Filming in Froggatt and Fox House (Sheffield)

The South Yorkshire Star discusses another adaptation closer to our raison d'être: the latest Jane Eyre:

SEEMS you can hardly walk down a Derbyshire country lane these days without falling over a new film or TV production of Jane Eyre.
There's great excitement over at Fox House (Sheffield) and Froggatt with the filming of Cary Fukunaga's version starring Mia Wasikowska (she was Alice in Wonderland) and Michael Fassbender as Jane and Mr Rochester.
Seems like only yesterday (2006) that Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens were filming it in these parts and then there was Zeffirelli version with Charlotte Gainsbourg in 1994.
This will be the 23rd film or TV version of the novel since 1914.
Judi Dench will pop up as Mr Rochester's housekeeper.
When the actors were first seen in costume one subscriber to the Sheffield Forum website wondered whether they were filming Lark Rise to Grindleford! (Martin Dawes)

Froggatt is a village in Derbyshire and better pictures of Fox House can be found here.

Not too far from that, the Yorkshire Post comments on the recent grant given to the South Pennines:

More than a million people live in or around the South Pennines yet the uplands feel remote and have inspired artists and writers over generations from the Brontës to Ted Hughes, from Henry Moore to Barbara Hepworth. (Fiona Evans)

The Daily Mail complains that heroes and heroines aren't what they used to be:

Something's gone wrong with romance writing.
Where once manly Rhett Butler battled the flames of Atlanta to rescue Scarlett O’Hara or a rugged Heathcliff tore the earth from Catherine Earnshaw’s grave, readers now find New Men so wet you could wring them out and about as heart-thumpingly sexy as socks. [...]
Would you catch Lizzie Bennet turning to selfhelp books like Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus for help with Mr Darcy? Or Jane Eyre moaning over cocktails about Mr Rochester’s mad wife? I don’t think so. (Danuta Kean)

We would hazard, as usual, that what's wrong is the genre label given to Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. The fact that they may be Romantic novels is not the same as being 'romance writing'.

Speaking of heroes, Gather picks a few memorable quotes from Twilight's Eclipse that should make it into the film script. One of them is:

8. Besides… the more time I spend with you, the more human emotions seem comprehensible to me. I’m discovering that I can sympathize with Heathcliff in ways I didn’t think possible before. Edward Cullen, page 265. (Jaimie M.)

Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books, who was recently in Haworth, briefly comments on her trip in the Persephone Books fornightly letter:

Last week I went to the Bronte Parsonage to give a talk. It was great fun and I loved having the chance to see over the house again (I had small children with me before so it was not the same). When I got back to King’s Cross I met Miriam Margolyes, who read Cheerful Weather for the Wedding for us but is actually (or perhaps I should say ‘and is also’) an incredibly famous actress. As you can see from the following exchange: ‘Where have you been Miriam?” To the Lincolnshire WI. ‘Oh, rather like me going to the Bronte Museum. I had 25 people, how many did you?’ ‘Seven hundred’ she said before walking briskly off towards the tube! I ambled off imagining what it must be like to talk to 700 people…

Female First takes a look at Ralph Fiennes' filmography:

But it was 1992 when he appeared on the big screen as he teamed up with Juliette Binoche for Wuthering Heights.
His performance as Heathcliff was a catalyst for the actor as it brought him to the attention of audiences as well as studios. (Helen Earnshaw)

The Salford Advertiser mourns the death of Bill Dean, an 'ex-RAF pilot [who] was a survivor of Stalag Luft III, the camp that was the inspiration for the classic film The Great Escape'. His daughter talks about the funeral and says,

"My father was an atheist so we had a humanist service.
"We had music by Gluck, Saint-Saens, and Elgar, and poems by Joyce Grenfell and Charlotte Bronte." (Ailsa Cranna)

On the blogosphere, The Squeee reviews Jane Eyre 1947 (a radio adaptation with Joseph Conrad and Peggy Webber) and At the Lighthouse reviews Jane Eyre 1983, Our Mutual Read posts about Wuthering Heights, Michelle's Masterful Musings writes about Agnes Grey, and a couple of blogs join and/or discuss the Brontë-Along: Sarah Louisa Whittle and Sonnet of the Moon.

Finally, an alert for today:

DAKOTA DISCUSSIONS GROUP
STARTS IN POWERS LAKE

Readers: Dakota Discussions, a ND Humanities reading program sponsored by the Powers Lake Civic Club, will be reading the Jane Eyre series for their spring session.

The Jane Eyre series consists of two books and a film. Rebecca Chalmers, PhD. English professor at the University of Mary, will come to Powers Lake March 30 (Jane Eyre), April 27 (Wide Sargasso Sea) , and May 25 (Film & Discussion) for series discussion. All are welcome!

Categories: Alert, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Talks, Wuthering Heights