The dogged power of will

Not much today apart from the many reactions to the first installment of the new Wuthering Heights.

We have come across a new edition of one of our most unlikely Brontë pairings: the Brontës and cricket. From Buzzle.com:

While his father beams, and his elder brother Haroon, a batsman in the Bradford League, still hankers after a trial to play county cricket, Rashid is approaching his first active England tour with what Elizabeth Gaskell in her Life of Charlotte Bronte called: "The dogged power of will which will seem almost the birthright of the people of the West Riding."

Live Auctioneers is offering

TWENTY COLLECTIBLE LIMITED EDITION BOOKS from the Franklin Library, leather bound in multi-colored gilt stamped decorated covers with raised spines. A first edition thus by J.P. Donleavy, "The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman"; James Jones' "From Here to Eternity"; Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad; "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson; John Steinbeck's (3 novels in one), "Of Mice and Men"; "The Last of the Mohicans" by James F. Cooper; et al.

This collection was published from 1974 to 1982. This Jane Eyre in particular seems to have been published in 1981.

A few blogs are talking non-Wuthering Heights: The shadows hide her tears and Whispered Stories both comment on Jane Eyre. Pointed Meanderings suggests some 'wintery books' among which are Jane Eyre and Villette.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Weirdo