Eyre Glam

In The Daily Mail Ruth Wilson talks about her disappointment for missing her chance for a bit of Globes glam:

The writers' dispute, as we all know, killed off the Golden Globes ceremony, which was particularly crushing for first-time nominees such as Ruth Wilson, the English actress who had been nominated for her striking portrayal of Jane Eyre in the recent BBC TV drama.
What's more, it was her birthday on Sunday - the day she was going to put on a sexy gown and sashay down the red carpet.
"I wanted to dress up and be glamorous and have fun," she sighed, as we sat in the Beverly Hills hotel at the Bafta/LA Tea Party sipping, well, champagne, of course.
It was good that Peter Morris and his Bafta committee didn't give in to those who wanted to cancel the event.
"I wouldn't have had anywhere to go if this had been shut down as well," she said.
Ruth was still pretty upbeat, though, having had some meetings with producers and a road trip along the coast.
She'll be back. (Baz Bamigboye)

One of those common places associated with Ted Hughes is to define him as a Heathcliff-like figure. The recent edition of The Letters of Ted Hughes, edited by Christopher Reid (more on this previous post) is a perfect excuse to slip in a Heathcliff:

That said, the Hughes that Reid does sculpt emerges as a giant of a man: a fiercely protective, loving father, a passionate and compassionate friend, a writer enthralled with the power of language, generous in his help to other writers, yet a lonely Heathcliff, weathered by the elements, both temporal and metaphysical. (Angela Bennie in The Sydney Morning Herald)

Let's now take a walk around the blogosphere. Wannabe Inkling posts about Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey:

Bronte has mixed the right formula of sarcasm, pointedness, philosophizing, and poetry to make this story perfection. Agnes is a character easy to relate to - as most people in the world have been made to feel inferior, have felt unlovely, and worry if they will ever find a place in the world for their own. She tells her story with ease and brings us right into her mind to experience her frustrations and small triumphs as she deals with the wealthy and spoiled. (sarahintheskywith)

But there’s no sign of warning in the siren’s call reviews Hurlevent (Wuthering Heights) in French. Bookish devotes a post to Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea:

I found Rhys's writing style to be very contemporary and was impressed by how she pulled off the neat feat of "borrowing" a character from someone else's novel (and such a famous novel!) while still creating a book that can exist and stand apart and alone from the point of inspiration. (Special K)

Finally on Mariannes, a cover of a 1948 Norwegian edition of Jane Eyre can be found.

Categories: Agnes Grey, In the News, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights