No big news for today it seems. But instead we have been sowing a few references from the press around the world today. And here they are:
Ron Bernas reviews for
The Detroit Free Press a book called The Minotaur by Barbara Vine:
In "The Minotaur," a young nurse slightly adrift in the world answers an ad for a post as a companion to a mentally ill man living with his family in the English countryside. While there, she becomes an unwilling witness to the depravities of the human soul. And, at the end of it all, gentle reader, she finds love.It sounds like the basis for a novel by one of the Bronte sisters or even Daphne du Maurier. It's not.Well, if you say so.
Barbara Liss reviews Gail Caldwell's A Strong West Wind for
Chron.com:
While other bright girls were perhaps reading Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, Caldwell was drinking in Mary McCarthy, Philip Roth and Thomas Wolfe.We suppose that's a good thing, though she doesn't know what she missed.
Canada's
Chronicle Herald has an article on singer Anna Nalick:
Nalick credits her unusual influences with setting her songs apart, especially literary ones which ranged from C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia to F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Bronte sisters. That would account for the strong internal voice and sweeping emotion of her compositions, from an imagination that she learned to feed at an early age.And finally, Canada's
National Post carries an article on a fashion show that took place in Paris. Of course, the Brontës crop up as soon as fashion does too:
Each of his vapid-faced models was accompanied by an animal: One model and her French poodle sported matching lace corsets. It was part Wuthering Heights, part Lolita Goth, with long black coats and dresses stolen from the Addams family. The point of the menagerie remained elusive, but the collection reflected the romantically tenebrous ambience of fashion now.What a - erm - nice collection.
Well, that's it. Your Brontë newsround for Sunday :)
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