Girl Power

The Yorkshire Post talks about Castle Howard being the filming location for the forthcoming adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Then it goes on to look to a few other stately houses in the area that have been used as settings for others adaptations.

East Riddlesden Hall – This 17th century manor house was one of the many Yorkshire locations used in Peter Kominsky's 1992 version of Emily Brontë's oft-filmed gothic love story Wuthering Heights. Skipton's Broughton Hall was used as a stand-in for Thrushcross Grange.

We wonder what Lynda LaPlante, a famous script-writer who 'specialises' in crime, would choose for her locations if she ever made her project-dreams come true, which she confesses to the Telegraph.

Her victims are bound to include TV commissioners who snub her non-crime ideas (she’s always wanted to write a life of Mata Hari and an adaptation of Wuthering Heights). (Michael Deacon)

Talking about adaptations: although we published it some time ago, we would like to remind our readers from Holland that Jane Eyre 2006 will be broadcast starting next Monday, July 9. Medianieuwtjes publishes a reminder too.

For a couple of days and finishing today the University of London has been hosting a conference called Renewals: Refiguring University English in the 21st Century. In particular yesterday there was a talk given by David Amigoni, Susan Bruce, Ken Jones (all Keele University) and Monica McLean (Nottingham University) called The Production of University English. We read more details on its development and contents in the official blog for the conference and this has totally baffled us:

We were shown three video clips: [...]
Jane Austen meets the Spice Girls - where a first year university class discussed Jane Eyre

Now we are intrigued! What an unlikely combination, although both Jane Austen and the fictional Jane Eyre had good doses of Girl Power in them.

Reviews: Girlebooks publishes another review by a contributor of Jane Eyre, the novel. (Read the first review here). Meanwhile, Tales from the Reading Room publishes a very interesting review of Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading by Maureen Corrigan.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Scholar, Talks, Wuthering Heights