The Miller's Beautiful Daughter was Emily Brontë

The Boston Globe interviews the tenor Ian Bostridge who compares Emily Brontë to Franz Schubert (a reference that runs in the family...):

"My wife [the writer Lucasta Miller] works a lot on the Bronte sisters," Bostridge says, "and Emily Bronte is always being presented as this sort of naïve, possessed genius, in a parallel way to Schubert being presented as, you know, simple little Franzi. But they're both very sophisticated, deeply intellectually interested artists." (David Weininger)

The Buckingham Advertiser announces the upcoming Northern Ballet Theatre revival of Schönberg & Nixon's Wuthering Heights:

AS part of its 40th anniversary programme, Northern Ballet Theatre returns to Milton Keynes Theatre 5 – 9 May with Wuthering Heights, a creative collaboration between composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and NBT Artistic Director David Nixon, inspired by Emily Bronte's remarkable novel of 1847.
The ballet was created in 2002 when Claude-Michel Schönberg, known throughout the musical theatre world for his West End hits Les Miserables, Miss Saigon and Martin Guerre, made contact with David Nixon within weeks of his arrival at NBT. A productive meeting of minds left David "in no doubt that a ballet based on Emily Brontë's passionate love story, would be a perfect vehicle for Northern Ballet Theatre" and he set about planning his first complete new work for NBT.
Known throughout the world as one of the greatest love stories, the ballet focuses on the powerful bond that grows between Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff; their lives inexorably linked for eternity in a darkly haunting tale, as bleak and beautiful as the Yorkshire moors that surround them.
Designer Ali Allen, who created her first ballet designs for NBT's Madame Butterfly, captures the windswept majesty of Yorkshire's moorland; a perfect contrast for David Nixon's striking costume designs of the period. Lighting designer David Grill completes the creative team, cleverly conveying a landscape fashioned by the relentless forces of nature.
During rehearsals for the original production in 2002, Claude-Michel Schönberg and then NBT Principal Artist, Charlotte Talbot, met and later married. Charlotte, who created the role of Cathy, will return to NBT to take Company rehearsals of the production. A love story within a love story.

The Time Magazine talks with Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies about the origins of the project:

Tell me where the idea to add zombies to Pride and Prejudice came from. Was there a Eureka moment?
Actually the credit for this belongs to my editor, Jason Rekulak. He had had this sort of long-gestating idea of doing some kind of mashup, he called it. He didn't know what it was, he just knew there was something to it. He had these lists, and on one side he had a column of War and Peace and Crime and Punishment and Wuthering Heights and whatever public domain classic literature you can think of. And on the other side he would have these phenomena like werewolves and pirates and zombies and vampires. He called me one day, out of the blue, very excitedly, and he said, all I have is this title, and I can't stop thinking about this title. And he said: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. For whatever reason, it just struck me as the most brilliant thing I'd ever heard. (Lev Grossman)

Pajiba, Kiss the Librarian (in Spanish) and Infamous Lucifer post about Jane Eyre. Books We Love (Or Not) publishes an academic essay about Jane Eyre and its Deviations from the Modern Romance Novel. Books of Jeanne talks about Wuthering Heights. A Goddess of Divine Inspiration finds inspiration (sorry for that) in Jane Eyre in this picture uploaded to flickr. Finally Eric Ruijssenaars publishes new historical postcards of the Rue d'Isabelle on the Brussels Brontë Blog .

Categories: Brussels, Dance, Jane Eyre, References, Wuthering Heights