Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's... Brontësaurus!

We have learnt one thing today: you can never say you've heard all possible responses and reactions to Jane Eyre. This key lesson came from the Liverpool Daily Post:

She [Dr Jane Davis] adds: “Another man told me after reading Jane Eyre with us that he’d ‘learned more about bloody women than in 40 years of being married’!” (Peter Elson)

And that of course serves once again to prove how pointless the myth that 'the Brontës are for girls only' is.

An article in The Virginian-Pilot mourning the end of Guiding Light, the longest-running drama in television and radio history, introduces us to another man-reader of the Brontës.

As he [Paul Lankford] became hooked on "Guiding Light," he also became engrossed in the world's great literature. When he wasn't watching the program, he was reading "Les Miserables" and "Wuthering Heights." As he went on to college and eventually became an award-winning high school English teacher, he realized that his favorite soap explored many of the same themes as great literary works. Today he will tune in for the last page, and he's happy with the way the writers, producers and actors have handled the final chapter. (April Phillips)

And now for a brilliant, funny idea, as relayed by The Miami Herald:

Lord, now 33, and Miller worked at Disney for four years, drumming up ideas for programs that never got produced. "They just said no and would never tell us why.''
Underemployed, their proposals got increasingly goofy: [...] a Saturday morning cartoon featuring the Bronte sisters as super heroes titled -- wait for it -- Brontesaurus. (Sue Corbett)

Now we really think that Disney should have paid more attention to that.

And The Seattle Times thinks that Ellen Page - among others - has it in her to become the new Meryl Streep, particularly as

seems ready to challenge herself, if her signing on for the title role of a big-screen BBC production of “Jane Eyre” last year is any indication. (Moira MacDonald)

Well, you never know about these things, but there doesn't seem to be much going on in that front that we can see, despite the enthusiastic and wide-ranging suggestions for casting the ideal Rochester in our initial post.

A Young Church Librarian's Ramblings has thoroughly enjoyed Jane Eyre 2006 and One stroke of his brush writes 'A tribute to reading, the nineteenth century, and Charlotte Bronte...'. Also, Flickr user Abigail709b has uploaded a couple of pictures (1,2) taken at Wycoller Hall (supposed model for Ferndean in Jane Eyre) dressed in a 19th-century dress.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights