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Saturday, September 23, 2006

Saturday, September 23, 2006 2:09 am by M.   No comments
The Guardian also publish about Jane Eyre. Lucasta Miller, the author of The Brontë Myth, writes an insighful and extense article that we *really* encourage to read.

So many things to quote, that we will only quote this appraisal for the upcoming BBC version:
Yet the new BBC version shows that it is also possible to make successful drama by telling the story straight. It features an excellent performance from Toby Stephens, who manages to make Rochester simultaneously macho and vulnerable, and also from Ruth Wilson as a quizzical, strong and un-neurotic Jane (we are no longer, it seems, in thrall to the fashion for making the madwoman her doppelgänger, which was exemplified in Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's 1979 work of feminist criticism, The Madwoman in the Attic).
Now, continue reading, it's worth while.

This is Bradford
also publishes an article about the possible effect on tourism of the new Jane Eyre:
Visitors through the famous front door of the Bronte Parsonage Museum at Haworth- home to Charlotte, Emily and Anne in the early 1800s - have been down on last year.

But the launch this weekend on a BBC version of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre could see a surge of interest as the tourist season runs to a close.

Alan Bentley, museum manager, said: "We are not doing as well as last year and we are hoping this will bring more people in. It is difficult to say why the numbers aren't as good - it could be the weather or the World Cup - a number of factors.

"But we are always pleased when the profile of the Brontes is risen by television or other media."

He said there had been a steady rise in visitor numbers since the foot and mouth epidemic of five years ago, and last year they reached a high of 83,000.

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