Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

 

Anne Bronte: Tenant of Wildfell Hall

 

Charlotte Bronte: Jame Eyre

 

Trivia: Branwell Brontë, brother of the three sisters, was perusing an older married woman Lydia Robinson who became the inspiration for Mrs. Robinson in the movie The Graduate.

That Wuthering Heights trailer has 21 million views, for a new movie coming 2026.

Oh, NAUSEA !

They should have used the song Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush as the theme song.

Dave

And so for those enamored of interpretive dancing...

 

On 11/22/2025 at 11:26 PM, Fielder said:

Trivia: Branwell Brontë, brother of the three sisters, was perusing an older married woman Lydia Robinson who became the inspiration for Mrs. Robinson in the movie The Graduate

(Coughs slightly...) are you quite sure about that?😂

I'm not a movie buff or historian, but that's what I read on movie fan sites about The Graduate. 

1 hour ago, Fielder said:

I'm not a movie buff or historian, but that's what I read on movie fan sites about The Graduate. 

Well it's a great theory....😃

Yes I can understand your questioning the connection.

Elizabeth Gaskell, had authored the famous novels Cranford and North and South. And then in 1857 wrote a biography of her friend Charlotte Bronte. Up until then, the public didn't know about the authors who called themselves the "Bell Brothers" were actually the Bronte sisters. Jane Austen a few years earlier had also concealed her identity for the same reason, so that the public would think she was a man. Which presumably would help book sales in the late Regency early Victorian age.

Gaskell's biography went into the rather sordid story of how Mrs. Robinson had seduced Branwell Bronte and she hinted caused his death. Her source were the 16 letters to Branwell from Mrs. Robinson that Charlotte showed her from where they were stored in the Bronte parsonage in Haworth. 

The reason this became a sensation, is that Mrs. Robinson then sued Elizabeth Gaskell causing the British tabloids to have a field day. The public had to decide if It was Mrs. Robinson the middle aged lady perusing the young innocent stud or it was the other way around. But it was the lawsuit against the famous author Elizabeth Gaskell that made the story big in the newspapers.

But, the "Mrs. Robinson" trope might not have been so widely known as I imagined. Simon And Garfunkel might not have not even known about it. Perhaps my imagination ran too wild, LOL.

On 11/26/2025 at 6:56 PM, Penzoil3 said:

Oh, NAUSEA !

Have some sympathy for the generations of British school children who had to wade through this gloop to pass their English Literature exams. 😭

When I was at school, the girls in my class were passing a copy of Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre' around, and discussing it with our English Lit. teacher, though it wasn't on our curriculum. Wondering why it was so popular, I promised myself that I would read it one day. Fast forward 50 years, and I bought a copy. Now I understand why they loved it - and I love it, too. I've since bought a copy of Charlotte's 'Villette', considered her magnum opus, and looking forward to getting into that, once I've finished John le Carré's "A Legacy of Spies".  It's wonderful to lose myself in such writing, and be transported out of a world where stupidity has become a badge of honour.

We had Jane Eyre and Far from the Madding Crowd as our set books.

I confess, I never managed to finish either but thanks to Brodys Notes, Shakespeare and Ted Hughes I scraped through.

 

I remember reading "Kes" and "Cider with Rosie" in English literature.