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The Keighley News carries an article about Tamasha's Wuthering Heights (the same press release we have already published).

On the other side of the Atlantic, the Contra Costa Times is looking forward to the new PBS Masterpiece season:

[Laura] Linney, who I suspect will have no trouble stepping into the shoes of her predecessors, will be introducing a host of new productions of classic works of literature: a new adaptation of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" starring Tom Hardy airs Jan. 18 and 25... (Sue Gilmore)

You know some new pictures of this production were recently released, don't you?

The Rocky Mountain News makes quite a blunder when trying to answer a question:

Jules is curious why the columnist Miss Manners refers to the person asking the question as "Gentle Reader."
As you've undoubtedly noticed, Miss Manners, aka Judith Martin, has adopted an excruciatingly correct, Victorian-style persona in her etiquette column, which includes Victorian-era writing.
Addressing the reader was common in the 19th century British novel, says University of Denver English professor Eleanor McNees. As an example, she mentioned Charlotte Bronte's having Jane Eyre say late in the novel, "Dear Reader, I married him." William Thackeray and George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) also addressed readers in their prefaces.
As for gentle, McNees suspects it has to do with the belief that most novel readers of the era were women and of the middle or upper classes. The word denotes the readers' status and gender. Miss Manners married the two conventions - properly, one would hope. (Mike Rudeen)

(Dear) Readers of BrontëBlog will have already tut-tutted at that. Ms McNees added a 'dear' that simply wasn't there as Charlotte just wrote, 'Reader, I married him'. Indeed, the reader of Jane Eyre is never 'dear'.

As for blogs, Literary Nothings reviews both Shirley and Villette in one post and Jean-Francois Simard’s Blog is immersed in Jane Eyre.

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