The fiery temper of Jane Eyre

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner briefly reviews Justine Picardie's Daphne:

IT is 1957 and Daphne du Maurier wanders alone through her remote mansion on the Cornish coast.
As she reflects on her failing marriage, the literary legend becomes obsessed with the iconic heroine of her most famous novel, Rebecca.
As she looks for distraction, she becomes more and more fascinated by Branwell, the reprobate brother of the Bronte sisters.
She then begins a correspondence with the enigmatic scholar, Alex Symington, in which truth and fiction combine.
Meanwhile, in present day London, a lonely young woman struggles with her thesis on du Maurier and the Brontes.
She finds herself drawn into a 50-year-old literary mystery.
Serving as both a love story and a literary mystery, this is a well-researched and absorbing novel.

A highly controversial article about gun control in The Times contains the following (Patrick) Brontë reference:

In Britain we have come a long way from our forebears who believed that guns were a great deterrence: from the days of the Rev Brontë (father of the sisters), who used to fasten his watch and pocket his pistol every morning; or the Yorkshire hotel guests once encountered by Beatrix Potter, all but one of whom were routinely carrying revolvers. (Richard Munday)

The Christian Science Monitor reviews Katharine McMahon's The Rose of Sebastopol (not the first time to be mentioned here):

When it comes to 19th-century heroines, modern readers expect them to be ahead of their time. They are either tomboy geniuses like Jo March, who chafe at the narrow roles women were expected to fill, or sparkling wits who aren’t afraid to speak their mind, such as Lizzy Bennet and Marianne Dashwood.
If they are shy on the surface, like Jane Eyre, that’s only because they’re concealing a fiery temper and unsuspected depths. (Yvonne Zipp)

The Northern Echo hopes that Wuthering Heights 2009 will be aired soon in Britain:

Nicholas Winding Refn, who made the Pusher trilogy and Valhalla Rising, directs and has had the foresight to cast Tom Hardy as Bronson. How different to the next role in which we’ll see him – as brooding Heathcliff in ITV’s remake of Wuthering Heights.(Steve Pratt)

This production appears next week on DVD (March 17). The Times & Transcript (Canada) describes the DVD like this:

WUTHERING HEIGHTS ***

Told before in numerous screen incarnations, the classic Emily Bronte romance has its latest version in this British rendering recently televised by PBS as a "Masterpiece" offering.
Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley inherit the roles of Heathcliff and Cathy, the couple whose shared, intense love is doomed because of their familial relationship.
Additional cast members include Andrew Lincoln ("Love Actually"), Kevin McNally and Sarah Lancashire. (Jay Bobbin)

Beowulf to Virginia Woolf posts several pictures of a visit to the Haworth Parsonage, The Silent Protagonist talks about Wuthering Heights by Emile (sic) Brontë. Book Scribbles posts about the same novel (which Don't Stop Me Now is also currently reading) and Ashley's Library devotes a post to Jane Eyre. Period_Drama posts several Jane Eyre 2006 icons and The Evening Reader reviews Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.

Categories: Books, Haworth, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights