Jane Eyre wrote Pride and Prejudice and other shocking news

Well, not really. Different Brontë mentions on the net, today:

Thanks to the grandiloquent mind we have read this Jonathan Rhys Myers interview for The Straits Times where this brief mention to the Brontë, the film, can be found:

He is preparing to play Branwell Bronte, the sole brother in the 19th-century Yorkshire literary family, in the British drama Bronte. (Clara Chow)

Go Triad talks about the dangers of a long session of study:

Apparently, Margaret Thatcher wrote "A Handmaid's Tail," Jane Eyre wrote "Pride and Prejudice" and Shakespeare wrote a lot of works published after he died and before he was born. (Carrie White)

In Variety we read how ABS/CBN of the Philippines has acquired Wide Sargasso Sea 2006 recently aired on the BBC.

The Baltimore Sun reminds the on-going Eyre Apparent exhibition in the George Peabody Library.

Parents.com analyzes the name Ellis, and of course Emily Brontë's nom de plume is mentioned. This class is reading and discussing Jane Eyre. Bancroft's from Yorkshire is doing some genealogical research and it turns out that some of their ancestors were baptized or buried by Patrick Brontë. The Dark Side of the Moon reviews The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

Anne Brontë's work has been compared unfavorably to that of her sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Yet its psychological insights, including the very coarseness and brutality of which contemporary critics complained, make up for Brontë's lack of literary finesse. (...)
Although much has changed since Brontë's time, her characterizations and insights on family life hold true today, making The Tenant of Wildfell Hall a classic in its own right. (Diane L. Schirf)

Mea Culpa talks about Wuthering Heights (in Portuguese). The Other World explains what is a Helen Burns moment.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights