Charlotte and the Internet

Nothing much to report today. Eyeweekly wonders in passing what would have happened if the internet had been available for writers such as Charlotte Brontë:

It’s a probably a blessing that the internet wasn’t around in the days of Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf and the Brontë sisters. Who knows what would’ve happened to these delicate flowers if a website like Gawker had been around to track their Amazon ratings and debate their unbridled narcissism? “Sylvia Plath totally needs to get over herself and realize that she’s not very interesting,” one internet commentator might’ve written upon the release of The Bell Jar. “This is not a book, it’s a blog.” (Chandler Levack)

And a woman who has swapped lives with her daughter for a few days describes herself as follows in the Daily Mail:

I love a party - I own four tiaras - but I'm also as bookish as Charlotte Brontë on a winter night in Yorkshire. (Janey Prenger)

Romance author Leigh D’Ansey is asked by Working Writers about her favourite authors:

I return many times to the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen.

A few artists: ...is five has cross-stitched the 'fireplace scene in the 2006 film version' of Jane Eyre as part of the Brontë-Along and gives away the chart. Super Strudel has made a 'linocut style illustration' inspired by Wuthering Heights. And YouTube user ReactionCru has uploaded a 'trailer' of a home-made adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Finally, and on a more serious note, The Little Professor discusses the classic German stage adaptation of Jane Eyre made by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer in 1853.

Categories: Brontëites, Humour, Jane Eyre, Theatre, Wuthering Heights