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fromenglish.elpais.com
5 days ago

Frankenstein, Jane Eyre and Snow White with a gender-based perspective: The Madwoman in the Attic' and the beginning of feminist literary criticism

The new edition of 'La loca del desvan' revives feminist literary criticism, highlighting the relevance of women's voices in literature today.
Film
fromVulture
5 days ago

'Most of Us Long to Be Elizabeth Bennet, But Actually, We're Mary'

The Other Bennet Sister focuses on Mary Bennet's journey of self-discovery after Pride and Prejudice, shifting the spotlight from her more famous siblings.
#the-other-bennet-sister
fromCN Traveller
1 week ago
Television

Where was The Other Bennet Sister filmed?

The Other Bennet Sister was primarily filmed in Wales, despite being set in the Lake District.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago
Books

A new Austen drama made me wonder: is the fate of bookish young women really so different today? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Other Bennet Sister portrays the struggles of an intelligent, bookish girl finding her identity and self-acceptance beyond societal expectations.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

A new Austen drama made me wonder: is the fate of bookish young women really so different today? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Other Bennet Sister portrays the struggles of an intelligent, bookish girl finding her identity and self-acceptance beyond societal expectations.
London
fromianVisits
6 days ago

A century of campaigning: Women's Library marks 100 years with new exhibition

The Women's Library, celebrating its centenary, showcases the history of the women's movement through a diverse collection of documents and exhibitions.
#bridgerton
fromBustle
4 weeks ago
Television

Simone Ashley's Kate May Play A "Special" Role In Eloise's 'Bridgerton' Season

fromBustle
4 weeks ago
Television

Simone Ashley's Kate May Play A "Special" Role In Eloise's 'Bridgerton' Season

fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Gainsborough's Pride and Prejudice

Lorena Bradford started monthly tours in American Sign Language, established a program for individuals with memory loss, and brought in medical students to learn soft skills to apply in their caregiving. 'I was a sub-department of one,' she joked to writer Emma Cieslik, who spoke with Bradford over Zoom and at the NGA about her own circuitous path into the profession, and the future of the field of museum accessibility.
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Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The Other Bennet Sister review the bookish Pride and Prejudice sister gets her turn in the spotlight

Mary Bennet from Pride and Prejudice has become the focus of numerous retellings and adaptations, most notably Janice Hadlow's bestseller adapted into a 10-part television series.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Charles Dickens

The nighttime disorder formerly known as 'Pickwickian syndrome' is now called sleep apnea.
Women
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

The Feminist Visionary Who Lost the Plot

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's experience of discrimination at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention catalyzed her feminist activism, though her sense of intellectual superiority later contributed to bigoted views.
#bronte-sisters
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Better than Wuthering Heights? The Brontes' novels ranked!

Charlotte Brontë's debut novel The Professor was rejected nine times before publication, while her second novel Jane Eyre achieved immediate success, and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey drew authentically from her governess experience.
#charles-dickens
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

The Captivating Saga Behind the Only Known Portrait of the Bronte Sisters

The Brontë sisters' literary legacy continues captivating audiences nearly two centuries after their deaths, experiencing renewed popularity through contemporary adaptations and international exhibitions.
NYC LGBT
fromQueerty
1 month ago

This Victorian era teen lesbian love affair ended in murder, consumption... & an opera - Queerty

Alice Mitchell murdered her lover Freda Ward in 1892 Memphis, shocking Victorian society with evidence of a passionate lesbian relationship between two middle-class women.
Writing
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Virginia Woolf and the Reclaiming of Attention

Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique demonstrates how attention shapes consciousness and remains relevant to contemporary struggles against digital distraction.
fromVulture
1 month ago

Jack Lowden, Why Are You Darcy?

Mr. Darcy is its stern romantic lead. He has a massive income from his estate - 10,000 pounds a year - and, according to the novel's witty protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, just as large of a stick up his ass. Jane Austen was not one to go for lengthy physical descriptions of things, but we do know that when he enters a room, he draws people's attention with a "fine, tall person, handsome features," and a "noble mien."
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Saba Sams: I've no interest in reading Wuthering Heights again'

Jacqueline Wilson's unflinching approach to children's literature, alongside works by authors like Gwendoline Riley and Clarice Lispector, demonstrates that literary courage and emotional complexity resonate more powerfully than conventional safety or virtuousness.
Television
fromScary Mommy
1 month ago

Netflix's 'Pride & Prejudice' Teaser Proves The Yearnaissance Is Far From Over

Netflix is releasing a six-part Pride & Prejudice limited series in 2026 featuring Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden, emphasizing slow-burn romance and tension between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Critics at Large Live: "Wuthering Heights" and Its Afterlives

James Lorimer, writing in the North British Review, promised that the novel would 'never be generally read.' Nearly two centuries later, it's regarded as one of the great works of English literature.
Film
fromBustle
1 month ago

Exclusive: Eloise's 'Bridgerton' Season Will Be "Very Different" In A Major Way

Some things are out of our control. But what is in our control, is our ability to support one another. And ensure that we do not allow fear to keep us from experiencing something that could be truly special.
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Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Becoming George by Fiona Sampson review the remarkable story of a cross-dressing 19th century novelist

George Sand's life exemplifies self-invention through her transgressive choices, including wearing trousers and pursuing unconventional relationships while establishing herself as a major 19th-century writer.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

When Did Literature Get Less Dirty?

