This guy Heathcliff and other news

Sometimes newspapers carry articles on ordinary people who read, discuss or mention the Brontës and their works. Today we have two of those sightings. The Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald features Jodi MacLaughlin, the community services librarian for the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. She recently picked the Twilight series for a monthly teen book club:

"They are intriguing books," Ms. MacLaughlin said, adding that they are today’s answer to the novels of the Bronte sisters. [...]
Ms. MacLaughlin likes the fact that the books allude to classics by Shakespeare and the Brontes and that author Stephenie Meyer gets around potential violence and horror issues by making her vampires "vegetarian." (They eat only animal blood.) (Monica Graham)

Meanwhile The Lima News (Ohio) features 18-year-old Carla Cooper, who

is working on several ideas for novels and is reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte and "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.
"I love the classics," Cooper said. "I like the philosophies behind it, how they do things, why they do things. Books today don't really have that insight." (Pam Dunno)

On a different (musical) note, Brontës.nl reports that the Dutch take on Gordon and Caird's Jane Eyre. The Musical goes on stage this coming weekend in Rotterdam.

24-7 Press Release posts the latest news about Mark Ryan's Wuthering Heights musical.

And to put an end to this music section, Art Zone writes about the South African group Not the Midnight Mass who, as you know, perform an a capella version of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights among others.

It’s a wonderful sight to witness NTMM in full flight, giving fresh impetus to a host of classical material that includes Kate’s Bush’s haunting “Wuthering Heights” (with Tiffin’s vocal prowess fully tested). . . (Peter Feldman)

The Mirror publishes something that is nearly as old as the internet: Book-a-minute's take on Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights:

JANE EYRE: Charlotte Bronte

(People are mean to Jane Eyre.)

Edward Rochester: I have a dark secret. Will you stay with me no matter what?

Jane Eyre: Yes.

Edward Rochester: My secret is that I have a lunatic wife.

Jane Eyre: Bye.

(Jane Eyre leaves. Somebody dies. Jane Eyre returns.)

WUTHERING HEIGHTS: Emily Bronte

Lockwood: I think I’ll stay here. Tell me a story, woman.

Nelly Dean: I’m no gossip, mind you, but this guy Heathcliff got adopted, everyone hated him, and his love Catherine died.

Heathcliff: NOOOOOOOOOO! (Dies.)

Lockwood: I’ll be on my way.

A couple of blogs A Year in the Classics and Porcelain (in Spanish) post about Wuthering Heights. Meia Palavra has written a short biography of Anne Brontë in Portuguese and Hello World has just paid a visit to her grave in Scarborough. Flickr user Sylvie Van Hulle has painted her Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Books, Humour, Jane Eyre, Music, Wuthering Heights