HAWORTH, UK:
Perched on the sting of the rugged Yorkshire moors that impressed Emily Bronte to jot down her masterpiece “Wuthering Heights”, the quaint village of Haworth has lengthy been a spot of literary pilgrimage.
Now the most recent big-screen adaptation of her traditional 1847 novel — starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi and with a Charli XCX soundtrack — is drawing a contemporary inflow of holiday makers.
It was right here that Emily and her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, lived and wrote.
Greater than 150 years after the sisters’ deaths, “the world continues to be fascinated with their tales,” mentioned Canadian retiree Nancy Marto, including that with the ability to go to Haworth was “a dream come true”.
“I believe the very fact that there’s a new model of ‘Wuthering Heights’… speaks to the facility of those authors, to Emily, but additionally to her sisters,” she mentioned.
Two weeks after the discharge of the movie, picturesque Haworth in northwest England with its slim, cobbled streets and small stone homes, is packed.
The movie, loosely primarily based on the e-book, was one of the anticipated of the yr.
On the coronary heart of the plot is the passionate relationship between Heathcliff, a boy of mysterious origins taken in by the rich Mr Earnshaw and his daughter Catherine. The moors, battered by the weather, play a central position within the novel, in addition to in Emerald Fennell’s movie.
‘Fully besotted’
Johnnie Brigg, a neighborhood tour information, has been inundated with requests in latest weeks.
“They wish to come right here and expertise the Brontes, the moor, and discover their very own interpretation of Emily,” he mentioned.
The movie would appeal to a “entire new era of individuals” who had not but learn the e-book however have been “utterly besotted” after seeing the movie, he added.
The parsonage between the village and the moors the place the Brontes lived with their clergyman father and brother, Branwell, is now a museum devoted to their reminiscence.
Emily’s sister Charlotte additionally wrote “Jane Eyre” right here, one other traditional of English literature.
The museum’s Mia Ferullo, who has been giving talks on “Bronte-mania” for the previous fortnight, mentioned “so many individuals” have been “choosing up the e-book for the primary time” because of the movie.
Museum director Rebecca Yorke mentioned 500 folks of all ages and backgrounds visited on one Saturday. Numbers like that have been often solely seen in peak season akin to throughout the August summer time holidays, Yorke mentioned.
“Everyone seems to be speaking about Emily Bronte and ‘Wuthering Heights’…. It is simply extraordinary,” she added. afp
