1.
Alert BrontëBlog reader
*Jill* has brought our attention to the existence of the
official Japanese website of
the Tokyo production of Gordon & Caird's Jane Eyre. The Musical.
It contains sections devoted to the story, the cast, the staff, three brief TV spots and a
diary, whose
most recent entry features two irresistible miniatures of Jane and Rochester.
2.
*Ferndean* alerts us of an interesting article published in
The Smithsonian Magazine telling the recent
Wayfarers's "Brontë Trail":
The storm had been assembling itself all morning, and finally the glowering sky, veined with lightning, loosed a rain of Old Testament proportions. Alan Pinkney looked up approvingly, then turned to the seven walkers he was leading and exclaimed, “This is perfect—I can almost see Heathcliff riding across the moor!”
We had ignored the clouds to hike some three miles to a remote, ruined farmhouse named Top Withins. It was little more than crumbling walls, but in its original form it is widely believed to have been the model for Wuthering Heights, home of the wild and mysterious Mr. Heathcliff in Emily Brontë’s classic 1847 novel of passion, rage and revenge. (Read more) (William Ecenbarger)
Categories: Jane Eyre, Haworth, Music, Theatre
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