Brontës meet Antwerp, Mozart and Arlington Park

First, we have a final list in the New Zealand Canterbury's favourite book competition that has appeared previously on this blog.

16. Jane Eyre
18. Wuthering Heights

And now with the periodical round of Brontë-references more or less suitable:

Fashion designer Camille Lorigo describes like this her last favourite item:

Every morning I dress to entertain myself. You need to throw things on the floor to come up with exciting combos. My favourite item right now is a four-armed Flemish jumper. It’s turquoise mohair and potentially fatal near machinery or when dressing in a hurry; it’s the Brontes meet Antwerp.

Michael Church reviewing for The Independent a Prom concert centered in Mozart's younger years compares Mozart's and Brontë's infancy:

Accounts of the Mozart children at play recall accounts of the infant Brontës: Wolfgang's elder sister Nannerl told of the day when - for lack of anything better to do - the eight-year-old composer began to write his first symphony, and asked her to remind him 'to give the horn something worthwhile to do".

Although we realize what's the reviewer's point, we cannot think in two infancies more different than Mozart's and the Brontës.

Finally, The Scotsman publishes a review of Arlington Park, the new novel of Rachel Cusk. Apparently one of the characters has a deep animosity against poor Patrick Brontë. Gaskell's influence still lingers on.

Juliet is enraged with men as a whole, whom she believes, have "murdered women". On the list of murderers are the Brontës' father and men who have forced women into the doleful world of coffee mornings. Having once believed she was "exceptional", the reader is left on a precipice of expectation, waiting for Juliet to unleash the "exceptional" women she has lost to banality. But her response is disappointingly ineffectual, if amusing; she cuts off her hair.

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