Heathcliff's People

The new 'official' sequel of Gone With the Wind, Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig is analyzed in The Times and its perspective is compared with other 'romance' novels:

That trust has now given its blessing to Rhett Butler's People by Daniel McCaig, a respected historical novelist with a white moustache that sits on his lip like the rim of sugar on a mint julep, giving him a resemblance to Colonel Sanders. “Readers will get inside Rhett's head as he meets and courts Scarlett O'Hara in one of the most famous love affairs of all time,” promises a New York Times review quoted on the jacket.
Clearly, the trustees are not great students of the love story. The last place readers want to be is inside a romantic hero's head, of course. Imagine Heathcliff's take on Wuthering Heights. Imagine Mr Darcy's perspective on Elizabeth Bennet. Imagine Maxim de Winter's account of his second marriage. At one point in this book, Rhett Butler wonders if he and Scarlett were lovers in a previous incarnation. No, no, no. (Celia Breyfeld)

The Coventry Telegraph covers briefly the ongoing Cornelia Parker's exhibition Never Endings:

A roomful of works from time spent at the Brontë Parsonage Museum shows the writers' possessions in a new light, massively magnified, so a pincushion looks like a swimming pool, and Branwell's wallet like an attractive textile. (Julie Chamberlain)

BookStove publishes a short essay on Jane Eyre while Fok! reviews the DVD Dutch edition of Jane Eyre 2006. craig_352 publishes a very nice picture of Top Withens.

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