In this spectacular debut, historian Willetts surveys 350 years of influential international nightlife scenes. She begins with Yoshiwara, a pink-lit “flashy pleasure quarter” in Continue reading » ...

Fans of period dramas - particularly those inspired by the brilliant Brontë sisters - are in for a real treat, as there's a little-known film being praised as the 'most authentic and real' portrayal ...

Tactile details and a no-nonsense approach make this biography a refreshing change from more lurid fare Both Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights have been called “deranged”, “crazed” or ...

Ordinarily, I’d object to the howling, bone-chilling wind on Haworth Moor. It turns a refreshing country walk into a test of tenacity. On the hike to the ruined Top Withens farmhouse, however, that ...

Why adaptations of Emily Brontë’s novel, across generations, have misunderstood the work and the its world. Why adaptations of Emily Brontë’s novel, across generations, have misunderstood the work and ...

The only known painting of the three Brontë sisters together was painted by their brother, Branwell, and was long thought lost. Circa 1834. Oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 29 3/8 inches. Located in the ...

What does blush have to do with Emily Brontë? Apparently everything, if you’ve seen Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights. Prim “English rose” makeup has always been the default for Victorian romances ...

Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In the case of “Wuthering Heights,” though, there was no further need to worry. The books had already flown off the shelves. In mid-February, ...

The scandal that engulfed the last Brontë sister's death When Charlotte Brontë died—the last of her massively talented family to succumb to an early death—the press entered a feeding frenzy. A friend ...

Wuthering Heights initially baffled readers who dismissed it as “a strange book”. Fittingly, before Heathcliff and Cathy haunted the moors, Emily Brontë was crafting her magic in verse preoccupied ...

Emerald Fennell has been clear that her Wuthering Heights movie is a decidedly loose adaptation of the classic 19th-century source material. "The book means so much to me," the writer-director said in ...

Spoiler alert! We're discussing major details about the ending of “Wuthering Heights” (in theaters now). Stop reading now if you haven't seen it yet and don't want to know. If you just saw Emerald ...