According to brand new research, Yorkshire is best known for its food and drink offering with the Yorkshire Pudding named as ‘The Best Thing to come out of York and Yorkshire’.Janice Card, the writer and director of the viral video Jane Austen's Fight Club is interviewed on Entertainment Weekly. Upcoming projects?
The survey, conducted by Visit York, polled over 4,000 people from all over the UK and overseas and found that almost half of all respondents put the classic Sunday lunch accompaniment within their top three choices of the best thing to come out of York and Yorkshire; second place went to Yorkshire Tea with 18% of the votes cast; closely followed by Wensleydale Cheese with 16% of votes.
Leading lady, Dame Judi Dench took centre stage in terms of the most popular person to have come from the region with 15% of votes, giving her fourth place overall. The Brontë Sisters meanwhile reached the wuthering heights of fifth place with 14%. Captain James Cook navigated his way into sixth place with 12% of the votes and Michael Palin travelled to seventh place with 11%.
The survey was conducted by Visit York to celebrate the opening of its new £900,000 state-of-the-art Visitor Information Centre, which acts as a gateway of services for the region, offering visitors plus local residents and businesses with the keys to unlock both York and the wider Yorkshire and Humber area.
So does that mean that she’s planning on making a sequel? “People are asking, ‘What’s next?’ I think the first thing that comes to mind is Emily Brontë’s American Psycho. Because that’s what Heathcliff was. Except British.” (Keith Staskiewicz)We read in the letters to The Guardian a response to Gabriel Josipovici's attack on modern British authors. The missive has a Brontë reference:
Writers from Charlotte Brontë and Dickens to Graham Greene and Kingsley Amis knew that if a truly gifted novelist is telling a story, he or she is already using language as magic. (Richard Cooper)This article in the New York Times about the upcoming NFL seasons contains an unexpected Brontë mention. Talking about the player of the New Orleans Saints, Pierre Thomas:
Saints running back Pierre Thomas missed the start of camp, but Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis characterized contract talks as “cordial,” which would be ideal if they were negotiating with a Brontë sister. (Mike Tanier)The Guardian reviews several books for children:
The Sky is Everywhere, by Jandy NelsonThe main character in that novel is described like this in the San Jose Young Adult Literature Examiner:
Romance without any vampires makes a welcome change for teen readers. Not that death is entirely absent. When her gorgeous and successful older sister drops dead unexpectedly, Lennie has to learn to live again. Perhaps because of her passion for Wuthering Heights, she finds herself falling in love. How grief and love run side by side is sensitively and intensely explored in this energetic, poetic and warm-blooded novel.
She is a band geek and a Wuthering Heights hopeless romantic. (Barbara Bell)The property section of The Times has an article about Scarborough:
Other highlights include the impressive Victorian architecture of the Grand Hotel, and St Mary’s Church, where Anne Brontë is buried.Also in The Times a top ten of spots by the river for picnic:
Hebden Water, West Yorkshire. Brontë moors. Walking by the river up this quiet cleft in the flank of the Brontë moors, it is hard to imagine the roar and clatter of milling that filled this dale scarcely more than a century ago. There is a café at the nearby National Trust-maintained Gibson Mill. Start & finish: Hardcastle Crags car park (OS ref SD987292). (Christopher Somerville)David Gillett travelled around Derbyshire and chronicles it in The Globe and Mail:
We explored Chatsworth, lost in the endless corridors of Mr. Darcy's overblown Pemberley, gliding with reverence through the sculpture gallery, catching glimpses of Her Ladyship's chickens beyond the sash windows. We walked the misty shadows of Haddon Hall, that most perfectly preserved medieval pile, which stood in for Lizzie's bedroom, featured prominently in The Other Boleyn Girl, and played Thornfield Hall in the most recent Jane Eyre. (...)Priya Ramani summarises in Live Mint (India) her favourite book, Daddy-Long-Legs:
On the way back down to the village, rain threatening, we passed isolated North Lees Hall, an Elizabethan manor house where Charlotte Brontë had Mrs. Rochester jump from the roof to her death in Jane Eyre.
When she goes to college she realizes that she’s missed out on a whole slice of life. She has never heard of Jane Eyre or Robinson Crusoe or Holmes or that Shelley is a poet and George Eliot a lady.Margaret Atwood is promoting her latest book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, in India. The Hindu interviews her:
Jerusha and me clicked immediately. She’s the kind of girl who gets indignant when she hears a bishop preach that the poor were put on earth in order to keep the rest of us charitable; Wuthering Heights is her favourite book (I have yet to meet a woman who didn’t think Heathcliff was a hottie)[.]
Even in the 19th century historical novel, money was important. In Jane Austen debt features consistently. In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff goes away poor and comes back having earned a fortune to extract the house from its previous owner. (Bulan Lahiri)We don't think that Wuthering Heights can be the best example for this discussion on New Zimbabwe:
In societies of past generations (African or Western), marriage was very much a vessel for stability as depicted in several literary works, think Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights. (Mtshumayeli Ndebele)Dick Wolfsie in The Shelbyville News makes the weird Brontë comparison of the year. Discussing the website I Write Like he says,
I took three of my recent newspaper humor columns and entered a few of the funniest paragraphs. Was I as wry as Buchwald or Bombeck? Apparently not. Instead, my style was likened to Charlotte and Emily Brontë, the Smothers Brothers of the 19th century.A pity that the Smothers Brothers were only two, Anne is not included in the comparison.
Twilight's teenage vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) is a handsome, brooding, hero much in keeping with old Brontë sisters and Jane Austin[sic] novels. (Kathryn Darden)Le Monde interviews the composer and director of the Festival de Montpellier, René Koering. The journalist seems more interested in knowing why part of the audience deserted during the second half of the recently performed Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights opera than in the quality of the piece:
Pourquoi, après vingt-cinq ans "d'éducation" de votre part, le public a-t-il déserté la salle en deuxième partie de l'opéra "Les Hauts de Hurlevent" du compositeur hollywoodien Bernard Herrmann, le 14 juillet ?Fortunately, there are many who enjoyed and discovered Herrmann's opera:
Je pense sérieusement qu'une partie du public imaginait que l'oeuvre s'arrêtait après une heure trente. L'autre partie a manifesté un dédain ordinaire pour la musique américaine (comme pour les musiques finlandaises, hollandaises ou portugaises, qui ne figurent pas ou plus dans les neurones lyricomanes ordinaires). A cela s'ajoute que le public "cultivé" pense qu'il est incongru d'offrir à un compositeur de musiques de films un fauteuil de velours rouge à l'Opéra. (Renaud Machart) (Google translation)
C'est la première partie des « Hauts de Hurlevent » que Fletcher a choisi de raconter, celle traitant des amours de Catherine et d'Heathcliff pour ceux qui se souviennent du roman. Les cinéphiles auront reconnu certains thèmes musicaux de « Citizen Kane », de « La Mort aux trousses » ou de « Sueurs froides ».
