Saturday, December 31, 2005
Be happy :)
Categories: Messages_from_BB
Their work will be assessed alongside that of their Victorian contemporaries and through comparison with more recent critical assumptions.
This class focuses on a close study of works by the Brontës, with particular attention to the ways in which their texts have been disseminated in both high and low culture.
The course will conclude with a series of oral reports based on independent reading: each student will select for study a complete work or collection by or about the Brontes and relate it to the overall concerns of the course. Representative "works" include: poetry by Emily, Charlotte, and/or Anne; reprinted juvenilia (many of the originals are here at UT's Humanities Research Center); Anne's Agnes Grey; Charlotte's Professor or the unfinished Emma (both published posthumously) or her "historical" novel, Shirley; the poetry and/or sermons of their father, the Reverend Patrick Bronte; possible sources in the Romantic poets and journals such as Blackwood's and Fraser's; the controversy surrounding Elizabeth Gaskell's "life" of Charlotte; various other biographical accountings of the sisters and their unpublished (in his lifetime) brother, Branwell; critical/theoretical studies, such as Helene Moglen's Charlotte Bronte: The Self Conceived, Terry Eagleton's Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontes, Robert Keefe's Charlotte Bronte's World of Death, Cynthia A. Linder's Romantic Imagery in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte, and Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's Madwoman in the Attic.
Our extended reading list may well include another title such as May Sinclair's The Three Sisters, Rachel Ferguson's The Brontes Went to Woolworths, Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca, and Robert Barnard's The Case of the Missing Brontë.
Prof. Meyer
Categories: Scholar
Friday, December 30, 2005
More Bronte, less Moliere
"Woman in White" should have been more "Wuthering Heights," you know, heavy Bronte, but instead it's half Bronte and half Moliere and if I remember my history correctly, the French and Brits don't like each other very much.
We are trying to imagine what exactly could be a combination between Brontë (we suppose the reviewer means Emily, but who knows?) and Molière. It's not an easy task. Heathcliff meets Tartuffe or Argan comes to Wuthering Heights? We are open to suggestions ...
Categories: In_the_News, Weirdo, Wuthering_Heights
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/0-7864-2605-5.jpg)
Lee Kovacs
McFarland & Company
While ghosts often inhabit films and literature devoted to the horror genre, a group of literature-based films from the 1930s and 1940s present more human and romantic apparitions. These films provide the underpinnings for many of the gentle supernatural films of the 1990s. Tracing the links between spectres as diverse as Rex Harrison's "Captain Gregg" and Patrick Swazye's "Sam Wheat", the text presents the evolution of the cinematic-literary ghost from classic Gothic to the psychological, sociological, and political ideologies of today. Included are analyses of the literary and film versions of classic ghost stories - "Wuthering Heights", "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", "Portrait of Jennie", "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "The Uninvited", "Liliom, and Our Town" - as well as interpretations of modern films not based on literary works that show the influence of these predecessors - "Ghost" and "Truly, Madly, Deeply". The text includes stills, a bibliography, and an index.
The book is divided into four sections. The first one (The gothic ghost) is devoted entirely to Wuthering Heights 1939 version.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/essent.jpg)
Tony Myers
Arnold Publishers
This book covers the leading works and authors in the traditional canon of literature in English and in doing so gives the reader an engaging and knowledgeable insight into the books, their writers and the connections between them. From Austen to Shakespeare and covering classic favourites such as David Copperfield, Jane Eyre and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Essentials of Classic Literature in English is a delightful introduction to the classic works written in English before the First World War. Entries give a plot summary, an analysis of the major themes, a look at the literary techniques employed by the author and quotes from the original text, as well as a guide to further resources. A glossary of literary terms is also included and is fully cross-referenced to the alphabetically ordered collection of entries on key authors, novels, plays and poems.
We don't know how Jane Eyre is treated or if Charlotte is the only Brontë covered in the book.
Categories: References, Wuthering_Heights, Jane_Eyre
Thursday, December 29, 2005
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/lm-wh.jpg)
The Riverside Studios, London , January 13, 15, 17, 19, 2006
Garage Theatre, Monaghan, January 23rd
Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen, January 28th
Millennium Forum, Derry, January 31st, February 1st
Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick, February 3rd
Burnavon Arts & Cultural Centre, Cookstown, February 8th
Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, February 11th
Categories: Theatre, Wuthering_Heights, Emily_Brontë
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/B0000045OP.02.jpg)
Categories: Books, Jane_Eyre, Charlotte_Brontë
Leaving aside the political - and highly misinformed - side of it (the article states that the first, heavily-censored edition of Villette dates from 1996, when in fact that was only a reedition of the volume published in 1944 under the existing censorship of the time), it is useful because it shed light on the huge gaps and changes in the 1944 edition through a few examples. A very interesting insight in the uses and misuses of translation, the inner workings of religious censorship, and the imagination of certain translators.
Categories: In_the_News, Villette, Charlotte_Brontë >, Translations
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/JaneEyre_side.jpg)
JANE EYRE ON TOUR IN 2006
Adapted and Directed by Polly Teale from the novel by Charlotte Brontë
Designed by Neil Warmington
Lighting by Chris Davey
Company Movement by Liz Ranken
Composer Peter Salem
Jane Eyre is poor, plain and unloved. But locked up in the attic of her imagination lives a woman so passionate and so full of longing she must be guarded night and day for fear of the havoc she would wreak. Who is this woman who threatens to destroy Janes orderly world? A world where Jane has, for the first time, fallen in love.
(photo: Mike Kwasniak)
TOUR
Richmond Theatre, Richmond Thurs 2 to Sat 4 February www.richmondtheatre.net
The Nuffield, Southampton, Tues 7 - Sat 11 February http://www.nuffieldtheatre.co.uk/
Malvern Theatres, Tues 21 - Sat 25 February
http://www.malvern-theatres.co.uk/
Cambridge Arts Theatre, Tues 28 February to Sat 4 March www.cambridgeartstheatre.com
Liverpool Playhouse, Tues 7 to Sat 11 March www.everymanplayhouse.com
Oxford Playhouse, Tues 14 to Sat 18 March http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com
Mansfield Palace Theatre, Tues 28 March to Sat 1 April http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre
Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, Tues 4 to Sat 8 April www.citz.co.uk
Categories: Theatre, Jane_Eyre, Charlotte_Brontë
Monday, December 26, 2005
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/je_cometome_ma.0.jpg)
Paula Rego: Prints and works on paper
12 November 2005 to 22 January 2006
A retrospective exhibition dedicated to this renowned artist’s printmaking, showing an enormous range of work from her earliest ‘excursions’ in etching in the mid-1950s to her recent highly acclaimed series of lithographs on the subject of Jane Eyre. This is the first time that all Paula Rego’s prints are shown together. The retrospective reinforces her renown as a maker of provocative, challenging and emotionally charged images.
The exhibition spans fifty years; it is a testament to Paula Rego’s amazingly inventive imagination and a tribute to her exceptional achievement in contemporary printmaking. It includes the Nursery Rhyme series, Peter Pan, The Children’s Crusade, the Pendle Witches, and her controversial Abortion series.
Related rare pieces are also exhibited: stage proofs, etching plates, hand-coloured unique proofs, drawings and a small book she made for her grand-daughter which metamorphoses into the Nursery Rhyme series
Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Jane_Eyre, Charlotte_Brontë
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Music I love-but ne'er a strain
Could kindle raptures so divine,
So grief assuage, so conquer pain,
And rouse this pensive heart of mine;
As that we hear on Christmas morn,
Upon the wintry breezes borne.
Though darkness still her empire keep,
And hours must pass, ere morning break;
From troubled dreams, or slumbers deep,
That music kindly bids us wake:
It calls us, with an angel's voice,
To wake, and worship, and rejoice.
To greet with joy the glorious morn,
Which angels welcomed long ago,
When our redeeming Lord was born,
To bring the light of Heaven below;
The powers of darkness to dispel,
And rescue Earth from death and hell.
While listening to that sacred strain,
My raptured spirit soars on high;
I seem to hear those songs again
Resounding through the open sky,
That kindled such divine delight,
In those who watched their flocks by night.
With them, I celebrate His birth;
Glory to God, in highest Heaven,
Good will to men, and peace on Earth,
To us a Savior King is given;
Our God is come to claim His own,
And Satan's power is overthrown!
A sinless God, for sinful men,
Descends to suffer and to bleed;
Hell must renounce its empire then;
The price is paid, the world is freed,
And Satan's self must now confess,
That Christ has earned a right to bless.
Now holy peace may smile from heaven,
And heavenly truth from earth shall spring:
The captive's galling bonds are riven,
For our Redeemer is our King;
And He that gave His blood for men
Will lead us home to God again
According to the Scarborough Connection website:
Written: Undated - Christmas 1841 - 45. Possibly 1843. First Published: 1846.
This poem is impossible to date as the manuscript no longer exists. It could have been written at any Christmas between 1841 and 1845; though the similarity of the 'rhyme scheme' with her other poem ''Tis Strange To Think' might suggest 1843 as the 'slightly preferable date'. The only version we have - the one presented below - is that which appeared in Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.
(See also: Chitham, 'The Poems of Anne Brontë', p.96 & p.178)
Categories: Messages_from_BB, Music, Poetry, Anne_Brontë
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/getedimage.jpg)
TWO film makers have completed their opus on Yorkshire's Brontë heritage, charting a 42-mile course through heather-clad moors and historic haunts. English teacher and presenter Ray Riches, 59 from Heptonstall and producer and cameraman Peter Thornton, 56 from Todmorden walk the viewer through the highs and lows of Brontë history - from the desolate beauty of moorland vistas described in Wuthering Heights to the deciduous, closeted greenery of overgrown and seldom visited churchyards of Birstall. The duo completed their project earlier this year, having filmed the first instalment in 2004.
Categories: In_the_News, Movies-DVD-TV, Haworth
Saturday, December 24, 2005
Categories: Messages_from_BB
We know that the director is going to be Susanne White. At least, her CV in the PFD agency says so. Susanne White is the director of the recent BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Bleak House".
The writer of the series is Sandy Welch. She was the writer of another recent BBC adaptation of a Victorian novel: Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South". In this interview with Stephen Poliakoff, writer of single television plays mainly for BBC, we can read:
Poliakoff is now right at the top of his tree in the way that Andrew Davies [Davis is the writer, for instance, of the newest Sense and Sensibility BBC on-going project] is simply the best adaptor. But it is being original that interests Poliakoff, not taking a book and making a screen version of it. Not that he believes this is not a skill in itself. He has to be careful here as his wife Sandy Welch is a regular adaptor for BBC drama. Her next will be Jane Eyre. But what really worries Poliakoff is that he might be a dying breed.
Diederick Santer is the producer. His credits include other BBC productions as Shakespeare's "The taming of the shrew" and "Much ado about nothing" (in contemporary settings).
---
By the way, if you are interested in next year upcoming editions of Brontë adaptations for TV, you are encouraged to read the last posts in brontëana's place.
Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Jane_Eyre, Charlotte_Brontë
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/0521816025.jpg)
Categories: Books, Scholar, Victorian_Era, Shirley, Villette, Charlotte_Brontë
Friday, December 23, 2005
Tourists seeking a traditional Christmas have been coming to the picturesque village of Haworth, West Yorkshire, for years, drawn to its unchanging nature and its links with the Brontë sisters. But this year the cobbled streets that are usually filled with yuletide cheer have become home to a festive feud.
A rift between Mrs Santa Claus, a regular fixture on the village seasonal circuit, and a stand-in Santa Claus from the Traders’ Association, has soured the jolly atmosphere.
Sweetie Ruttan, 59, known to Haworth’s children as Mrs Claus, has pulled out of official activities over a £5 entry fee to the new grotto, a charge that she says goes against the spirit of Christmas.
[...]
Mr Beighton, who also accused the couple of ruining his social life, described how he had to hide from children, lest he spoil Christmas for them. “We can’t have two Santas roaming the streets of Haworth. If children saw us together it would spoil the magic,” he said. “So I have had to duck and dive to avoid them, but because they are renegades I don’t know when they are going to appear. One day they didn’t turn up, the next day they were walking down the street.
That has to be one of the funniest thing ever. Imagining the ducking and diving of a man dressed in a Santa Claus outfit is simply hilarious!
When Mr Beighton stepped in as the “official” Santa, Mrs Ruttan made it clear that she did not approve. She said: “He has the manner of a slug, and the traders could not stop me from being Mother Christmas and giving the children sweets. The grotto is in a garage near a chip shop and looks crap.”
Ha! Mind your vocabulary, Mrs Claus.
The association had printed flyers and tourist brochures as early as January promoting Haworth’s events for the year and a Santa’s grotto was included. These had gone to coach companies running excursions to the village where the Brontë sisters once lived.
See the coaches we were talking about on our previous post. Next Christmas they will put together a special line for the War of the Clauses, we are sure. The Brontës will have to make do with being put upon during this season of peace and love.
Kevin Hensby, chairman of the Haworth Traders’ Association, said that 400 children had visited the grotto. “It’s something fantastic for the kids. If you come here you want more than just a sweetie from Santa. Things change — you have to move on.”
Move on, Mr Hensby? By ripping off children who want to see Father Christmas and get some sweets?! Come on, it's the season of giving for something.
Anyway - do read the whole article, it's one of a kind. And afterwards don't forget to place your bets as soon as you can stop laughing. You have to wonder what the Brontë family would have to say about this happening in their village.
Categories: In_the_News, Haworth
It also seems that people are at last appreciating that the UK is a fantastic destination for a touring holiday. It’s not just our heritage and culture that attracts people, but the increase in choice offered by coach companies. Themed tours from Bronte to Dickens, historic houses and gardens, concerts and sporting events are more popular than ever and we are confident their popularity will increase in 2006.
Categories: In_the_News
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/842975749X%20.0.jpg)
The poem: "Gat blanc" (White cat) is preceded by this quote:
"'Tis strange to think there was a time
When mirth was not an empty name" (from Anne Brontë's poem "Past Days")
The poem: "Postals i segells rars" (Postcards and rare stamps) has this preceding quote:
"What is she writing?
Watch her now, How fast her fingers move!
How eagerly her youthful brow
Is bent in thought above!" (from Charlotte Brontë's poem "The letter")
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/eagleton_t_figures_pb.0.gif)
Terry Eagleton
Verso Publishers. (New en paperback. Originally published in 2003)
Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontës (the also recently republished Myths of Power- A Marxist Study on the Brontës), Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer — Terry Eagleton’s achievements are many and his combative intelligence widely admired and respected. His skill as a reviewer is particularly notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer and the theses of a book, Eagleton, in his inimitable and often wickedly funny style, always paints a vivid theoretical and political fresco as the background to his engagement with the texts.
In this collection of more than a decade of such bracing criticism, Eagleton comes face to face with Stanley Fish, Gayatri Spivak, Slavoj Zizek, Edward Said, and even David Beckham. All are subjected to his pugnacious wit, scathing critical pen, and brilliant literary investigations.
One of these articles is devoted to Branwell Brontë (pages 42 to 48).
Categories: References, Books, Poetry, Anne_Brontë, Charlotte_Brontë, Branwell_Brontë
Thursday, December 22, 2005
"Twenty-one is the loneliest number" (Season 6- Episode 7)
SOOKIE: I can't believe Rory's turning twenty-one. It seems like just yesterday she was crying because you told her Charlotte Brontë couldn't come to her sleepover, because she's dead.
Categories: References, Movies-DVD-TV
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7532/459/200/Bronte%20Parsonage.jpg)
Grandma Wilds' biscuits have both a Brontë Parsonage Gift Box and a Haworth Main Street Box (both are on the same page: third and fifth downwards)
And what better to down those yummy biscuits than a steaming cup of Brontë Parsonage Museum Tea? Together they make the ultimate literary snack.
Categories: Brontëana
Wuthering Heights
BAC Associate Artist Kazuko Hohki teams up with Colin Carmichael and Siggi Eyberg of Brian - "the boyband of British theatre" - to revisit Emily Bronte's classic tale of passion on the Yorkshire Moors, as seen through the eyes of a Japanese tourist, and some very curious sheep.
A BAC Scratch commission Kazukho Hohki’s work is produced by Your Imagination.
It seems that Kazuko Hohki made properly her research according to this information:
Musician, animator, director, performer and storyteller Kazuko Hohki, who delighted audiences in May 2004 with her show My Husband is a Spaceman, is working with The Nuffield Theatre, for a year as their ‘Time and Space’ artist. (...)
Kazuko is currently working in Haworth, West Yorkshire, exploring the fascination that her compatriots have with Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights. Hawarth has become something of a pilgrimage place for Japanese tourists eager to soak up the atmosphere and Kazuko has been interviewing visitors in her own unique style to strip bare this curious obsession with the quintessentially British romance. The results of her investigations will form the background to her next performance piece to be premiered in 2006.
Co-author Colin Carmichael also wants to give his opinion:
“It’s about a Japanese woman in love with a book,” says Colin. “She comes to England to find her Heathcliff, only to find a fake environment instead - the experience of every tourist in London.”
Regrettably we don't have pictures or reviews of the show for the moment.
Categories: Theatre, Wuthering_Heights, Sequels, Emily_Brontë
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7532/459/200/624579.jpg)
If you want that special person to remember the passing of time as well as thinking of their favourite author, you simply have to order this. It's by Philippe Patek, no less. It also seems to have made a trip into the future since ther can't be many people left who use this kind of thing. (To view it you don't need to install the Chinese language pack).
If you'd like for them to carry Charlotte and Jane Eyre around their neck, you just have to get them this silver pendant with the text "surround us with a ring of golden peace". Think of the possibilities - now they will be able to "advertise" their favourite novel anytime, anywhere. (You need to scroll down past Jane Austen and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to reach Charlotte).
If, on the other hand, you'd rather give them an ornament for their house, and more specifically for their tree, take a look at this silver angel with the text "Whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same-Emily Bronte" engraved on it, just head over to this website and ctrl+F for "Bronte". Oops! We just noticed it's sold out :( Oh well, perhaps you can already order it for next year!
Categories: Brontëana
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/Branwell300.gif)
It is now available for sale pretty much everywhere, although, in order to give reviewers the time to write and file reviews and such, the official publication date is January 21st. Douglas will be doing readings in New York and Minneapolis, and we’ll keep you updated with any more.
Another possible Christmas present!
EDIT: The publishers have contacted us with further info on the readings:
Here's a link with info on the New York reading at Coliseum Books on January 16 at 6:30 pm.
And here are the details for at least two other readings:
EVENT: Book discussion, reading & signing on Thursday, Jan 19th at 7:30 PM
Query Booksellers
520 East Hennepin
Minneapolis, MN 55414
EVENT: Book discussion, reading & signing on Saturday, Jan 21st at 7:30 PM
Magers & Quinn Booksellers
3038 Hennepin Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55408
The publishers also forwarded us a review from Publisher's Weekly:
In this mannered, tortuous life of Charlotte Bronte's younger brother, Branwell, novelist Martin (Outline of My Lover) offers a tender, tragic portrayal of a doomed artist and homosexual avant la lettre . In Martin's marvelous free and direct telling, Branwell, as the sole son among many
daughters (only Charlotte, Emily and Anne survived childhood) is accorded privileges they are not, such as special home schooling by their strict father, curate of provincial Haworth. Branwell also lords over the set of toy soldiers the siblings use in elaborate play wars, creating vast
civilizations in poems and plays. The early deaths of their mother and sisters Maria and Elizabeth prove shattering for Branwell, on whose fragile shoulders the great hopes of the house rest. Sent off alone to London to gain admittance to the Royal Academy, he falls continually in his family's esteem, becoming a local drunkard and apprentice to the secretly homosexual
freemason society; a last chance at gainful employment, as tutor to a boy in Thorp Green, ends in a scandalous dismissal, and Branwell descends irretrievably into a drug-induced, punishing state of monomania. Though slender, this volume's beautiful declarative sentences are perfectly fitted to this famously imaginative, headstrong family; they bring Branwell Bronte's world to light.
Even if we are told that the explicitness of the homosexual theme has been overstated, we still feel the need to highlight that this book is fiction and by no means is intended as a scholarly biography. Just saying :)
Categories: Books, Fiction, Branwell_Brontë
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Today's post is devoted to arts & crafts:
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7532/459/200/DD223.jpg)
If the person who will be receiving the present is past cross-stitch and up to the next level, you can always get them these lace bobbins, each featuring a Brontë sibling (rejoice: Branwell has just been added!).
And if they're not into sewing you could always go for this cute little cardboard model of the Parsonage.
On the other hand, if you don't want to add extra work to that person, you can always buy something already made, like one of these paintings by Doncaster artist John Bird (Mr Bird, if you are reading this, do tell the webmaster of your site that it's spelt HawOrth in all cases). Or this pencil drawing of the Parsonage by Michael Wilder.
You have no pretext now! Stay tuned for another edition of these ideas for Christmas presents :)
Categories: Brontëana
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7532/459/200/torchlight-05-1385b.jpg)
Haworth was celebrating its Torchlight weekend - an endearing festivity with images so beautiful as the one on the left. For more pictures: Saturday & Sunday.
The Brontë Parsonage Museum was holding its own celebration on Sunday too, which must have been incredibly nice as well:
Mince pies, mulled wine and a live brass band will lend a festival feel to the village whilst the choir sing traditional hymns and songs starting on the church steps, then moving to the picturesque Brontë Parsonage Museum gardens.
The Brontë Parsonage Museum warmly invites visitors to join in the singing in the famous Brontë garden, where one of the most famous families in English literature once strolled.
We would like to take this occasion to once again encourage our readers to send in any Brontë-related news or events that they might happen to find :)
Categories: Haworth, Brontë_Parsonage_Museum
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/a%20W.jpg)
As we failed to report it on time, we want to redeem ourselves by leading you to this website full of pictures of the production. If your interest is now awakened you can read this enthusiast review of the play published in the Farnham Herald:
It was all so real: we were there in that time and place with the characters as the story of Jane Eyre was played out in Farnham’s large and shadowy parish church by the New Farnham Repertory Company.
So close is the proximity of the audience to the players as they move back and forth, using the central aisle to bridge scene and venue, that they cannot help but take the watcher with them. It was a theatrical feat requiring utter concentration for all the cast, who never faltered or lost conviction under such close scrutiny. (...)
The stricken Rochester’s cry from afar for “Jane, Jane, Jane” and her response “I am coming. Wait for me,” played out in semi-darkness is a dramatic zenith, exemplifying Mullins’s directing skill. (...)
Simon Cole, William Whymper, Brenda Longman, Christine McDerment and of course the exceptional Helen Dorward, portray one, or several, of the carefully crafted characters to make another exceptional offering from the NFRC. (Suzanne Cansfield)
Categories: Theatre, Jane_Eyre, Charlotte_Brontë
Monday, December 19, 2005
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7532/459/320/emily-bronte.jpg)
On a day like today in 1848, Emily Jane Brontë died. She carried to the very end the description Charlotte made of her: "stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone".
Charlotte also said:
"Next day [Dec. 19], the first glance at her face told me what would happen before nightfall"
Categories: Reminder, Emily_Brontë
Guests: Michael Berkeley and David Malouf
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/Berkeley_Jane_Eyre.jpg)
Music in this interview:
Title: Jane Eyre: beginning
Comp. Michael Berkeley/ Lib. David Malouf
Perf. The Music Theatre Wales Ensemble
Conductor: Michael Rafferty
CD: Michael Berkeley: Jane EyreLabel: CHANDOS 9983
DUR: 4.47
Title: Beautiful, beautiful from Jane Eyre
Details as above.
Dur: 3.22
The transcript of the interview can be read here, but if you want to listen to the whole interview and the music you can do it here (Real Audio required), but just for a few weeks. The interview begins approximately at the 27 min and 45 s.
These are a few samples of the very interesting interview:
Andrew Ford: Maybe I could start with you, David, because operas usually start with the words, and in this case you inherited a lot of words from Charlotte Brontë, and then had to work out what to do with them. Obviously you cut them down, but how did you make those decisions?
David Malouf: Well I decided early on, because I already had limitations of how many characters we could have, how many singers; there are only going to be five of those. And so I decided to concentrate only on the central romance element in that book, which is the relationship between Jane and Mr Rochester. And that in many ways is what most people remember of the book. (...)
Andrew Ford: And the story of Lucia di Lammermoor as well, of course in the case of this opera.
