The Curious Case of Edward Rochester

Eliza Knight, historical romance and time travel erotic romance author, is interviewed by The Examiner:

Sally: “Who had the greatest influence on your writing?”
Eliza: “The very first romance novel I ever read was The Bride, by Julie Garwood, and from there I picked up any I could find. I'm also a huge fan of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, so I suppose you could say all three writers helped me fall in love with the genre, and feel the need to create my own characters and stories.” (Sally Painter)

Another Brontëite, Alice Hoffman, will be signing books next Monday at the Sanibel Public Library (Florida) as Fort Myers News-Press reports:

Some of Hoffman's most well-loved titles include "Here on Earth," a modern reworking of some of the themes in Emily Bronte's masterpiece "Wuthering Heights"; "Practical Magic"; "Blackbird House"; "Blue Diary"; "The Probable Future"; "The River King"; "Turtle Moon"; "At Risk"; and "Illumination Night."

And today's selection of Brontëites ends with Terry McMillan:

Originally from Port Huron, Mich., McMillan was introduced to literature while shelving books at the local library. She read the Brontes, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the biography of Louisa May Alcott, and was stung "by James Baldwin's spotlight eyes boring holes into her soul," a milestone moment that introduced her to the possibility "that black folks wrote books too." (Ragan Robinson in The Hickory Daily Record)

We are quite confused about this Jane Eyre mention in an article about the Rod Blagojevich affaire in The Harvard Independent:

“It’s a fucking valuable thing,” Blagojevich was discovered to have said of his appointment power, “You don’t give it away for nothing.” When confronted with his obvious sins, Blagojevich was incoherent, comparing his plight to that of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Jane Eyre, Christopher Reeve, and Jesus Christ. (Sam Jack)

At least this other Eyre sighting in a review of David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is not so forced:

It is only after she has been crippled in a car crash - humbled, in fact, like the blinded Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre - that Daisy is spiritually ready for the privilege of a relationship with winsome Benjamin Button. (Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian)

Teen Ink Magazine has an article praising classics, including Jane Eyre:

In today’s culture, everything is transient. We follow what is popular, and not what has withstood the test of time. An understanding of the ideas that have endured is the deciding factor between a person who went to school and one who is truly educated. Once we have read Walden, we realize that there is a world outside of the city. Through Jane Eyre, we see that patience can bring about unexpected results. By reading a book that has endured, we find many new concepts that open our eyes and give us a different perspective on life. (Sarah S.)

The Denver Decider resurfaces the Brontë connections of Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran:

Reading Lolita runs Western literature through a Middle Eastern filter, a reminder if why works such as Wuthering Heights were so very controversial when first published. (Amber Taufen)

Behn Cervantes in The Philippine Daily Enquirer is quite fascinated by Laurence Olivier:

Not only was Olivier an exceptional thespian, he also had dark looks that naturally lent themselves to brooding characters like Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights.”

And we have also some Twilight-Brontë connections:

Eastern students join in national frenzy over Twilight. Books based loosely on classics like Wuthering Heights, Romeo and Juliet. (...)
Eclipse is modeled after Wuthering Heights, an English classic by Emily Bronte. And Breaking Dawn, the final book of the series, was influenced by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Jordan Collier in The Eastern Progress)

Meyer, a Mormon, has had some criticism in the past for her over-use of adjectives and adverbs, and her 'overly Byronic' tragic hero. But generally, her books, which she says are based on classics like Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice, have been very well received. As one critic put it, "This dark romance seeps into the soul." (The First Post)

stevereads reviews The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Music on Vinyl posts about Jah Wurzel's cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Music, References, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights