Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights has been much anticipated pretty much since it was first announced a few years back. The idea alone was enough to spark curiosity — what might a female writer-director do with one of the most intense and unsettling novels in English literature? As time went on and the cast… Continue reading “Wuthering Heights” Review
For a long time, I thought that loving the Brontës meant wanting to belong to a particular world: the inner circle, the recognised names, the people whose proximity to the Brontës — academic, professional, reputational — seemed to confer legitimacy. I wanted, desperately, to be inside. To be known. To be taken seriously. I am… Continue reading Being at Home on the Outside: Identity, the Brontës, and Choosing Not to Belong
Reader, it’s been a while. Normally, I use my blog to review other people’s work or write about the Brontës, wandering through their worlds and sharing what I find. This time, however, I’d like to step out of that familiar pattern and introduce something of my own: my new short story, Shadows of the Sisters.… Continue reading Shadows of the Sisters: A Midwinter Haunting
After my latest post, I realised there were a few more titles inspired by the Brontës that I'd missed from my list. Here they are: A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler Blame it on the Brontës by Annie Sereno Dear Jane by Marina DelVecchio Glass Town Wars by… Continue reading More Bronte-Inspired Fiction
I'm pleased to announce that my latest novel, Death in Angria, has just had its final proofs approved. Inspired by the Brontë juvenilia (what else), it should be hitting bookshops soon (published by Olympia). Whilst there is no release date yet, I can share with you the cover and blurb. In honour of this, I… Continue reading Death in Angria and Other Bronte-Inspired Fiction
Four Dreamers and Emily by Stevie Davies is the story of four individuals whose paths cross thanks to the Brontës and a literary conference in Haworth. The dreamers are Marianne, a lecturer and overworked wife and mother; an elderly and lonely widower named Timothy; a young waitress called Sharon; and Eileen who is a sixty-something… Continue reading Four Dreamers and Emily by Stevie Davies
I made my way through 43 books in 2022. It will come as no surprise that a few of them were inspired in some way by the Brontës. Here's a quick recap of those titles and my general thoughts on them. Have you read any of the titles below? If so, what did you think… Continue reading Brontë-Inspired Reads of 2022
When we think of the Brontë siblings, we conjure up images of brooding anti-heroes, poor governesses, and wild Yorkshire moors. In short, we tend to think of Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Emily’s Wuthering Heights, and Anne’s Agnes Grey, novels seemingly written by three lonely and isolated sisters in their family home against the backdrop of the harsh environment of northern… Continue reading How Important is the Child Writer to the Parent Author?
In 1826 a young Charlotte Brontë and her siblings dreamt up their shared fantasy world of Glass Town. The siblings worked on the stories and characters from this world, and later Angria and Gondal, as they grew up. History has not been kind to the Brontë juvenilia with the surviving writings being split up across… Continue reading The Twelve Adventurers and Other Stories: A New Edition
It's time for a spring clean at Brontë Babe Blog, so let's start with a refined version of my review of Catherynne M. Valente's 2017 children's novel, The Glass Town Game. Plot Siblings Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë invent a fantasy world named Glass Town, acting out battles between their twelve toy soldiers and Napoleon.… Continue reading The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente
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