Walks, Lady Di and Cabas

Let's begin with a magazine that includes an article about Brontë country:

Country Walking, July 2007 Issue

The new issue of Country Walking is just hitting the newsstands now, and it's a cracker! (...)

Wuthering walks
Discover more of the brooding Brontë moors on new access land...

The Telegraph talks a little about the Wuthering Heights performances in York:

John Godber's wife, Jane Thornton, has had a crack - together with director Sue Dunderdale - at bringing Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights to the stage using only five actors.
Given the impossibility of the task, she's done tolerably well. The story is fluidly rendered, with effective bridging use being made of the author's poems as choral songs.
But do Joel Fry's Heathcliff and Jessica Harris's Cathy move and thrill us? With so much hectic business around them - not a jot. (Dominic Cavendish)

We don't know what Claire Vigee, the self-proclaimed Princess Diana scholar in Jennifer Vandever's The Brontë Project, would think if she read the following article published in The New Yorker:

Monday, June 23, 1997. The Four Seasons, East Fifty-second Street, between Lexington and Park. At the invitation of Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, lunch with the Princess of Wales. (...)
And what few people have understood is that Diana’s love for Charles, like everything else about her, was embarrassingly intense. Had she been a chilly opportunist, she might have accommodated the marital arrangement favored by so many of her husband’s friends. But her love was tenacious, desperate, uncompromising. Her temperament was not the sort to take a husband’s infidelity in stride. How could Charles have known that the demure deb he married would turn out to harbor a cache of emotions out of Emily Brontë? (Tina Brown)

The Buffalo News reviews The Sister: A Novel of Emily Dickinson By Paola Kaufmann. It's well-known that Emily Dickinson was a passionate Brontëite. The origins can be traced back to her own infancy:

The girls [Lavinia and Emily] and Austin [their brother] grew up in a cold home. Their father was a bit of a tyrant and their mother emotionally inaccessible. But the children were happy, sustained by a rich, imaginative life together, which they modeled after the lives of the Bronte children. They created their own Gondal kingdoms and acted out scenes from Jane Eyre.
Emily especially enjoyed being the madwoman in the attic. (Sally Fiedler)

Incidentally, the latest issue of Brontë Studies includes an article by Wendy Anne Powers tracing the similarities between the Brontë and the Dickinson households as well as looking into the influence the Brontës - Charlotte and Emily in particular - had over Emily Dickinson.

Alyssa MacDonald in The Guardian's Book Blog defends the sequels of famous books. Particularly, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea:

And in a completely different league, and possibly sub-genre, is Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, a prequel to Jane Eyre regarded as highly as the Brönte novel, which extends beyond the original in terms of politics as well as timeframe and plot.

The Times Word Watching of a couple of days ago included the following definition:

CABA a. A type of coffee b. The Phoenician letter CB c. A handbag

And today in the answers we find a Charlotte Brontë reference:

Caba (c) A small satchel or handbag. Adaptation of the French cabas, a basket or panier. Charlotte Bronte, The Professor, 1845: “Day-pupils, tearing down their cloaks, bonnets, and cabas from the wooden pegs.” (Philip Howard)

Categories: Books, Journals, References, Theatre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights