Fear of Jane

Several British news outlets publish articles about the Everyone's Reading list by the School Library Association:

Each secondary school in England will receive 15 books from a list of 260 that includes traditional and modern classics, as well as fact-based titles.
Schools where more than 30% of children are on free school meals will be able to choose 25 books.
Ministers say they hope the £500,000 scheme, called Everyone's Reading, will open up "new worlds" for young people.
Among the 260 different titles on offer are Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything and sports books.
Schools pick the titles from a list divided into themes, including "laugh", "explore", "imagine", "boggle" and "fear".
The list was drawn up by Eileen Armstrong, school librarian at Cramlington Learning Village.
The scheme is jointly run by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the School Library Association.
Ms Armstrong said: "The themed list offers something to engage and enthuse everyone regardless of background, attitude or previous reading experience - books to appeal to the girls as well as the boys, books to catch the attention of non-readers, books to hook in the resistant and to inspire confidence in the struggling, books to satisfy the hard to please and to stretch voracious readers. (BBC News)

Jane Eyre can be considered a 'traditional' classic indeed but it has to be pointed out that the version included in the SLA scheme is the Classical Comics simplified text version. Furthermore, why is it included in the 'Fear' section? Other articles discussing the list can be read in The Telegraph or The Guardian.

The Telegraph & Argus talks about the Brontë Parsonage involvement in the Pennines art programme:

Keighley and Haworth museums could play a leading role in a planned Pennines arts programme.
The South Pennines Watershed Landscape programme aims to encourage more people to become creative.
Over three years it aims to bring professional artists and writers together with residents and visitors.
They will draw on the Yorkshire and Lancashire countryside as inspiration for new artistic works.
The £106,000 project will heavily involve Cliffe Castle Museum and the Bronte Parsonage Museum.
Bradford Council's museums service is also heavily involved in the programme.
Funding will come from The South Pennines Leader rural development programme -- funded by the government and the European Union -- and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The proposed launch is this March (2010) at the opening of Cliffe Castle's planned Ways of Looking at our Landscape exhibition.
Visual artists will spend three months at single venues -- including Cliffe Castle -- creating new work, running community workshops and hosted exhibitions. There will be similar writers-in-residence projects, the first one based at the Bronte Parsonage, with workshops, readings and publication of work.
Each year there will be a photographic competition open to local people, who will be asked to capture the uniqueness of upland and reservoir landscapes.
Work will this year be exhibited at Ilkley Manor House Museum, featuring pictures of nearby Rombalds Moor, and a future year's exhibition may be at Cliffe Castle.
A spokesman for the Watershed Landscape said that in past centuries writers and artists had found the South Pennines moorlands a rich source of inspiration.
The spokesman said: "The projects are proposed as a means of celebrating a long tradition, to bring the wealth of creative activities associated with the uplands to the attention of a wider audience.
"Short courses will encourage aspiring artists and writers to find out more while developing their own creativity."
The project will also help more people appreciate the landscape and encourage them to make their own visits.
The South Pennines Leader programme covers areas including Rombalds Moor and the Brontë countryside, and funds. schemes which are innovative, long lasting and improve the quality of people's lives, the environment or the local economy. (David Knights)

The Film Musical Society selects the best vintage scores published in 2009. Michel Legrand's Wuthering Heights 1970 is one of them:

Wuthering Heights (Michel Legrand, La-La Land). One of the French maestro's finest scores for the obscure 1970 remake of the Bronte classic with Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall. Legrand's soulful, soaring score – surely the best thing about the American-International film – includes the song "I Was Born in Love With You," which has been recorded by many artists since. (Jon Burlingname)

And The Sun makes a list of the 2009 top 12 Bizarre Sessions:

Aussie rockers Wolfmother were one of the more unusual outfits, dropping their staple heavy metal to warble Kate Bush classic Wuthering Heights.

The Seoul Times (South Korea) celebrates the upcoming 2010 as the year of the tiger and includes Emily Brontë among famous people born in years of the tiger. An article about the traditional values of US conservatism quotes Jane Eyre in the Helena Independent Record, The Valve publishes an interesting article (a selection of fragments rather than a new critical approach) about Humans and Dogs in Wuthering Heights. From Fragile Thoughts to Explosive Ideas posts an imaginative review of Wuthering Heights, Entre Libros posts a more conventional one (in Spanish), Ex-Libris is reading Villette, Trainswhistle's Blog posts a story titled Jane Eyre and the Mammogram, Bad Wolf Day reviews Wide Sargasso Sea 2006 and Vintage Reads reviews The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Finally, two new participants in Laura's Reviews All About the Brontës Challenge 2010: Cover to Cover and book eater.

Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Jane Eyre, In the News, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, References, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Villette, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights,