Kate Bush discovers that her birthday coincides with Emily Bronte's, and the result is Wuthering Heights, the 1978 song which in time has led to The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, a now annual worldwide gathering largely consisting of women dressed in red rehearsing, then performing, their recreation of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights video. As at Clapham on 28 July this year.
In turn discovering that this date comes in the same week as the feast of St Mary Magdalene, another woman portrayed famously in red, and one year since the passing of one of rock's most highly regarded scarlet women, Sinead O'Connor, who sang "I Don't Know How to Love Him" on her 2007 album, Theology, not to mention all sorts of Magdalene connections involving Lady Gaga and FKA twigs... I put together an hour-long prayer-presentation on the theme. Click The Woman in Red: a Celebration for all the content.
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Emily Brontë painted by Patrick Branwell Brontë, c.1834. Wikipedia
Catherine Linton portrayed by Orla Brady in the 1998 ITV adaptation of Wuthering Heights. www.imdb.com
Kate Bush. TV Times / Getty Images
Mary Magdalene: Indwelling Peace by Sue Ellen Parkinson. www.sueellenparkinson.com
Lady Gaga: still from the Bloody Mary Official Music Video. YouTube
Miriam on the Shores: Dancing Monk Icon by Marcy Hall. AbbeyOfTheArts.com
A Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever event. Facebook: The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever
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