David Malouf: Yes, that was because Adèle, the little girl in the house, her mother has been a dancer in Paris, and who is interested in opera, and because it was good to relate this rather operatic story to the world of 19th century opera. And because we have a mad woman in the attic, it was quite easy to have Adèle point out that her favourite opera was Lucia with the mad scene, where the madwoman kills her husband on the night of the wedding. It was a bit later in this piece, we’re going to have a wedding which goes wrong on the night before. So there’s little ways of doing something which I think we quite enjoy these days, which is a reference to other works which helps us see where to place this one, or where not to place this one.
Andrew Ford: And Lucia di Lammemoor and Charlotte Brontë’s novel are virtually contemporary, aren’t they?
David Malouf: Yes, they are. (...)
Andrew Ford: Was it your idea David, or was it Michael’s to do ‘Jane Eyre’ as an opera?
David Malouf: I think it was mine, I can’t quite remember.
Michael Berkeley: It was David’s. If somebody had said to me ‘We’re going to do ‘Jane Eyre’, I’d have run a mile to be absolutely honest, because the last thing I wanted to do was a Hollywood epic. David was very keen to do it, and I was a bit dubious, but when he produced the libretto, it was such a beautifully, surgically incised piece of work, and it did the thing that I felt would need to be done, which was to look at it from a completely different angle. To look at it through a different lens, if you like, and refract it, so that we learn more about these characters. And there’s so much, as David’s just suggested, going on which relates to contemporary society. I mean there’s racism, if you like, there’s the sort of suppressed eroticism which, since Freud, we now think about in a completely different way. I was initially completely appalled by the idea and as soon as I saw the libretto, completely turned on by it. It really was rather like that, so David must take the credit for it.
Categories: Music, Opera, Jane_Eyre, Charlotte_Brontë
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Nearly seven decades have passed since Hazel Warp put on a Scarlett O'Hara costume and tumbled down the stairs of Tara in the epic film "Gone With the Wind." But that Hollywood stunt marked a high point in Warp's life. (...)
Warp was the stunt double for actress Vivien Leigh, who played the narcissistic Southern belle in the 1939 Civil War movie. (...)
Her performance was good enough to get her a callback for Leigh's next movie, "Wuthering Heights."
"With 'Wuthering Heights,' (Leigh) told them that she wanted me or she wouldn't work," Warp recalled in an interview at Evergreen Healthcare, where she now lives. (Karin Ronnow)
As we know the final Cathy in William Wyler's film wasn't Vivien Leigh but Merle Oberon. The story is widely known but in this web you can read a brief digest:
When William Wyler, who was going to direct "Wuthering Heights" for Goldwyn, went to London to offer Olivier the part of Heathcliff, the actor at first refused. He didn't want to go back to Hollywood. Then he said he might do it if Vivien could play Cathy; but Merle Oberon had already been cast. Partly as a bribe, but partly because he had gone to a preview of Vivien's latest film, "Sidewalks of London", and had been impressed by her, Wyler offered her the role of Isabella Linton. Vivien turned it down, wanting Cathy or nothing. "For a first part in Hollywood, you'll get nothing better than this", the director warned her, but she refused to heed him, and Isabella went to Geraldine Fitzgerald.
The relations between Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon were far from cordial. This is a
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/wh.0.jpg)
They had filmed together before, and amicably, in The Divorce of Lady X but in Wuthering Heights, in the close-ups, she accused him of spitting at her. "Daggers drawn... We spat at each other," he said, "we hated each other, and after one appalling row in which we were both trembling and tears were streaming down, and we we were absolutely trembling with rage. Willy (William Wyler) said 'Roll them,' and it was the most heavy-making love scene we'd done and we did it hating each other, but it was one of the top love scenes in the film as it turned out. That was Willy, very bright, very clever."
Categories: In_the_News, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering_Heights
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/olivier_cov.jpg)
Terry Coleman
Henry Hold & Company
Based on exclusive, unprecedented access, the definitive biography of Sir Laurence Olivier, the dashing, self-invented Englishman who became the greatest actor of the twentieth century.
Sir Laurence Olivier met everyone, knew everyone, and played every role in existence. But Olivier was as elusive in life as he was on the stage, a bold and practiced pretender who changed names, altered his identity, and defied characterization.
In this mesmerizing book, acclaimed biographer Terry Coleman draws for the first time on the vast archive of Olivier's private papers and correspondence, and those of his family, finally uncovering the history and the private self that Olivier worked so masterfully all his life to obscure.
Brontë reference:
This biography contains a chapter devoted to the 1939's Wuthering Heights.
Chapter 9 The Making of Wuthering Heights
A brief excerpt:
He set off cocksure of himself, confident that he understood the character of Heathcliff, later saying he had done his homework, having learned from Garbo, who had known everything there was to know about Queen Christina. That is how he remembered it, but in truth he had not done his homework. He had seen the screenplay, but he had not even read Emily Brontë's novel. He took it with him on the Normandie but lost it after three days, bought another copy in New York, and was still finishing on his two-day flight from New York to Los Angeles. (...)
Olivier was obsessed with his appearance and had himself heavily made up as Heathcliff as he ages throughout the film, first aged seventeen, then twenty, then thirty, and finally fifty. Wyler [the film's director] scoffed.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/150230.jpg)
Dalma Heyn
Rodale Books
The bestselling author of The Erotic Silence of the American Wife is back with another provocative peek at women's secret lives.
Have you ever looked at one of your women friends and asked yourself, "She's so terrific — why is she with him?" In her newest book, Dalma Heyn examines a rising trend in today's relationships — the coupling of high-achieving women with men Heyn terms "Drama Kings," weaker men who are drawn to the women's strength but ultimately attempt to sabotage it. These men create chaos in relationships, driving the women crazy in the process.
Brontë reference:
The beginning quote of Chapter Seven (Drama King #5: The Feeling-Impaired Guy) is from Charlotte Brontë.
"Better to be without logic than without feeling." -Charlotte Brontè, The Professor
Categories: References, Books, The_Professor, Charlotte_Brontë, Wuthering_Heights, Emily_Brontë
Saturday, December 17, 2005
The New York Times offers you the chance to read the first chapter of the novel, just for free. The book begins like this:
Chapter 1. Letters.
