Brontëites everywhere

A few new Brontëites to join our ranks today!

The Courier Mail talks to Kate Morton - author of The Shifting Fog. Like most authors, she is asked about her favourite writers and influences:

Morton later completed an honours year in English literature and is undertaking a PhD on mystery fiction and Gothic themes. Her favourite author is Barbara Vine (pseudonym of Ruth Rendell) and her favoured classics include Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

But it doesn't end there. Kate Morton goes on to say that:

"For me, the house is always as much a character as the people themselves"

Which can be viewed as a clear Brontë influence, since the Brontës themselves seem to have thought so too. Take Wuthering Heights, for instance.

Bookreporter.com chat to Beverly Barton - author of Close Enough to Kill - and she is asked virtually the same question:

In one way or another every writer I've ever read has influenced my work. From childhood, I read, enjoyed and studied the works of female writers: Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, Edna Ferber, and Daphne DuMaurier, to name a few.

We have found it really hilarious that this books features a character called Thomasina Hardy :D
And now for some more Brontëites of sorts. Bookreporter.com also asked its readers about their favourite school read. Many, of course, come up with Brontë novels.

And finally St Louis Today reviews the opera season in St Louis, which includes Berkeley's Jane Eyre.

Michael Berkeley's "Jane Eyre" got a short run - just five performances - and was consistent from first to last, closing June 16. Soprano Kelly Kaduce, the leader of a uniformly strong cast, was vocally and dramatically dazzling in the title role. Although David Malouf's libretto condensed the story too much, "Jane" still was a memorable evening in the theater.

They also quote a couple of reviews on all their operas, and Jane Eyre appears there as well.

Categories: Jane_Eyre, Opera, Brontëites