A couple of writers

On the press today:

1 -Writers inspired by the Brontës.

Five influential writers reveal the sometimes very unlikely people, places and ideas that have inspired them in The Guardian. One of them is Maggie O'Farrell (recently we posted about her most recent book) talks about Isabella Bird. Nevertheless she cannot help to insert a Brontë reference:

I was reading a letter by a Victorian traveller to her sister, Henrietta, when I suddenly realised that the letter-writer and the character I'd seen on screen were one and the same. It was an astonishing revelation. I had attended two productions of Top Girls in the intervening time and had never realised the protagonists had lives beyond the boundaries of the play. It was like discovering that Jane Eyre was alive and well and teaching at a local primary school.

Sarah May is interviewed in The Independent:

Critics often describe May's prize-winning debut as experimental, but May says she couldn't have written The Nudist Colony any other way. "I wasn't deliberately trying to find a new voice. I now think that if I wrote it again, I'd write it as a children's book. I've learnt so much technically since then. I've just reread Jane Eyre. The sentences are so long, broken up by endless semi-colons. There's a really beautiful inherent rhythm to it. "

2 - A use of Brontë as a synonymous for gothic:

But Brothers of the Head isn’t some clunky comet streaking in from beyond the outer reaches of cinema’s worst cross-over ideas to crash and burn on screen. Somehow, Keith Fulton’s and Louis Pepe’s movie works, and works well. Defying classification (the best analogy is David Cronenberg reinventing the TV rise-and-fall rock-star bio), this film mixes Dickensian characters with Brontë gothic. This strange brew also bubbles out of a raw, punkish energy and one actor’s startlingly fierce performance. (Brian Gibson in VueWeekly)

And finally, we recommend a visit to Eyris' blog where the review of the episode four of the BBC Jane Eyre has been posted.

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