It is painful to be dependent on the small stimulus letters give.-Charlotte Brontë, to Ellen Nussey, 1850
Fate affords some lovers only one opportunity to meet. Others it allows endless opportunities, so that their coupling seems more like the work of fate's fair-haired cousin, serendipity.... more.
Categories: In_the_News, Books, Fiction
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/romance.jpg)
Now Playing Magazine reports this release proposing it as a possible Christmas gift:
If you believe grand-gesture romanticism will suffice, though, consider picking up The Masterpiece Theatre Collection: Romance, a DVD boxed set of three timeless tales of love that might, just might, leave her starry-eyed and forgetful of your dead-end economic existence.
First up is director David Skynner’s 1998 adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, starring Orla Brady (Proof) and Robert Cavanah. Nothing is known of dark stranger Heathcliff’s mysterious past when the kindly Mr. Earnshaw adopts him into his family, but his spirited daughter Cathy sees in him a soul very much like her own. Despite divisions of class, the vehement protestations of her jealous brother and, eventually, Cathy’s marriage to an older, wealthier man, Cathy and Heathcliff indulge in a love affair that spans time.
Categories: In_the_News, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering_Heights, Emily_Brontë
Friday, December 16, 2005
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/artswor.jpg)
Literary Classics investigates Charlotte Brontë's haunting, ever-popular tale of the eponymous governess, Jane Eyre.
Broadcast times
Sat 17 Dec 2005 8pm - 8:30pm
Sun 18 Dec 2005 12:15am - 12:45am
Thu 22 Dec 2005 3:30pm - 4pm
Fri 23 Dec 2005 12:25am - 12:55am
Literary Classics takes an informative look at some of English Literature’s greatest authors, poets and novelists. As with the other programmes in this series, this part examines the work in question with the help of a selection of literature experts.
Charlotte Brontë’s ever-popular Jane Eyre was published in 1847 to rapturous acclaim and instant recognition that this compelling study of Victorian society and values was a masterpiece of English literature. Written at the home in which Charlotte Brontë spent much of her life - the bleak parsonage in Haworth in Yorkshire - Charlotte Brontë’s early years were marked by death and illness – powerful and repeated themes in Jane Eyre. This programme tells the fascinating story of the author and her magnificent work – a wonderful tale of repression, freedom of spirit, doomed love and great passion that continues to thrill generations of readers in countries all over the world.
Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Jane_Eyre, Charlotte_Brontë
Thursday, December 15, 2005
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7532/459/200/closeup%20of%20parsonage.jpg)
Historic Sim Houses is full of replicas of famous houses and of course the Brontë Parsonage simply had to be there! It can be downloaded and played with by creating your very own Brontë family (or yourself, in case you've always wanted to know how it feels like living there). There's the church too, by the way.
We must praise the authors for all the work that must have gone into it. Obviously it's not an exact copy when it comes down to furniture and ornaments but with the Sims' furniture it is as close as it gets. And really good at that too.
Now - who's going to get addicted to the Sims? Think of the possibilities! You can rewrite the Brontë story as you like it best.
Categories: Weirdo
Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher Mysteries) by Kerry Greenwood.
Poisoned Pen Press
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/1590581695.jpg)
The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia's Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set without explanation, and the parlour maid is found strangled to death. What with the reappearance of mysterious funerary urns, a pair of young lovers, an extremely eccentric swagman, an angry outcast heir, and the luscious Lin Chung, Phryne's attention has definitely been caught. Her search for answers takes her deep into the dungeons of the house and into the limestone Buchan caves. But what will she find this time?
Brontë reference:
"Sometimes I feel that I am in touch with the other side-with other great writers who long to be reincarnated.'' "Oh? Who?" Miss Medenham settled down for a cosy gossip about herself, automatically leaning back to emphasise her unfashionable bosom and crossing her long, slim legs. She was wearing a red jersey dress under the red coat, and champagne-coloured silk stockings. Her fair hair was shoulder length and straight as a drink of water. `Emily Brontë, of course. Didn't you notice the fire and passion of my last novel, the depth, the wind blowing through it?' Phryne wondered whether to admit that she had stuck fast three pages into the dense prose of Earth, Miss Medenham's latest offering."
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/14794.jpg)
New World Library
Johnson explores the concept of the Beloved — the elusive, alluring force that beckons us forth to passionate engagement with the world — and shows how our sense of love is often linked to something far greater than ourselves. She explains that mistaking a human lover for the inner, eternal Beloved is the first step in any romance, yet the ability to distinguish between the two ultimately holds the key to our quest for personal freedom and fulfillment.
Steeped in Western and Eastern myth and romantic imagery, The World is a Waiting Lover guides us through story and thought in order to discover passion, Eros, and our authentic selves. It is a personal story and, at the same time, an invitation to explore our individual yearnings to live with fearless authenticity as we find more passion and meaning in our work, relationships, and view of the future.
John Lennon appeared immediately, and right after him came Albert Camus, followed by Emily Brontë, W. B. Yeats, Dante Alighieri, and Virginia Woolf, all members of the literary pack I'd adored for many years. (...)
Emily, when I read Wuthering Heights, I was fifteen years old and feeling different and lonely and unliked. You taught me that a woman can love the land passionately, that human emotions can be as wild and grand as storms and English moors. You taught me that strangeness and longing and sorrow are the very blood of writing and that and that they can save a woman's life.
Categories: References, Emily_Brontë, Wuthering_Heights
Categories: References, Books, Emily_Brontë
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
"In many ways, our biography is patterned after the 'lives and letters' format made popular in the nineteenth century, in which extensive quotations from the subject's correspondence are woven into a continuous narrative of the subject's life." So Ronald Bosco and Joel Myerson write in the preface to "The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters" (Oxford University Press, 416 pages, $49.95). Indeed, I immediately thought of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic biography of Charlotte Brontë, in which the subject's letters dominate to such an extent that the biographer seems, at times, an editor rather than an interpreter of a life.
This impression is misleading, though, since Gaskell's selections and her diction emphasize the ladylike Charlotte and subtly dampen her subject's passionate nature, transforming her into a Victorian comestible. Messrs. Bosco and Myerson do something of the same for Ralph Waldo Emerson. They domesticate the renowned individualist, making him seem far less radical than the writers of essays such as "The American Scholar.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Volume 1 and Volume 2. It's a hardback edition published by Indypublish.com and rather expensive, we must add.
