The controversial Miss Rusty's book Stop! Don't Read This! is discussed in the
Halifax Evening Courier in connection with its depiction of real events and real people in books:
All authors wander through the minefield of making truth into fiction and fiction into a reflection of the truth. The Victorian author Charles Kingsley wrote: "It is all whimsy and make-believe and you must not believe a word of it, though it is all absolutely true."
It is surely obvious to anyone with a modicum of commonsense and intelligence that authors have to shape their characters and plots from real life.
Charles Dickens did, so did Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen, and many other famous writers. (Barbara Green)
The
Emirates Business 24/7 is a bit confused about whose Brontë sister was included in
the court scene of the
The Devil and Daniel Webster (aka Shortcut to Happiness) 2004 film (finally released in 2007). It was Charlotte and it was played by
Katherine O'Sullivan (in the picture):
The plot then shifts to a courtroom where the ghosts of, wait for this, Truman Capote, Mario Puzo, Ernest Hemingway, Emily Dickinson and Emily Bronte serve as jury members. (Bindu Rai)
Another United Arab Emirates publication,
The National, talks about
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and mentions Charlotte Brontë's criticism of Jane Austen:
Austen had famous detractors as well, including Mark Twain, who weirdly wanted to “dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shinbone”, and Charlotte Brontë, who thought her less than robust: “no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill…” (Peter Terzian)
The Independent asks Geri Halliwell for the book of her life. She doesn't choose a Brontë but she comes near them:
Whenever anyone asks me what my favourite book is, I find it very hard to answer. I have read so many brilliant books. It is tempting to pick a classic: Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, a Dickens, a Brontë – and I do love Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. But the one book I cannot let go of is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. One of the most imaginative, thought-provoking pieces of writing, it will pull at your heartstrings while challenging your thoughts about the world you live in.
Insubria Critica also highlights the recent
Italian translation by Maddalena de Leo of Charlotte Brontë's Henry Hastings,
My .02¢ posts about Wuthering Heights,
The Deans have visited Haworth,
The Green Room talks about several Brontë novels.
Categories: Haworth, Juvenilia, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Translations
the court scene of the The Devil and Daniel Webster (aka Shortcut to Happiness) 2004 film (finally released in 2007). It was Charlotte and it was played by Katherine O'Sullivan (in the picture):
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