THIS DARK NIGHT: Emily Brontë, a Life, by Deborah Lutz Emily Brontë did not care about being likable. She was described as introverted, odd, guarded to the point of taciturnity, and her “extreme reserve seemed impenetrable,” said her friend Ellen Nussey. “Except to go to church or take a walk on the hills,” wrote her…
Deborah Mailman sat in rusty red sand on Arrernte country in central Australia, and she felt her character’s deep grief. She was filming a scene in Warwick Thornton’s 1930s frontier western Wolfram, playing Pansy, an Indigenous woman whose children have been stolen from her. As her bundled baby cries, Pansy silently cuts her hair off…
Both Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights have been called “deranged”, “crazed” or (especially online, in the wake of the recent film) “unhinged”. So it’s a relief to read a biography where she comes across, instead, as more grounded, steady, sane. Deborah Lutz, whose 2015 book The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects made…
Shorouk Express Gordon Brown says BBC should have ‘apologised instantly’ Former prime minister Gordon Brown said Tim Davie and Deborah Turness should have apologised instantly. Speaking on Sky News he said: “You’ve got to be trusted, and I think the problem that the BBC has had is this happened a year ago, and an apology…
