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…Of course, such titanic passions seemed wasted on upstanding but placid suitors like Valancourt and Henry Tilney. What women longed to read (and write) about, it seemed, were love interests with fevered hearts and temperaments as wild as a storm over the windswept English moors. The moors of Haworth, Yorkshire, to be exact.
— Mar 10, 2026 04:20PM
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but Her Demon Lover (1973) offers an interesting variation on the usual woman running from the house. As lightning strikes and thick mist rises, the heroine stands in front of a primitive-looking castle. Her dress whips in the wind, her arms raised in triumph and her face tilted toward the sky as she seems to command the elements around her.
Her Demon Lover by Louisa Bronte mentioned!♥️
— Mar 11, 2026 10:35AM
Her Demon Lover by Louisa Bronte mentioned!♥️
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Along with Jane Eyre itself, Rebecca provided the soil from which all subsequent mass market gothics and romantic suspense novels have sprung. In the 1940s, Joan Fontaine starred in movie versions of both books, further connecting the two in the public’s mind
— Mar 10, 2026 06:08PM
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One wonders if, had Anne reversed the characters and let the dynamic Arthur rescue Helen from a dreary courtship with the overly respectable Gilbert, the novel would now be as revered as Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre
— Mar 10, 2026 05:21PM