taking part in Screen International and the Barbican’s ‘Screen FYC London’ event have been named, and one of them is Wuthering Heights 2026. The Brontë Sisters UK explores Emily Brontë and homesickness.
A new alert from the Bronté Parsonage Museum for tomorrow, November 14: Sat 14 Nov, 2:00pm Brontë Event Space in the Old School Room
Best-selling authors Dorothy Koomson and Araminta Hall both began their writing careers as journalists. Hear from them in conversation with Sharon Wright - who met them when they worked on a national women's magazine - for a lively discussion about why journalists write books.
Dorothy Koomson is an award-winning, global bestselling author of 23 novels. Her novels include the Sunday Times bestsellers I Know What You’ve Done, Tell Me Your Secret, The Brighton Mermaid and My Best Friend’s Girl. Her new novel, The Quiet Girls, was published in March 2026. Her novels The Ice Cream Girls and The Rose Petal Beach were both shortlisted for the British Book Awards in 2010 and 2013, respectively. In 2021, Dorothy featured on the Powerlist as one of the most influential Black people in Britain. She has appeared in GQ Style as a Black British trailblazer, and was a judge for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction. She believes passionately that everyone should have the opportunity to tell their story and regularly mentors aspiring authors. Unreliable Narrator is her latest and was published in March 2026. Two of her novels, Everything & Nothing and One of the Good Guys, have been Richard and Judy picks. Her 2020 novel, Imperfect Women, is a major series on Apple TV starring Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara. She also teaches creative writing and sits on the board of the Beyond the Book festival in Brighton, where she lives with her husband and various iterations of her three grown-up children. Journalist and Editor of the Brontë Society Gazette Sharon Wright is the author of The Lost History of the Lady Aeronauts; Mother of the Brontës: The Life of Maria Branwell and co-author with Ann Dinsdale of Let Me In: the Brontës in Bricks and Mortar. She writes for national magazines and newspapers including The Times and Woman & Home and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and Today programmes. Research for Let Me In led to her winning a correction to the Brontë memorial in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Tomorrow, Saturday 14 November, the Biblioteca Central de Gandia (Spain) holds the second session of a free creative writing workshop on emotional management, led by writer Andrea Carratalà as part of the Tardor Literària 2026.
The three Saturday sessions (10:00 h) pair a classic novel by a woman with one emotion: fear with Frankenstein (7 Nov), anger with Wuthering Heights (14 Nov) and sadness with Jane Eyre (21 Nov). On the 14th, participants explore how Heathcliff turns heartbreak, exclusion and lack of belonging into destructive fury, and then write about their own anger through guided exercises. On the 21st, Jane Eyre closes the cycle with sadness, seen as a source of lucidity and dignity rather than weakness. Via Levante.
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