The Vancouver Sun offers an 'immersion' into the Brontë story. We are just quoting a bit from it but the entire article is worth it:
Their sweeping stories were penned in a two-story parish house surrounded by a graveyard in the bleak, claustrophobic village of Haworth in the Pennine moors of North Yorkshire.
Most of the places that shaped the sad arc of the sisters’ lives are just steps apart in the tiny cobblestone center of Haworth.
The Church of St. Michael dates from 1881, a replacement for the one where their father, the Rev. Patrick Brontë, took to the pulpit in the 1820s. Behind it is the tiny parish house ringed by gravestones that, as the novelist Mrs. Gaskell described it, were "round house and garden, on all sides but one." (Gary A. Warner)
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The Age would like to get into the Brontë spirit but...
And then there's honey, the sunny, Californian character of which surely contradicts the Bronte-novel spirit of porridge-eating. (Robyn Annear)
The New Canaan News reviews a local production of the musical adaptation of The Secret Garden and sums up the story thus:
Burnett's novel, adapted by Marsha Norman for the stage, is replete with 19th-century melodramatic literary themes -- plague in India, an orphan sent to live with a strange uncle in a strange house, ghostly sobs -- in short, similar elements to those that made "Jane Eyre" and its genre popular with the public. (Chesley Plemmons)
La Terrasse has a very interesting post on Shirley, which grabs you right from the start:
There are several unusual things about Shirley, compared with Charlotte Brontë’s other books. (read more)
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David Matthews has also written a worth-your-time post on 'Those Brontë Girls: Life and Art'.
Jane Eyre on the blogosphere today:
Coucoumellisms,
Histoire de lectures (in French) and
Cherralyn. Wuthering Heights is there as well:
Things she read (on the 2009 adaptation),
Lucis (in Czech) and
Jesus Christ walks into a Hotel...Categories: Haworth, Jane Eyre, Shirley
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