How Heathcliff and Cathy's break-up really happened

First of all, Better World Books Blog has a podcast of an interview to Juliet Gael, author of Romancing Miss Brontë. Click here to listen to it.

The Courier-Mail has an article on the Twilight saga and as you know no article on Twilight is complete without mentioning the Brontës:

Inspired by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë and other classic writers, there's no doubt that Meyer recycled a winning romantic formula: star-crossed lovers of different classes and the agony of choosing between two worthy men. Edward is, after all, Mr Darcy with fangs while Jacob is Wickham with heart and heat. (Karen Brooks)

Another love (?) story likened - thankfully jokingly - to Wuthering Heights by Sports Interaction is that of 'Bachelor Jake Pavelka and Vienna Giradi':

Like Wuthering Heights, it was a love fraught with controversy set against the torrid backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors a reality TV dating show. [...]
The final conversation between the doomed duo took place last night at around 6 p.m. pacific time – and, like Heathcliff and Catherine – the break-up occurred via cell phone. (Ellen Delaney)

What's not a joke is the fact that this autumn a fictional account of Anne Frank's life in the secret Annex told from the point of view of Peter van Pels - the teenage boy with whom Anne had a love 'relationship' - will be published: Annexed by British YA author Sharon Dogar. What's controversial is the following, quoted from Strollerderby (a Babble blog):

However in Dogar’s re-telling of the tale, things get quite heated between the pair. While her publisher confirms the author removed scenes of the pair making love from the final version of the book, he also said that the author believes Anne and Peter “had sex.” (helaineo)

The author of the article discusses the possible limits of these kinds of retellings:

While one hates to call BS on writers using real events and classic novels to create their own original tales (if we did, amazing books ranging from Bel Canto to Wide Sargasso Sea would not exist), Annexed feels more than a bit icky. (helaineo)

On the blogosphere, Jane Eyre is reviewed by John Bao and Liblog (in Italian) and Charlotte Brontë is the subject of posts on Victorian Literature and Annie the Adventuress.

Categories: Audio-Radio, Books, Fiction, Wuthering Heights