The
Financial Times has an article on a poll that the Lowry centre in Salford is carrying out to coincide with their exhibition
The Myth of the North.
The Lowry centre in Salford is running an online poll associated with its The Myth of the North exhibition, inviting people to vote for favourite northern personalities. An odd mix of the living and the dead, it currently has Morrissey (52 per cent) leading the male section ahead of George Formby (37 per cent), with Victoria Wood (48 per cent) ahead of Gracie Fields (14 per cent) among the women.
No room there for the north's greats such as L.S. Lowry himself, William Wordsworth or Charlotte Bronte. All such lists are spurious. . . (Brian Groom)
You can
vote here if you like, but as Mr Groom says, there's no room for the Brontës.
Better late than never. Valerie Grosvenor Myer passed away on August 9, as was subsequently reported by
The Times and
The Independent. However, her obituaries escaped our notice until today. She was the author of a book called
Charlotte Brontë: Truculent Spirit, published in 1988, which appears to be 'a History of Charlotte Brontë Criticism' as well as essays on many other writers.
EDIT (November 2008):And
Cambridge News gives more details here.
One book which is impossible to miss these days is
Shaggy Muses, which is briefly reviewed in the
McClatchy-Tribune.
And finally let's take a look at the blogosphere.
That Movie Critic Show has a podcast on Wuthering Heights 1992, which they consider 'boring'.
Rubbyslippers too posts a negative review on Jane Eyre. To somehow save the day we have
Yamnosilla who has published what looks like a school essay on The Fantastic in Jane Eyre.
Categories: Books, In the News, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights
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To be fair to the Lowry exhibit I checked out the website and the emphasis is on the 20th century onwards. Given my Victorian biases I knew all the personalities on the Financial Times list but I have no clue who is the more modern day Lowry list. Sort of a shame the recent BBC production on North and South did not appear on the TV drama list bt I guess the list is more regular TV programming.
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ReplyDeleteMichael - Yeah, well. We think the Brontës deserved an exception :P