Les autres auront découvert une musique ultralyrique, flamboyante et opulente, qui colle parfaitement à l'action de ce mélodrame passionnel : on ne s'ennuie jamais pendant les trois heures que dura la version concert donnée le 14 juillet au Corum de Montpellier. Herrmann y montre une science de l'orchestration inouië, et un talent manifeste à créer des surprises. Normal, pour quelqu'un qui a si longtemps travaillé pour le cinéma.
La révélation d'une chanteuse
Marianne CrébassaIl faut dire que ces « Hauts de hurlevent » était défendue par une distribution sans faille soutenue avec une merveilleuse science des voix par le jeune chef Alain Altinoglu. A noter la révélation de la jeune mezzo soprano montpelliéraine Marianne Crebassa dont c'était un des premiers rôles. Elle fit la surprise au public de jouer une partie de piano solo, puis de chanter en s'accompagnant elle-même. Instant magique. (Nathalie Krafft in Rue89) (Google translation)
René Koering rappelle les retombées économiques bénéficiaires du festival et fait aussi un bilan artistique. Il place en tête L'Étranger et Hurlevent et mentionne : la palme à Piramo, le choc à Berezovsky, le rire à Fazil Say, les honneurs au chef Juanjo Mena. (Michèle Fizaine in Midi-Libre) (Microsoft translation)
Dans ce dispositif, le Festival de Radio France à Montpellier "tient une place à part". "Les festivals de Salzbourg et d'Aix-en-Provence sont prisés mais le festival montpelliérain, original, est recherché pour ses oeuvres rares. Cette année, par exemple, l'opéra Les Hauts de Hurlevent de Bernard Herrmann, le compositeur fétiche de Hitchcock, a été très demandé". (Olivier Morel-Maroger talking with Valérie Hernandez in La Gazette de Montpellier) (Google translation)Writer Ana María Shua suggests an interesting explanation on why Wuthering Heights is more widely considered a love story than Pride and Prejudice. In Clarín (Argentina):
“Sin desdicha, separación, pérdida, sufrimiento, no hay novela,” cuenta Ana María Shua. “Por eso no recordamos Orgullo y Prejuicio, de Jane Austen, como novela de amor (termina demasiado bien), y sí en cambio Cumbres Borrascosas, de Emily Brontë.”(Paulina Villegas Vargas) (Google translation)AlCinema (Italy) reviews the Italian DVD release of Luis Buñuel's Abismos de Pasión:
Un film pieno di invenzioni surreali, sorrette da un portento ironico davvero invidiabile. Invece nella trasposizione di Cime tempestose di Emily Brontë, viene messa in luce la burrascosa storia d’amore tra Alejandro e Catalina. L’irrequieta ragazza cerca la serenità nell’amore, senza sapere cosa le porterà il destino. Quest’opera si presenta con un carattere duro, nell’esplicare l’amour fou nei suoi aspetti più pessimistici e profondamenti dilaniati, che lasciano un aurora di mistero intorno a questa pellicola dalla sua denominazione critica inclassificabile nel corpus creativo di Buñuel. (Maria Laura Platania and Matteo Merli) (Google translation)And Film-Dienst reviews the German edition of Jane Eyre 1944:
Sie gehört zu den schönsten Schauerromanzen, die die britische Literatur hervorgebracht hat: Charlotte Brontës viktorianische Erzählung um die vom Schicksal gebeutelte, aber aufrechte Waise Jane Eyre, die ihr Herz dem mysteriös-düsteren Lord Rochester schenkt. Eine der besten Filmadaptionen des Klassikers bleibt Robert Stevensons Film von 1944, für den kein Geringerer als Aldous Huxley Brontës Roman in eine stimmige Filmdramaturgie übersetzt hat. Die Hauptrollen werden von der ebenso zarten wie unbeugsamen Joan Fontaine und dem jungen Orson Welles gespielt; die Schwarz-Weiß-Ästhetik erweckt kongenial das von verhängnisvollen Schatten der Vergangenheit heimgesuchte Anwesen Thornfield zum Leben. Die von Alive vertriebene DVD präsentiert den Film in guter Bild- und Tonqualität. (jög) (Google translation)The Spenborough Guardian lists 'its Brontë heritage' as one of the attractions of Spen Valley, the New York Times reviews Lyndall Gordon's biography of Emily Dickinson and describes as 'highly regarded' her biography of Charlotte Brontë:
Gordon shows how literary these love lives were, how scripted and plotted according to the latest novels. “Susan was sober, a reserved Jane Eyre aware of an orphan’s position as visitor in others’ homes,” she writes of Dickinson’s sister-in-law. (Christopher Benfey)韓裴之隨筆 posts about Jane Eyre and Народная Газета discovers a "Belarusian Jane Eyre" The Sherlockian uploads a Jane Eyre book trailer on YouTube. Finally, the Brussels Brontë Group has an article about the repavement of the Rue Terarken, one of the few surviving stretches of the narrow cobbled streets of the Quartier Isabelle.
A curious proposal comes from Sordevolo (Piadmont, Italy).I Parchi Letterari® Franco AntonicelliCategories: Theatre, Wuthering Heights
Villa Cernigliaro Dimora storica
X Anno culturale 2010.
I Viaggi sentimentali ®
Zero gravità presenta
Villa Cernigliaro,
Saturday, 31 July 2010, 21.00 h
Cime Tempestose
by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights, unico romanzo di Emily Brontë, pubblicato nel 1847, è come un diamante grezzo, racconta le passioni senza levigarle. C'è qualcosa di selvaggio che riporta all'archetipo. Il mio amore per Heathcliff somiglia alle eterne rocce nascoste e immutabili; dà poca gioia apparente ma è necessario - dice Catherine. La forza diabolica con cui viene scolpito questo sentimento è un vero mistero. Emily Brontë non ha vissuto e ha raccontato la vita.
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Raffaella Boscolo (Signor Lokwood, Signora Dean, Cathrine, Heathcliff)
Maia Bertoldo (Heathcliff, Hareton cugino di Cathy)
Anna Leda Perinotto (Cathrine Linton, figlia di Cathy e di Edgar, Edgar Linton, suo padre)
Alice Violaine (Cathrine Earnshaw da giovane, lo spirito di Cathy)
ai fuochi Chef Alex con Rosanna & Lò
direzione artistica Carlotta Cernigliaro
produzione Zero gravità
collaborazione tecnica Teatro Out Off
“La notte scorsa sono stato alle soglie dell’inferno. Oggi sono in vista del mio paradiso. Lo fisso con i miei occhi”
note di regia:
La passione per il romanzo “Cime tempestose”, la suggestione del posto, la frequentazione della Villa, hanno alimentato in me visioni, tanto che ho sentito l'esigenza di rappresentarlo. La mia lettura scenica è da lettrice; ne ho estrapolato e drammatizzato alcune parti. Sono gli occhi di un lettore che interpreta quello che sente e per questo che chiedo allo spettatore di poter credere che io sia più personaggi di età diverse e anche maschili.. Una libertà della fantasia a volermi credere ora il Signor Lokwood l'affittuario, ora la Signora Dean, la domestica che racconta la storia, e soprattutto l'eroina del romanzo Cathrine e poi lui, Heathcliff, unendo questi due protagonisti ancor più per l'indissolubile e struggente legame delle loro anime. Cathrine dice:- io sono Heathcliff..-. Infine, ma non ultimo, ho coinvolto le tre ragazze, splendide nella loro freschezza, che ho sempre visto abitare la Villa, correre o trattenersi in quelle stanze colme della loro innocenza da rendere prezioso il loro essere per la prima volta in scena. Esse interpretano i protagonisti nella loro giovane età. Le ringrazio per aver condiviso questa speciale avventura. (Raffaella Boscolo) (Google translation)
GondalCategories: Audio-Radio, Fiction
First broadcast 21st December 1992 BBC Radio 4
Sat 31 July 2010 13:00
Sun 1 Aug 2010 01:00
Martyn Wade's play about Emily Bronte parallels her life at Haworth with a dramatic reconstruction of Gondal, her epic fantasy world set on a Pacific island from which the ideas for 'Wuthering Heights' evolved.
Nathaniel Parker............Fernando
Janet Maw.....................Emily Brontë
Diana Quick..................Augusta
John Rowe....................Lord Eldred
Clive Francis.................Alfred
Linda Polan...................Tabitha
Moir Leslie....................Angelica
David Thorpe................Alexander/Douglas
Keith Drinkel.................Parry/King Julius
Annabelle Lanyon..........Young Emily
Eric Allen......................Gerald
Bernadette Windsor.......Young Charlotte/Young Augusta
Jill Lidstone...................Young Branwell
What can fans expect from the new album?The Independent reviews Between the Sheets by Leslie MacDowell.
It’s very diversified. There is an Italian love song I wrote when I was in Italy last summer. There is a crazy, wild rock ’n’ roll song called “The Ghosts Are Gone.” There is a song about a novel called “Wide Sargasso Sea,” the precursor to Jane Eyre. It was a crazy movie in the ’80s that I loved. (Marjorie Hernandez)
Among the nine women writers of the first half of 20th century analyzed by the author we found the author of Wide Sargasso Sea: Jane Rhys.After UK politics Australian politics may be the next target of the put-a-Brontë-in-your-news campaign. In The Australian:
Nor is it necessarily true that they needed the pain in order to get published. Jean Rhys owed her late success with Wide Sargasso Sea to the kind intervention of Francis Wyndham. (Diana Souhami)
There's a famous scene in Charlotte Brontë's Gothic melodrama Jane Eyre where the heroine relates to her betrothed her awful experience of the previous night, when a ghastly figure of a woman invaded her sleeping-chamber and rent apart her bridal veil, trampling it to the floor.The Times lists 50 ways to say 'you're fat'. Charlotte Brontë is quoted:
As the reader soon discovers, the figure is no spectre: rather, she is the hero's unacknowledged wife Bertha, the famous "madwoman in the attic", whom Rochester has kept confined while he woos Jane as a bachelor. In the novel -- following the laws of poetic justice -- fate resolves the issue as it must.
The mad, embittered wife sets fire to the house and destroys herself, thus removing herself both from the story and the heroine's memory, while Jane is reunited with her injured but chastened lover. Real life, as we know, is not always so merciful.
We suspect that Brontë's point was quite simple. The dark secret, suppressed against its will, soon enough comes to light. The regretted association will eventually assert itself. Better to share your embarrassments and failings frankly with those you are trying to woo. Better to let in the light.
Right now the Prime Minister -- playing Rochester to the general public's Jane Eyre, if you like -- has her own "madwoman in the attic" problem, and she is evidently uncertain how to deal with it. (Julia Gillard)
36. “A woman of robust frame, square-shouldered and strong-limbed ... stout” (Charlotte Brontë).The actual phrase comes from Jane Eyre (Chapter IV) and is a description of Mrs Reed:
Mrs. Reed might be at that time some six or seven and thirty; she was a woman of robust frame, square-shouldered and strong-limbed, not tall, and, though stout, not obese: she had a somewhat large face, the under jaw being much developed and very solid; her brow was low, her chin large and prominent, mouth and nose sufficiently regular; under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth; her skin was dark and opaque, her hair nearly flaxen; her constitution was sound as a bell--illness never came near her; she was an exact, clever manager; her household and tenantry were thoroughly under her control; her children only at times defied her authority and laughed it to scorn; she dressed well, and had a presence and port calculated to set off handsome attire.Inspired by the Martin Schauder's case, Charlotte Hofton in the Isle of Wight County Press demands equal rights:
I spend at least 20 minutes getting dressed before I can write so much as a word.Belief.net talks about making comics based on the Torah:
First there’s the special T-shirt, bearing the slogan "Deadline? What deadline?" and my crinoline skirt, modelled on a design originally worn by the Brontë sisters. (...)
I am sure the County Press will understand the pressure this puts me under and will be delighted to make the necessary adjustments to my remuneration.
The stories of the Torah are incredibly rich, and it's no wonder that authors, like myself, are inspired to try to turn them into great children's literature. Just as we are cautious and humble about adapting Shakespeare and Brontë for the five year old set, kal v'chomer we should be extraordinarily careful about how we retell the stories of the Torah. (Homeshuling)A quote of Emily is the Daily Quote of The Fairport-East Rochester Port, Stuck in a Book and Rule of Three visited the Brontë Parsonage, Kevin Jackson's Theatre Reviews posts about Polly Teale's Brontë performances in Sydney, Teaching and Technology is reading Jane Eyre, missmarvellous loves Jane Eyre 1996(?) (in Swedish), Seriously..., Annie Speaks Her Mind, *Tristi Pinkston, LDS Writer, Tangled Words and Dreams, The Write Blocks, For the Love of the Written Word, Why Not? Because I Said So! review Chocolate Roses by Joan Sowards.
Please can we start a group called "What Would Emily Say?" I mean, Emily Brontë's birthday is July 30th and heartsick lovers everywhere need to celebrate—or at least consult.Joining this wish: Inside Google Books, Dawn Schreiner Illustration (who posts an original portrait), A Cineaste's Bookshelf and Readaholic (also celebrating the 75th anniversary of Penguin Books with a giveaway of Wuthering Heights and Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair, this one only on the first blog), Les Brontë à Paris (in French), Anne Bustard, Blogue do Sítio do Livro and Abaciente (in Portuguese), Wonder and the Wooden Post, the Brontë Sisters, The Diary of a Dead Moth, The Educated Imagination, January Magazine, Enslow Publishers and not a tribute post per se, but also related to, Much Madness is Divinest Sense reviews Denise Giardina's Emily's Ghost.
Members of WWES already exist, even if they don't have an official name or offer official T-shirts (yet). This was proven to me by the fact that I was asked to complete a series of questions concerning love and romance in Wuthering Heights for a popular online dating site. With an eye towards making my comments revelant to what are somtimes called "singles" in today's world, I accepted the challenge because it was too funny to pass up. (Read more)
7. What do we learn from Emily Brontë's book? Wuthering Heights teaches us that: 1. You shouldn't marry only for money; 2. You shouldn't marry only for passion; 3. You shouldn't depend only on your significant other for self-definition; 4. You need to get away from the moors, out of the rain, and into a warm circle of good friends who will laugh you out of your depression before you start yelling somebody's name on the moor.
Happy birthday, Emily Brontë, wherever you are.
192 years ago Emily Brontë was born in Thornton. Hers tends to be the thinnest biographies on Brontë bookshelves, and yet there's something intriguing about her literary output that sends people looking for biographies of her in hopes that they can help explain how a provincial - albeit highly learned, despite what Charlotte would have the world believe - young woman could have written such words. (And we are pretty sure that this 'mystery' is a two way street. Emily may have scorned the public, but we are quite confident that she would have been quite amazed at what Wuthering Heights particularly has achived in terms of readership, influences, literary status, etc.).Some sources trace the expression "plain jane" to early criticism of Jane Eyre, but Step 3 [Facing Her Biggest Fear] calls to mind a different Brontë sisters moment. So wonderfully subtle in employing a slimy snail tube as a metaphor for sexual experience, it led me to reflect on Wuthering Heights and the rock mass over the Fairy Cave, apprehended by Cathy with fear and desire: "The abrupt descent of Penistone Crags particularly attracted her notice." (Troy Patterson)This other comment
"Is that person sexy?" asks Roe. "Yes," squeals the young lady, not incorrectly. (To be certain, that sexy person has no personality, but Jane of course dressed herself with no personality to begin with.)EDIT: The author of the piece has written to us clarifying his point. He was talking about the "Jane" of the show, not the original Jane Eyre.
I don't leave home without my Kindle. If I have to wait in a doctor's office or for my car's oil to be changed, I can sample a Sherlock Holmes story, a book or two of Paradise Lost, a couple of pages of The Autobiography of Ben Franklin, the stories of Mark Twain, or any of the novels of the Brontë sisters. I've downloaded all of those and more, many more—for free—and read to suit my mood. I'll also download whatever new blockbuster mystery Amazon is offering up gratis. (Rachel Toor)The Millions has an essay about Shakespeare's Iago:
But there is something far more understated, and sinister, about Iago as a villain. Like Zoe Heller’s Barbara Covett from Notes on a Scandal, Daphne Du Maurier’s Mrs. Danvers, or perhaps even Brontë’s Heathcliff, the real evil that Iago inflicts is upon the people to whom he is closest. He is the godfather of villains who rot from the inside out. (Ujala Sehgal)IFC News has an article about Angelina Jolie. The reference to Wuthering Heights fortunately has nothing to do with that rumour of some years ago that placed Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in a Wuthering Heights production:
Then, it was her marriage to Billy Bob Thornton and the vials of each other's blood they wore around their necks. (If "Wuthering Heights" were published today, there'd be people worrying that Heathcliff and Cathy don't seem to be making healthy choices.) (Charles Taylor)Iraan (TX) is not Wuthering Heights. Confirmation comes from Odessa American:
I didn’t relish trekking up there alone at night, thinking I might hear the faint tapping at the window and the little voice of Catherine begging to come in from the moors. I had to remind myself that this was Iraan, not Wuthering Heights. (Charlena Chandler)The Hull Daily Mail announces the Hull Truck Theatre 2010/11 season which includes a production of Wuthering Heights (October 2010):
Hull Truck has also announced its autumn/winter season, with highlights including A Passionate Woman starring its writer Kay Mellor and Wuthering Heights featuring ex-Coronation Street stars Gaynor Faye and Rupert Hill.Emily Maguire is interviewed on ABC (Australia) and described as follows:
Emily Maguire is a young feminist known for her essays on sex, culture and literature. Her feminist views have been influenced by writers from Charlotte Brontë to Naomi Wolf.Steph Su Reads waits for the release of April Lindner's Jane, The Squeee reviews Shirley and Arizona Forever Joan Sowards's Chocolate Roses.
Wooler U3ACategories: Jane Eyre, Talks
Thursday, July 29: Lecture.
Wooler U3A's lecture is on Charlotte Brontë's influential novel, Jane Eyre. The free lecture and discussion afterwards will be led by Andrew Leng.
In the Cheviot Centre, Padgepool Place, Wooler. 2.30pm.
A musical version of Charlotte Brontë’s restrained gothic romance does not sound like a must-see but, after opening on Broadway in 2000, the show received good reviews and Tony nominations for Best Musical and Best Actress in a Musical. (Natalie Robehmed)According to The Independent, Emily Brontë suffered from insomnia:
Marcel Proust wrote at night, during periods of chronic sleeplessness. So did Emily Brontë and Walt Whitman. (Hannah Duguid)Discover Magazine talks about the forebears of the futuristic exoskeletons of Avatar. Corsets, of course:
Corsets and girdles are the best known types of “foundation garments” or “shapewear,” but for me at least, they are more Jane Eyre than Madonna, despite the latter’s use of them in her performances over the past twenty years. (Malcolm McIver)Gabriel Byrne describes Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor's love story like this for The Huffington Post, blunder included:
The public's need to create a latter day Cathy and Heathcliff, to mythologize their story (he was reading the novel in Vienna and thought the cruel and romantic Heathcliff a product of Charlotte Brontë's [sic]repressed sexual fantasies and Cathy the idealized feminine self).Michelle Kerns recommends Jane Slayre in the Book Examiner as summer reading because
The West Australian mentions recent shootings in Derbyshire:I'm reading this book because I will consider my life sadly wasted if I make it to my deathbed without having had the chance to read these words in a Jane Eyre spoof: "Reader, I buried him."
Blacksmiths, cobbles and willow-shaded streams - if corners of the Midlands remind you of a costume drama landscape designed by the sisters Brontë, you're right: Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, not to mention the more contemporary Peak Practice, are among the many productions that have been filmed here.On the blogosphere. Kindle Author interviews M.M. Bennetts:
Other major locations in Derbyshire include Haddon Hall (Jane Eyre), Sudbury Hall (Pride and Prejudice) and the Peak District village of Crich (Cardale in Peak Practice).
DAVID WISEHART: What authors most inspire you?Posts about Wuthering Heights: Encore's World of Film and TV and Lori Sizemore. Posts about Jane Eyre: Penelope Bouqine... (in French) and Not Another Reading Journal. Nottinghamshire Notes visits Haworth. Finally Suite101 publishes an article with the title The Influence of Branwell Brontë on the Brontë Sisters Works and Och solen har sin gång posts about the Brontës (in Swedish).
M.M. BENNETTS: John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Leo Tolstoy, Dorothy Dunnett, Paul House, Adam Zamoyski, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dominic Lieven...
| Aine, Nuala and Niamh singing a cover of the Puppini Sisters's rendition of Wuthering Heights: | A transposition on guitar by Stuart James: |
| Elisa Toffoli sings Wuthering Heights live on Che Tempo che fa. 23-05-2010: | At the Brazilian MTV program Infortúnio, the band makes an homage to metal singer Andre Matos, ex Angra (who made a WH cover): |
The gothic frontier drama, shot in Manitoba, has received favourable reviews from critics, who compare the story to the Bronte sisters on the Prairies instead of the moors. (Jamie Hall)Northern District Times (Australia) talks about the Brontë performances in Sydney:
The play questions what inspired them to follow their passion in a time where women’s talents and ambitions were strongly opposed rather than supported.North Side interviews Laura Francis, who plays Emily Brontë in this production:
[Joanne] Sanders said she chose to produce Brontë because she was passionate about exploring the way women’s roles were represented in society.
“I read the script and fell in love with it instantly,” Sanders said.
“The vision of strong female roles created from the play and underlying themes are expressed through the dialogue.
“As Emily Brontë says during her speech, she is ‘free to be whatever she might imagine’.
“That is an integral part of what inspires her to write and what influential factors shape her.”
Sanders said she was also interested in the way the sisters overcame obstacles and persevered, creating what are now considered to be outstanding literacy works.
“The sisters were born into an oppressive era in which females were not given equal opportunities such as an education, those rights were bestowed to the son of the family,” Sanders said.
“It explores the lives of pioneering women who remain role models for us and other women to this day.”
At its heart, Brontë is a heartfelt and inspirational play about not giving up, even when the odds of succeeding are low.
“It is a play that encompasses our theatrical ambitions,” Sanders said. (Melissa Davey)
How do you portray one of the biggest names in literary history? If you’re Lindfield actress Laura Francis, the answer is “carefully”.Deccan Chronicle (India) has opinions, both in favour and against, on the comic versions of books. Both opinions are, in fact, very simplistic:
“The only thing you can do is to try and take in as much as possible,” she said. “It’s a big task but it’s an interesting one.”
Francis, 25, is tackling the role of Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights in the new play Brontë, by British writer Polly Teale, at Studio 1, The Wharf until August 1.
Contrary to expectations, there’s not a bonnet in sight in the play, which puts the lives of the three sibling writers - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - under the microscope to examine their passion for writing, despite a culture where such ambitions were discouraged.
“So often with women in plays, they’re the ‘beauty’ of the play or they’re the woman behind the man,” said Francis, who along with the other actors will go on stage without make-up and “disgusting centre parts” lest their attractiveness detract from the achievements of the three sisters.
“But these three women are complicated, they’re like the women they write about. They’re not the usual heroines,” she said.
Francis had barely read any Brontë when she was first approached by friend Jennifer Williams (who plays Charlotte Brontë) to join the play last year. (Polly Simons)
However, there are those who feel classics should be left alone. “Please don’t touch the classics,” says Class 10 student Vasundhara Singh Bhati. “I don’t want to read Shakespeare or Emily Brontë in the comic form. The feel of the novel goes away. Comics cannot do justice to these classics. However, I’d love to read a comic version of the Twilight series, the book will become much more interesting with pictures,” she says nonchalantly. Not everyone is against the idea of reading a classic in the comic form. Says, Vibha Kundra, assistant manager, Signature Staff, “I wish there was a comic version of Jane Eyre when I was in school. At least, it would have spared me the torture. Comic versions of any book will be a success.Cathal Kelly in the Toronto Star has a suggestion for the creators of Jane Austen’s Fight Club:
Sure, Jane Austen’s Fight Club is awesome. But call me when they make Charlotte Bronte’s Straw Dogs.More suggestions. Jim Ludlow in The Guardian to Steven Moffat after Sherlock, his update on Sherlock Holmes for the BBC:
The massive cuts in budget by the Cameron-Clegg administration have reached the UK Film Council that will be suppressed. The Council was backing Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights project. We hope that the already current commitments will be respected but there is no confirmation. More information here.But, Moffat's recent tendency has been to go dark, so I'm holding out for Eyre: when Jane becomes a nanny for multimillionaire single parent Ed Rochester, it seems she's found her one true love. But viewer, beware ... There's a madwoman in the penthouse.
An open book discussion on Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea will take place at noon Wednesday. Joan Ormondroyd will facilitate. (The Ithaca Journal)Zhangtwo compares Jane Eyre 1944 and 1970. Dior Girl investigates settings in Wuthering Heights and Ibsen's A Doll's House. The Bookish Type interviews author Kate Kaynak:
What are your favorite books? What about them appeals to you?Soy Chai Bookshelf reviews Wuthering Heights 2009. Literature/Photos/Journal*ism has visited a place called Howarth that looks quite similar to Haworth, A blog devoid of all depth and thought is reading Wuthering Heights and Gealachs Blogg
(...) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) and Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen): These classic love stories have surprisingly vibrant female main characters for their day.
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Thoughtful Jane 5''x7'' original watercolorCategories: Art-Exhibitions, Weirdo
This watercolor was inspired by part of Jane Eyre where Mr. Rochester tells Jane of when he first took notice of her.
Plain Jane
This painting measures 8 x 10 inches and is done on quality 150 lbs. cold press watercolor paper.
Jane Eyre bookmarks
This bookmark is printed on heavy gloss paper from my original watercolor Plain Jane.
Jane Eyre Bookmark (wherever you are is my home)
CNN Shanghai interviews singer, composer and director Eheart Chen whose latest album is "简, 爱" ("Jane, Love"). The Jane of the title has some relation to our Jane Eyre: The album’s addictive hit song is "Jane Love," which pays tribute to Shanghai’s popular dubbing actor Qiu Yuefeng, who passed away 30 years ago. The half-Russian’s legendary voice was the most recognizable one in the media for most Chinese people from the 1950s to 1970s.Click here to watch the "Jane Love" music video (Youku).
“Qiu was the voice behind Chinese dubbing classics like 'Jane Eyre.' Dubbed movies were culture symbols in Shanghai for several decades. It was the entertainment I grew up with,” explains Chen.
Chen made the song's music video by himself, using rare movie footage and photos he got from Shanghai Film Dubbing Studio and Qiu’s son. Chen also invited his friend Moz Wang, an editor at Shanghai's Chinese Timeout, to collaborate on the lyrics.
“I’m also a fan of Eheart’s music,” Wang says. “[He] might not be the best musician in Shanghai, but he’s definitely the most Shanghainese one. He uses music to relive the city’s past and to tell stories.” (Tracy You)
[Sara] Canning is talking from the Atlanta, Ga., set of the CW TV show The Vampire Diaries, which seems more than a few worlds away from the Emily Brontë-like mix of manners, corsets and doomed romance found in Black Field. (Eric Volmers)John Farr reviews several Joan Fontaine/Olivia de Havilland films for The Huffington Post. No review of Devotion (in which Olivia de Havilland was an improbable Charlotte Brontë) but there's one of Jane Eyre 1944:
Sent to a girls' reformatory by a hateful aunt (Agnes Moorehead), young orphan Jane Eyre (Fontaine) endures ten years of harsh discipline and abuse at the hands of a sadistic headmaster. Ten years later, Jane finds work as a governess at the gloomy estate of gruff, imperious Edward Rochester (Orson Welles), where she cares for his coquettish, French-born daughter, Adele (Margaret O'Brien). Though Rochester is clearly fighting some inner demons, he's also increasingly fond of Jane, who becomes his most trusted confidante. Welles put his distinctive stamp on this haunting adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's canonical novel playing the brooding, ill-starred baron who falls for his humble governess, movingly played by the fresh-faced Fontaine. Director Robert Stevenson worked closely with author Aldous Huxley on the script, but apart from the excellent cast and writing, what makes this version so memorable is its oppressive, darkly romantic Gothic atmosphere: in particular, Jane and Rochester's first terrifying meeting on the fog-shrouded moors will surely etch into your mind. Look, too, for Liz Taylor early on as Jane's consumptive childhood friend.The Hindu insists on Emily Brontë's influence on Sarita Mandanna's Tiger Walls:
When Sarita Mandanna sat down to write her first novel, she knew it would have to be in the mould of her favourite novels from childhood — the grand, sweeping sagas of Emily Brontë or Jane Austen. (Divya Kumar)Masala interviews actress Sonam Kapoor:
Tell us about your favourite real-life love story and your fave movie love story.Azar Nafisi remembers Neda Agha-Soltan (and mentions her Brontë interests) in The Huffington Post; Stitching Words, One Thread at a Time hates Jane Eyre as much as she loves Wuthering Heights; Gypsyscarlett's weblog posts about Wuthering Heights translated into German; Avant-garde reviews Jane Eyre. Several blogs review Wide Sargasso Sea: Seeing and Being Seen, The Long Distance Book Club and Soy Chai Bookshelf. Somehow it gets to be tomorrow posts icons of Jane Eyre 1944 and The Other Ayn icons of Jane Eyre 2006. Tädi-Blogi reviews the performances of Wuthering Heights in Vanemuine (in Estonian). Also in Estonian orkaani südames on vaikus posts about Jane Eyre. Finally PrimaveraLuna reviews Wuthering Heights in Lithuanian.
Real-life would have to be my mum and dad (Anil and Sunita Kapoor). From the movies, ‘Gone With The Wind’, ‘Wuthering Heights’, and ‘Mughal-E-Azam’. Wait a minute, none of them end very romantically, do they? (Nazia Khan)
Wuthering Bites
Author: Sarah Gray
Pub Date: August 31, 2010
Imprint : Kensington
978-0-7582-5408-5
What if the enigmatic hero of one of our most timeless love stories was part vampire? The answer lies in this haunting retelling of the classic tale of Catherine and Heathcliff, kindred spirits bound by a turbulent—and now forbidden—passion…
When a young orphan named Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights by the manor’s owner, Mr. Earnshaw, rumors abound. Yet the truth is more complicated than anyone could guess. Heathcliff’s mother was a member of a gypsy band that roamed the English countryside, slaying vampires to keep citizens safe. But his father was a vampire. Now, even as Heathcliff gallantly fights the monsters who roam the moors in order to protect beautiful, spirited Catherine Earnshaw, he is torn by compassion for his victims—and by his own dark thirst.
Though Catherine loves Heathcliff, she fears the vampire in him, and is tempted by the privileged lifestyle their neighbors, the Lintons, enjoy. Forced to choose between wealthy, refined Edgar Linton and the brooding, increasingly dangerous Heathcliff, she makes a fateful decision. And soon Heathcliff, too, must choose—between his hunger, and the woman he will love for all eternity…
2. A YA novel:JaneCategories: Books, Jane Eyre, Sequels, Wuthering Heights
April Lindner
Reading level: Young Adult
Publisher: Poppy (October 11, 2010)
ISBN-10: 0316084204
Forced to drop out of an esteemed East Coast college after the sudden death of her parents, Jane Moore takes a nanny job at Thornfield Park, the estate of Nico Rathburn, a world-famous rock star on the brink of a huge comeback. Practical and independent, Jane reluctantly becomes entranced by her magnetic and brooding employer and finds herself in the midst of a forbidden romance.
But there's a mystery at Thornfield, and Jane's much-envied relationship with Nico is soon tested by an agonizing secret from his past. Torn between her feelings for Nico and his fateful secret, Jane must decide: Does being true to herself mean giving up on true love?
An irresistible romance interwoven with a darkly engrossing mystery, this contemporary retelling of the beloved classic Jane Eyre promises to enchant a new generation of readers.
The actress, who won a Golden Globe for her lead role in Mike Leigh's 2008 Happy-Go-Lucky, is also to appear in a new version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre due to premiere at the Venice film festival in September[.] (Vanessa Thorpe)EDIT: Nevertheless the official selection of the 2010 Venice Film Festival doesn't list the film.
The Guardian also publishes a list of the ten best movie cameos. The philosopher and literary critic Roland Barthes made an appearance on André Téchiné's 1979 film Les Soeurs Brontë as W.M. Thackeray (in the picture):André Téchiné, a leading member of the second wave of Cahiers du Cinéma critics to become auteur-directors, is the dedicatee of the essay "Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein" by his mentor and one-time lover, the influential and charismatic critic Roland Barthes. In this film starring Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert and Marie-France Pisier as the Brontës, Téchiné returns the compliment by giving Barthes the cameo role of William Makepeace Thackeray, who escorts Charlotte to Covent Garden. Perhaps Michael Winner should have made a film about the Goncourt Brothers casting FR Leavis, his fellow member of Downing College, Cambridge, as Flaubert. (Philip French)DNA (India) reviews Sarita Mandanna's Tiger Hills:
Describing the genesis of the book, Mandanna said: “I wanted to write a book with a panoramic lens, similar to Jane Austen and Wuthering Heights.”More wide-angle lens than panoramic.
This is a recently published LDS novel inspired by Jane Eyre:Chocolate Roses.The first chapters can be read here.
A Jane Eyre Parody
by Joan Sowards
Publisher: Brigham Distributing
ISBN-10: 1935217623
ISBN-13: 978-1935217626
Janie Rose Whitaker's world revolved around her chocolate shop until Roger Wentworth and his young daughter moved into the apartment across from Janie's. Anyone would think Roger fit the mold of the "perfect" guy, but soon Janie discovers secrets that could keep them apart forever. Though she resists getting involved in Roger's complicated life, they are drawn further into a bittersweet relationship.
You will laugh, cry, and crave chocolate as you read this LDS parody of the classic novel Jane Eyre.
What genre or sub-genre do you write? Why did you choose this genre?Categories: Books, Jane Eyre
I write LDS romance. Haunts Haven is a paranormal mystery romance, Chocolate Roses is pure romance with a Jane Eyre parallel. I haven't been able to get away from the LDS genre. I guess because it is so ingrained in me.
I started browsing in a rather bored way inside my parents’ bookcase. Most of the books there were not very exciting: Victorian Sunday-school prizes inherited from my grandparents, a set of encyclopaedias, a few fat novels by J. B. Priestley and H. E. Bates — and a little red leatherette edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. I didn’t like the slithery feel of the cover. The tiny dense print inside was not promising. But I started reading — “There was no possibility of takingThe Guardian surprises us with an article by Ian Sansom about Branwell Brontë (the title is Great Dynasties of the World: The Brontës, but the focus is on the brother). The excuse for it is the current exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage, Sex, Drugs and Literature (until May 20, 2011):
a walk that day” — and I was hooked. I discovered that the narrator is 10, as I was. She likes reading, too. When she chooses a book from an adult bookcase she takes care that it is one “stored with pictures”. Jane’s an odd one out, a tiny fierce, discontented child bullied by her hateful cousins. But when she hides herself away on the windowseat and turns the pages of Bewick’s History of British she’s happy. I was interested to see that she didn’t properly read the book, she made up stories to go with the pictures — my own favourite activity. (...) Most show cosy countryside scenes, often comical or coarse. Jane doesn’t even glance at these. She’s interested only in the strange, the eerie, the deliciously Gothic. Three pages into the story we’re seeing through Jane’s eyes, and we have a feeling that this dark and Gothic tale — but one so fiercely imagined that it will seem as if every word is true, and that it is really the autobiography it declares itself to be on the title page. (....)
I think it belongs in the Top 10 greatest novels of all time because because Jane herself is such an original heroine, an ugly little orphan who grows into a poor, plain young woman — a governess who looks like a mouse, but has a lion’s passion and spirit. She’s looked for love all her life, clutching her childhood doll, clasping the dying Helen in her arms, lying her head on Diana’s lap, and melting in Rochester’s embrace. Jane is no fairytale heroine waiting to be awakened by a loving kiss — she’s a brave quester after her own good fortune, who rescues her beloved again and again. Jane is the first modern feminist heroine.
Everyone now has heard of the Brontë sisters, of course – the "three weird sisters", Ted Hughes called them. (...) But what of the fourth Brontë sibling, the only brother, Branwell? He was the fourth of the six Brontë children – two older sisters died young. As he was the only son, expectations were high. (...)The New York Times describes writer China Miéville as follows:
As the sisters began to achieve recognition – a joint collection of their poems was published to critical acclaim in 1846 – Branwell sank deeper into depression and despair. He began drinking heavily, and taking laudanum. He had failed to gain admission to the Royal Academy, failed as a portrait painter, and had begun working variously as a tutor, and as a clerk at a railway station, posts from which he was dismissed for incompetence, or worse – in one case for conducting an affair with the mother of one of his pupils. Daphne du Maurier, in The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (1960), her brilliant and bizarre biography of Branwell, hints darkly at Branwell leading one of his young charges astray. Emily described her brother at this stage of his life as a "hopeless being".
Branwell's one and only famous painting is the only known portrait of the three sisters together: see left, now at the National Portrait Gallery. He had originally painted himself in the centre, but obliterated his image. The paint has faded, so that his ghostly presence now hovers ominously beside his sisters.
After Branwell's death in 1848, aged only 31, Charlotte wrote to her friend William Smith Williams: "I do not weep from a sense of bereavement – there is no prop withdrawn, no consolation torn away, no dear companion lost – but for the wreck of talent, the ruin of promise, the untimely, dreary extinction of what might have been a burning and a shining light."
Tall and buff, he has a shaved head, a row of earrings curving sharply around the edge of his left ear, a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and a mind that skips easily from “Jane Eyre” to welfare reform to the joys of bicycling around London. He is also a serious Socialist who ran for Parliament in 2001. The Evening Standard called him “the sexiest man in British politics.”(Sarah Lyall)The Times of India talks about best-sellers in India not forgetting the classics:
The classics have always had a formidable presence, with the Brontë sisters and the Austens constantly jostling for space in bookshops. (The Sydney Morning Herald has an article about film locations in Derbyshire. The information
It appeared in the films Elizabeth and The Other Boleyn Girl, in two productions of Jane Eyre and the bawdy TV adaptation of Moll Flanders. There is a rumour of yet another Jane Eyre coming to Haddon soon, with Australian actor Mia Wasikowska in the title role.No rumour and not soon. The film has already been shot.
When director Susanna White used Haddon in 2006 as Thornfield, Mr Rochester's home for the TV version of Jane Eyre, she devised a spectacular fire sequence that was so realistic the local fire brigade received more than 100 calls from residents convinced the place was burning down. (...)The Guardian reviews Day for Night by Frederick Reiken. The book contains at least a Wuthering Heights reference:
Other houses in the district that have hosted film crews include the handsome neo-classical Kedleston Hall near Derby, designed by Robert Adam. Like Chatsworth, the approach to Kedleston shows off its elegant pillared facade, which appeared in The Duchess and Jane Eyre. (Caroline Baum)
Later, she catches him talking in his sleep about a surprising affection for a Wuthering Heights character. It's a beautiful moment of tenderness after the horrors that have gone before. (Patrick Ness)The Age reviews a book about Australian football: Best on Ground edited by Peter Corris and John Dale. A Heathcliff mention appears:
[Malcolm] Knox recalls from his childhood an image of Francis Bourke, ''running out of defence with his floppy black hair like Heathcliff galloping across the moor for Cathy''. (Greg Baum)Charleston Movie Examiner talks about important movie moments:
It's 1943. Robert Stevenson's version of Jane Eyre. Joan Fontaine, as the title character, is starting to come to grips with the depths of her feelings for Edward Rochester (ably played by Orson Welles). Hillary Brooke is Blanche Ingram: young, desirable and anxious to get her claws into Rochester. Across a room Fontaine's eyes meet with Brooke's. Only for an instant, but everyone in the theater knows the gauntlet has been thrown down. (Michael Wolff)In the Seattle Writing Career Examiners, Jennifer Conner reviews Melanie Jackson's The Ghost and Miss Demure:
"What’s the appeal of watching people fall in love in the scariest of settings? I think it’s twofold. One, it’s tradition—look at the enduring popularity of a story like Wuthering Heights. Thanks to the Brontës and other early gothic writers, the haunted house has been chic for centuries, at least in novels.A Haworth summer walk in The Times:
Haworth Hills, West Yorkshire.Tim Butcher reviews Shades of Greene by Jeremy Lewis in The Times. The book follows the saga of the Greenes and the saga of the Brontës is also mentioned:
Even at tourist high tide, the hills around Haworth retain their brutish, Brontë-esque appeal. In town, you can hobble across the cobbles to the family to the family graves, and pick up souvenirs at the apothecary’s shop where doomed Branwell Brontë bought his laudanum. To seek the unquiet ghosts of Heathcliff and Cathy, though, you need to strike out west across Penistone Hill and onto the bleakly beautiful Pennine moors. A farm track leads to the Brontë waterfalls, where the sisters composed verse while enthroned on a chair on a chair-like boulder. Not much has changed but the finger posts (now in English and Japanese). Cross the beck and keep on west to Top Withens ruin, a blasted farmhouse at 1,400ft. The guidebooks say it is Wuthering Heights but we say it’s nowhere near grand enough — though the desolate atmosphere seeps straight from the Brontë novel. From here, pick up the Pennine Way northeast to Ponden Hall, thought to be the model Thrushcross Grange, the rather less forbidding home of the Lintons. Double back now, returning to Haworth via Stanbury village. (Vincent Crump)
Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell grew up in a highbrow household: their father Patrick was a curate who loved to read to read and write poetry, and subscribed to literary magazines. The siblings wrote together as children wrote together as children but, while the sisters went on to produce classic works, Branwell became an alcoholic and published only a handful of poems.More comments on the Brontë Parsonage Blog about Anne Brontë's grave. By the way, the Restore Anne Brontë's Grave Facebook group has published the following on its wall:
I have received an email from a Trustee of The Brontë Society who has informed me that they have a meeting, at the end of August, with the Reverend of St. Mary's Church to discuss what can be done to resolve this situation. We now have over 200 members and support that something needs to be done. Keep spreading the word. Thanks everyone. (Dave Selby)The Basler Zeitung (Switzerland) discusses Twilight:
Bloss: Auch selbstbestimmte Frauen strömen ins Kino, um sich «Twilight» anzusehen. Die englische Journalistin Mathilda Gregory, die sich mit Genderthemen befasst, kann mit dem feministischen Aufschrei deshalb nicht viel anfangen. «Twilight» spreche die romantische Ader von Frauen an, vergleichbar mit den düster-emotionalen Geschichten einer Emily Brontë. (Philippe Zweifel) (Google translation)Finally, Kate's Books reviews Jane Eyre.
