At the end of the year we're going to be shooting in Yorkshire and Hungary

The Global and Mail publishes two different book reviews with some Brontë relation. In the article about Paint it Black, the writer, Janet Fitch, is compared to Emily Brontë:

Like Anaïs Nin or Emily Brontë, Fitch is fascinated by the extreme emotions of women, the erotic and often insane emotions intertwined with familial and romantic love. (Rebecca Godfrey).

Whereas in the review of The Meaning Of Life: A Confession by Michael Cox, it's Wide Sargasso Sea which is mentioned.

However, as modernism began to lose its grip on the authorial imagination in the sixties, the Victorians improbably returned. At first, beginning with Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966, the Victorian comeback was confined to metafiction using an already fictional character (Rhys chose Mr. Rochester's first wife from Jane Eyre). (Roger Gathman)

The Age carries an article about Emily Barclay (the next Anne Brontë in the upcoming Brontë biopic written and directed by Angela Workman):

Meet Katrina, the one-woman hurricane at the epicentre of Suburban Mayhem. At 19, she seems to have it all: a baby, a yellow Valiant Charger, a pathetic boyfriend, and a beloved brother in jail for murder. For all that, she is surrounded by morons who insist on making life difficult for her - including, worst of all, her interfering dad.

Kiwi actor Emily Barclay, 21, had the mammoth task of slipping into Katrina's high heels. (...)

Her ability to bring characters to life will be tested in a different way with her next project - a quantum leap from Australian beach to 19th-century England. She will play Anne Bronte in the movie Bronte alongside Michelle Williams playing Charlotte and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as troubled Bronte brother, Branwell.

"I'm so lucky to get the opportunity," she says. "That's at the end of the year and we're going to be shooting in Yorkshire and Hungary. It's going to be bloody freezing!" she laughs.

It's difficult to imagine a Bronte sister in a yellow Charger, but then again, Anne Bronte created heroines such as Helen Huntingdon in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, who shocked Victorian readers by leaving her dissolute husband to earn her own living and rescue her son from his influence.

That introduces two novelties to what we already knew about the production. Once again, it seems that the shooting has been a little bit delayed and one of the filming locations will be Hungary.

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