Castle, Barbarella, a Brontë descendant and Wonder Woman

Sad and weird news for a start. Two members of the (horse) cast of Wuthering Heights 2009 were killed in a motorway accident, Castle (picture source, mounted by Andrew Lincoln) and Barbarella. From The Sun:

FOUR horses - including two that starred in a recent hit telly movie - were killed on a motorway after scrap metal thieves stole the gates to their field.
Eleven horses escaped and galloped on to the A1(M) when the crooks used oxyacetylene torches to remove two 25ft gates.
Three were mown down and died at the scene. A fourth was found close to death nearby, with two distressed but uninjured horses standing guard over it.
Among the dead animals were Barbarella, 12, and Castle, 15, which both appeared in last month's ITV1 adaptation of Wuthering Heights, starring Tom Hardy.
Barbarella was ridden by Tom, who played Heathcliffe, and Castle by Andrew Lincoln, who played heroine Cathy's husband Edgar. (...)
The other two horses that died were seven-year-old ponies Ozzie and Charlie. Five horses made their way safely back to their field.
Sickened owner Sue Clark, 65, called the crooks "scumbags".
None of the people in five vehicles involved in Sunday's horror was injured but were "extremely shaken".
Police hunting the thieves at Timbertops Equestrian Centre near Wentworth, Pontefract, West Yorks, appealed for information on metal gates offered for sale.
Sue said: "They stole the gates for a few quid and caused the death of four horses. They could have killed people as well." (Alastair Taylor)

The Huddersfield Examiner gives more details concerning the Dewsbury Brontë Festival:

DESCENDANTS of the Brontë family will soon be back in Mirfield.
David Millian is a relation of the Reverend Patrick Brontë’s brother William.
He will visit and stay in Mirfield and revisit his heritage.
Imelda Marsden from the Brontë Society said they will look round north Kirklees where Patrick and his famous literary daughters have connections.
She said: “I’ve been in touch with David since 2000 and it’s nice for him to be able to visit here.
“I’ll be showing him the school and the church which are central to the Brontë story.”
While here, Mr Millian will tour the Red House Museum in Gomersal and Oakwell Hall in Birstall.
He will also see Val Wiseman perform a musical Brontë tribute, Keeping the Flame Alive, at Dewsbury Minster on Friday September 25 at 7.30pm.
The event coincides with the Rev Patrick Brontë arriving in Dewsbury 200 years ago where he was a curate at Dewsbury Minster.
He will meet up with Sarah Brontë’s descendants and visit the Brontë grave at Whitechapel Church in Cleckheaton.
They will also visit the Hollybank Trust at Roe Head, Mirfield, where the Brontë sisters were educated. (Joanne Douglas)

The Halifax Evening Courier announces the official opening of the Jubilee Refreshment Rooms at Sowerby Bridge train station. A station with Brontë past:

It was the second station for Sowerby Bridge – the first was built in 1840 at the bottom of New Road, and was where Bramwell (sic) Bronte would have worked. (Cathy Neligan)

Robert Jones, Jr links Jane Eyre to DC Comics' Wonder-Woman in a review of Secret Six (Issue 13) on Comic Book Resources:

There’s been this discussion of rage over in the main "Wonder Woman" title, and I think I’ve discovered its touchstone. It’s the same rage that was articulated brilliantly (and much to Virginia Woolf’s chagrin) in Charlotte Bronte’s "Jane Eyre." For the woman who is forced to rally against the unassailable forces that oppress her (and they are legion), rage is a weapon to be cherished rather than suppressed.

The Age has an article about book-import laws in Australia. We are interested in its beginning:

Many of us love reading books. Some are published authors. A very few write so well, their books are read by generations. Presently, I am addicted (again) to Jane Eyre. (Natalie Hickey)

On the Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates) we read an acknowledgement to a former professor for introducing the author to English literature, including Jane Eyre, The Times announces that ITV is seeking legal actions against STV for not airing, among others, Wuthering Heights 2009.

The Friendly Book Nook reviews Laura Joh Rowland's The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë, A Light Inside posts about Jane Eyre and CarolWeakland1 has uploaded to YouTube a sample of her Jane Eyre impersonation.

Categories: Books, Brontëana, Fiction, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Patrick Brontë, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights