A truly nice girl and a deranged pyromaniac

Just as Michael Fassbender was in the news yesterday, today it is Abby Cornish's turn, his Cathy in the new Wuthering Heights feature film project:

She has garnered more publicity for cavorting with Reese Witherspoon's ex-husband Ryan Phillipe lately, but it seems Abbie Cornish is about to dust off her acting skills for a part in the screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's Gothic bodice ripper Wuthering Heights (Emily Dunn and Elicia Murray in The Sidney Morning Herald)

Channel 4 traces a profile of Rachel Rice (it seems she is one one of the participants of UK's Big Brother 9) and literally says the following:

Because Rachel Rice is nice. Truly nice. She's good in thought and word and deed. She's like one of those Bronte novel characters who would hang around for about four chapters letting the author make a strong point about godliness and 'turning the other cheek', before dying hideously of consumption in a phlegm-strewn bed.

Technically only Helen Burns can approach such a profile.

Hillary Clinton also has a Brontë references history. But apparently now that her hardcore supporters still try to win her nomination she has also joined the Bertha Mason reference:

You know her. She's got wild eyes and rumpled hair. At some point she stopped caring about the stains on her blouse. She's hurt, angry, rejected, and she's willing to take the whole damn place down with her. She is Lady Macbeth. She is Jane Eyre's deranged pyromaniac Bertha Mason. (...) And now, to hear the media tell it, she is a Hillary Holdout; she's a PUMA (Party Unity My Ass); and she belongs to 18 Million Voices. (Dahlia Lithwick in Slate)

On the blogosphere we found a review of the upcoming book Jane Eyre's Daughter by Elizabeth Newark posted on Book-o-rama. By the way, BrontëBlog has also read the book and we will publish our review next week.

Despite a rocky start, this was an enjoyable book to read. (...) The writing and attention to detail were spot on; in fact, I'd love to see what Newark can do without using famous literary characters in her novel. Jane Eyre's Daughter is a book that can stand on it's own as a fun piece of romantic fiction. (Chris)

She's a pink lady posts about Eugene's rendering of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights. Via Louis Tinner we have discovered just a new website devoted to the Brontës in Dutch. The website contains, for the moment it seems to be yet in construction, biographies and a news section.

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