"I've been fascinated by the Brontës since before I could read"

The West Virginia Public Broadcasting interviews Denise Giardina, author of Emily's Ghost. You can listen to Beth Vorhees talking with Denise Giardina here.

Baseball, steroids and Emily Brontë. An unlikely trio except for the Boston Globe:

If we release the list now, it gives every writer in every city the opportunity to be piqued all at the same time, like one big cram session for finals. When the dust clears, no matter your grade, it’s over and you move on, never to have to pay any more attention to (with apologies to Emily Brontë fans) Emily Brontë. (Eric Wilbur)

The Glens Falls Post-Star talks about Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea:

I recently finished “Wide Sargasso Sea” by Jean Rhys, a book I’ve been reading over the last few months, with many books in between its start and finish. Why? Because I found it so unsettling. Something about her style — its immediacy — is unnerving. I felt I was right inside the skins of the characters, and it wasn’t a comfortable place to be.
“Wide Sargasso Sea” uses “Jane Eyre” as its inspiration, telling the story of Rochester’s wife, the one he married as a young man, the one from the West Indies who ends up locked in the attic of his house.
It’s a beautiful, painful story, plumbing the polluted depths of colonialism and slavery but in personal and particular terms.
It was also fascinating to learn a bit about Rhys, who herself grew up in the West Indies (Dominica) and lived in England and Paris as an adult. Her work was largely ignored for decades but her brilliance was recognized with the publication in 1966 of “Wide Sargasso Sea.” (Will Doolittle)

Let's continue with Wide Sargasso Sea because Dominica News announces the upcoming 2nd edition of the Nature Island Literary Festival and Book Fair which will take place this weekend from August 7th to 9th, 2009 at the University of the West Indies Open Campus:

As part of the activities for this year, The Nature Island Literary Festival will again feature works from famous Dominican novelists, Jean Rhys who is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea and Phyllis Alfrey who wrote the great novel, The Orchid House, first published in 1953.

Anne Brontë's poem The Narrow Way (1848) is quoted in an article about 'Thorny thieves' in Marin's Pacific Sun. Oh, the wonders of googling rose thorn+quote:

An egregious crime, indeed, and one in which we hope the perpetrator comes to realize the extent of his/her misdoings for, as British novelist and poet Anne Bronte once said, "But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose." (Samantha Campos)

The Valve continues posting about Villette, Soulistic: Candice's Blog, Deusa das Artes (in Portuguese) and Pink Milk Tea post about Wuthering Heights, La almohada de Jane Eyre compares Jane Eyre and Catherine Earnshaw (in Spanish), Zayra Escobar has uploaded a drawing inspired in Emily Brontë.

Finally Online School publishes a list with the 100 Best Blogs for History Buffs... and BrontëBlog is listed. Our thanks to the people who compiled the list.

Categories: Jane Eyre, References, Villette, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights