A Very Non-Traditional Jane Eyre

Mia Wasikowska has something to say about her Jane Eyre role in Jane Eyre 2011 to the Orlando Sentinel:

At 20, coming off the billion-dollar smash, Alice in Wonderland, the slight blonde can look at the movie world as her oyster. Plum roles in prestige pictures? Yes, she just finished Jane Eyre.
"The corsets," she mutters. "They're as bad as everyone says. TORTURE!" (...)
She donned a Yorkshire lilt for her turn in "a very non-traditional" Jane Eyre that was directed by Cary Fukunaga, who did the harrowing émigré drama Sin Nombre. (Roger Moore)

The Independent reviews several new novels (grown-up literature of dark desire), including Maureeen Gibbon's Thief and Michèle Roberts Mud:

The demon lover has stepped back over fiction's threshold. And in some cases he resembles not so much Dracula as the Count's great twin among Gothic archetypes: Emily Brontë's Heathcliff. Earlier this month, the American writer Maureen Gibbon published Thief, a novel in which a traumatised woman falls for a convicted but – apparently - wholly repentant rapist named "Alpha". For Julia Pascal, reviewing it in The Independent, the questions the novel raises "about abuse, attraction and damage... are so subtly explored as to make the reader want to complete the novel in one sitting".
Thief seasons the lurking horrror of an amour fou with a sanely bracing humour. That sense of saving wit as a light that shows the way through dark places of the heart also informs Mud, Michèle Roberts's new "stories of love and sex" (Virago, £13.99). Here, a series of twists allows legendary lovers from literature and history – Tristan and Isolde, Jane Eyre's Mr (and the first Mrs) Rochester, Emma Bovary, Colette – to tell a story from the other side of myth in the manner of Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife. The darkness here comes in the depiction of an affinity between the glamorous heroines of fable and the exploitation of urban waifs – girls adrift in the city, trafficked women – today: sisters under, and in, the skin.
With striking zest, Roberts grapples with a masculine tradition of libertine fiction that can still shock, stun and even move. (Boyd Tonkin)

An article about Morning Sickness in The Guardian mentions again Charlotte Brontë's most likely cause of death:

Before the arrival of drips, in the 1950s, women even died of it," says Barnie-Adshead. Charlotte Brontë, who died in 1855 in the early stages of pregnancy, is believed to be one of its highest-profile victims – in the weeks before her death, she complained that all food made her feel sick, and couldn't keep anything down. (Joanna Moorhead)

Alastair Harper writes in The Guardian. On this blog we (obviously) prefer his wife's opinion:

To my wife, Jane Eyre is a tear-jerking source of perennial inspiration – to me, it's a 19th-century Dawson's Creek.

The Kitsap Sun reviews the Joanna Murray-Smith satire The Female of the Species, now on stage at the Seattle's A Contemporary Theater. Among the many puns there's a Brontë-related one:

We first meet Margot (based very, very extremely loosely on 1970s feminist icon Germaine Greer) as she’s spewing F-bombs and other assorted vitriole at her publisher over her Bluetooth and nonchalantly pulling her bra off from inside her blouse. She’s made herself — and her publishing house — wealthy with her string of hear-me-roar volumes, which have deteriorated over the years into works of commercial catch-phrasing like “Charlotte Brontë: Traitor From Within.” (Michael C. Moore)

Ordnance Survey recommends the Jane Eyre Hathersage Trail:

The Jane Eyre Hathersage Trail, for instance, is full of historical and literary intrigue. Its circular route takes walkers to the various places that were visited by Charlotte Brontë and appear in Jane Eyre. In Hathersage village, walkers will find the ancient church and surrounding halls that were central to the creation of the novel.

The Yorkshire Post interviews artist Kitty North:

Name your favourite Yorkshire book.
Clichéd as it may sound, Wuthering Heights fascinates me. It is an extraordinary book that crosses generations. It is visual with extreme emotional depth – Emily Brontë must have spent time looking and thinking of the lives of the people buried in the graveyard at The Parsonage at Haworth.

You know, the usual Brontë-Twilight stuff. From The Telegraph:

According to the author, who is a Mormon, her books are "about life, not death" and "love, not lust". Each book in the series was inspired by and loosely based on a different literary classic: Twilight on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, New Moon on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Eclipse on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Breaking Dawn on A Midsummer Night's Dream. Meyer also states that Orson Scott Card and L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series are a big influence on her writing.

“Absolutely,” [Melissa] Rosenberg said. “Stephenie’s compared it at times to ’Wuthering Heights,’ or ’Romeo and Juliet.’ You could take the straight-ahead drama part off and drop the fantastical element and still have a compelling story. But, of course, I think the fantastical elements take it to another level.” (John Anderson in the McClatchy-Tribune)

The Kennebec Journal reprints a fragment from Bedside: The Art of Medicine by Michael A. LaCombe, published by University of Maine Press. There's a Brontë reference:

And now he is wasting away on the east wing, barely alive. And he isn't mine anymore. I don't really know what I mean by that. I mean, I had always intended to go back to Stash's with him. It was going to be part of my life, someday. But the hospital bedside just isn't the same thing, my friend. The climate's different; the agenda's changed. Oh, he still taunts me about being unread, still shows me up in his gentle, teasing way:
"Quick, my good doctor, a character from Bronté (sic). ... Time's up ... Heathcliffe(sic, again). Now ... Emily, or Charlotte?"

Buzzle thinks that Wuthering Heights is one of "the best classics for young adults", the author Eve Marie Mont posts on Shooting Stars Mag:

Right now, I am revising my second novel, a YA book inspired by Jane Eyre[.]

An Adventure in Reading reviews Rachel Ferguson's The Brontës Went to Woolworths, Cubicle Confusion describes how it is to read about Helen Burns's death in a bus, Les Brontë à Paris posts a French translation of Charlotte Brontë's letter to Henry Nussey refusing his marriage proposal and celebrates the anniversary of her marriage with Arthur Bell Nichols some years afterwards. Wasatiya... moderación, camino medio posts briefly (in Spanish) about Villette, Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell reviews the Classical Comics's adaptation of Jane Eyre.

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