Philip Roth's Zuckerman Unbound functioned as a response to the controversial reception of Portnoy's Complaint, with Roth's protagonist expressing regret over writing sexually explicit material that drew accusations of anti-Semitism and misogyny.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

How Anne Boleyn's Enigmatic Image Was Rewritten Over Centuries

Anne Boleyn rose to power in the early 1530s, was executed for treason in 1536, and her image evolved into witch, martyr, and feminist icon.
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

Barbara Pym's Archaic England

Thatcher rose to power on the back of a campaign to Make Britain Great Again-a promise to reverse the previous two decades of austerity, imperial contraction, and stagnating modernization. By 1979, the country was undeniably in decline-not just materially but on a more ineffable level, too. Divested of the unifying effect of global superpower status, the increasingly dis-United Kingdom's common identity was now an open, and anxious, question.
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Food & drink
fromLondon On The Inside
2 months ago

A Pub Named After Mary Wollstonecraft Is Opening in Stokey

Ryan's Bar at 181 Stoke Newington Church St will reopen as The Mary Wollstonecraft Freehouse in early 2026, featuring a garden and dining space.
History
fromBrownstoner
1 month ago

Explore Country House Life at Boscobel This Winter

Boscobel House and Gardens will host events marking Jane Austen's 250th anniversary, including an illustrated lecture on country house architecture and ongoing restoration tours.
fromCN Traveller
3 years ago

The best things to do in Oxford

The Oxford Artisan Distillery (TOAD) produces its whiskey, gin, vodka and liqueur from heritage wheat and rye varieties rediscovered in the thatch of medieval roofs. It's an example of the extraordinary lengths the distillers go here to create their unique flavours while building a regenerative farming system along the way. Tour the distillery to find out all about the processes involved,
Food & drink
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Poem of the week: Song by Lady Mary Chudleigh

Why, Damon, why, why, why so pressing? The Heart you beg's not worth possessing: Each Look, each Word, each Smile's affected, And inward Charms are quite neglected: Then scorn her, scorn her, foolish Swain, And sigh no more, no more in vain. Beauty's worthless, fading, flying; Who would for Trifles think of dying? Who for a Face, a Shape wou'd languish, And tell the Brooks, and Groves his Anguish, Till she, till she thinks fit to prize him, And all, and all beside despise him?
Women
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Film
fromJezebel
1 month ago

Lazy? Ridiculous? Choke-on-Your-Tongue Hot? Jezebel Debates 'Wuthering Heights'

The film's sexual content is muted and vanilla with no nudity, prompting viewers to desire more erotic intensity despite strong performances and a praised soundtrack.
Arts
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Shakespeare' gets a lot of credit but performer should, too

Jacob Ming-Trent uses Shakespeare and hip-hop to process personal trauma, finding poetic kinship that informs a powerful, authoritative solo theatrical performance.
#film-adaptation
fromIndieWire
1 month ago
Film

'Wuthering Heights' Review: Emerald Fennell's Loose, Lush Adaptation Will Enrage Literary Fans and Spark a Legion of New Devotees

fromIndieWire
1 month ago
Film

'Wuthering Heights' Review: Emerald Fennell's Loose, Lush Adaptation Will Enrage Literary Fans and Spark a Legion of New Devotees

Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Who's the Best British Romanticist of Them All?

Tate Britain frames Turner and Constable as rivals, raising questions about genuine artistic rivalry versus promotional framing, amid exhibitions exploring artistic friendships and contemporary practices.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

Masturbation on the Moors for the Win

Emerald Fennell's provocative, R-rated Wuthering Heights grossed $83 million worldwide, underperforming domestically but over-indexing internationally amid mixed critical response.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Sarah Moss: I never liked Wuthering Heights as much as Jane Eyre'

Early reading experiences and family support shaped lasting literary tastes, identity, and critical awareness, prompting later reassessments of values and perspectives.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Tessa Hadley on the Power of Memory

A lasting friendship rests on shared sensibility, mutual trust to perceive and understand, and an affinity of insight beyond mere shared experiences.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

Finally, a Smooth-Brained Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights emphasizes tactile, erotic visuals and lush spectacle, trading sustained thematic depth for provocative, bodily cinematic moments.
Books
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Our Greatest Living Biographer Is Back With His First Single-Subject Book in Decades. It's Enthralling.

Young Alfred Tennyson's early life intertwined poetic sensibility with scientific curiosity amid a Victorian crisis of belief.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

British Library acquires archive of rural life writer and essayist Ronald Blythe

The British Library acquired Ronald Blythe's meticulously ordered archive, preserving over a million words documenting a century of rural East Anglian life and social change.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Poem of the week: Dream-Pedlary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Dream-Pedlary i. If there were dreams to sell. What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung the bell, What would you buy? ii. A cottage lone and still, With bowers nigh,
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Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Digested week: Finally, it's Wuthering Heights discourse time!

Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights adaptation has polarized critics, praised in the US for bold, pulpy style and criticized in the UK as hollow and vapid.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

The Gospel According to Emily Henry

Emily Henry channels rom-com sensibility and religious upbringing to create a fresh, cinematic-influenced romance novel blending humor, nostalgia, and emotional depth.
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