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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010 2:22 pm by Cristina in , , , ,    No comments
A new picture of Jane Eyre 2011 may be forthcoming. Via the Jane Eyre 2011 IMDb Boards we have heard that Focus Features have set up an Official Jane Eyre Facebook page. Apparently, once they reach 500 fans (they haven't reached 300 yet, now 311 373 426 480 515 573, Last edit: September 20, 13:53 GMT) they will unveil a new picture of the film. So do start getting people to join in!

That unexpected source of Brontë references - fashion - continues. Metro asks five emerging British designers about their inspiration and this is what one of them replies:
Lou Dalton: Anything and everything. Of late, it’s down to rereading Wuthering Heights and DH Lawrence’s The Virgin And The Gipsy. (Bel Jacobs)
And the Telegraph finds traces of Wuthering Heights in the latest Celtic Sheepskin catalogue.
Catering for an imaginary Britain beset by Alaskan temperatures, Celtic Sheepskin is all about “you against the elements.” Apparently set on the moors of Wuthering Heights, this is for the fiftysomething and upwards women whose children have all left home. (Celia Walden)
US News offers some advice on how to go about writing a college application essay.
5. Be accurate. I don't mean just use spell check (that goes without saying). Attend to the other mechanics of good writing, including conventional punctuation in the use of commas, semi-colons, etc. If you are writing about Dickens, don't say he wrote Wuthering Heights. If you write about Nietzsche, spell his name right. (Lynn F. Jacobs and Jeremy S. Hyman)
We'd say that also applies beyond the college application essay world.

Also confused by authorship is a reader of the Pioneer Press who has written about their crossword puzzle:
Kyo of Mendota Heights: "I seldom do the 'other' crossword puzzle (in the classifieds), but picked it up on Monday. As I worked through the puzzle, I was dismayed to find that the six-letter answer to the clue ' "Emma" novelist' was not AUSTEN, but BRONTË! So, to trusty Google I turned, finding the following in Wikipedia:
" 'Emma, unfinished; Charlotte Brontë wrote only 20 pages of the manuscript, published posthumously in 1860. In recent decades, at least two continuations of this fragment have appeared:
" 'Emma, by "Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady", published 1980; although this has been attributed to Elizabeth Goudge ..., the actual author was Constance Savery. ...
" 'Emma Brown, by Clare Boylan, published 2003'
"So, my question remains: Was the author of this crossword puzzle in error or exploiting a lesser-known work? In any case, I've learned something new!"
We wonder, too.

School Library Journal is giving away two copies of Clare B. Dunkle's The House of Dead Maids. We are giving away two copies of it as well as a copy of Michèle Roberts's Mud and Capuchin Classics' edition of Agnes Grey. Only four days to go now!

eBookNewser has picked Wuthering Heights as the 'free ebook of the day', which is great, of course, but Wuthering Heights is a free ebook all year round as well.

The Meath Chronicle suggests watching the following tomorrow:
'The Yorkshire Clamper' (CH4, Friday, 7.30pm) - First-time director Leon Dean's film explores the world of Ted Evans, Britain's most notorious car clamper and the thorn in the side of the beautiful Yorkshire village of Haworth, the home of the Brontë sisters.
Residents spurn him and tourists fear him, for if they are a little over time, have their tickets upside down or park slightly in another bay, car park owner Ted is ready to clamp their cars. He has been accused of immobilising a car while its driver was asleep, clamping a minibus for disabled children and even clamping the Prime Minister of Australia. (John Daly)
EDIT: An alert from Cooper Landing, Alaska:
Cooper Landing Community School
The Friday Night Book Club will meet at the Library Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. to discuss Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. (The Turnagain Times)
On the blogosphere, Jane Eyre is discussed by The Lynes Family and Glenti (in Greek).

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