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From the Archive: “Working Girls: The Brontës” | Elizabeth Hardwick, Kathleen Chalfant

From the Archive: “Working Girls: The Brontës” | Elizabeth Hardwick, Kathleen Chalfant

Published by José Betancourt

Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. In the May 4, 1972, issue of The New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Hardwick wrote about the lives and work of the Brontë sisters on the occasion of Winifred Gérin’s then-new biography of Emily (preceded by Gérin’s biographies of Anne, Branwell, and Charlotte, and followed in 1973 by her group biography The Brontës). In this episode of Private Life, Hardwick’s essay is read by Kathleen Chalfant, an actress who has appeared in television, in film, and in stage productions on and off Broadway. She is currently performing in New York in the Playwrights Horizons production of Jacob Perkins’s The Dinosaurs, and she recently starred in Sarah Friedland’s film Familiar Touch (2024). This reading serves as an accompaniment to the Private Life episode featuring Darryl Pinckney discussing his close friendship with Hardwick. You can also read “Working Girls: The Brontës” here on our website. Source link

Unpacking Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: the best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

Unpacking Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: the best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

Published by Sam Flores

The Book Club The latest release from Goalhanger hears historian Dominic Sandbrook in English teacher mode, as he dissects classic novels with producer Tabitha Syrett. Luckily, it doesn’t feel like homework: their first episode, on Wuthering Heights, revels in Emily Brontë’s dark themes, confusingly-named protagonists, and the author herself – from her tragically tiny coffin to the graveyard water that may have led to her premature death. Hannah J DaviesWidely available, episodes weekly Social Moths Harriet Dyer, Amy Mason and Lindsey Santoro’s series is ostensibly about how to get out of the house when your mental health, children, or phone addiction are holding you back. Largely ludicrous and instantly endearing, it’s also an excuse for the three comics to share wry anecdotes about rude hecklers and nosy Google search results. HJDWidely available, episodes weekly Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show Charming … Mia McKenna-Bruce. Photograph: Ricky Vigil M/Justin E Palmer/GC Images This thoughtful chat show dispenses with the small talk and dives straight in. From Jason Isaacs opening up about a hypnotherapy session as research for …

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is controversial – but Brontë’s novel has been shocking people for 178 years

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is controversial – but Brontë’s novel has been shocking people for 178 years

Published by Daniella Wilson

If you’ve been anywhere on the internet in recent months, you’ll notice that Emerald Fennell’s new adaptation of Wuthering Heights has caused its fair share of controversy. But it’s worth noting that this is a story that has outraged and intrigued people ever since its initial publication in 1847. Speaking to RadioTimes.com, Juliet Barker, author of The Brontës, Lucasta Miller, author of The Brontë Myth, and Claire O’Callaghan, Editor-in-Chief of Brontë Studies – the official journal of the Brontë Society – talked us through the shocking past of the text. “The scenes of violence, they’re so graphic that they almost go beyond realism,” explained Miller. “Which is why I don’t think they can really be represented on screen unless it became a Tarantino-esque cartoon. “If you imagine literally portraying on-screen a grown man rubbing a child’s wrist up and down on a broken window until the blood runs down. People would be running out of the cinemas.” The 2026 movie – out in cinemas today – retains an element of that shock factor. O’Callaghan, who …

Tell us: has the new Wuthering Heights film adaptation inspired you to read Emily Brontë’s novel? | Film

Tell us: has the new Wuthering Heights film adaptation inspired you to read Emily Brontë’s novel? | Film

Published by Sam Flores

Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights came to theatres worldwide on 13 February, with the director Emerald Fennell saying she hopes it will “provoke a sort of primal response.” But Brontë’s tempestuous 1847 novel itself has been described as too extreme for the screen and on its release it was certainly not interpreted as a love story. “I can’t adapt the book as it is but I can approximate the way it made me feel,” Fennell has said. We want to hear from you. Has you been inspired to seek out the novel for the first time – or re-read it after a long interval – in the run-up to the new adaptation? What did you think of reading the book? Do you think it will change your experience of watching the film? If you’ve seen the film how did it compare? Share your experience You can tell us your experience in the form below. Your responses, which can be anonymous, are secure as the form is encrypted and only the Guardian has …