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Wuthering Heights news:

The Guardian reviews Wuthering Heights Naxos Audiobook released last year (check this old post of ours) with Janet McTeer and David Timson.

David Timson is excellent as Lockwood, the narrator, while Janet McTeer takes over as Nelly in the recounting of Catherine's tumultuous story. Perfect listening for a dark winter's night. (Kim Bunce)

On Jill Christine's blog, you can find a Brontëite confession, Wuthering Heights section:

Yes, there are always used bookstores and thrift stores. I’ve been known to prowl both, usually in search of obscure editions of my favorite titles. You don’t want to know how many different copies of Wuthering Heights I have. My favorite’s a hardcover illustrated with Fritz Eichenberg wood engravings. Heathcliff is my precious, okay?

Jane Eyre news:

First, we have a review of the current US tour of The Acting Company with Polly Teale's Jane Eyre. The Indiana Star Press about Muncie's performances:

A select audience of theater-lovers attended Polly Teale's groundbreaking adaptation of Jane Eyre on Tuesday evening at Emens Auditorium. (...)
Director Davis McCallum explains, "Our adaptation frames the story as one woman's containment and release." Bertha also represents the first wife, Bertha Antoinetta Mason, married to a fortune-hunting Rochester and doomed to madness by the strictures of colonial patriarchy. Christopher Oden, the award-winning actor who plays Rochester says, "[Bertha] represents all the sex and rage Jane has to push down in order to make her way in the world."
The stark simplicity of the set contributed to the tone and mood of the play, as did the cellist sitting on stage, who added haunting music to the scenes. The use of
chairs as devices to illuminate scene changes worked well.
The action moved slowly in the first act, but the intensity built steadily until the final denouement. (Delonda Hartmann)

And here we have this very curious post where Jane Grey (from X-Men 3. The Last Stand (2006)) is compared with Jane Eyre! Well, if you read the post closely, what the author compares is Jane Grey/Phoenix duality with Jane Eyre/Bertha Mason:

A couple of weekends ago, I watched X-Men: The Last Stand, the most recent installment in the X-Men movie franchise. On the same night, I finished reading Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. You might think that a 9-month-old superhero movie and a 160-year-old realistic novel don’t have anything in common, but you’d be wrong… Both fictions take on the subject of women and madness, with a special focus on the split personality. The outcomes of the two stories are very different in ways that make me concerned about the direction we young whippersnappers are headed in. (Feminist SF, The Blog!) (Read more)

The Brontës are the subject of this long entry on Alun Clewe's LiveJournal. Although we don't agree with everything said (particularly with the treatment of Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey), it makes an interesting reading.Categories: In the News, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights