A first edition of a blistering romantic vista

Via Antiques and the Arts we report the following auction of a first edition of Charlotte Brontë's Villette:

December 7, 2008 - 12 pm
Prozzo Auction Gallery
207 North Main St, Rutland VT.

We are pleased to be selling the Library of Charlotte Hunnewell Martin, New York Socialite, Philanthropist and Author, with additions from a local institution, and several other sources.
A terrific range of materials including an exceptional early atlas, a Charlotte Bronte 1st, Melville's Typee 1st ed., Fine Bindings, ephemera, historical volumes, etc.

Partial List: Villette by Currer Bell ( Charlotte Bronte Pseudonym) 1853 Wraps. (Picture source)

The Times (South Africa) describes the works of the Australian writer Kathy Lette like this:

In as much as Mary Shelley gave us Gothic fabrication, the Brontës a blistering romantic vista and Jane Austen the minutiae of upper-class domestic felicity, Kathy Lette gives us a blow-by-blow account of the state of contemporary womanhood. (Aspasia Karras)

The San Diego Union-Tribune presents Once Again to Zelda by Marlene Wagman-Geller,

a book about books – or, more precisely, a book of the stories behind the dedications in well-known books(.)
Some classic works qualify: among them, Charlotte Bronte's iconic Romantic novel “Jane Eyre: An Autobiography” (Robert L. Pincus)

The dedication of the second edition of Jane Eyre to W.M. Thackeray was controversial as it is well known.

The Buffalo News report the following (perplexing) news:

[M]ore than 1,000 inmates of Albion Correctional Facility for Women who participated Saturday in the 30th annual Project Joy, sponsored by Women for Human Rights and Dignity (WHRD).
More than 100 civilian volunteers visited the prison to conduct workshops focusing on medical, legal and educational needs, as well as transitional housing.
The inmates also received gift bags that included Christmas cards and envelopes to send loved ones, lotion, socks and books — from Shakespeare to “Wuthering Heights,” said Constance O. Eve, chairwoman and founder of WHRD. (Deidre Williams)

The Classic TV History Blog analyzes the Studio One Anthology DVD set, Terres de femmes interviews (in French) the author Cécile Oumhani:

À travers votre jeunesse, avez-vous eu des maîtres, des modèles littéraires ?
CO : J’ai toujours tant aimé franchir la barrière des langues en écrivant. J’aimais laisser les volets de ma chambre ouverts et ainsi me réveiller plus tôt pour lire alors que le monde autour de moi était encore calme, silencieux. Il y avait Jane Austen, Emily Brontë. Puis E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf. Il y a eu Albert Camus. (Interview by Romica Draghincescu)

El Mundo (Spain) presents a new Spanish translation of Willa Carther's Lucy Gayheart. The author is compared to the Brontës:

Desde su dialéctica campo/ciudad, desde su cadencia romántica, alguien podría entender a Cather como una moderna heredera estadounidense de las Brönte[sic] o de la Austen. (Álvaro Cortina)

El Progreso (Spain) interviews the author Eugenia Rico whose latest novel "Aunque seamos malditas":

Es una vuelta también a los escritores que me han devorado el alma, a los escritores que han sido mi referente, que son además tan galaicos en su mundo imaginario como Allan Poe, las hermanas Brönte[sic], Cunqueiro, Fernández Flórez, Torrente Ballester... (Anxa Correa)

It seems that the Spanish journalists have a problem with the position of the umlaut.

A couple of short tales published in the Latin American press contain Brontë references: In Puerto Rico El Claridad and in México, El Dictamen.

Szelest Stron (in Polish) and Geschenkideen (in German) post about Jane Eyre. Finally, Fanfiction.net adds a new Jane Eyre fanfic story: Bitter regrets by nasimrochester.

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