The English Wuthering Heights was from Anne Brontë, a Fair Trial mare out of Charlotte Brontë

The NPR programme You Must Read This chooses Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea:

From early childhood, I've loved books about underdogs, where heroines only triumph after they've paid their dues. Nancy Drew didn't speak to me: Rich and omnicapable, her life bore no resemblance to my own. She could not compare with Jo March, Anne of Green Gables or Jane Eyre. Call me perverse, but I've always identified with heroines who suffer before they succeed.
I used to reread the opening chapters of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, which detail the heroine's privations at home and at school, like a glutton. They were reassuring: You knew a promised land lay on the far side of misery.
Jane Eyre was such an important part of my private world that when a friend told me, "You have to read the Wide Sargasso Sea," by Jean Rhys, I refused at first to look at it. A prequel to Jane Eyre, Rhys' 1966 novel tells the life of Mr. Rochester's first wife, the notorious Madwoman in the Attic.
In a narrative that alternates between Rochester's voice and that of the Creole woman he marries and destroys, we experience the beauty and the history of the Indies. Like the islands themselves, Rhys' story seems to pour out of her with a heart-choking urgency. But the narrative is tightly controlled, each word carefully chosen. Rhys wrote and rewrote it for almost two decades: It's the distillation of her life and craft.
After reading this novel, we come to know Jane Eyre's Madwoman as a woman who's made mad by the bewildering white and male world in which she loses everything: her home, her beauty and, above all, her identity.
I have mixed feelings about so-called vampire novels — books that depend on someone else's creation for their life. Shakespeare stole story lines without compunction. Lesser mortals retell Hamlet or Othello in a thousand different guises. Most vampire books make me impatient: I think to myself, take a chance, invent something of your own.
But I had a completely different reaction to Wide Sargasso Sea.
Rhys grew up in the West Indies and came to England as a young woman. She was a protege and lover of Ford Madox Ford in the 1920s, when she wrote a number of acclaimed novels.
Wide Sargasso Sea knits the colonial Indies to England, for Rhys as well as for the reader. Rhys makes you understand that the Madwoman in the Attic isn't Bronte's swollen, drunken avatar of passion. She's a Creole, a woman of mixed European and African descent, like Rhys herself. The author understands how Europeans imagined West Indians — as sensual, almost animal in their passions. After reading this novel, we come to know Jane Eyre's Madwoman as a woman who's made mad by the bewildering white and male world in which she loses everything: her home, her beauty and, above all, her identity.
Ford said of Rhys that she had "a terrifying instinct for stating the case of the underdog." Nowhere does she do it more powerfully than in Wide Sargasso Sea, nowhere is her prose more supple, more assured than here. It's the kind of book that makes me despair of ever mastering my craft. You must read it. (Sara Paretsky)

You can listen to the programme here and read a transcript here.

The Spring/Summer 2010 collection by Izzy Lane is presented as follows on in2town: Lifestyle magazine:

The inspiration for the Izzy Lane Spring/Summer 2010 Collection starts with the soft fine Shetland wool spun from rescued sheep, undyed in its multitude of natural colors, from the rust moorit, and blue-grey katmoget. The garments are as fine as cashmere and woven into a light summer cloth in Victorian mills, with patchworks and furrows of different patterns inspired by the Wuthering Heights landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales. Cropped 40's silhouette skirts matched with edgy Wensleydale knits in candy colors paired with kneelength boots made from faux snake and faux croc, all approved by the Vegetarian Society.

The Altrusa Daily Press talks to local Brontëites:

Escanaba Altrusa Club member Denise Boyle was asked the following questions:

1) What is your favorite of all the books you've read and why?
One of my favorite books is "Jane Eyre," by Charlotte Bronte. It made me appreciate how far we have come as women in this century, yet it reinforces timeless values that we bring to ourselves by our actions or lack of actions.

2) What is the book about?
A gothic romance, it starts with Jane as a defiant, passionate little girl who refuses to let anyone crush her spirit, despite the cruelty she endures. We follow her life as a governess for a French girl, Adele. Many strange things happen there. She falls in love with her employer, who is very shallow and aristocratic. She is offered a new life after she flees her wedding. However, some things are hard to leave behind.

Daily Press Staff Writer Laura Mead was asked to answer the following questions:

1.) What is your favorite of all the books you've read, and why?
My favorite book is"Jane Eyre," because the message of the story is about faith, perseverance and hope in life. It also had the most affect on me. It made me believe I could get through hard times and come out stronger.

2.)What is the book about?
The book begins when Jane Eyre is a child - an orphan who lives with relatives that treat her as an inferior and abuse her physically and mentally. Through school she is able to escape her living environment. She goes on to become a governess of a young girl who has been adopted by a wealthy man named Rochester. Jane realizes she is in love with Rochester, but because of her status she is not considered a fit wife. A series of events transpires, and a long, horrible journey, Jane rediscovers love and the goodness of life.

Virtual Form Guide talks about the Brontë horses family tree. Quite disturbing to read:

Dashing displays in recent weeks by the Gai Waterhouse trained Gooree bred and raced 5-year-old mare Moti, now winner of seven of 12 starts following success in the $100,000 Mona Lisa Stakes on Friday's Wyong Cup program, adds another chapter in the tales emanating from the Bronte sisters, icon literary figures of the 1800s.
One of them, Emily Bronte, wrote but one book, Wuthering Heights, but it became a literary classic and had its name bestowed on broodmares in New Zealand, the dam of the great galloper Battle Heights and ancestress of many other fine gallopers, and England, a remote relation of Moti.
The English Wuthering Heights was from Anne Bronte, a Fair Trial mare out of Charlotte Bronte, the names of Emily sisters and the seventh and eighth dams of Moti.
Charlotte Bronte was a half-sister to Florence Dombey, dam of Felcrag (GB), grandam of Dickens (Aust) (won the VRC C.B. Fisher Plate, Linlithgow Stakes, STC Rawson Stakes; second Victoria Derby and third AJC Derby) and third dam of Dickens (IRE) (a leading English stayer who won the Goodwood Cup and Yorkshire Cup). (Brian Russell)

Finally, Youtube channel JustAudio2008 uploads a reading of Anne Brontë's The Bluebell and the Wall Street Journal reviews R. Sikoryak's Masterpiece Comics.

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