The reviews of the recently released
Becoming Jane keep mentioning the Brontës in some way or other:
The classy period chick flick isn't a recent invention. Just look at Wuthering Heights (1939), in which Laurence Olivier's elegant smolder threatened to set his own knitted eyebrows aflame. (Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly)
Why do we need to believe that authors lived their own stories? Are we so envious of their towering talents that we have to deny their ability to fabricate plot? (...)And if you can imagine Jane Austen falling in love with a man who seduces her with a description of mating chickadees—well, let me put it this way: You must be thinking of the other Brontë. (Annie Wagner in The Stranger)
Risky Regencies interviews
Janet Mullany, author of
The Rules of Gentility:
Who/what is your authorly inspiration?
Wives and Daughters by Mrs Gaskell for its lush romanticism and exquisitely observed comments on family life and class differences;(...) Villette by Charlotte Bronte for its subversiveness and passion;
On the even briefer notes.
Times Out devotes an article to the Laurence Olivier season at the BFI (see our sidebar), a
doll Brontëite (literally) and even in the
Burma news , Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is mentioned, albeit not positively.
Categories: Brontëites, References
I love that Anne Wagner review! Thanks for posting that.
ReplyDeleteWe also love that someone reminds us from time to time that writers have a right to create plots not only to reproduce their own biographies. Anyway, we suggest you visit austenblog (link in the post) for more interesting reviews.
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