Christmas Dinner

The Halifax Evening Courier proposes a classic quiz for Christmas Eve, who would you invite to your Christmas dinner?

After more than 100 rejections, Todmorden author Linda Green finally saw her dream come true this year with her debut novel published – and within weeks, I Did A Bad Thing soared in the best-selling paperback charts at both Waterstones and Tesco.
Linda, now working on her second novel, has chosen to dine with two authors from very different eras – Emily Bronte and JK Rowling.
"It would be fascinating to hear about how much has changed for women writers since Bronte's day and I'm sure she would be delighted to learn how her work has lived on – and astounded at how much JK Rowling earns today," she says.
"When dinner is finished we could all curl up by the fire and be treated to a mammoth storytelling session for the rest of the day." (Virginia Mason)

(Very) belatedly we would like to report the following words by Paul Gordon in the Jane Eyre Musical forum about the present status of the new version of Jane Eyre. The Musical:

JANE EYRE - getting closer to doing "the new chamber version" next year at a major regional as well. (December 13)

Schlock Treatment talks about Jacquest Tourneur's 1943 reworking of Jane Eyre à la voodoo in I Walk with a Zombie. Speak its Name reviews another (gay) Jane Eyre reworking: The Master of Seacliff by Max Pierce.

There are flashes of Rebecca here, with an obsessed and creepy faithful retainer, touches of Jane Eyre but never so much so to annoy, it was always its own story. (Erastes)

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