Jane Eyre had lost a tooth

While costume dramas are the subject of controversy in UK, in the US the situation is quite different. The PBS is launching tonight its Austen season and a couple of newspapers publish articles celebrating the new Masterpiece Season: The Orlando Sentinel and The Philadelphia Enquirer, which includes the following comment on the recent adaptation of Jane Eyre:

Masterpiece just aired Jane Eyre, the 20th interpretation according to Internet Movie Database, which is perhaps more brooding in dank gothic manors than can be good for anyone. (Karen Heller)

The Pioneer Press publishes a funny article commenting some of the anecdotes that happened on the Minneapolis stages in the last season. Including, the Guthrie:

We had to delay the top of the show briefly as Lucy, our young Jane Eyre, had lost a tooth! We were able to start up after we were sure she wasn't going to be bleeding from the mouth while onstage. (...)
Tiara lost a tooth just before going onstage as a schoolgirl in Act 2. That makes two kids that have each lost a tooth - certainly a record for any shows that I have worked on. (Dominic Papatola)

The Scotsman interviews Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne, another Brontëite:

Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne is co-author of the award-winning Leith's Techniques Bible and author of the recently published How to Cook for Food Allergies.
Who would you invite to a fantasy dinner party?
Harold McGee (author of On Food and Cooking), Mozart, Leonardo Da Vinci, Aung San Suu Kyi, Ernest Shackleton and Emily Brontë.

Children literature author Julia Donaldson is also interviewed in The Scotsman:

The fictional character whose life you'd like to lead?
I remember as a child reading a book called The Swish Of The Curtain about a group of children who discover a little disused theatre and take it over. I really wanted to be them as a child. Or the children in Noel Streatfeild's book Ballet Shoes. I think the first couple of times I read Jane Eyre I was in love with Mr Rochester, and thought it would be wonderful to be the plain governess who wins his heart, but on the other hand it wouldn't be too much fun to find your husband had a mad wife locked in the attic.

GaydarNation reports that in a recent Channel 4 poll, Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights appeared on the list of the UK's all-time favourite songs:

49. Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

Now for some blogs:

Breiner in England posts very nice pictures of the Brontë Parsonage, Haworth and the moors (although Sylvia Plath is not buried in Haworth but in Heptonstall). Arte y Literatura compares Toby Stephens's Rochester in Jane Eyre 2006 and Orson Welles's in Jane Eyre 1944 (in Spanish). TvBlog.it gives the share numbers of the second part of Jane Eyre 2006 broadcast last Friday in Italy: an average 7,89% (1.873.000). The English Student shares some reflections about Wuthering Heights and the nature of love. Tekoppens Tankar comments Juliet Barker's The Brontës: A Life in Letters in Swedish.

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