Bewick's Birds in Sidney and Jane Eyre in Saskatchewan

Two alerts for today, June 10, in Australia and Canada

1- A meeting of the Australian Brontë Association (ABA) with an interesting talk.

Saturday JUNE 10th at 10:30am
level 1 of the Sydney Mechanics’ School
of Arts, 280 Pitt St Sydney (just around the corner from Town Hall station)

Christopher Cooper: “Bewick’s Birds”
Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was a wood-engraver, and possibly the most influential artist ever to work in the North of England. His books illustrated with life-like mammals and birds made a major contribution to creating the traditional interest in natural history. A copy of his British Birds was on the shelves of the Haworth Parsonage and the Brontë children pored over it till they knew it intimately. Many of their drawings and paintings were copies from Bewick’s engravings and in the opening chapter of Jane Eyre, Jane describes many of these engravings in great detail.

We remind our readers that Thomas Bewick's "History of British Birds" is available on line, with the original illustrations.

2- SCN TV (Saskatchewan Communications Newtwork, available on satellite (Bell ExpressVu Channel 266 and StarChoice Channel 352) and cable, but not over-the-air) broadcasts, starting today at 10:00 PM, the 1983 BBC Jane Eyre production with Zelah Clark and Timothy Dalton.

Time & Date (for the three first episodes): 10:00pm Saturday June 10th, 2006; June 17h; June 24th. We suppose the rest of episodes will be also broadcast on Saturdays.

You can watch a video preview here.

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