It has been a while since we reported some fashion news with a Brontë alibi. Now we have them back, and with a vengeance. According to
Fashion Wire Daily, the new bridal collection of
Monique Lhuillier could belong to Jane Eyre's wardrobe:
For Lhuillier's Spring 2008 bridal collection, shown in the heart of New York's Chelsea gallery district on Sunday, October 21, she presented a wide offering of airy, intellectual gowns with subtle Victorian influences that one could picture modern day versions of Jane Eyre characters wearing on their wedding day. On several gowns, silk chiffon was gathered into cloud-like folds and layers, a Lhuillier signature. (Renata Espinosa)
Judging from the pictures provided (one of them on the right:
Model walks the runway at the Monique Lhuillier Fall 2008 bridal show in New York on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. (Fashion Wire Daily/Grant Lamos IV) Source) we have our doubts that Jane could wear something like that. But, maybe PJ Harvey can be interested...
Alison MacLeod selects a short stories' top ten for
The Guardian. She compares
Meneseteung by Alice Munro with Jane Eyre:
This is the story of Almeda Roth, a little known Victorian poetess-spinster who lives in a small Canadian town. She resides on the respectable Dufferin Street but her back gate opens onto the edge of a boghole, an area known locally as the Pearl Street Swamp. "(...) The woman of the Pearl Street Swamp is to Almeda what Bertha is to Jane Eyre: her alter ego, her nemesis, but also the agent for Almeda's new, painful insight.
Also in
The Guardian, Sarah Kinson interviews
Barbara Taylor-Bradford who once again (she appeared in the BBC4 documentary Reader, I Married Him) reveals her Brontëiteness:
What was your favourite book as a child?
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, when I was about nine. I was fascinated by Little Nell. Then when I was 12 or 13, I fell in love with the Brontës, especially Wuthering Heights. But at that age, I didn't understand that it was a book about revenge rather than a great love story.
Finally, let's congratulate the
Brontë Parsonage Blog on its new look, including a new banner. And let us also suggest a visit to
The Book Depository where they offer you the chance to download a
free and
unabridged downloadable audiobook of
Jane Austen's Persuasion read by
Greta Scacchi. A unique opportunity.
Categories: Brontëites, In the News, Jane Eyre, References, Weirdo
It has been a while since we reported some fashion news with a Brontë alibi. Now we have them back, and with a vengeance. According to Fashion Wire Daily, the new bridal collection of Monique Lhuillier could belong to Jane Eyre's wardrobe:
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