"Jane Eyre is an excellent novel!"

The Wall Street Journal talks with John Irving at the National Book Festival:

I feel badly, actually, that they’re forced to read me. Then again, I don’t think it’s the high school kids who are in trouble with literacy. I think it’s the adults. The percentage of adults in this country who read hardcover fiction is less than 1 percent. For some reason, when you look on planes, it’s women who are reading the novels. My son had to read “Jane Eyre” and he was disgusted –- “Jane Eyre” is an excellent novel! (Julie Steinberg)

Students who like Jane Eyre in the Westhampton Beach News, weddings at Oakwell Hall on De Havilland, Booklist mentions Syrie James's The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë, Echostains comments on the recent appearance of a possible Charlotte Brontë's Bible on BBC1's Antiques Roadshow:

Bought from a dealer in the 1920s or 30s for 50.00, the bible is crammed packed with tiny notes by Charlotte. The expert authenicated the writing as Charlottes, dating the bible from about 1845. It’s estimated value? between £15,000 and £20,000!

EDIT:
It seems that the Bible was not so authentic as the expert said. Ann Dinsdale, Collections Manager at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, recently said to the Telegraph & Argus:

She had been consulted by experts on the Antiques Roadshow about a bible thought to be annotated by Patrick Charlotte Bronte which eventually turned out not to be his her handwriting. (Clive White)

The article was wrong in saying annotated by Patrick Brontë instead of by Charlotte Brontë.

The Domestic Church doesn't like Wuthering Heights (but loves Jane Eyre) and Idas Bokblogg (in Swedish) also posts about Emily Brontë's book. Finally, Learning in London visits the Brontë Parsonage and the Brontë Sisters (in Dutch) also posts about the Parsonage.

EDIT: ksotikoula has uploaded a video with the fragment in question.

Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Brontëana, Jane Eyre, References, Wuthering Heights