The Brontës were so Atlantic (but not kitchen-sink)

Clementine Ford in The Adelaide Advertiser expresses her views about the Twilight phenomenon:

But what's most disturbing about Twilight is the sincerity of the greater part of Twihard fandom. They truly believe this is an epic tale of great love; that Bella (whose freesia-scented blood is irresistible to Edward) and her moody sparklepire join the ranks of Romeo and Juliet, Cathy and Heathcliff, Elizabeth and Darcy.
In fact, the only thing Meyer's pairing has in common with any of them is that they are both as boring as R.Ju ("I love you!" "No, I love you!" "I love you more!" "You're my life!", etc) as manipulative and insane as Cathy and Heathcliff ("Dooooon't leeeeeeaaaaaave meeeeeee!") and that, for the majority of Jane Austen's book, Darcy was also a complete and utter jerk. (...)
Well, so what? Though far better writers, Shakespeare, Bronte and Austen were hardly kitchen-sink dramatists. Who didn't read Pride and Prejudice at 16 and swoon when Lizzie done gone and changed that bad boy fo' good?
Twilight may be unrepentingly turgid prose, but it's also a whole lot of fun.

The reissue of Victoria Holt's novels by St. Martin's Press is celebrated by The Charleston Post & Courier:

Falling somewhere between classics such as "Jane Eyre" and Gothics such as Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca," Holt novels were often a reader's first foray into romantic suspense. Immensely readable, they also were outrageously addictive. (Rebekah Bradford)

The Ventura County Star talks about the Thousand Oaks area filming rules and remembers how Wuthering Heights 1939 (reviewed today on Voir.ca) was shot:

Fifty years ago, the Conejo Valley was a mecca for Hollywood filmmakers.
Producers used it as a location for such classic films as "Spartacus," "Wuthering Heights," "Sands of Iwo Jima" and "It Happened One Night," and for many television shows. (Rachel McGrath)

El Correo Gallego talks about the Spanish writer Eugenia Rico, author of Aunque Seamos Malditas, and already present on BrontëBlog before:

Y la flecha, claro, tiene que partir. "Porque tú, Eugenia, dice Xurxo, eres como las Brontë. Lo tuyo tiene mucho de Cumbres Borrascosas que es ese infierno literario incomparable. Esta novela es diferente a todo lo anterior, pero también es una evolución de todo lo anterior. (...)"
Hay un faro y un pueblo de niebla y de noche (Manolo Rivas tiene también sus pueblos de la noche), y eso me recuerda a Virginia Woolf. Pero Eugenia Rico, erre que erre, está más con la Brontë. Con las Brontë. Con la gran tensión dramática de Cumbres Borrascosas y ese romántico dibujo del mal, en estado puro: "me siento atlántica, y las Brontë eran tan atlánticas...". (José Miguel A. Giráldez) (Google translation)

Página 12 (Argentina) devotes a post to Victorian women friendship (or more than friendship). An excerpt from Jane Eyre is quoted:

“Apoyé mi cabeza en el hombro de Helen, le rodeé su cintura con mis brazos; ella me abrazó y nos quedamos así en silencio. (...) Tus pequeños pies están helados, acostate y tapate con mi abrigo.” Helen, la amiga de Jane Eyre, está a punto de morir, y esta escena de amor profundo en la novela de Emily Brontë (sic) sella una etapa en la vida de la protagonista que recién entonces saldrá al mundo y se enamorará de su patrón. (Liliana Viola) (Google translation)

The point of the article, already quite questionable, would benefit if the author got the name of the writer right.

In the same magazine we found an article about the works of the photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti:

Internarnos en estos sueños –en estos relatos– supone también entregarnos al universo de remisiones literarias que la serie dispara. Las aventuras de Guille y Belinda es capaz de remitirnos casi física, palpablemente, a ese otro tiempo –la infancia o la adolescencia– en el que muchas mujeres supimos leer esas historias escritas por mujeres acerca del modo en que el deseo, la dicha y el miedo circulan entre mujeres, acerca de sus códigos y sobrentendidos. En este caso –en mi caso– Jane Eyre y los cimbronazos que provoca madurar en un medio áspero. (María Sonia Cristoff) (Google translation)

Jennifer's Random Musings interviews author F E Heaton:

What do you like to read?
I like to read classical romance such as Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell and Jane Austen. I don’t really have much time to read though as I’m always writing. I also love to read Manga. I read that quite a lot!

Kirjandus on retk tõe leidmiseks posts about Vihurimäe, Wuthering Heights in Estonian; Read, Meghan, Read is not very enthusiast about Villette.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Villette, Wuthering Heights