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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 5:34 pm by Cristina in , , , , ,    No comments
Since she's supposed to be the sister in the shadow, let's break conventions and start this post talking about Anne Brontë.

First of all, the Yahoo! Brontë List is currently reading - chapter 1 so far - Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë. If anyone out there is looking for an interesting, varied, animated discussion on the novel, make sure to join in!

And secondly, Anne's other book - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - is shortly reviewed by Guardian of the Order.

Gary writes a nice short story set on the Haworth moors, on the way to Top Withens. We suppose the story is fictional but the nice descriptions of the place and atmosphere are certainly true to life.

There is something undeniably captivating about the ravaged farmhouse high on the barren moors above the West Yorkshire village of Haworth. Even without its questionable heritage, the ruins of Top Withens farm would exert a strange pull on the imagination. Its hopelessly isolated position gives this most bleak of literary landmarks a dramatic presence that stiffens the hairs on the back of your neck. As with the sea, it is possible to look around you and feel a constitutional sense of loneliness and despair on these moors, as if there is some integrated emotional and physical source of destructive power eroding your resolve as inevitably as the wind shapes the rocks around you. (Read more)
And finally an alert at short notice. Pozuelo de Alarcón - a town in Madrid, Spain - is hosting many activities related to the Mexican culture. Today at 7:30 pm, Abismos de Pasión - Luis Buñuel's personal take on Wuthering Heights, set in Mexico - will be shown at the Espacio Cultural MIRA. The entrance is free.

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