Claire O’Callaghan

This new edition not only brings the novel up to date - incorporating a great deal of new knowledge about Anne and her book from recent years - but also includes references to newly identified archival items that bring fresh significance to certain textual details. 🎉

I’m thrilled to have finally sent off the manuscript for a new edition of Agnes Grey that I’ve produced for @oxunipress. Working with Anne’s novel has been utterly joyful - she is such a smart writer and woe betide those who underestimate the power of Agnes Grey.

How Wuthering Heights was shaped by Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry Emily Brontë’s poetry is full of haunting love, grief and death.

In light of the new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, our own @drclaireocall.bsky.social writes for @uk.theconversation.com about how Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry helped shape her powerful novel.

💚 Why it matters
Funds raised will support Women’s Aid and other charities to protect this iconic landscape, and inspire generations of Cathys, Kates and Emilys

🔔 What next? Set your alarm — tickets go live at midday on Sunday 22 March. They are limited in number and will sell fast.

💃 What to expect
Become Cathy/Kate for the day - learn the iconic choreography supported by our brilliant dance leaders on the day and take part in the mass ‘Wuther’!
Enjoy live musical and poetic tributes to the song, its singer, the setting and the novel that inspired it

Join us in Haworth, home of the Brontës, for a spectacular celebration on the Brontë moors – a joyful, windswept, red-dress sea of Cathys dancing for charity
Open to everyone — all ages, all genders, all glorious red dresses welcome

ARE YOU READY, CATHYS? 💃
ACTUALLY THE MOST WUTHERING HEIGHTS DAY EVER 2026 – HAWORTH

📅 Sunday 26th July, 11 – 2.30pm
🌹Save the Date!
🎟 Tickets on sale from midday, Sunday 22 March - details coming soon

The only Heathcliff that truly matters 💞 #sweep #heathcliff #wutheringheights

#wutheringheights #bronte #emilybronte

How Wuthering Heights was shaped by Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry Emily Brontë’s poetry is full of haunting love, grief and death.

theconversation.com/how-wutherin...

Big thanks to the Parsonage for permission to reproduce young Emily’s haunting Gothic drawing depicting a small hand reaching through a broken window.

Invited to write this short piece for The Conversation on the dark, poetic origins of Wuthering Heights. Her Gothic imagination was nothing short of electrifying.

#books #gothicliterature #wutheringheights #bronte #bookstagram

One of my brilliant doctoral researchers passed her viva yesterday! So pleased for her, but will miss the regular meetings with her and @drclaireocall.bsky.social very much.

I am so pleased to share that I passed my viva yesterday!! Working on my PhD thesis (‘Abortion in Nineteenth-Century British Literature’) at @lboroenglish.bsky.social has been a wonderful experience thanks to my incredible supervisory team @drclaireocall.bsky.social @braddonite.bsky.social 💕🦋🫀

Adapting <i>Wuthering Heights</i> Explore the article collection: Adapting Wuthering Heights. Published in Brontë Studies.

To mark the release of Emerald Fennell’s #WutheringHeights, @drclaireocall.bsky.social, #BrontëStudies Editor, has curated a selection of archival essays exploring the novel’s incredible afterlife. Free to access & perfect pre-reading🍿 www.tandfonline.com/journals/ybs... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Thanks Becky!

What Wuthering Heights Adaptations Miss About the Novel Many movies based on the oft-adapted classic excise the scenes most central to the themes Emily Brontë was so focused on.

When Sam Hirst teaches Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, they often find the students who end up hating it are the ones who expect it to be a love story.

Thanks to @romgothsam.bsky.social @drclaireocall.bsky.social @drmtremellen.bsky.social for speaking with me!

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Emily Brontë Reappraised: Expanded and updated edition by Claire O’Callaghan, publishing in 2026 from Saraband.

Today we are celebrating all things Emily Brontë 🤎

And we are delighted to reveal the cover for the expanded and updated edition of Emily Brontë Reappraised by
@drclaireocall.bsky.social, publishing in 2026!

Discover more here:

saraband.net/sb-title/emi...

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Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR conference Friday 26th June 2026 Image of Blackpool Edge Hill Nineteen research centre is excited to invite you to 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', a PGR/ECR conference focused on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literature and history. London and the South have often been the heart of discussion about the nineteenth century. However, development in industry during the period brought popularity to cities such as Liverpool and Manchester, which led to a boom of industrial growth in the north of England. In the nineteenth century, the north of England developed like never before, both within cities and in more rural areas.

Following a recent EHU19 research symposium, PhD students from literature and history came together to discuss their emerging research and found a common theme - place. More specifically, the North (and North West) of England was a uniting thread, and so the idea for such a conference was born. We invite proposals that engage with 'place' in the long nineteenth century, with particular attention to the North (West), broadly conceived. Papers may approach place as material, imagined, represented, contested, remembered, or speculative. We welcome MA/MRes students, PhD students, and Early Career Researchers whose research interests focus on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literary studies, history, art history and related disciplines, with suggested (but not limited to) topics such as:

• Fictional/fantastical representations of the North (West) • The legacy of space in the North (West) • Transnational and postcolonial links to the North (West): colonial, imperial, and transatlantic contexts (e.g, Liverpool as a global port) • Museums, archives, and collections: regional museums and the afterlives of nineteenth-century places • Gendered, racialised, and marginalised spaces: who belongs, who is excluded, and how space is policed • Landscape across disciplines: historical, literary, artistic, and creative engagements with the natural and industrial landscapes of the North (West) in the long nineteenth century • The North (West) in popular culture, periodicals, visual culture, and performance • Queer histories and queer readings of place, including non-normative identities & relationships

Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words (including title) for 10-15 minute papers, along with a short biography to ehu 19place@outlook.com by 1st May 2026, including name, preferred pronouns, and academic institution. We are excited to have Dr Claire O'Callaghan giving a keynote address on Top Withens, Wuthering Heights and the impact of literary scholarship. As Dr O'Callagham is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Brontë Studies journal, she has kindly agreed to also run a workshop on publishing in an academic journal. Given the conference's emphasis on 'place', we are excited to offer an in-person conference gathering in the North West and warmly welcome participants to join us here. However, we are also committed to accessibility needs and widening participation, so please indicate if you would prefer to present online in your application. Please also do let us know about any other access needs or adjustments that can make your experience easier.

Our brilliant PhD students have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June

CFP deadline: Friday 1st May

We’re all excited for our keynote speaker, @drclaireocall.bsky.social 🤩

Please share - and send us an abstract!

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking all things Brontë with the marvellous @drclaireocall.bsky.social

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

New Special Issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, edited by @helenaesser.bsky.social and @drclaireocall.bsky.social alert ‼️ The issue explores Victorian popular fiction and culture as key sites for negotiating gender and sexual non-conformity, with a focus on the concept of the ‘third sex’.

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Really looking forward to being in conversation with Dr Olivia Krauze this Thursday. We’re discussing 178 Years of Wuthering Heights for the @BronteParsonageMuseum. Book via the Parsonage website.
#bronte #brontes #brontesister #emily #emilybronte #emilybrontë #wutheringheights

Appear to have gone low-key viral with my Hall/Troubridge head, as is only mete and correct. I've now successfully transported it to my office (phew) and it will be shown to the students in their Well of Loneliness lecture today if @drclaireocall.bsky.social allows me to interrupt proceedings...

The Brontë Society's Annual Lecture was delivered this weekend by @drclaireocall.bsky.social 'A happy Heathcliff and Cathy': The influence of Emily Brontë on Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. Claire is also Editor of Brontë Studies, the journal of the Brontë Society. www.bronte.org.uk/events/bront...

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Thank you Hannah! X

I know! It’s incredible! Am flabbergasted! Hope you can both make the launch? If not, we’ll see you soon xx

The contributors are AMAZING! 💚💚💚

This anthology is a love letter to the moors—a celebration, a lament, and a protest against the industrial threats to our (protected) landscapes. It shows our moors and bogs as ecosystems to protect and as archives of memory, culture, and imagination.