Jane Eyre beauty and Charlotte Brontë's eau de parfum

The New York Times reviews the dance piece The Art of Making Dances by Chase Granoff at The Kitchen:

The performance begins strongly. As Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” plays, the cast gathers around Mr. Granoff, who pours Champagne. Here, Joe Levasseur’s lighting works wonders, as he gradually darkens the stage until only two dancers remain. (Gia Kourlas)

The Telegraph & Argus presents one of the November activities at the Parsonage:

A magazine about women writers will this month host a roadshow at the Bronte Parsonage Museum.
Mslexia is offering two creative writing workshops and a talk by leading novelists Sarah Waters.
Writing a Synopsis, led by novelist Debbie Taylor, will help writers identify what their novel is really about and communicate this to an agent or editor.
The First Paragraph, led by author Jane Rogers, will help both short story writers and novelists write an arresting opening.
Sarah Waters, writer of bestsellers Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith, will be in conversation with Debbie Taylor.
Sarah will talk about her writing career and her latest novel, The Little Stranger, which was in nominee for this year's Man Booker Prize.
The three events, part of the museum's contemporary arts programme, will be at November 28. (David Knights)

The Mirror insists on the Brontë-Twilight connections:

Romantic interest Edward Cullen, played by Pattinson in the film series, was turned into a vampire aged 17 to prevent him dying from flu. Meyer drew on classic leading men Edward Rochester (Jane Eyre), Mr D'arcy [sic] (Pride and Prejudice) and Gilbert Blythe (Anne of Green Gables) when creating the character. (Beck Robertson)

And The Daily Telegraph (Australia) insists on discrediting those associations:

Twilight lays claim to a dark, gothic-romantic pedigree, but to compare Twilight and other books in the series to classic works such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights would be a mistake similar to comparing sitcoms with Shakespeare or the Spice Girls with Mozart. (Julia Arensen)

Fashion Tribes describes as follows the eau de parfum Amaranthine by Penhaligon:

Timeless quality and luxury, yes, but their women's fragrances have tended to evoke Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austin [sic]...not Anais Nin. Enter Bertrand Duchaufour, the French perfumer who rocks out to Radiohead and has a cult following rivaling Thom Yorke's. Amaranthine is as sensual a fragrance created for the House in its history, and so erotic, it would make Queen Victoria blush. (Michelyn Camen)

The Batavia Richmond Memorial Library as reported by The Daily News has received Emily's Ghost by Denise Giardina, The Mirror publishes a sentence particularly unfortunate describing the new BBC thriller Luther:

Jane Eyre beauty Ruth Wilson is a key witness in his first investigation. (Nicola Methven)

e-teatr.pl reviews some Polish performances of Susanne Schneider's piece Noce Sióstr Brontë:

"Noce sióstr Bronte" to, napisana w 1992 roku, sztuka niemieckiej autorki, która w tradycyjnym dramacie psychologicznym sportretowała trzy siostry Bronte jako odmienne, lecz uzupełniające się osobowości, zarówno ludzkie, jak i twórcze. Sztuka ma jasno zarysowane charaktery postaci - gwałtowna, namiętna i bezkompromisowa Emily, przenikliwa, inteligentna Charlotte i pragmatyczna, introwertyczna Anne - i prosty zamysł dramaturgiczny polegający na braku istotnych wydarzeń zewnętrznych, przy jednoczesnej obecności wydarzeń duchowych. Jak wiadomo, życie sióstr Bronte było dość monotonne. Wydarzenia przecinające tę monotonię to śmierć (z przepicia) ich brata Branwella, przedwczesna śmierć dwóch spośród nich oraz publikacje ich powieści, w przypadku Emily pośmiertnie. Te wydarzenia jednak nie rozgrywają się na scenie, a są tylko na koniec referowane. (Read more) (Google translation) (Jagoda Hernik Spalińska)

A couple of Swedish newspapers review Nuria Amat's 1997 novel La intimidad (Det mest privata in Swedish), which features a girl who looks for her dead mother in the pages of Jane Eyre. From Svenska Dagbladet:

Modern vars hemlighetsfulla död man inte talar om finns i en grav formad som en bok, men hon finns också i en bok som heter ”Jane Eyre” och som handlar om en galen kvinna gömd på en vind. (Google translation) (Ellen Mattson)

And from Helsingborgs Dagblad:

I romanerna söker hon sin döda mor och tycker sig kunna kommunicera med henne genom ”Jane Eyre”. (Google translation) (Kerstin Johansson)

More informationon the novel in Spanish here.

Itinerant Idealist reviews Rebecca Fraser's biography of Charlotte Brontë, Romantic Outsider reviews the Northern Ballet's production of Wuthering Heights, Leeds Daily Photo posts a picture of the Thornton's Bell Chapel where Patrick Brontë preached. Brisbane Last Friday Book Club recommends Wide Sargasso Sea. The Giessener-Allgemeine reviews a local production of Simon & Norman's The Secret Garden and mentions Wuthering Heights.

Finally, Hark! A Vagrant has made it again. A new (and very funny) comic strip with the Brontë sisters as characters. Check it out here.

Categories: Books, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Dance, Humour, Jane Eyre, References, Theatre, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights