Via the
Toby Stephens forum, we have heard that January - or at least its beginning - is going to be nearly as Brontesque as last September was.
In perfect chronological order,
BBC Four will broadcast the latest screen version of Wide Sargasso Sea on January 6, 21:10-22:35. Then, the following day, January 7, the four episodes of the new Jane Eyre will be shown on the same channel starting at 7 pm, followed by a documentary previously mentioned on BrontëBlog, but not quite as new as these production. The documentary,
Charlotte Brontë Unmasked, dates from the year 1994, right after a possible new photograph of Charlotte Brontë was discovered. The debate, however, is still ongoing on whether the woman in the photograph is Charlotte Brontë or not.
What made us flinch was the following description of said documentary:
11:00pm - 11:50pm BBC4
Legendary author Charlotte Bronte was thought to have died unphotographed. But recently, photographs allegedly of Charlotte show a severe, formidable woman, and new biographies portray her as a jealous sister, spiteful daughter and sexual predator. These revelations have proved a shock for fans who see in Charlotte an idealised image of Victorian womanhood. This programme searches for the real woman behind the disputed image.
Sexual predator? It seems that they went to the very end of the opposite direction of Mrs Gaskell's view.
For readers on the other side of the pond,
the PBS will be showing the episodes on January 21 and 28. But we advise our readers to watch closely the Weekly TV Alerts on our sidebar for further information as the dates approach.
On another news,
The Age has just published a lovely newspaper article by Justine Picardie which appeared in
The Telegraph last September. It was related to the exhibition Brontëan Abstracts at the Brontë Parsonage Museum and the visit of two psychics to the Parsonage.
And finally, a new Brontëite joins our ranks. Indian sculptor S. Nandagopal talks to
The Hindu about her favourite book.
I also reread my all-time favourite, "Wuthering Heights," which I've always found inspirational. When I went to the U.K., I made it a point to visit Top Withins, trekking up the Yorkshire moors in gumboots through foggy weather to see the ruin which is supposed to have inspired the novel.
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