The mean, snippy Charlotte

Kate Sidley from The Times (South Africa) has problems when it comes to sorting her bookshelves:

You could put "classics" together, although it seems rather subjective and judgmental, or group authors by period. I don't like to see Jane Austen tucked up next to Asimov, although she might get on with Kate Atkinson and even Martin Amis. But then she wouldn't like being stuck with the Brontës either, particularly the snippy Charlotte, who was very mean about her. You see my problem, and that's just the authors beginning with A.

The Boulder Books Examiner recommends reading more than one Brontë book (a very wise recommendation by the way):

For the sake of feminism, the Brontë sisters deserve a second look by anyone who has ever been curious or interested in reading Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, or less commonly known, Agnes Gray [sic] and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. The differences between these novels are extreme, and yet they were written by three sisters who grew up in the same household. Also interesting is that it was inappropriate for females to be authors in this time period, so they originally wrote with the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (they conveniently wrote as three brothers). (Read more) (Crystal Falconer)

The Spartanburg Herald-Standard publishes an alert (in Spartanburg, South Carolina) for next Tuesday, August 10:

11 a.m. Westside Library, Westside Readers’ Club. Join our discussion of Laura Joh Roland’s novel, “The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë.” Light refreshments. Call 574-6815.

The columnist of the Aspen Times, Tony Vagneur, reminisces about his high school years:

But we didn't just write; we read, probably the most liberal reading list of any public high school in America. Henry Miller's “Tropic of Cancer” was on the list, and we did “Tropic of Capricorn” for extra credit; (...) Poets Milton, Byron, Dickinson, Brontë, Service, Thomas and T.S. Eliot entered our thinking. And she went to my football games.

And... a Brontëite in The Newton Bee; a positive review of Wuthering Heights in Sharp, Quick, Clean; and a negative one (so far) of Jane Eyre in note to self.

Categories: Alert, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, References, Wuthering Heights