Some Brontë mentions around

Cinthia Ritchie in the Anchorage Daily News writes about the Loussac Library in Anchorage. Her article invites the Brontë sisters no less as well as many other writers to a midnight party:

At the stroke of midnight, the authors appear, gliding over the carpet with that lofty haughtiness of people who know they're important: Edith Warton and her cool, pale hands; Nathaniel Hawthorne and his burden of guilt; Sylvia Plath and her beautiful poetry bones; John Steinbeck with his lumbering walk; the Bronte sisters and dear, dear Jane Austen and Emily Dickinson.

Another review of The Things That Matter, that we presented some days ago, appears. Of course the presence of Charlotte and Emily in the book is noticed.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel reviews The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist. It seems that some echoes from the Brontë's characters slip into the narrative:

While the heroine is reminiscent of those young women who came into their own in the novels of Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, The Glass Books does nht offer a polite view of a buttoned-down society. Instead, it is spiced with scenes of highly charged eroticism.

Publishers Weekly defines the book as a mishmash of Sherlock Holmes, Jane Eyre and Eyes Wide Shut that never quite comes together. (!!)

Finally we read in The Connecticut Post how Charles Island can be confused with Wuthering Heights (!):

But the rare pamphlet, which shows the stone tower clinging to a craggy cliff more like "Wuthering Heights" or the Irish Sea than Long Island Sound (...)

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