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Monday, September 07, 2009

Monday, September 07, 2009 12:08 pm by M. in , , , , ,    No comments
The Guardian explains Roxy Freeman's singular story; a Brontë reference appears:
By the age of 12 or 13 I had devoured all of F Scott Fitzgerald, EM Forster, Louisa May Alcott and Emily Brontë.
Age gap relationships is the subject of an article on the Albuquerque Dating Examiner. Jane Eyre is used as an example:
The young, eager, flirty girl and the older, charming, debonair man. It’s even portrayed in Jane Eyre – Jane was 19 when she met the 36 year old Mr. Rochester, to whom she was engaged. (Michelle Gulick)
The San Diego Magazine reviews the peformances of I Love You Because by Joshua Salzman & Ryan Cunningham (NorthCoast Repertory Theatre).
It bills itself as a modern, gender-reversal retelling of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” but don’t let that send you scrambling to reread that classic. You needn’t know Jane Austen from “Jane Eyre” to follow this tale, which treads the well-traveled path of stories about opposite types who repel, then attract, one another. (Don Braunagel)
Maybe it's not indispensable for human life but it certainly helps to distinguish authors and characters.

A Brontëite in the Daily Sentinel, Onelion's Blog talks about Jane Eyre 1996 (in Romanian), Ценители Литературы (in Russian) reviews Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre 2006 caps on brokenharp, Musings from the Sofa has a bad review of Justine Picardie's Daphne ( and Books on Tape reviewed posts about Flo Gibson's unabridged reading of the Wuthering Heights.

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