Brontë Academy of Creative Writing

Some Brontë mentions by writers.

The Deccan Herald reviews Incantations and Other Stories by Anjana Appachana. Here's a quote from one of the stories featured.

Incantations starts as “One hot summer night, when I was 12 and tear-deep in Victorian fiction, dreaming in bed beside my sister that I was Jane Eyre and Agnes wooed by Rochester and David, I felt my sister shuddering.” (Sonya Dutta Choudhury)

Jane Smiley - author of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Novel, among others - looks at how sex is generally treated in books in The L. A. Times.

Novels of "non-pornographic intent" are often uncomfortable, regardless of how much or little sex they have in them. (Hello, Monsieur Proust! You are not shocked, I know.) A novel may never mention sex and yet still be cruel ("Wuthering Heights"), or it may mention lots of sex and still be kind ("Ten Days in the Hills," I hope). It may seem terribly intimate in its very strangeness (Kafka's "The Trial"), or relentlessly public in its obsessive excess (Zola's "The Belly of Paris").

The direct relation between sex (or lack thereof) and cruelty somehow escapes us though.

Little Willow interviews author Terie Garrison and inquires about her favourite books.

What are your ten favorite books of all time?
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

And finally a Russian blog, wind-bbc, has many lovely pictures of a trip to Haworth, including a ride in the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.

Categories: Books, Haworth, Jane Eyre, References, Wuthering Heights