Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
More than fifty-five years after her stay at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels, Laetitia Wheelwright wrote to a biographer of Charlotte Brontë: I am afraid my recollections of Emily Brontë will not aid you much. I simply disliked her from…
Some Anglophone readers (and Russophone children) get understandably confused by Russian names in Crime and Punishment and War and Peace. Others are bewildered by the tightly circumscribed nameset of Wuthering Heights. Over to Kathryn Hughes, again: …the screechy melodrama about…
Kathryn Hughes’ Wuthering Heights article succeeded beyond expectations: surely the editors couldn’t have expected twenty-four pages of comments – a good deal of them sensible, some showing a keen understanding of the subject. It’s one of the rare cases for…
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, an excerpt from John Bayley‘s 1990 piece in the London Review of Books: The real secret of Wuthering Heights may be its fierce and compelling fantasy and metamorphosis of the passions and rages of…
In her piece on The Wuthering Heights in The Guardian, Kathryn Hughes rehashes and twists facts and claims from the Brontë-related literature of the past thirty years to portray the author as a “ruthlessly self-defined artist” who was “self-interested, pragmatic…