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Wednesday, October 07, 2020

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Woman's Day recommends '25 of the Best Romance Novels That'll Make You Feel All the Love' including
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre has been on high school reading lists for eons and is practically a rite of passage for any reader who loves a good tale of romance. That said, it’s certainly not light-hearted fluff stuff. It tells the story of Jane, a young woman from the north of England who overcomes a troubled abusive childhood to become a governess at Thornfield Hall. (Kaitlin Stanford)
Popular Science discusses ghosts:
“I know that ghosts have wandered on earth.” So says the tormented hero Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, and he’s not alone: Even for the most grounded among us, there’s something irresistible about haunted houses and vengeful spirits. Sometimes, hoping for a spectral sighting (or, like Heathcliff, dreading one) is enough for us to conjure a wraith. (Jake Bittle)
Espalha Factos (Portugal) recommends Wuthering Heights as an autumn read (pity they have used a very bad portrait of Charlotte to illustrate the recommendation).
Emily Brontë – O Monte dos Vendavais (1847)
Emily Brontë viveu no século XIX e deixou-nos, como herança, O Monte dos Vendavais.
A obra prima da escritora britânica é sem dúvida uma leitura de outono com cheiro a inícios de inverno. O Monte dos Vendavais apresenta a história trágica da paixão de Heathcliff (adotado em criança pelo patriarca da família Earnshaw, o senhor do Monte dos Vendavais) e Catherine Earnshaw, bem como do seu amor tão tempestuoso que acaba por afetar as vidas de todos aqueles que os rodeiam como se de uma maldição se tratasse. Uma obra intemporal que encaixa na perfeição com uma tarde chuvosa de outono, uma manta e uma bebida quente. (Matilde Costa Alves) (Translation)
Retrograzing also recommends reading it.

Mujer hoy (Spain) has an article on Dark Academia.
Autoras como las hermanas Brontë, Sylvia Plath, la generación beatnik y Donna Tartt, cuya novela 'El secreto', es una especie de texto fundacional de la dark academia se mezclan con arquitectura neoclásica, cuadros prerrafaelitas, el amor por el café y el té, las tiendas de segunda mano, las velas y las flores secas, el horóscopo y las casas de Hogwarts. (Laura Caso) (Translation)
Here's how GQ describes British newspaper magnate Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe.
Gazing blankly from his pedestal, across the sand-coloured marble floor is a black stone bust of one of newspapers’ greatest pioneers, arguably the greatest: born Alfred Harmsworth; died Viscount Northcliffe. The sculptor was generous. A Google image search shows a plump, cheerful man with a touch of Oliver Hardy about him; this visage is windswept, bare-chested, heroic. More Heathcliff than Northcliffe. (Matt Kelly)
Royal Central selects the 'Top 10 royal songs on Horrible Histories'. This parody of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights is very funny indeed.
Parody of: ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Kate Bush
Featured on: Series 4, Episode 10
About: This brilliant song is both informative and comical. The former queen is painted as evil and slightly unstable as she recounts how she’d tie 300 people to a stake before burning them. The song also describes her short-lived marriage to King Philip II of Spain, changing the English faith from Protestant to Catholic, and the opposition to her throne by Lady Jane Grey. (Rebecca Russell)

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