Jane and the missionary

Tonight on BBC1, Antiques Roadshow broadcasts the episode which features Charlotte Brontë's Bible:

Fiona Bruce takes the team to the Lancashire coast for a busy day in the magnificent Blackpool Tower Ballroom.
Objects under discussion include a bible containing handwritten extracts from Charlotte Bronte; powerful images drawn under fire by a war artist; and a boot sale brooch that makes the owner want to scream with delight when she hears the valuation.

Anorak suggests creative alter egos for known sexual positions:

So when your lover is wild in bed she’s one person and when she’s a cosy cuddler she’s another. Forget pet names for sexual organs, time to give yourselves alter egos for every sexual position. Missionary sex should be termed “Jane Eyre”[.]

We assume missionary here is not an allusion to St John Rivers (or then again maybe it is).

Steph Su Reads interviews blogger Rhiannon Hart. A true Brontëite:

Name 3 favorite books/series and why you think everyone should read them.
Everyone should read these just because they're so awesome: Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause, the Chaos Walking books by Patrick Ness, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

The soprano Jacqueline Quirk has uploaded to her Facebook page and to YouTube a video with a 2008 recording of Bernard Herrmann's I Have Dreamt (from his Wuthering Heights opera). The pianist is Louis Menendez.

Tulsa World reviews Sarah Schmelling's book Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook and Nicole Plüss is watching Jane Eyre 2006.

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