Jane Eyre Tea Shop

The latest Jane Eyre on screen, Ruth Wilson, is again in the news (promoting Stephen Poliakoff's Capturing Mary). Yesterday she was interviewed in The Times and today appears in The Guardian:

Directors of silent movies knew the value of a good eyebrow. After all, what else did their stars have to communicate with but their facial features? With the talkies, eyebrows became an underrated commodity in actors - until, that is, the arrival of Ruth Wilson on our TV screens. When she starred as Jane Eyre in last year's smouldering BBC serial, her brows were a dark and brooding presence, richly expressive of every thought running through pent-up Jane's head. (...)
In Capturing Mary, Wilson plays a famous young journalist given to stirring up controversy, whose career begins to unravel when she hits her 30s. The resonances with her own life, Wilson says, are alarming. "I had a real fear that after Jane Eyre I could just disappear, that I might not be able to do as good a job on something else." One of the questions that haunts Mary is: how did I become successful in the first place? "That's the other thing," says Wilson. "Thinking: who put me here? Do I deserve this? I know I'm very lucky - I have friends who haven't made it. That plays on my conscience." (...)
In the unlikely event that acting doesn't work out, Wilson, unsurprisingly, has another cherished ambition. "I worked in a little tea shop on the Shepperton Lock when I was about 14, serving teas and ice creams, and I loved it. I want to open a kooky little tea shop with books of plays to read. I'd get all my friends to work in it and my cousin to design it." Her eyes twinkle. "So if it all goes wrong, expect the Jane Eyre Tea Shop to be opened. I'll survive on that name for a while." (Maddy Costa)

The Riverside Press-Enterprise reviews the latest concert of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra where a piece of Jane Eyre: The Musical was performed by Dimyana and Tracy Pelev.

Singing confidently but simply, she charmed the audience with a flexible, fluid voice, full and expressive. With intonation right down the middle of the notes and solid tones at both ends of her broad vocal range, she thoughtfully delivered the difficult "The Finer Things" from "Jane Eyre, the Musical," filled as it is with demanding vocal leaps and spoken elements. (Sherli Leonard)

Barbara Barnett writes in BlogCritics about her life as a fangirl. Including Victorian novels fandom:

But it was also during my teens that I discovered the great Victorian romance novels of the Brontes (Emily and Charlotte) and Jane Austen. I completely fell in love (as did Jane Eyre) with the dark and brooding Edward Rochester, rejecting the cruder and more vicious Heathcliff (the anti-hero of Wuthering Heights). To win my undying devotion, my guy had to bury his feelings of rejection and bitterness, not lash out cruelly. Sorry, Heathcliff.

Finally, My Personal Reviews posts about Jane Eyre and in the Oshkosh Northwestern we find a good use of the Jane Eyre-wildcard (aka Jane of all trades) syndrome. The article is about the gameplay Conan:

In addition, "Conan's" story makes Xena: Warrior Princess look like Jane Eyre. (Rob Ebert)

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Wuthering Heights