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Kind BrontëBlog reader tattycoram recently provided us with a link to the finalists of a contest organised by the Guardian and inspired by Bookninja, where people sent in their alternative, tongue-in-cheek designs for covers of books of their choice. David Scally put in his new look of Wuthering Heights which you can see here in the right.

The Independent (Ireland) interviews the musician Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, lead singer with folk group Altan. A Brontëite:

Favourite book?
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. This book is alive with intensity and passion.

And another one. Author Michelle Griep is interviewed on A Book Bag:

Favorite book setting and why?
Jane Eyre when she’s walking the misty moor and Rochester appears on a rearing horse. That’s how God most often works in my life. I’m usually walking around in a daze and bam! He appears.

And even one more... Diary of an Eccentric interviews writer Danielle Younge-Ullman:

I've seen a few bloggers listing books that made them cry. Has a book ever driven you to tears? The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Marley and Me by John Grogan are a couple that did it to me.
Many books have made me cry! I first read Jane Eyre when I was 11 years old, and I remember it totally slayed me--blew my mind, made me bawl my eyes out, everything. I went straight to Wuthering Heights after that. What else . . .

Can you imagine what the result of mixing Sebastian Faulks, Charlotte Brontë and L.P. Hartley would be? Apparently, the people of Alma Books have a lot of imagination according to The Bookseller:

Alma Books has acquired world English rights to a début with "the narrative sweep of a Sebastian Faulks novel". The "substantial four-figure deal" for The Very Thought of You, by film producer Rosie Alison, was conducted via Anna Webber at United Agents.
Alessandro Gallenzi, publishing director at Alma, said: "I thought I was reading a page from Jane Eyre or The Go-Between. The book is being positioned as Alma's lead title for next year. It will be published in trade paperback in June. Gallenzi said the initial print run would be about 10,000.

The Coeur d'Alene Press publishes an article about The Mary House, a home for pregnant women in need of a shelter which opened recently in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. We have smiled reading the following:

Hand-written welcome signs are taped on the stairwell. A copy of "Jane Eyre" sits on a nightstand in the community room, where the women read to each other at night. The front porch steps are framed with winking jack-o-lanterns, which the girls carved together last week as they munched on pumpkin seeds and swapped childhood memories. (Alecia Warren)

On the blogosphere: The Little Professor asks

Is there any major Victorian novel so difficult to classify as Jane Eyre? Depending on which critic you ask, the novel is gothic/realist/romance/fairy tale.

Mariakäfer reviews (in German) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 1996. The novel by Anne Brontë is the subject of a post on City Nature Blog. The Renaissance Thinkers Blog posts about Sam Taylor Wood's London exhibition Yes, I No. Concerning the Wuthering Heights-inspired section Ghosts it says:

The Ghost’s exhibit is a series of photographs based on Wuthering Heights, the great Emily Bronte novel. The photographs are stark landscapes, which, through iconography and semiotics, portrays the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine; which Catherine is never specified, but my wife seems to believe it is the younger. The photographs invoke the power of Heathcliff, but for myself, I fail to see the touch of Catherine in many of the photos.
The style of photography itself is interesting; Sam Taylor Wood has used high grain film, and with the natural dull yellows and oranges of the Mores, has created a feeling of nostalgia for a place lost, perhaps representing Wuthering Heights itself. (Daniel Cecil)

A Guy's Moleskine Notebook has started reading Jane Eyre, a novel that Books, Time, and Silence thinks is

one of those books in which the progression of one word after another is all the pleasure you need

and Anna Jarzab describes like

[A] wild, raving book dressed up as a corseted Victorian morality tale.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontëites, Humour, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights