The Latest Breaking News from Emily Brontë

"This is not what I read in high school," one viewer quipped after watching the trailer’s suggestive scenes.

Literary betrayal? Whitewashing? Too gratuitous? Soft porn for ticket sales? The trailer for Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 classic has received quite a bit of backlash. Here's why.

Film set for theatrical release in February 2026

Audiences at first test screening reported absurd and suggestive intimate scenes

The already controversial adaptation apparently includes BDSM, "clinical masturbation", and ejaculating corpses."

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Simon Jenkins about a proposed windfarm in the Pennines

Of course the climate crisis must be confronted, but history, tranquility and beauty must also count for something, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The 1,274-hectare Bradford Pennine Gateway links eight nature sites and includes landscape that inspired sisters

Coercive or controlling behaviour in an intimate or family relationship became a criminal offence in the UK in December 2015. The legislation was the result of a long campaign by the charity Women’s Aid to extend understanding of domestic abuse beyond physical violence. But, over 150 years earlier, Emily Brontë…