Categories: In_the_News, Charlotte_Brontë, Scholar
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/323/1025/320/VILLETTE.2.jpg)
Alba Editorial
Translation by Marta Salís
ISBN: 84 8428 283 X
31 €
648 pp.
Hardcover
If you are wondering how it came to take so long until its definitive translation, you might be interested in reading this article (in Spanish) - Lucy Snowe's Alienation in Charlotte Brontë's Villette - by María Jesús Lorenzo Modia, published in September 2002.
Here's a roughly translated excerpt from it:
An aspect which can clearly be seen in this work is the confrontation between what is English and Protestant and what is continental and Catholic. Villette represents a furious attack against Catholicism. That is, perhaps, the reason why the book was forbidden in Spain for a long time and there isn't any translation available in the market, since the only translation ever made dates from 1944 and has important changes and omissions, probably due to the existing censorship in Spain at the time and which have been previously analyzed (Lorenzo Modia, 1998). Charlotte Brontë reproduces in Villette the religious debate of Catholicism vs. Protestantism, so in vogue in 19th century England. What could be original in her approach is that it reveals a belligerant attitude towards Catholics; though, surprisingly, Lucy Snowe travels to a Catholic country in search for freedom, love and personal realisation, addresses a Catholic priest to be confessed and liberated from her deep anxiety when she roams aimlessly around the streets of this metaphoric Brussels, teaches at a school where everybody is a Catholic and in the end falls in love with a layman Jesuit. The obvious ambivalence in her attitude in a profound level is connected with the contradictory position between her and the world, which reflects an idea present in the Victorian society, considering reality as a fight between opposites.
[...]
This is a filtered translation [the one dating from 1944] when it comes to religious subjects and, therefore, the atrocious criticism towards the Jesuits as an Institution and Catholics in general made in the original by Charlotte Brontë is left out.
If you find the subject interesting you might want to read further on it by getting a hold of the following article by the same author:
LORENZO MODIA, María Jesús. (1998) “Charlotte Brontë’s Villette Translated into Spanish: Censorship at Work”. Insights into Translation, Soto Vázquez, Adolfo Luis (Ed.) 113-122. A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña.
In the meantime, you can celebrate that the Brontës are still new in many ways, and still very much in the publishing business!
Categories: Books, Villette, Charlotte_Brontë>, Translations
Search
![bronteblog AT gmail.com](http://bronteblog.weebly.com/uploads/3/2/8/4/3284139/what-v1_orig.jpg)
Labels
- Advert (6)
- Agnes Grey (335)
- Alert (1645)
- Anne Brontë (574)
- Art-Exhibitions (966)
- Arthur Bell Nicholls (31)
- At The... (11)
- Audio-Radio (577)
- Biography (354)
- Books (3980)
- Branwell Brontë (365)
- Brontë 200 (395)
- Brontë Birthplace (15)
- Brontë Parsonage Museum (1598)
- Brontë Society (537)
- Brontëana (766)
- Brontëites (1921)
- Brussels (281)
- Charlotte Brontë (929)
- Comics (415)
- Contest (34)
- Cottage Poems (8)
- Dance (357)
- Elizabeth Gaskell (242)
- Ellen Nussey (13)
- Emily Brontë (1054)
- Fake News & Blunders (134)
- Fiction (413)
- Haworth (1778)
- Humour (362)
- Illustrations (162)
- In Memoriam (5)
- In the News (1173)
- Ireland (81)
- Jane Eyre (7553)
- Journals (541)
- Juvenilia (292)
- Maria Branwell Brontë (24)
- Mary Taylor (63)
- Messages from BB (108)
- Movies-DVD-TV (4548)
- Music (2262)
- New Releases (7)
- Opera (231)
- Patrick Brontë (209)
- Penzance (15)
- Poetry (850)
- Red House (54)
- References (2737)
- Reminder (124)
- Review (138)
- Scarborough (82)
- Scholar (1213)
- Sequels and Retellings (1139)
- Shirley (273)
- Software (17)
- Talks (1452)
- The Professor (135)
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (524)
- Theatre (3264)
- Thornton (157)
- Top Withens (92)
- Translations (516)
- Unfinished Novels (9)
- Victorian Era (386)
- Villette (562)
- Websites & Apps (196)
- Weirdo (661)
- Wide Sargasso Sea (1012)
- Wuthering Heights (6916)
Recent Posts
Old Labels
Blog Archive
Other BrontëBlogs
-
Jane Eyre por el mundo: Armenia - ¡Hola a todo el mundo! Continuamos explorando el mundo a través de ediciones de Jane Eyre, y en esta ocasión le toca a la edición de Armenia, publicada en ...22 hours ago
-
The Hidden Portraits Of Anne Bronte - There are at least four known portraits of Anne Brontë. Three by Charlotte Brontë, and Anne also features on the far left of Branwell Brontë’s youthful por...2 days ago
-
Jane Eyre 2011- First Impressions - Dear readers, I am... still catching up on all of the Bronte news that I've missed since my days as editor of this blog. Among these is the most recent ...2 days ago
-
Review Jane Eyre the Musical - Theatre Raleigh Production - Earlier this year, Theatre Raleigh in North Carolina premiered the updated production of Jane Eyre the Musical by Paul Gordon and John Caird. Jane Eyre t...1 week ago
-
Portraits IA des Brontë - Chères lectrices, chers lecteurs, Cela fait déjà quatre années que je n’ai pas publié d’articles dans ce blogue, et cela m’a manqué! Je fus en effet confro...1 week ago
-
Meeting Irish author Michael O’Dowd - Several years ago, I reviewed Irish author Michael O’Dowd’s book on Charlotte Brontë’s honeymoon in Ireland: *Charlotte Brontë – An Irish Odyssey*. On our ...2 weeks ago
-
Over 100,000 blog visits - My objective was always for tell the story of William Smith Williams. His relationship with Charlotte Brontë is well known, but nonetheless fascinating...2 weeks ago
-
Climbing into the porch room - Tunstall Church - St John the Baptist Church, Tunstall On a rare, blue-sky, English summer day, my husband and I set off to Tunstall in Lancashire to be at the church of...2 weeks ago
-
第39回大会のご案内 - 10月19日(土)に日本ブロンテ協会第39回大会を神戸市看護大学にて開催いたします。プログラムはこちらをご覧ください。ポスター 大会会場へのさらなる詳細なアクセスなど「神戸市看護大学アクセス詳細版」はこちらをご覧ください。 大会に参加される方はこちらから9月末日までにお申し込みください。4 weeks ago
-
Military Conversations by Charlotte Brontë - Reader, it’s been a while. As much as I love blogging and the Brontë juvenilia, writing about it doesn’t pay the bills, and I have a day job to do. Also, I...4 months ago
-
Interesting side over the Haworth Old Post Office, with beautiful photo's. - *facebook/theoldpostofficehaworth*: Restoring the old Brontë Post Office to its Victorian glory... This is the original location where Emily Brontë pass...5 months ago
-
Goodbye, Jane - As two wonderful years come to an end, Piper and Lillian reflect on what we've learned from Jane Eyre. Thank you for joining us on this journey. Happy...8 months ago
-
The Calderdale Windfarm - *The Calderdale Windfarm* Sixty-five turbines, each one of them forty metres taller than Blackpool Tower! All of them close by Top Withens. This is what ...8 months ago
-
Hello! - This is our new post website for The Anne Brontë Society. We are based in Scarborough UK, and are dedicated to preserving Anne’s work, memory, and legacy. ...1 year ago
-
Final thoughts. - Back from honeymoon and time for Charlotte to admire her beautiful wedding day bonnet before storing it carefully away in the parsonage. After 34 days...1 year ago
-
Ambrotipia – Tesori dal Brontë Parsonage Museum - Continua la collaborazione tra The Sisters’ Room e il Brontë Parsonage Museum. Vi mostriamo perciò una serie di contenuti speciali, scelti e curati dire...2 years ago
-
-
ERROR: Tried to load source page, but remote server reported "500 Internal Server Error". -3 years ago
-
-
-
Two New Anne Brontë 200 Books – Out Now! - Anne was a brilliant writer (as well as a talented artist) so it’s great to see some superb new books…4 years ago
-
Brontë in media - Wist u dat? In de film ‘The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society’ gebaseerd op de gelijknamige briefroman, schrijft hoofdrolspeelster Juliet Ashto...4 years ago
-
Researching Emily Brontë at Southowram - A couple of weeks ago I took a wander to the district of Southowram, just a few miles across the hills from Halifax town centre, yet feeling like a vil...5 years ago
-
Handwriting envy - The opening facsimile of Charlotte Brontë’s hand for the opening of the novel is quite arresting. A double underlining emphasises with perfect clarity tha...6 years ago
-
Link: After that dust-up, first editions are dusted off for Brontë birthday - The leaden skies over Haworth could not have been more atmospheric as they set to work yesterday dusting off the first editions of Emily Brontë at the begi...6 years ago
-
Page wall post by Clayton Walker - Clayton Walker added a new photo to The Brontë Society's timeline.6 years ago
-
Page wall post by La Sezione Italiana della Brontë Society - La Sezione Italiana della Brontë Society: La Casa editrice L'Argolibro e la Sezione Italiana della Brontë Society in occasione dell'anno bicentenario dedi...6 years ago
-
Html to ReStructuredText-converter - Wallflux.com provides a rich text to reStructredText-converter. Partly because we use it ourselves, partly because rst is very transparent in displaying wh...6 years ago
-
Display Facebook posts in a WordPress widget - You can display posts from any Facebook page or group on a WordPress blog using the RSS-widget in combination with RSS feeds from Wallflux.com: https://www...6 years ago
-
charlottebrontesayings: To Walk Invisible - The Brontë Sisters,... - charlottebrontesayings: *To Walk Invisible - The Brontë Sisters, this Christmas on BBC* Quotes from the cast on the drama: *“I wanted it to feel...7 years ago
-
thegrangersapprentice: Reading Jane Eyre for English class.... - thegrangersapprentice: Reading Jane Eyre for English class. Also, there was a little competition in class today in which my teacher asked some really spe...8 years ago
-
5. The Poets’ Jumble Trail Finds - Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending with some friends a jumble trail in which locals sold old – and in some instances new – bits and bobs from their ...8 years ago
-
How I Met the Brontës - My first encounter with the Brontës occurred in the late 1990’s when visiting a bookshop offering a going-out-of -business sale. Several books previously d...10 years ago
-
-
Radio York - I was interviewed for the Paul Hudson Weather Show for Radio York the other day - i had to go to the BBC radio studios in Blackburn and did the interview...11 years ago
-
-
Short excerpt from an interview with Mia Wasikowska on the 2011 Jane Eyre - I really like what she says about the film getting Jane's age right. Jane's youth really does come through in the film.13 years ago
-
Emily Brontë « joignait à l’énergie d’un homme la simplicité d’un enfant ». - *Par **T. de Wyzewa.* C’est M. Émile Montégut qui, en même temps qu’il révélait au public français la vie et le génie de Charlotte Brontë, a le premier cit...14 years ago
-
CELEBRATION DAY - MEDIA RELEASE February 2010 For immediate release FREE LOCAL RESIDENTS’ DAY AT NEWLY REFURBISHED BRONTË MUSEUM This image shows the admission queue on the...14 years ago
-
Poetry Day poems - This poem uses phrases and lines written by visitors at the Bronte Parsonage Museum to celebrate National Poetry Day 2009, based on words chosen from Emily...14 years ago
Podcasts
-
With... Adam Sargant - It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth. We'll be...4 months ago
Subscriptions
Brontë Parsonage X
Brontë Studies X
Other Stuff
![Click here to join BRONTE](http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/yg/img/ui/join.gif)
Click to join BRONTE
![](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UrNYctBBgl0/WWc1QSKK-hI/AAAAAAAARSE/tc64WaZxLI0s3H9LU-MSVd963c1T9NeZQCLcBGAs/bcextban.gif)
![Creative Commons License](http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
![UK Web Archiving Consortium](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I0YlXAlk77E/WWc1g3TZc8I/AAAAAAAARSI/l0lJfZTpz4MBqc4bfBrgE1TXKuUvsfSJACLcBGAs/ukwebarchivelogo.gif)
Site archived by the British Library - UK Web Archiving Consortium