Anne Brontë by Agnes Grey

Daphne du Maurier's vindication is the subject again (check this and this recent posts) of an article in the press. Jane Sullivan writes in The Age:

This Thursday, the centenary of her birth, du Maurier's life will be celebrated with a literary festival in Fowey, Cornwall, where she lived for many years; a BBC television drama and documentary; and a new book edited by Helen Taylor, The Daphne du Maurier Companion.

She also turns up as a fictional character - a detective in Justine Picardie's thriller, Daphne. And novelist Sally Beauman has written a mystery sequel, Rebecca's Tale, which looks back on the story from a point 20 years after Rebecca's death. (...)

She had wanted to explore the relationship between a man who was powerful and a woman who was not but nobody seemed to spot this. The best she could hope for was critics who would defend her from charges of being a cheap populiser, or of having written an inferior Jane Eyre. The worst she got was V. S. Pritchett, who said it was absurd to make a fuss about Rebecca, which would be here today and gone tomorrow.

The Shetland Times talks with Delting hockey player Yvonne Manson. A Brontëite:

Usually something that interests me at the time depending on my mood. (...) When I was younger I loved The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and at school my favourite was Wuthering Heights. I also quite like Jane Austen novels.

We don't know if her Heathcliff would be more like James Younghusband as it is suggested on Manila Standard Today (Dinna Chan Vasquez) or more like Nick Cave the brooding Heathcliff of the indie-rock generation according to The Japan Times (Suzannah Tartan).

Another Brontëite is Cecil Castellucci, comic artist, who says in Silver Bullet Comics:

TOS: Growing up, who were the authors that engaged your interest as a teen?

CC: I loved Walter Tevis, Ray Bradbury, James Tiptree, Jr., Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Austen, Herge, The Bronte Sisters, Charles Dickens, Moliere, Sam Shepard, Dr. Seuss, ... oh so many more.

Finally a couple of reviews and some humour. Exploring Ideas explores (sorry... couldn't help it :P) Wide Sargasso Sea and Nefret reviews the miniseries Sparkhouse, based on Wuthering Heights, in German. The humour comes from this post on Book World and this conversation overheard at a Borders bookstore:

Old woman: "I've got Charlotte Bronte, now I want the other one."
Middle aged man (perhaps her son): " 'ere you go. Anne Bronte."
Silence. Woman studies book: "You sure? This one's by Agnes Grey."
Man: "Yeah. It's a series innit? Look," [hands her a book] "Emily Bronte."
At which point they figured it out and I forced myself to walk away and not scream.

Categories: Brontëites, In the News, Humour, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights