Adultery, Vampires and Bookmarks

The Daily Mail has an article about Harper Lee. We don't know if Charlotte Brontë would be very proud to be the first writer that comes to mind if you talk about adultery:

Her mannish haircuts and hatred of make-up led to speculation that she was a lesbian. However, Mr Shields believes she was just shy and, like Charlotte Brontë, had an unrequited crush on a married man, her literary agent Maurice Crain. (Sharon Churcher)

Tonight on BBC Radio 3, Words and Music will feature a poem by Anne Brontë:

Words and Music: Awake!
Today, 23:00 on BBC Radio 3

Every Sunday evening Radio 3 brings you a sequence of music, poetry and prose united by a theme: this week work about awakenings.

including readings by Peter Marinker and Hattie Morahan from the work of Mary Shelley, A E Housman, Edward Thomas, Anne Bronte and Percy Bysshe Shelley. With music by Handel, Bach, Stravinsky and Britten.

The possibilities of sensual and spiritual awakening through nature is heard in Anne Bronte’s “Lines Composed in a Windy Wood”

Moira MacDonald in The Seattle Times imagines how The Twilight Saga: Eclipse would be if it was a short film:

Scene: Some random, dank forest near the town of Forks, where it rains 364 days a year. (...)An abandoned copy of "Wuthering Heights" lies on the ground nearby[.]" (...)
Edward (thoughtfully, holding "Wuthering Heights"): You know, I'm starting to identify with this Heathcliff guy. (...)
Cut to: A tent, in a dark, cold, rainy and thoroughly miserable forest. It is crowded.
Bella: Why are all three of us in this tent?
Jacob: It's an erotic plot device. Here, let me warm you up in my sleeping bag.
Edward: I should have brought "Wuthering Heights."

The Independent reviews Brian Dillon's Tormented Hope:

A fascinating and erudite meditation on the strange condition that is hypochondria, Tormented Hope examines the lives of nine famous sufferers, including James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Marcel Proust, Andy Warhol and, in a subsequently added afterword, Michael Jackson. (Brandon Robshaw)

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reviews Nintendo DS's 100 Classic Books and makes the following example:

Bad news: If you bookmark "Emma," then try to read "Wuthering Heights," the game won't let you bookmark both. To bookmark a second book, you must lose the bookmark in the first book. That is monumentally inconceivable. (Doug Elfman)

A Brontëite in the Hattiesburg American, EspeciaLivros (in Portuguese) posts about Wuthering Heights, ademc's photostream uploaded to Flickr a Corel Painter drawing of Branwell Brontë, Carmen y Amig@s posts (in Spanish) about Cowan Bridge.

Finally, Les Brontë à Paris celebrates the 162nd anniversary of the publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall with a curious proposal. Could you review/talk about Anne Brontë's book in less than 162 characters? Not necessarily in French.

Categories: Audio-Radio, Branwell Brontë, Jane Eyre, Poetry, References, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights