A walk around the blogosphere (III)

Since there are practically no news today so far, we have decided to take you for one of our walks around the blogosphere. Since our last one we have come a cross a few noticeable blogs and/or mentions.

Perhaps most interestingly we have seen that Bertha Mason keeps a blog and that she keeps us posted on her life and efforts to catch Mr Rochester's attention. Unfortunately since she said she was about to attempt to burn his house we haven't heard from her. Hmmmm... we hope nothing has happened to her ;)

Lucy Snowe too, but she leads a somewhat different life, though - literary conundrum as that is - she posts her favourite quotes and poems by her own creator Charlotte Brontë from time to time.

There's also fan fiction to be found. Imagine how surprising it is to find a few characters from Jane Eyre mingled in a story involving Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom.

Remember that Polly Teale's Jane Eyre review where they said "you feel like you are looking into the heart of Brontë herself"? Well, someone didn't quite relish the expression and created the corresponding hilarious image.

The Culture Vulture blog from The Guardian posts on marginalia and relays a funny story:

It seems, in fact, that mad scribblings are more common than sane ones. I was once shown a copy of Jane Eyre that was thick with the bile of a woman scorned. Every instance of a male character being brought to book or receiving any kind of comeuppance was heavily annotated, sometimes with "Ha!" added as an afterthought.

Don't you love the 'ha!'? :D

There's also people looking into 'fam-ilees' (famous families) and - you guessed it, of course - the Brontës sprang to mind.

So, as you can see, the Brontë buzz doesn't die down a bit on the blogosphere. Don't miss on our next walk - we are sure there will be lots of curious things!

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