Charlotte Brontë's Bible

BBC1's Antiques Roadshow new season begins today, September 20. The Sunday Express announces some of the highlights of the season including one of particular interest to us:

Well known names and historical figures also feature in the current series. There’s author Charlotte Brontë’s Sunday school bible, Michael Jackson’s fedora hat, a bracelet owned by Queen Victoria found in a London side street and valued at several thousand pounds, Barbara Cartland’s entire collection of pink hats, Sir Walter Scott’s cabinet, Marilyn Monroe’s lemon squeezer and the paint box reputedly used by artist John Constable. (David Stephenson)

The Boston Globe presents Douglas A. Martin's new novel Once You Go Back and mentions his previous one, Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother:

Douglas Martin’s previous novel, “Branwell,” invoking the Brontë sisters’ dissolute brother, was an imaginative stretch. (Amanda Heller)

Some days ago we reported Izzy Lane's designs inspired by Wuthering Heights presented at the New York Fashion Week. The Sun gives more details:

Isobel Davies, who runs the Izzy Lane label from a farm in Richmond, North Yorkshire, debuted her spring/summer 2010 collection at The Green Shows, a two-day event dedicated to eco-friendly and fairtrade fashion.
It is the first time the designer has shown her knitwear designs in New York.
The spring/summer collection 2010 features fine Shetland wool spun from rescued sheep and woven into a light summer cloth in Victorian mills.
The patchworks are inspired by the Wuthering Heights landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales. (Liz Lamb)

The Wall Street Journal lists the five best books about obsessions. Wuthering Heights is there:

Obsession is a mischief maker, and its most common disguise is what romantics call true love. Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" is probably the bleakest, most intense novel about obsessive love ever written—Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, thrown into relief by the tale's setting on the desolate Yorkshire moors, have practically become synonymous with tempestuous passion. The two had seemed destined to be together since childhood, but then Catherine, despite her obsession, marries someone else, and Heathcliff's fury is unleashed. The mutual fixation ruins their own lives and the lives of those around them. "If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be," Catherine says, "and if all else remained and he were annihilated the universe would turn to a mighty stranger." (Susan Cheever)

More reviews linking together Lorrie Moore's A Gate at the Stairs and Jane Eyre. In The Columbus Dispatch:

Her new novel, A Gate at the Stairs, manages the same unlikely combination, though here, the lighter elements give way more gradually to the darker. A Gate, which plays subtly off Jane Eyre, is narrated by naive college student Tassie Keltjin, who lives in a town not unlike Madison, Wis. (Margaret Quamme)

Finally, A Season with Austen visits Haddon Hall, Jacques Serir (Facebook) talks about L’humeur névrotique chez Charlotte Brontë (in French) and Keri Patterson Kegley (Facebook) reviews The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Categories: Books, Brontëana, References, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights