...a bit more Heathcliff

Alert reader Melissa informs us that the September 2010 issue of Glamour Magazine includes a column on the "7 Best Literary Heroines of All Time." Jane Eyre makes it to number three:

Judges: Erin Blakemore; Suzanne Ferriss; Mallory Young; Jennifer Weiner.
3. Jane Eyre
The plain Jane in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 classic proved that you can get the guy and stay true to yourself, declaring - spoiler alert! - "Reader, I married him." (Jessica Siegel)

BBC's Vexed receives its first reviews. Toby Stephens's Brontë past is not overlooked. In the Leicester Mercury:

So I feel a tiny bit ashamed to say I quite liked this fast-paced first episode, about unorthodox detective duo Jack (Toby "Mr Dorchester" Stephens) and Kate (Lucy Punch).
Mr Rochester, Jack isn't.
And Misfits creator Howard Overman's script is a million miles away from Charlotte Brontë. (Gemma Collins)

Louise Rennison's Wuthering Tights is featured in several regional papers: Liverpool Echo, The Telegraph & Argus:

However, after only getting 45% for her mid-term assessment – The Dance Of The Sugar Plum Bikey, she has to pass her end of term assignment – a play based on Wuthering Heights that she has to write and produce – in order to be offered a permanent place at the school.

The Irish Times submits some teachers to a Leaving Certificate English Paper. This is what one of the correctors said about one of the composition questions:

This question requires a comparative discussion of two Wuthering Heights characters, Heathcliff and Hareton, with specific and consistent reference to “a positive attitude to the world”. I wish the candidate had attacked the quotation as inadequate and shown why. I longed for a bit more aggression, a bit more passion . . . a bit more Heathcliff.

Lumea mea has read (and enjoyed) Jane Eyre (in Romanian); Melodramatic Sunflower is reading Wuthering Heights and More of an Idiot reviews it; an entry on the Brontë Parsonage Museum has been added to TravBuddy; ordenarlabiblioteca reviews Les Soeurs Brontë 1979 (in Spanish). Finally, Les Brontë à Paris publishes her own review of Jane Slayre and the Brussels Brontë Blog posts how some members of the group put their Brontë seal in an English intensive course for interpreters.

Categories: Biography, Books, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Sequels, Wuthering Heights