Emily Brontë lives on

Several news sites and blogs include lists of births and deaths ocurred on a day like today and Emily Brontë's death is featured in them. Linking to bare lists would be quite absurd, but here's a selection of sites that mention Emily, which is a better kind of tribute.

Javno posts a brief summary of Emily's life and death. English Bliss posts and analyses the poem Spellbound (as well as Charlotte Brontë's poem Life). In Italian, In cerca di titolo writes about Wuthering Heights and Myrtle Groggins Show posts a short biography of Emily Brontë.

In other Brontë news, the International Herald Tribune looks at the Nutcracker and its history.

The original tale by E. T. A. Hoffmann, "Nutcracker and the King of Mice," was part of a great 19th-century wave of children's stories in which the adult world looks outsize and new experiences seem overwhelming. Part of this wave were the fairy stories of Hans Christian Andersen, the early chapters of "Jane Eyre" (1847) and "David Copperfield" (1849), all of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking-Glass" (1872), Tchaikovsky's ballet of "The Nutcracker" (1892) and Humperdinck's opera "Hansel and Gretel" (1893). (Alastair Macauly)

And thanks to the gift suggestions in Oak Leaves we have come across this huge collection of so-called Romance Classics which is made up by 28 discs (in two sets) and includes the 1997 TV version of Jane Eyre (starring Samantha Morton as Jane) according to Amazon.com.

Categories: Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Poetry