Easter Monday Tidbits

Easter Monday comes with few Brontë mentions on the net.

As I was Saying... reviews Jane Eyre. Apparently she has been reading a 1946 edition of the novel. With illustrations by Nell Booker.

Two different bloggers post about Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and from very different perspectives. My Adventures in Tucson clearly dislikes it:

I get the feeling that after reading this book, my opinion should have been something like, "Wow, how enlightening to hear the story from a different viewpoint! What a brute Mr. Rochester was and how wronged was poor Antoinette!"
Instead, throwing all sense of feminist political correctness aside, it's more along the lines of, "This lady was psycho and Rochester was right to lock her away. Also, this book is deeply disturbing."

On this blog we can find a scholar paper (in Italian) by Aurora Montalto discussing Antoinette Cosway's character in Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre.

LilacsinMarch talks about the most recent TV Wuthering Heights adaptation: The 2004 Italian version that we presented some time ago:

Up to a point it is quite accurate but then Heathcliff accidentally kills Hindley with a kitchen knife, Hareton is nowhere to be found, Heathcliff didn't even touch Isabella so Linton is only a suggestion and I guess that young Catherine will just have to stay single.
I don't understand these strange alterations and changes (...)

A Pint of Ale reviews Haworth Old Hall Inn:

A hall built in the latter half of the 16th century has been sympathetically transformed into the Haworth Old Hall Inn, a Good Beer Guide listed pub well worth a visit.

And finally, the mysterious mention of the day. It comes from Guyana:

On England,where Bill teaches journalism at University and is a prize winning television journalist, the Fredster can only reach for Charlotte Bronte. Really! England is currently in the grip of fine spring weather. At the moment the Wuthering Heights are Sunny Uplands. But what was the point of that Fred diversion? Anybody work it out? (Bill Cotton in Stabroek News )

We don't. Unless this could be another case of the mixing-Brontë-sisters syndrome.

Categories: Haworth, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights