The Collected links

People normally compare themselves to Rochester, Heatchliff, Jane Eyre... On this occasion we have found someone who compares herself to Bertha.

Why is it that when we die, we suddenly achieve a kind of saintliness? Admittedly I'd like to think if I was extinguished via some kind of public catastrophe that my girlfriend would tell journalists what a loving, flamboyant, intelligent and caring person I was. It's not far off the truth, but in all honesty, it would be equally fair of her to tell them that I'm also a moody, emotionally volatile harridan who bears a striking resemblance to Mad Bertha in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.(Katrina Fox in SXNews)

The Excalibur, the student newspaper of the University of York, Toronto, talks about recent exhibitions and we come across a Brontë reference:

The close-knit relationship between media and self-image was a prominent theme at this year's Photography Exhibition. The exhibition took place between March 19-23 at the Gales Gallery in Accolade West Building.
Some photographs were standard picture-within-picture self-portraits in both colour and black and white. Others, like Liz Haney's prop art piece, featured the juxtaposition of educational materials (a globe, books by Alice Munro and Emily Bronte) lying on the foreground of a deserted lakeshore. In front of the picture was an actual wooden school desk with a black and white canvas of the same image - minus the foreground objects - representing a student's dreamscape coming to life before our eyes. (Shlomo Feldman)

In the blogosphere it can be found today: a extensive discussion on Jane Eyre in Macgregoradas Cotidianas (in Spanish); a second installment of 2006 BBC Jane Eyre Icons by Creatively Girt ; a brief comment on Wuthering Heights by Brian; Livre du Jour introduces her new lecture: Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and a comment in Russian Bulgarian of Charlotte Brontë's Shirley.

The Brontë Parsonage Museum organizes today activivities for children:

WILD WORKSHOPS - Art and craft workshops for children (5 - 11 year olds) @ £3.95 per child. For further info and bookings contact susan.newby@bronte.org.uk 01535 640185

Finally, we present the blog, The Collecting Place, created by photographer Simon Warner to show the progress of the Camera Obscura project, that we talked about some days ago. A nice place to visit.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Shirley, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights