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Sunday, April 30, 2006

Sunday, April 30, 2006 10:03 am by Cristina   No comments
One of those days when newswires are full of unconnected Brontë mentions.

First of all, News-Register look at Barbara Bannister's books and life, and they comment on the book she read when she was a child:

She grew up in Nebraska, the daughter of two avid readers. She eagerly read everything she could find: the "Anne of Green Gables" series, "Jane Eyre," "Little Women" and "Little Men," "Tom Sawyer" and "The Boxcar Children" when it was serialized in a magazine.

We are starting to notice that Jane Eyre is the backbone of many writers. There's a hint for young people who would like to become authors one day :)

On a very different - and sadder - note, TMCnet relates the tragedy of Bob Appleyard, who has recently written a book called No Coward Sould, borrowing this line from Emily's famous poem.

And finally the Charlotte Observer (ha!) publishes the story of how the bedbooks that we talked about a few months ago came to be invented. Wuthering Heights collectors out there, you know there's a copy of the book in this collection. Now, where's Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and all the rest of them?

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