Emily misquoted

Laura Marling is interviewed by The Guardian and once again a reference to the Brontës cannot be missed:

She abhors our modern-day sexual sensationalism and the media's destructive obsession with kiss-and-tells and, to boot, is an incurable romantic who loves the heroines of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters. (Sarah Boden)

The Observer reviews Beswitched by Kate Saunders:

Flora herself and her new gang of three – sweet, round and rather dim Dulcie, fiercely bright and bossy Pogo and spiky, charismatic Pete (Daphne) – are well-drawn characters whom we care about, especially Pete, who has elements of the Chalet School's Joey Bettany and Jane Eyre's friend Helen Burns and whose hard edges soften in a believable way. (Geraldine Brennan)

Gordon Brown's Brontë background is remembered by The Telegraph (India):

Just before Blair stood aside in his favour, a backbencher, remembering Jane Eyre, begged Blair to think again about “letting Mrs Rochester out of the attic”. (...)
Not everyone believes the respray version, of course. But what has to be admitted is that the more Brown looks like another Brontë character, the strange-yet-strong Heathcliff, the better his party seems to do in the polls. (Ian Jack)

The Washington Post defines Wuthering Heights 1939 in an article about the Oscars as

[O]ne of the great movies of all time, the masterful Laurence Olivier film based on a 19th-century novel[.] (Lisa de Moraes)

We don't understand why Jemila Samerin in The Hindu attributes a quote by Louis de Bernières (from Bird Without Wings) to Emily Brontë. And furthermore, a quote like this one:

“The primary epiphenomena of any religion's foundation are the production and flourishment of hypocrisy, megalomania and psychopathy, and the first casualties of a religion's establishment are the intentions of its founder.”- Emily Brontë.

On the blogosphere, Awesome Alli's Reading Blog and Selina Tng post about Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Jane_Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights