More Jane Eyre than Madonna

The National (United Arab Emirates) has a list of weird choices for musicals. We don't agree that Jane Eyre was such a weird choice:

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

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."

The West Australian mentions recent shootings in Derbyshire:

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.
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).

On the blogosphere. Kindle Author interviews M.M. Bennetts:

DAVID WISEHART: What authors most inspire you?
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...

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).

Categories: Branwell Brontë, Emily Brontë, Haworth, Jane Eyre, Music, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights