Emily
Emma Mackey as Emily Brontë Yesterday, Thursday, was wet and rather miserable so I decided to travel into the city centre to see a film at The Showroom. The film in question was "Emily" directed by Frances O'Connor. I should explain that "Wuthering Heights" and Emily Brontë mean a great deal to me. I studied the novel at Advanced Level when I was at secondary school. I studied it again at university and when I was a secondary school English teacher, I taught it to two cohorts of A level students. In addition, I have visited the little Pennine town of Haworth where the Brontës lived on several occasions and I have walked over the moors to Top Withens four times. It is believed that Top Withens Farm - now a ruin - provided Emily Brontë with the idea for Wuthering Heights in the amazing novel of that name. My daughter Frances's middle name is Emily and that is not co-incidental. There is also a character called Frances in the novel. I con...
