Complementing news

Today is one of those days that Brontë news seem to complete or complement some other previous ones.

We have some more information about the ITV Wuthering Heights project. It's taken from the original press release, that ITV has kindly mailed us:

Peter [Bowker, the writer] commented on Wuthering Heights: "Jealousy, love, passion, violence and hallucinations played out against an unforgiving landscape and driving rain. It can only be Wuthering Heights or a night out in Manchester in the 70's. Since I am over-familiar with both I feel ready to take on the challenge of adapting the greatest novel ever written about the destructive power of love. Put like that it doesn't sound too difficult, does it?"

Executive Producer for Mammoth Screen, Damien Timmer, recently left ITV Productions to form his own company. While developing a number of projects for various broadcasters, he will continue to executive produce several projects for ITV Productions, including The Prisoner which will be broadcast by Sky and the on-going Marple series for ITV1.

Damien’s recent work includes Russell T Davies’ Casanova, Walk Away And I Stumble, and the Inspector Morse spin off Lewis. Upcoming work includes Dracula for BBC1, The History of Mr Polly starring Lee Evans, Anne Marie Duff and Julie Graham and Housewife 49, written by and starring Victoria Wood, both for ITV1.

Damien Timmer said: “Mammoth Screen’s goal is to work with the very best writing talent on a variety of bold projects, and Peter Bowker’s take on Emily Bronte and Wuthering heights should make for very bold TV indeed! In the last few years Peter’s written a number of very striking modern re-workings of classic tales, and it’s a real privilege to be working with him on his first ‘period’ classic adaptation.”

Casting for Wuthering Heights will begin next year.

Hebden Bridge Web, explains a little bit more about the Protect the Colden Valley Campaign, that Juliet Barker, among others, supports and that we mentioned some days ago:

Juliet Barker said, "I am delighted to lend my support to the Protect the Colden Valley Campaign. It seems to me that this development has nothing to do with ecological principles, concern for the environment or indeed for the local community or tourist industry.

"The Colden Valley is a tranquil and beautiful area, rich in wildlife, archaeological interest, and literary association, from the Brontes to Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

"The negative impact of second homes on local communities and their services has been well documented. And it concerns me that the proposed development is on greenfield land. If this proposal is allowed to succeed, - on any scale - it would set a dangerous precedent and open the floodgates for future speculative developers – not just in this area but in the rest of the Calder Valley."

A couple of days ago we posted about Henry Miller and W. Somerset Maugham's ideal libraries and how Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was included in both of them. Now, we read in this review published on Buzzle.com of E.M. Forster's Aspects of the novel (1927), how the author of A Room with a View

(...) uses examples from wide-ranging works to make his points, from War and Peace and Wuthering Heights to--well, to some obscure novels from his own period that none of us have heard of or will hear of again. But it doesn’t matter: he provides the perfect examples from each book to bolster his arguments and explain his points. (Lisa Silverman)

Dame Darcy's illustrated edition of Jane Eyre is mentioned in Newsday and LA Weekly reminds us of her next Jane Eyre signing:

LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY Thu, Nov 16 9:00 pm
The amazing comic-book artist signs her newest book, The Illustrated Jane Eyre.
4633 Hollywood Blvd. , Hollywood

There's a new chance today, November 14, to attend Dr. Tonya Krause's lecture on Jane Eyre. Same time and details as the last one that we posted.

The Brontë Parsonage Blog has a new look and publishes something more about the Brontë crater in the moon that we posted some days ago. Check the post to see the exact location of the Brontë crater.

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