If Charlotte Brontë was your friend on Facebook...

Juliette Binoche comments on her personal life at the time of filming Wuthering Heights 1992 in The Times:

But I went through a period of turmoil then. It was very difficult doing Leos’s Lovers on the Bridge plus Damage plus Wuthering Heights. The shoots were very difficult, my life was difficult; like a tunnel, not just simply because I was with the director.

A Manchester Evening News article on actor Rupert Hil mentions the forthcoming stage production of Wuthering Heights in which he will play Heathcliff:

Despite his big business plans, Rupert is still keeping busy with the acting. He’s just completed a national tour of When Harry Met Sally and now starts rehearsals playing literary anti-hero Heathcliff in a new production of Wuthering Heights under acclaimed director John Godber. (Dianne Bourne)

Incidentally, the San Francisco Chronicle has a list of saving tips for college which includes buying secondhand books, such as Wuthering Heights.

And if soap opera Coronation Street had its Brontë moments, another British soap opera, EastEnders, cannot do without a bit of Brontë too, according to The Northern Echo.

Peggy marches in action, rounds up her troops Billy and Minty (not exactly the SAS unless it stands for Silly And Stupid) and has befuddled Fill dragged back home to the Queen Vic.
There, she has him boarded up in the upstairs living room, a bit like that mad women in the attic in Jane Eyre. A fire was involved in that literary soap too. Here in EastEnders (BBC1) it’s time to set fire to the Vic again.

An article on Associated Content sorts Facebook friends into different categories. Apparently one of them is:

5. The Sad Sacks
The Sad Sacks are the Charlotte Brontë characters of Facebook. They're probably lying back on a chaise with their eyes bright from a TB-fever as they feebly type in their incredibly vague, but melodramatic status updates. (Susan Abe)

Oh, poor Charlotte. We will defend her by pointing out that many of her letters are animated and very interesting to read but, truth be told, she also was a 'sad sack' from time to time, particularly to her friend Ellen Nussey around the 1852 period.

On the blogosphere, Scribbles of Soul and I wish i was able to sleep (in Hungarian) review Wuthering Heights. Les Brontë à Paris (in French) posts about its author. Agnes Grey is reviewed by Steph & Tony Investigate. And finally, April Lindner's Jane is discussed by Carol's Prints.

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