Brontë geeks

Most readers of this blog would know what to say if they found themselves in the situation described by Varsity:

Faced with a party of cultural snobs waffling on about how seminal Jane Eyre is, try telling them that actually you thought Jane was a bit frigid and that a couple of VKs and a night on the town would have sorted her out. (Laura Freeman)

Although we sincerely doubt any reader of this blog would say that.

Readers of this blog would have at least one point won towards becoming a 'Book Geek'. The Book Geek featured in the Manila Bulletin had to answer this:

What was the book that was most often mentioned in “Twilight”? (Wuthering Heights – Much as I detested the Twilight series I read all four books and remember them in excruciating detail). (Blooey P. Singson)

And this bit of useless trivia 'revealed' by Clash Music is quite common knowledge among Brontëites with a little bit of pop culture knowledge on the side.

[Kate Bush] shares a birthday with Emily Brontë. Kate’s debut single, ‘Wuthering Heights’, is, of course, based on Brontë’s novel of the same name. Uncanny, isn’t it? (Christopher Monk)

More pop culture, as Melissa sent us a link to the Go Fug Yourself description of an outfit recently worn by Lilly Allen:

There is a weird part of me that thinks this is kind of awesome: [see picture]. You know, in that weird-ass, Miss Havisham, Grey Gardens, Mrs-Rochester-Locked-in-the-Attic, musty-nutjob kind of way. [...] However, the item underneath: [see picture] Eeeeek. Lily can keep that one. It will be very evocative, after all, when those days when she sneaks out of the attic to wreak havoc upon the other, unsuspecting members of her household. (Jessica)

A review by the Los Angeles Times of Jerome Charyn's The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, mentions Charlotte Brontë:

While the romantic peccadilloes Charyn conjures may be intriguing, more compelling is his portrait of Emily Dickinson as an intelligent young woman writing on scraps of paper during an era that saw the emergence of writers Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë) and George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) -- Englishwomen who wrote under male pseudonyms so that they would be taken seriously. (Paula L. Woods)

Which is an interesting reflection.

The London Evening Standard suggests a trip to the North Yorkshire Moors:

If you head to North Yorkshire in midwinter, I suggest taking very, very warm clothes with you. The temperature, as my friend Sas and I climbed off the train at Thirsk, a market town on the southern edge of the moors, felt low enough to freeze our very marrow, and came accompanied by a slicing wind. At least, I pointed out, it was properly Brontë-esque; any of the sisters' heroines would be suitably melancholy tramping across the wiley, windy moors in such weather.
But we're not Brontë heroines and our idea of a good weekend involves pouring wine rather than rain, so imagine what a welcome sight the warmly lit Feversham Arms presented as we pulled up in Helmsley half an hour later; how reassuring the sound of chattering voices floating out from the bar, and the smell of a tasty dinner being prepared in the kitchen. (Hettie Harvey)

Coincidentally, Associated Content has posted information on 'Visiting Haworth'.

And finally, Trombone com vara posts about Wuthering Heights in Portuguese, Brontës.nl announces the broadcast of Jane Eyre 2006 on the Netherlands (RTL4, February 28, 13:30 h) and eightbaII1955 has uploaded to YouTube a short clip taken outside the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Categories: Books, Haworth, Jane Eyre, Music, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights