Costume Dramas and Sales

The Telegraph & Argus informs of a Brontë sale. If you are in the Thornton area:

Fans of the Bronte family are invited to a book sale and exhibition in Thornton where the three literary sisters were born.
The Bronte display and book sale is on Saturday, January 19, at St James's Church in the village.
Visitors will be encouraged to visit the graveyard and site of the Old Bell Chapel where the sisters' father Patrick Bronte preached. For details, call Anne on (01274) 832095. (James Rush)

Some Brontë references found in the press today:

The Guardian interviews Helena Bonham-Carter and describes her like this:

In person, as on screen, Bonham Carter is hauntingly beautiful, with a childlike face, brown-rimmed eyes and that great bush of wild electrocuted-looking hair that makes her look as if she's rushed straight from some Bronte-esque melodrama on the Yorkshire moors. (Barbara Ellen)

The supposed costume drama fatigue that we mentioned yesterday appears today once again in The Times in this ineffable article:

Is there no end to the classic serial? Will nobody rid the box of the wringing snobbery of all this literary kitsch? I say one nice thing about Cranford and they’re all over the living room like hawks in bonnets. (...)
These people, they’re like cultural lice. Last week’s offering was Sense and Sensibility(Tuesday, BBC1), written by one of those shrew women who have heritage-trail gingerbread and chintz named after them. It’s about – well, you know what it’s about. It’s what they’re all always about: selling teenage virginity for cash and crenellations. The most astute deconstruction of every plot nuance and character trait in the Austen or Brontë novel can be found in Noel Edmonds’s Deal or No Deal?. (A.A. Gill)

And two articles in The Observer. This one, which mentions the ITV's new production based on Wuthering Heights and this other one.

Hyperemesis Gravidarum, the illness that probably killed Charlotte Brontë, is the subject of this comment by Ally Fogg in The Guardian:

In the days before IV drips, the condition was fatal for the likes of Charlotte Bronte, but now patients are mostly kept alive with regular inpatient stays and the magic of a saline bag.

The Korean Omhy News reviews Jane Harris's The Observations:

I also liked Bessy's cutting assessments of her social superiors. It left me wishing that I could go back in time to class-ridden Victorian Britain and hear what people had to say about the toffs. Let's just say that Bessy's views are not the sort you'll find in a Bronte novel. (Claire George)

EDIT
On the blogosphere today.
First, posts about Jane Eyre 2006: A Glass Castle im Rosengarten reviews the second part (episodes 3 and 4) . sharonsfriend discusses the series and writes a very funny (or not) post where

[The author] can picture them five years later in "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" a popular column in Home Journal

Lisas drömrum talks about Jane Eyre 2006 in Swedish. Palimpsest reviews Jane Eyre and Northside Reading Villette. Postman's Horn now posts a letter from Charlotte to Emily

concerning her position as private Governess to the Sidgwick family at Stonegappe, Lothersdale, Yorkshire.(Stonegappe, June 8th, 1839.)

Finally, Apocalypse Later posts a long and interesting post about Devotion (1946) analyzing the cast and the film values but not looking into the (non-existent) degree of accuracy

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