One book per sister

Charlotte, Emily and Anne have one of their books - or adaptations of their books - reviewed each today. Neat!

Charlotte: Jane Eyre. Marusia17 reviews the screen adaptations of Jane Eyre, starting in 1934 and finishing in 2006. Each adaptation is concisely but aptly summarised. EDIT: We have received an e-mail to inform us that these short, concise reviews had been taken from ThisbeCiel's fabulous The Enthusiast's Guide to Jane Eyre Adaptations. We did think they rang a bell. We regret the mistake, and the beginning of the post in Russian probably explained this but, you see, our knowledge of Russian is quite - erm - limited.

Emily: Wuthering Heights. The Pemberley Literary Society have notes on a discussion on Wuthering Heights that took place in February 14. A very interesting read which offers varied points of view on Emily Brontë's novel.

Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Musings reviews Anne's second novel and praises its efforts to defend the cause of women in the 19th century, though the plot is considered 'rather simplistic', something we don't quite agree with.

Now on to other things. A Ramble in the Park reviews Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia. This interesting remark can be found in it:

As soulmates, Jesse and Leslie need each other to be alive, for their imaginations to soar. Without the other, each feels betrayed, changes, and cannot cope. Incidentally, this idea is also central to love theme in Wuthering Heights.

If you remember, the film version of this book was also recently compared to Wuthering Heights, perhaps for the same reason.

Early this week we found on Hopeful Romantic a Jane Eyre 2006 mood theme set for livejournal, today lots of icons from Jane Eyre 2006 can be found on the website as well.

And finally for something really cute. A couple of ferrets called Charlotte and Emily! Although Emily was a free spirit too...

This is Charlotte, our ferret. We used to have two, but her sister Emily escaped one day and never showed her twitchy nose again. My fault, unfortunately. I’ve never been good at multiprocessing, and one day, I tried simultaneously to give the ferrets some exercise and clean house. Emily slipped out, but the smarter and nicer Bronte remained. [...]
Charlotte doesn’t miss her sister. Emily was nasty to everyone, her sister included, and Charlotte’s personality improved greatly following Emily’s disappearance.

Click on the link to see a picture of Charlotte the ferret. Unfortunately, however, the first, human, Charlotte Brontë did miss her sister Emily a lot.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights