Paella and Charlotte Brontë

The Telegraph interviews former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey that shows that at 90 years old it's not too late to become a Brontëite:

Healey probably has one of the best-stocked minds of any contemporary politician and loves the excuse to quote from his favourite poets - W B Yeats, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Shakespeare - and to talk about Virginia Woolf, whose husband, Leonard, he knew well. The other day, he re-read Jane Eyre for the first time since he was at school. "I was stupefied at how good it was." (Elizabeth Grice)

M.J. Rose, author of The Reincarnationist, is another Brontëite as we read in The Stamford Advocate:

GT: Name three authors you would invite to dinner and what would you serve?
ROSE: I'd serve paella so I could make it ahead of time and not miss a second of the conversation and I'd invite Charlotte Bronte, Ayn Rand and Margaret Mitchell. (Barbara Hains)

Charlotte Brontë eating paella? And later some gazpacho and sangría?

The Breeze announces the Masterpiece Season at the James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It includes Polly Teale's Jane Eyre (Nov. 6–10, 2007 8 p.m. / Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre ).

Sidestepping real remembers reading Wuthering Heights as a teenager (and her first evocation of what heather would be like), iguana blog has also read WH recently (in Italian). Finally ebooktakeaway gives you the chance to download May Sinclair's The Three Brontës (1912) in html/pdf/txt formats.

Categories: Biography, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Theatre, Wuthering Heights