If Heathcliff was an attractive woman

The Philadelphia Daily News mentions Jane Eyre presenting the new TV series Privileged:

The CW's "Privileged" (9 p.m. Tuesdays, Channel 57). If the CW must devote yet another show to the trials and tribulations of skinny rich girls, then I'm happy to see the fish-out-of-water character portrayed by "Reba's" JoAnna Garcia, who here is a Yale grad lured into playing Jane Eyre to twin heiresses, and the tough grandmother played by the delicious Anne Archer. Doesn't hurt, either, that the executive producer is Rina Mimoun, who's written for "Gilmore Girls," "Everwood" and "Pushing Daisies." Premieres: tomorrow. (Ellen Gray)

The Heathcliffgate is difficult to forget. One more proof is the beginning of this political comment on the Guardian:

If Gordon Brown were not Heathcliff, but an attractive woman (hard to imagine, I know) he'd be called a tease. He looks at us coquettishly with come-hitherish "there's-going-to-be-an-election" eyes. Politicians, journalists, the country perk up and get ready for an election. "Oh, no, actually, there's not," says Brown at the last minute, when our hopes have been roused. (Charlotte Leslie)

Sometimes Brontë mentions appear in very strange places. Next to the scientific method or in an article about divorce.

El Correo Gallego talks about Carlos Ruiz Zafón's Marina and mentions the power of the Yorkshire setting of Wuthering Heights:

Y así, Emily Brontë pormenoriza, en Cumbres borrascosas, su infierno personal –quizás el más universal de todos– en el ambiente opresivo en que vive desde su infancia. (Xurxo Fernández)

Excelsior (México) compares Margarita and Laura Ruiz de Velasco, winners of the Juan Rulfo Award for Calladita, te ves más bonita, with the Brontë sisters.

An unexpected mention to Shirley appears in an article of La Repubblica:

Nelle Affinità elettive, Goethe lascia Ottilie guardare sopra il libro che legge Eduard, come unica forma trasposta e tenace di passione negata. Charlotte Brontë mette in difficoltà Mr. Moore, il più guardingo della schiera romantica dei precettori non pecuniosi ma innamorati pazzi, con i capelli della pupilla, Shirley. La fanciulla possiede riccioli in "pittoresca profusione"; un giorno che deve leggere in francese i Fragments de l'Amazone del sentimentale Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, le onde delle chiome invadono il libro, impedendone a lui la vista. "Put back your hair", dice Mr. Moore, "calmo, e freddo, come il marmo". Spostare tutta quell'abbondanza dietro l'orecchio serve solo a mostrare la gota rotonda dell'estrema giovinezza, il collo delicato pronto a arrossire; altre cento pagine, e i due sono sposi. (Daria Galateria)

On the blogosphere, James' Creative Writing Weblog reviews Jane Eyre highlighting the fairy tale motifs.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Shirley