From Toni Morrison to Woolworths

Red Orbit analyzes the first novel by Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970) and finds traces of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

Bump (Bump, Jerome. "The Family Dynamics of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." Reading The Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study. Eds. John V. Knapp and Kenneth Womack. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2003) draws parallels between the "emotional literacy" required for, and developed by, family systems therapy, and that exhibited by "family romance" novelists, arguing that "this may well be one of literature's most important contribution to our culture" (159-60). Indeed, he suggests that Claudia is "one of a long tradition of narrators who escape family disintegration that can be traced back at least to Helen in Anne Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Helen is the only person who breaks out of the cycle of abuse and addiction in that novel because she too adopts a form of the talking cure" by writing ajournai. (Naomi Rokotnitz)

The Independent reviews a London gig by the Danish band Alphabeat. Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights is referenced:

Luckily, the brilliant third track "10,000 Nights of Thunder" had an uplifting melody and fun, unpretentious lyrics; it had everyone dancing, while references to famous pop songs made for instant recognition. "The Wuthering Heights/ And the stormy nights/ You give me 10,000 nights of thunder/ But I will give them all back to you". Unashamedly happy, this catchy song has little in common with the tortured wailings of a big-haired Kate Bush. (Rachel Shields)

Puzzle et poussières reviews a recent French translation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (in French). Dovegreyreader reviews Rachel Ferguson's The Brontës went to Woolworths (1931). Imelda Marsden writes on the Brontë Parsonage Blog and reminds us, among other things, that

Next year, it will be 200 years since Rev Patrick Brontë came to Dewsbury as a curate and it is hoped the Society will acknowledge this fact. Mr W W Yates who was a prime instigator in setting up the Brontë Society and its first museum was on the Society's Council, and at one time, its chairman: one of his daughter's, Anna, was also on the Council. Both worked for the Dewsbury Reporter newspaper and are buried at Dewsbury Minster where their gravestones are still standing.

Favorite PASTimes interviews writer Julie Klassen:

What is the greatest historical novel you’ve ever read and why?
I’m not sure about the greatest, but I’ve certainly been greatly influenced by The Secret Garden, Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice.

Literati356's Ramblings is reading Jane Eyre and posts several thoughts on it. Дневник hyckla reviews Wuthering Heights 1998. Between the Covers compares Jane Eyre with Wuthering Heights (she loves the first one and dislikes Emily Brontë's novel)

Categories: Books, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Patrick Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights