Rochester's Fruitcake

The Provincetown Banner reviews the local production Dead Ringer by the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater:

In Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre,” Rochester locks his mad wife Bertha in the attic. Mary is the mad/invalid monster locked in the root cellar. And like Bertha in the 19th century attic, Mary stays locked up. (Reva Blau)

Mumbai Mirror (India) talks with author Ruskin Bond:

The author mentions Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens and PG Wodehouse as some of the writers he likes. But his fascination for the words of Rudyard Kipling is well known. (Ashlesha Athavale)

The Independent mentions the Nintendo DS 100 book collection:

Nintendo has high ambitions for its clientele of teenage zombies, and has launched a "100 books collection" of great works of literature, for its DS console. All very noble. A pity then that whoever wrote the advert got a bit muddled and tells us the list includes "must-read novels" such as Moby Dick, Jane Eyre and, er, Hamlet.

The Spokesman-Review on eating and reading:

I’m pretty sure I absentmindedly ate almost an entire fruitcake when I read Jane Eyre. Even now, just thinking about Mr. Rochester brings on a curious craving for candied fruit and pecans. And I’m not a big fan. (Cheryl-Anne Millsap)

The Columbus Dispatch reviews an exhibition by artist Debra Joyce Dawson:

In the chilly and dusky Cornish Coast and Ruins, she explores the bluffs and cliffs of southeastern England. The depiction is lively and theatrical, the stage perfectly set for a heroine such as Jane Eyre to appear. (Amy Adams)

We really doubt that the Cornish Coast is the landscape more in tune with Jane Eyre.

Journalists at the Press-Republican selecting Wuthering Heights as a good reading; awsungal shows her progress with the Rochester 1983 doll; Muse briefly posts about Wide Sargasso Sea; Ponderings from Prudence and Turun Tilda (in Finnish) review Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, References, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights