Myths, chick lit and prejudices

Richard Wilcocks, Chairman of the Brontë Society, publishes on the Brontë Parsonage Blog a very interesting article, Myths and their generation, covering the official opening of the Brontëan Abstracts exhibition last Friday in the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Reading the post you will feel as if you have been there :) [Picture source: Brontë Parsonage Blog, Cornelia Parker and Phyllis Cheney].

The Small Spiral Notebook publishes a roundtable with some of the contributors of the recently published book This is Not Chick Lit. Roxana Robinson resurrects the recurring question about the slippy boundaries of what can be considered chick-lit.

Roxana Robinson: It’s not clear to me exactly where the division lies between “chick lit” and other fiction for, and by, women. If the definition has to do with plot, and if the plot concerns a young woman who finds the love of her life, then doesn’t it include Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre? Do I read chick lit? I don’t know. I’ve read all of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, and I’ve read The Diary of Bridget Jones, which I much enjoyed; I thought it was funny, lively and beguiling.

Finally, the DeWitt-Bath Review quotes Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre famous statement about prejudices, in an article about teaching tolerance:

One of the most powerful statements I have ever read about the responsibility we have for teaching our children about tolerance is from Charlotte Bronte, "Prejudices, it is well known are the most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones."

EDIT (20/09/06) The Brontë Parsonage Blog publishes another post explaining a very curious initiative that Cornelia Parker suggests to link Nelson and the Brontës.

Categories: In_the_News,Art-Exhibitions