Writers and readers

The Newtown Bee has an article on a mothers and daughters book club which is sadly closing. But in the seven years it lasted they had time to read Jane Eyre, though the little ones seem to have been too young to yet fully appreciate it:

the group has tackled classics that include A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Jane Eyre, as well.
"It's not hard to read a book each month," said Katie [11], "but Jane Eyre was so long."
Victoria and her mother lucked out that month when the only available copy at the library was the abridged version. "[Victoria] said she read it in a week," said Katie, "and we all thought, 'How did she do that?'"

That wouldn't be so surprising for the unabridged version though. George Smith - Charlotte's publisher - was so grabbed by it that he read the manuscript in less than 24 hours - cancelling a meeting and taking a sandwich for dinner in his own room. Ever since, people have only followed in his footsteps!

Then News By Us ask you whether you want to be a writer. The author of the article has a confession to make:

By 15, I had already penned an 800-page tome of Bronte-esque proportions, and I don’t mean that in a good way. It smacked of Jackie Collins and Danielle Steele, although I hadn’t (and still haven’t, to this day) ever read a word they‘d written. In addition to The Tome (so poetically entitled “Success"), I had finished eight or so other 300+ page works of fiction. Not to mention the hundreds of song lyrics and few dozen prosaically philosophical musings. (No, I didn’t sleep much.)

We now wonder: does she like the Brontës or not?

And finally the Times and Star looks back on a few films that have been set in Cumbria.

And that was not the first time Naworth had been used as a backdrop; London Weekend Television used the building in its 1998 interpretation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

Tour operators should consider a Jane Eyre filming locations kind of tour :P

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