Sophie is a passive observer of her own life, watching it unfold like a character on the periphery.
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Emerald Fennell’s film is not interested in the racial commentary many critics have found in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
Isabella Linton is reimagined as a kink-loving submissive, instead of a strong survivor of domestic abuse.
Fennell’s Wuthering Heights turns a gothic tragedy into erotica for the TikTok generation. It’s terrifying for all the wrong reasons.
This album stands as a musical adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel in its own right.
Emily Brontë’s poetry is full of haunting love, grief and death.
Costume designer Jacqueline Durran draws on 500 years of fashion to create a totally new visual world.
Emily Brontë’s novel celebrates the head-spinning, hair-raising, all-consuming experience of falling in love.
A proper adaptation of Wuthering Heights, a guide to love, games for love, a regency swoonfest and a modernisation of revenge tale.
Heathcliff sneeringly rejected the idea he was ‘a hero of romance’ – though the new film claims Wuthering Heights as the greatest love story of all time. Is it?
If any filmmaker has demonstrated their ability to sit comfortably with the darker sides of human nature, it is Emerald Fennell.
Re-reading Jane Eyre after my diagnoses of autism and ADHD, her journey resembles the struggles of autistic women who learn to mask. I’m not the first one to see it.
Wuthering Heights explores the absolute power that marriage can grant to abusive men.
Cathy Earnshaw would never have worn the dress as depicted on screen.
Are Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie too glitzy to portray the rugged violence of these tortured lovers, and in 2024 should Heathcliff be white?
An expert in the lives and works Brontës argues that it’s time for a radical change in the way we think about Emily Brontë’s death.
A new film about the author mixes biography with mythology and some dramatic reinvention.
Cast as some unworldly young woman who wrote a 19th-century romance, Emily Brontë is more powerful and relevant than she is given credit for.
This week is the 200th anniversary of Emily Bronte’s birth. If reading Wuthering Heights - her only published novel - feels like a suspension in a state of waking nightmare, what a richly-hued vision of the fantastical it is.
By refusing to idealise or victimise the women in Wuthering Heights, Brontë reveals herself as an early feminist.
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