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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Bright Star, the latest film by Jane Campion is defined in the San Francisco Examiner:
Bright Star, which might have been adapted from the Jane Austen novel Emily Brontë (sic) never wrote, creates its own hermetic world. (J. Hoberman)
We read in the South Yorkshire Star about high school students who win awards with their dramatised readings:
The teenagers from High Levels, Thorne, won a drama festival each to qualify for a regional showcase final. They impressed with their readings and acting, to win a place in the Yorkshire and Humberside Festivals Championships Final in Grimsby. And to do so they had to make work ranging from the Bible to Shakespeare sound as riveting as possible.
Antonia won the Don Valley Drama Festival in High Melton in March with a selection of readings from work including both famous books.
Lydia, aged 16, was beaten by older sister Antonia, 18, that day – but made her mark by winning the Scunthorpe Drama Festival.
That put them both in the running for the regional title in a grand final in Grimsby – but in the end they were both beaten on the day by Lee Pearte from Cleethorpes.
Lydia, whose ambition is to join the Royal Shakespeare Company and plans to apply to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, pinned her hopes on a monologue from a play called Miss Julie by August Stringbert.
Antonia combined a reading from the classic novel Jane Eyre with a poem by Ogden Nash called This Was Told Me In Confidence.
The Yorkshire Post highlights Barry Cryer's self-definition:
I'm from Yorkshire. I'm the full Brontë.
The Manitoban puts the blame on Austen and the Brontës for the 'true love' ideal:
While I do believe in true love, myself, I am most likely one of the most doubtful people of its existence. Seen by even my closest friends as far too picky, no one can seem to understand that it is impossible for me to simply lower my expectations. My fear is that, should I settle for someone, the right person will walk past and see that the vacancy has been filled. I suppose this unrealistic expectation of love and of people comes from too much time spent reading the likes of Jane Austen and Emily Brontë. (Marcus Closen)
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow (The Professor, Chapter XIX) is probably on the top ten of the most quoted Charlotte Brontë sayings ranking. The last mention comes from The Newbury Port Daily News. We have a Wuthering Heights hater in The Daily Cardinal (by the way Idas Bokblogg, in Swedish, asks for opinions on Emily Brontë's novel) and a Jane Eyre hater (though liking Wide Sargasso Sea) on We all know that I'm right, Music on Vinyl devotes a post to Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights. My Life in Books reviews The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 1996.

On Youtube Poetictouch has uploaded a reading of Emily Brontë's Remembrance, benjiandliz2 a video of a snowy Haworth with a performance of Nina by Pergolesi with Fiona Katie Roberts playing the harp and Yorkshire baritone James Hutton singing and Ghostwatching uploads a video with reflections from the Brontes on death and mortality in their own words and poems.

And last, but not least, Vulpes Libris posts a good review Justine Picardie's Daphne.

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