Frances O’Connor’s life-long fascination with Emily Bronte has spurred her writing-directing debut with “Emily,” a portrait of the indomitable 19th century author of “Wuthering Heights.” “Wuthering ...

Emma Mackey in EMILY. Photo credit: Bleecker Street. Courtesy of Bleecker Street. What if Emily Bronte, the author of “Wuthering Heights” and painfully shy daughter of a parson, secretly had a steamy ...

Frances O’Connor’s Emily, her directorial debut, takes a familiar literary biography and garnishes it with the right kind of creative liberties — the vibrant, suggestive kind. It’s the story of Emily ...

Credits: Directed by Frances O'Connor, starring Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead, Amelia Gething, Alexandra Dowling and Adrian Dunbar. Rating/Runtime: Rated R for some sexuality, ...

Like many readers, I first discovered Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” as a teenager. I was mesmerized by the wild moorland landscape she described and the equally wild characters that inhabited it.

Thursday was the 200th birthday of Charlotte Bronte, influential English novelist and author of "Jane Eyre." This bicentenary is being widely observed in exhibitions, lectures, programs and ...