Emily Brontë

The Moors review – deliciously dark Brontë pastiche
The characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie movie
Arifa Akbar
16, Oct, 2022 @10:42 AM

Emily review – the wildest Brontë sister is set free in full-blooded gothic fable
The author of Wuthering Heights is no sickly recluse in actor turned director Frances O’Connor’s sensuous, spine-tingling feature debut
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
16, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM

Film Emily will introduce Brontë sisters to younger audiences, says co-star
Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who plays illicit lover, says outsider theme is ‘hugely relatable’
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
14, Oct, 2022 @1:55 PM

Emily review – love, passion and sex in impressive Brontë biopic
Director Frances O’Connor shows author’s creative path to writing Wuthering Heights through the two great loves of her life
Peter Bradshaw
12, Oct, 2022 @12:26 PM

Frances O’Connor: ‘I’m putting Emily Brontë in the centre of her own story’
The actor turned writer-director is taking an unconventional approach to her feature film debut about the Wuthering Heights author
Claire Armitstead
09, Oct, 2022 @1:00 PM

Emily review – sensitive Brontë biopic is a thrillingly unconventional watch
Toronto film festival: Sex Education’s Emma Mackey makes for a perfect Emily Brontë in actor turned writer-director Frances O’Connor’s deft drama
Radheyan Simonpillai in Toronto
10, Sep, 2022 @3:30 AM

Ten reasons why Bradford deserves to be 2025’s city of culture
From Charlotte Brontë to David Hockney and Zayn Malik, my home town of Bradford has a rich cultural history – and its beauty is balm for the soul
Saima Mir
02, Jun, 2022 @2:38 PM

I Am No Bird review – stripping back the Brontës’ chocolate-box history
This anarchic show casts off the corsets to capture just what made these literary sisters so striking
Mark Fisher
29, Apr, 2022 @11:50 AM

Lost library of literary treasures saved for UK after charity raises £15m
The Honresfield library, including manuscripts by the Brontës, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, had been at risk of falling into private hands
Alison Flood
16, Dec, 2021 @1:07 PM

Siri Hustvedt: ‘I responded viscerally to De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex’
The US author on becoming a feminist, growing into Gertrude Stein, and the comfort of folk tales
Siri Hustvedt
26, Nov, 2021 @10:00 AM

Wuthering Heights review – Emma Rice’s audacious riff on Emily Brontë’s classic
Retelling the gothic novel with intelligently charming humour and a live band, this is a bold and ingenious production
Arifa Akbar
22, Oct, 2021 @12:02 PM

‘My blood stirred, my mind fizzed’: Emma Rice on Wuthering Heights
Horrified by the cruelty shown to children seeking asylum in Britain, the director has adapted Emily Brontë’s book which has haunted her since her teens
Emma Rice
30, Sep, 2021 @11:48 AM
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