59 years before Jane Eyre

Ara (in Catalan) reviews Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary: A Fiction, newly translated into Catalan.

La contraportada ens diu que Mary és una heroïna a l’estil de Jane Eyre i és veritat, perquè a Jane Eyre no hi havia qui li tossís i estava disposada a patir el que fos per conservar la seva independència. (M. Àngels Cabré) (Translation)

It was published 59 years before Jane Eyre, though.

Jane Eyre. The Musical in London

 A new production of Jane Eyre. The Musical opens in London tomorrow, March 12:Urdang Presents: Jane EyreBernie Grant Arts Centre, London, N15 4RXWednesday 12th March 2025 - Saturday 15th March 2025Jane Eyre Caat 12th - 15th March 2025 Gordon Cast - Wednesday 12th 14:30 and 19.30Caird Cast - Thursday...

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Jane Eyre: inspiration and location

Express features Haddon Hall reminding readers of the fact thatHaddon Hall has been used as a filming location for world famous films such as The Princess Bride, Jane Eyre, and even Pride and Prejudice. (Jennifer Pinto)The Times features the Bike & Boot hotel in the Peak District.But scenic sorties are legion: nearby Hathersage was inspiration for Jane Eyre, is the site of the grave of Robin Hood’s...

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Wuthering Heights in Bochum

A new adaptation of Wuthering Heights has been premiered this week in Bochum, Germany:Sturmhöheçafter Emily BrontëGerman by Wolfgang SchlüterStage adaptation by Claudia BossardDirector:  Claudia BossardWith:  Konstantin Bühler ,  Danai Chatzipetrou ,  Dominik Dos-Reis ,  Marius...

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Massive Impacts

The Northern Ballet publishes an advertisement of their upcoming Jane Eyre touring production in the Harrogate Advertiser:In an unmissable production, Charlotte Brontë’s classic tale of Jane Eyre is being brought to life in spectacular style by the Northern Ballet in Leeds and Sheffield.Renowned company Northern Ballet is proud to bring this tale of passion and rebellion home to Yorkshire.Delighting...

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Living the Loss

This new collection of poetry is quite connected to Emily Brontë:Living the Lossby Liliana PasterskaCinnamon PressISBN: 9781788641708Grief runs through these poems, most beginning with an epigraph from a diary entry by Emily Brontë, whose first loss was her mother when she was just three years old.We...

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Younger Cathy and younger Heathcliff

Variety exclusively revealed the actors playing younger Cathy and younger Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights.Emerald Fennell has cast her young Heathcliff and Cathy — and young Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie — in her upcoming all-star star adaptation of Emily Brönte’s [sic] “Wuthering...

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A Resistant Reading of The Old Stoic

 A recent paper with a new analysis of Emily Brontë's The Old Stoic poem;A Resistant Reading of Emily Brontё’s “The Old Stoic”Muhammad Dirgantara Esa Valentino AmThe Explicator, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2025.2465746The Old Stoic; the concluding poem by Emily Bronte (Ellis Bell) in Poems, has been widely read as a portrait of the consummate attainment of the Stoic virtues. Dodds (9),...

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“You examine me, Miss Eyre,” said he: “do you think me handsome?”

LitHub announces the start of its 'Best Villains in Literature Bracket'. We know it's just a fun game, but still we are somewhat saddened to see Mr Rochester in the 'manipulative bastards' category. Particularly as whoever has written the following doesn't seem to have actually read the book:(9) Mr. Rochester (Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre)How handsome and charming does someone have to be for you to...

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Anne and Lord Byron

A new scholarly book about Anne Brontë has just been published:Anne Brontë and Lord ByronLost Echoes of Influenceby Jessica LewisSrpingerISBN 978-3-031-75359-6March 2025This book explores the relationship between Anne Brontë’s work and the life and writings of Lord Byron. Byron’s influence on the other...

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The human heart has hidden treasures,/ In secret kept, in silence sealed

 The New Yorker describes Good Girl by Aria Aber as a bildungsroman.“Good Girl” is a bildungsroman, a novel about personal development or, if you like, growing up. It shares unexpected and gratifying parallels with various classics of the genre, including Goethe’s “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship,” about a young man who falls in with a troupe of circus performers, and Charlotte Brontë’s...

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Brontës’ Heroines

More Brontës in the Iraq academia:Brontës’ Heroines: Inner Behavior and Social Transformations in a Global Nineteenth-Century Context and BeyondAsst. Prof. Khalid J. Oudah Alogaili, Dept. of English Language, College of Arts, University of Kufa, IraqKufa Journal of Arts, March 2025. No. 63, P 332 - 349This paper explores the inner behavior and social psychological transformation of Charlotte and Anne...

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Jane Eyre is not historical fiction but is a novel of its time

WBUR shares an excerpt from Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star by Mayukh Sen.I was a teenager when I first came across Merle Oberon as Cathy in William Wyler’s Wuthering Heights (1939), the film for which she is arguably most remembered today. It was around 2009 or so, and I was a senior in high school in suburban New Jersey. By that point, she had been dead for three...

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Breaking Boundaries

An online partnership event with the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Chawton House and Elizabeth Gaskell’s House:International Women’s Day – Breaking BoundariesWed 5 Mar, 7:30pmJoin our three literary houses in an evening to celebrate women writers who broke boundaries as we mark International Women’s Day.Step...

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Inspiring manor

Far Out magazine features English Teacher frontwoman Lily Fontaine and the band's song The World’s Biggest Paving Slab.She was raised in Colne, a small market town in Lancashire. Colne itself is little known, but it’s a short walk from the manor that inspired the setting of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, a town over from where John Simm and Lee Ingleby took their first drama course, and one of...

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20 Paperback Poems

 A few days ago, the paperback edition of Nick Holland's Emily Brontë A life in 20 poems was published. This new edition contains a new introduction and two new appendices, about Emily Brontë's name and translations of her Belgian devoirs.Emily BronteA Life in 20 PoemsNick HollandThe History PressISBN:...

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Wild, windswept moors

Stars Insider lists 'Charming places from beloved books that you can actually explore' including the Yorkshire moors.Brontë's MoorsThe Yorkshire Moors, a character in their own right in Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' are as hauntingly beautiful in reality as they are in the novel. Visitors to Haworth, the Brontë family home, can roam these wild, windswept landscapes, imagining Heathcliff and...

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Persian Grammatical Metaphors

This is a very specialized paper addressing a very specific topic:Comparative analysis of the use of grammatical metaphor in the novel "Wuthering Heights" and its two translations by Reza Rezaei and Noushin Ebrahimi from the perspective of Halliday's systematic- functional grammarby Sedighesadat Meghdari, Shirin SaghiJournal of Linguistics and Khorasan Dialects,  In Press (Accepted Manuscript, Available...

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How to Loose your Heritage (and how to recover it)

This is one more example of neglect, short-sighted planning, and a lack of genuine interest in preserving our heritage (except when it generates immediate revenue). The Red House was a very recent example. Now, it's Thornbush Farm, the place where Patrick and Maria Branwell lived after their wedding...

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Gender Roles in Jane Eyre

A new Brontë-related publication. But we must warn you, if you are in the US, you could be in big trouble if you receive an email asking what you read last week:Interdiscipline innovation and scientific research conferenceGender roles and reflection of feminism in Jane EyreEgamnazarova Rushana Vol. 3 No. 28 (2025): Interdiscipline Innovation and Scientific Research ConferenceAbstractCharlotte...

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