160 years ago

About.com reminds us of a significant anniversary that took place 160 years ago today, August 24:

Jane Eyre is still a great favorite to readers around the world. That's why it's interesting to note that on August 24, 1847, Charlotte Bronte sent off her famous work to the publishing house, Smith, Elder & Company. (Esther Lombardi)

Smith, Elder had only rejected The Professor a year minus a day before - on 25 August 1846 - but so encouragingly that Charlotte never hesitated to send them her new work as soon as she had her fair copy. And indeed Smith, Elder & Company were so taken by the story and its novelty that they took less than two months to publish it. The rest - as the saying goes - is history.

Like yesterday, we found in the news articles about the Puppini Sisters. The Washington Post says about their Wuthering Heights cover:

The trio's three-part harmonies on Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" accentuate the swaying melodies, giving the once-melodramatic number a completely new feel. (Catherine P. Lewis)

And the Boston Globe:

Recast as a jazzy show tune, Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" was unrecognizable until the chorus, although the swaying arms and Marty Feldman eyes (straight out of Bush's video for the '80s classic) should have tipped us off. (James Reed)

EDIT: And we add The Washington Post (30/08/07)

The Times provides today the put-a-Brontë-in-your-article kind of reference. The article is about middle-age sex:

One of this crew is in love for the very first time at the age of 50-plus. She witters like Cathy over Heathcliff and spends a fortune at Agent Provocateur. Sweethearts, it’s not a good look. (Celia Brayfield)

Finally, on the blogosphere: Girlebooks reviews Wuthering Heights, PhiloBiblos Jenny Uglow's Nature's Engraver (the biography of Thomas Bewick) and Кривое зеркало памяти publishes a post about the Brontës in Russian.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Music, Wuthering Heights