A jar-full of schoolgirl stickjaw

The Telegraph publishes the obituary of Sir Michael Levey, art historian and former director of the National Gallery... but not a Brontëite, as we can read:

Victorian works come in for particularly inventive criticism: "Reading Jane Eyre is like gobbling a jar-full of schoolgirl stickjaw", while the only reason "the English have been gulled" into regarding Wuthering Heights as a great work is because "it makes so much of the weather".

This (almost) last day of 2008 doesn't seem very propitious to Brontëiteness, The Hunstville Times says the following about Wuthering Heights:

Have fun. Make sure that whatever you're doing, you're doing it in as much comfort and style as possible. Sure, reading "Wuthering Heights" might not sound thrilling, but reading it while at the ice-skating rink makes it an extreme sport, and therefore much more bearable.

On the blogosphere: one more post about the recording of a Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights cover by the Brazilian band Je Rêve de Toi and Be the Change is impressed by Helen Burns's behaviour in Jane Eyre.

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