Lists and Princesses

The results of a recent research conducted for Financial Mail by online bookseller Booksofcourse and NatWest can be found today on the press:

The top 50 books every student must read (complete list)

Broaden your mind, deepen your thinking, and spark your imagination

As voted for by UK students and featured in the Mail on Sunday – whatever your course, you should read some of these brilliant books while you’re still at university.

7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë.

19. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.

The Financial Mail asked their readers about the list. In the reader's list, Jane Eyre also enters the top-ten.

Inspired by the list, we asked readers to submit their ten favourite books:

Readers' top 50

7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

10. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

We have a couple of other Brontë-related news today. First, a new short-review of The Thirteenth Tale in The Times:

On a cold Yorkshire evening in a big house on the moors, a reserved young bookseller sharpens 12 pencils and begins writing the biography of a reclusive writer.

The novelist, Vida Winter, has never told the truth during her lifetime, but now that she is dying she wants someone to capture her story. And hers is a tale that deserves a dozen pencils. Setterfield plays slyly with the conventions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights to create a polished original fiction from familiar machinery: ghostly twins, unexplained house fires, mad women who live in attics. The impressive, old-fashioned cunning of the plot goes some way towards compensating for the occasional unevenness of tone; the result is confident, creepy and absorbing. (Sophie Harrison)

And finally, the Daily Mail reveals some unexpected family relations of Kate Middleton (Prince William's non-official fiancée):

Nonetheless, if Kate returned to the dry and dusty pages of this neglected tome, The Peasant And The Prince, she may find inspiration where others may not - for Harriet Martineau, the book’s author and one of the leading thinkers of the 19th century, turns out to be Kate’s ancestor.

On the friendship of Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Brontë, more information can be found on this old post of ours.

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