News reappearing

And several news already reported on BrontëBlog reappear on the net:

The Houston Chronicle reminds us the treasures (Brontëana included) hidden at the University of Texas Harry Ransom Center (check this old post for more information):

Suppose there were a place where any Texan or visitor could go to examine and marvel at:
• Charlotte Bronte's microscopic handwriting in the manuscript for her work of juvenilia, The Green Dragon. (James Howard Gibbons)

The New York Times reviews Jenny Uglow's Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, a book previously presented on this blog. Of course the Jane Eyre connections are highlighted:

His art, she adds, “touched the dawning Romantic age: Wordsworth was among the first to sing his praises, and Charlotte Brontë placed his prints of icy seas in the hands of her young heroine, Jane Eyre.” (Dominique Browning)

Another Brontë-related writer with new book is John Sutherland (more previous BrontëBlog appearances here): The Boy Who Loved Books. A Memoir. The Guardian reviews it and remembers the author's previous Brontë-related books:

He's being modest, of course: he is rather a lot of a critic. As well as his academic work he writes columns for newspapers and magazines, and the series of books - Is Heathcliff a Murderer? (1996), Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? (1997), and Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? (1999) - in which he hunts out and explains inconsistencies in classic novels, may be the closest thing there's ever been to bestselling literary criticism. (Ian Sansom)

Peter Rushford's Pinkerton's Sister is reviewed on Maybe Sparrow:

The madwoman in the attic was standing at the window.
From the first sentence, author Peter Rushforth springs a familiar image upon his reader, an inside joke to the book lover he hopes to have picked up his novel, Pinkerton’s Sister. While Jane Eyre may not be one of the rarer works to reference, one must come to this book equipped with a certain appreciation for reading to relate at all to protagonist Alice, who brings a literary state of being to the table. Alice thinks in terms of the books she’s read, and within the first chapter, she compares herself to figures infamous for their madness and duality: Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray, Lady Macbeth, and the ever persistent Bertha Rochester. (Kim Nguyen)

And finally some new tidbits: Shen722 publihes a post about Jane Eyre and The Baltimore Sun reviews 'Crazy Love' (2007) and Heathcliff makes a special (and colourful) appearance:

He reacts like Heathcliff when his Linda rejects him - that is, if Heathcliff were played by Arnold Stang, the bespectacled 98-pound weakling in '50s films like Dondi and The Man With the Golden Arm, and if Stang could turn from cuddliness to snappiness like a rabid Chihuahua. (Michael Stragow)

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