Jane Eyre: a desert island kind of novel

On this day that marks the 149th anniversary of the death of Patrick Brontë, we have come across a couple of Brontëites:

Actor Robert Duncan tells the Coventry Telegraph about his favourite novel:

What book would you take to a desert island and why? Probably Jane Eyre, my favourite novel. (Marion McMullen)

Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor is a well-known Brontëite. Today the Times of India describes her as...

Charmed by classics like Wuthering Heights, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Pride and Prejudice, Sonam rarely agrees with onscreen versions of her favourite novels, "I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow you to visualise every line, they way books do," she says. (Kunal Guha)

The Guardian remembers Gordon Brown with the Brontë add-on:

As I head for my 18th wedding anniversary – my chrome, my porcelain or my Velcro? – I think back fondly to the farewell words of Gordon Brown. You remember him. He was the dark and brooding prime minister from the Emily Brontë novel, as opposed to the shiny new guy from a Richard Curtis movie. (Jon Canter)

The Brontë Parsonage Blog continues posting about the AGM weekend. And Les Brontë à Paris commemorates Patrick Brontë's death (in French).

Wuthering Heights is the subject of blog posts on Ovrelia's Notes in the Margin and Alius et Idem (in Italian).

Categories: Brontë Society, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Patrick Brontë, Wuthering Heights