The World of Jane Eyre

Paula Rego is interviewed in the Financial Times and talks about her Jane Eyre series:

Rego talks fast in a high, lilting voice and darts among her ghoulish figures energetically, though she notes that she is 74 “and my grandmother died at this age; now it’s my turn”. She picks up a dirty stuffed toy monkey sitting in an ornate 19th-century chair, and cradles him in her arms. “He is the only thing Bertha was allowed to take with her into the mad room, she kissed him so much his fur wore away.” The reference is to lunatic Mrs Rochester, and plunges us into the world of Jane Eyre.
Rego’s series of lithographs inspired by the novel, first exhibited in 2003 and printed in a de luxe edition of the book, are celebrated. In her introduction, Marina Warner commented that through the rebellious vitality of the lithographs Rego explored, as Charlotte Brontë did 150 years earlier, “the conditions of her own upbringing, her formation as a girl and woman, and the oscillation between stifling social expectations and liberating female stratagems”. Rego reinvented rather than merely illustrated the world of the novel; the limp, pathetic monkey, for example, is her own addition, as is the oversized chair, a remnant from a film version of Alice in Wonderland directed by her son Nick Willing. (Jackie Wullschlager)

NPR reviews R. Sikoryak's Masterpiece Comics, including The Crypt of Brontë:

The tale of Dante's Inferno plays out, canto by canto, as a series of Bazooka Joe bubble gum wrappers; Wuthering Heights becomes an old EC horror comic; Voltaire's Candide gets re-imagined as Ziggy; Garfield shows his Mephistophelian side in an updated Doctor Faustus. (Glen Weldon)

The Independent interviews author Pauline Melville:

Which fictional character most resembles you?
Heathcliff, unfortunately, with a dash of [the William books'] Violet Elizabeth Bott. (Boyd Tonkin)

We have tried but we are unable to unveil the secret meanings in this Brontë reference in Drowned in Sound:

Ortolan - 'I'll See You There'
Resident singles lady Wendy Roby described Ortolan's self-titled EP as "Sounding a bit like She & Him might were they produced by Sufjan Stevens - to create a sort of She & She & She & She, they are four alt-pop Brontës who beam right into your stereo like a comforting aural torch you never need to buy batteries for." And it is. It's Single Of The Week, after all. It should truly fill you with glee. (Luke Slater)

Crosswalk poses the following question:

How many hedonists have we lost by an unfortunate exposure to Jane Eyre? (Dr. John Mark Reynolds)

The Lincolnshire Echo informs that Belton House (Gateshead in Jane Eyre 2006) will be open for free this Saturday, Wuthering Heights becomes the preferred example of boring literature in The Huffington Post or the Lexington Books Examiner. Fortunately Coox defines Emily Brontë's book as an experience that stays with the reader long after the last page is read and The Reading Rug as a masterpiece that transcends time. GirlieGossip briefly talks about Jude Morgan's The Taste of Sorrow. Bill Posters posts about the different versions of Wuthering Heights previous to the latest one. HiFashion devotes a post to the fashion in Catherine Earnshaw's outfits in Wuthering Heights 2009. The Soapworks presents her very particular Brontë tribute: a selection of soaps and LeishaCamden reviews Jane Eyre on YouTube and in Norwegian.

Finally, Remembering Swifty organizes the fourth annual Mark 'Swifty' Swift Memorial Golf Tournament and Charity Auction in support of Manorlands Hospice which will take place on Saturday 26 September 2009. The Brontë Society has has kindly donated a Family Ticket.

EDIT:
We have an alert from Second Life for today, September 4:

Date: Friday, September 4, 2009
Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: O'Casey's Bar
Street: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dublin/34/111/25
Description
The first of our readings from the Brontë sisters. This evening Riko Kamachi returns to O'Casey's to bring us an extract from Jane Eyre.

And for September 13:

My Favourite Author, My Favourite Chapter 3PM @ O'Casey's Bar
Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009
Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: O'Casey's Bar
Street: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dublin/34/111/25
Description
Continuing on with our Brontë season here at O'Casey's Bar, Danton Thirroul reads an extract from the wonderful Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Books, Comics, Jane Eyre, References, Wuthering Heights