I've not even heard of Wuthering Heights, actually

People should read the Brontës before making sweeping statements regarding the Brontës. Take the BlogCritics review of Amazing Grace for example:

There are no great chase scenes but there is far more action and drama than in anything written by Jane Austen or any given Bronte you might chose. (Bird of Paradise)

Because unloved orphans, doomed loves, abused wives - to name just a few - are not dramatic at all. And why is it that lately people need to put something down in order to highlight something else?

The Washington Post has an ambiguous paragraph on an article regarding memory (and lack thereof) in literature.

Movies and television have produced ever more such tales; a recent "Masterpiece Theatre" production of "Jane Eyre" showed her suffering amnesia after finding out on her wedding day that the man she was about to wed was already married. Interestingly, Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel has no reference to such amnesia; the television version invented it. (Shankar Vedantam)

Perhaps this was up to anyone's personal interpretation but in Jane Eyre 2006 we never thought Jane had actually amnesia, rather she was concealing the truth and biding her time, wasn't she?

The Stanford Daily reviews a play called Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land. What follows is the way this play is described at some point.

[A]t times, I felt like I was watching an SNL skit within the frame of Wuthering Heights. (Therin Jones)

We suppose SNL stands for Saturday Night Live. Make what you will of it.

Brontëana posts several clips of Jane Eyre. The Musical from the world premiere in Wichita (1995). And here's some background of this well-loved musical written by Paul Gordon himself.

As the story goes, I first came upon the idea for Jane Eyre when I was browsing a book store at the Logan Airport on my way home to Los Angeles. It was the winter of 1990. I’d been pondering an idea for a new musical for months but with little success. I started reading the blurbs on the backs of the novels in the classic book section and came away with three books. Little Women, Vilitte [sic] and Jane Eyre. I don’t know, perhaps if I had started reading Vilitte first I would have written Vilitte [sic], the Musical. But I started with Jane Eyre and by page ten I was weeping. I could barely restrain myself from writing music then and there. Fortunately I was on the plane, and had to wait until I got home and finished the book. (read more...)

Lovely! Except for the Villette misspelling.

Also pnimio shares a few Jane Eyre icons - among many others.

And now for something that made us want to bang our heads against the desk and never stop. It's from The Mirror and here's what it's about: Are TV shows footballers' girls all airheads? We gave them a quiz to find out. BEWARE: Some of the following statements could cause irreparable damage.

And we can't imagine they ever chew the fat about Wuthering Heights either. [...]
Next up is literature and Heather can't remember the surname of the Emily who wrote Wuthering Heights.
But at least she doesn't think it was JK Rowling, like Charlotte. "Tell us you're joking," says Elle.
"No, I'm serious," replies Charlotte. "I've not even heard of Wuthering Heights, actually." (Beth Neil)

We are speechless.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Wuthering Heights