Look under Antiques and Collectibles for Jane Eyre

The Telegraph and Argus has an article on Sarah Freeman's book Brontë in Love:

The love affairs and infatuations that inspired Charlotte Brontë's novels are revealed in a new book.
Brontë in Love explores the romantic longings that dominated the famous writer's life and work.
The book is described as a beautifully written, fast-paced and insightful portrayal of Charlotte and her inspirations.
Sarah Freeman set out to write the book to dispel myths that have surrounded Charlotte for the past 150 years.
She is currently features editor of the Yorkshire Post but has always had a passion for Charlotte.
The publisher, Great Northern Books, said Sarah related how the teenage Charlotte, living in the Haworth parsonage, wrote torrid romances.
A spokesman said: "She developed a dangerous obsession with her fictional hero, the Duke of Zamorna, who had two wives, numerous mistresses and an illegitimate child.
"By the time she was twenty-three she had rejected two proposals of marriage, one from a man she had known for only a couple of hours, and believed that only true love could conquer all.
"Not for another fifteen turbulent years, marked by another proposal and two passionate affairs - one with a married father-of-six - were her childhood dreams finally extinguished.
"On June 29, 1854, she walked into her father’s church and of her own free will married a man she didn’t love." Charlotte was finally happy, but nine months of the Murray [marriage?] father's curate Arthur Nicholls, she and her other [unborn?] child died.
Brontë in Love highlights just how deeply Charlotte’s own life was intertwined with her novels.
It shows how relationships with her married tutor Monsieur Heger and later her publisher George Smith inspired novels The Professor and Villette.
Charlotte's most famous novel Jane Eyre, meanwhile, allowed her to let passion and romance right all the wrongs in her life.
Much of the source material for Brontë in Love comes from the letters Charlotte wrote to friends and lovers.
Best-selling novelist Joanne Harris described the book as truly fascinating, elegantly written and beautifully illustrated.
She said: "This important and touching story will appeal to admirers of Charlotte Brontë as in well as to any students of human nature.”
Brontë in Love is published this month (September) on hardback costing £14.99. Signed copies can be ordered via 01274. (David Knights)

There was a sentence there where Mr Knights's text was a little confusing, wasn't it? Stay tuned to BrontëBlog for a review of Brontë in Love in the coming weeks.

Speaking of dispelling myths, perhaps someone should write a book entitled Emily's Journeys, as the idea that she barely left home is so widespread. See for example the Herald (Ireland):

Emily Brontë seldom roamed beyond her native village of Howarth [sic] but Wuthering Heights is a great novel. (Con Houlihan)

For a 19th-century parson's daughter Emily Brontë travelled quite a lot: Halifax, York, London and Brussels. The stays in York and London were a matter of days, but she stayed in Halifax and Brussels for months.

Another Brontë blunder is reported by Salon, which comments on 'the serious problems with the bibliographic information attached to many of the digital texts in Google Books'. Such as

Other errors include misattributed authors -- Sigmund Freud is listed as a co-author of a book on the Mosaic Web browser and Henry James is credited with writing "Madame Bovary." Even more puzzling are the many subject misclassifications: an edition of "Moby Dick" categorized under "Computers," and "Jane Eyre" as "Antiques and Collectibles" ("Madame Bovary" got that label, too). (Laura Miller)

And that's not all about Google and the Brontës for today. Management Today wonders whether Google Instant is really necessary and concludes by saying,

What’s more, there may be some inherent problems in search results appearing before you’ve finished typing. For example, Wuthering Heights fans looking to find out more about the setting for Cathy and Heathcliff’s most famous trysts could be in for a nasty surprise… (Emma Haslett)

EDIT: The BBC3 Radio programme Twenty Minutes, aired in the intermission of yesterday's Prom, included a piece by Michèle Roberts which mentioned several times Charlotte Brontë and particularly Villette and its heroine, Lucy Snowe:

Dust Walk (online until September 15)
by Michèle Roberts.
Wed 8 Sep 201019:30
The novelist Michele Roberts closes the iron gate behind her and takes to the streets of Kiev, as things are starting to lose their daytime definition. It's still boiling though, as darkness comes. And in the next half hour she encounters packs of dogs, inspirational saints and pretty girls boldly dressed for their own evening stolls.
It all happens on the streets of Kiev.

Producer Duncan Minshull.

An alert from the Scranton Library (Madison, CT):

Victorian Secrets
In Victorian England, the status and role of women were subjects of political debate, literary discourse and pictorial representation. From the idealization of The Angel in the House (the domestic guardian of morality and virtue) to the imprisonment of The Madwoman in the Attic (the closeted hysteric), various images of women suffuse Victorian literature and art. Through discussions of four great novels of the period, we will consider the depiction of women in an age in which women were both worshipped and subjugated.
THURSDAYS 7:00—8:30PM
SEPT. 9, 2010 Jane Eyre

The Indiana Daily Student wonders 'why read?' and one of the reasons given is,

Whether it is relationship troubles with the Brontë sisters, or an existential crisis with our dear friend Hamlet, one could answer [Katha] Pollitt’s question like so: We read to relate. We strive to touch that character and think maybe we could undergo that, too. (Francisco Tirado)

And Fort Myers News-Press has an article on Lisa Bimbach's The Official Preppy Handbook.

"The Official Preppy Handbook" used to sit on the bookshelf next to "Wuthering Heights," "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and the collected poems of Emily Dickinson. (Drew Sterwald)

And The Times (Zimbabwe) connects patterned dresses and Heathcliff:

Buying patterned dresses is like investing in junk shares or - I hypothesise - marrying Russell Brand or Heathcliff. (Lisa Armstrong)

Mary Haigh, former Brontë Society Representative in New England, is featured on The Wellesley Townsman.

Broadway World takes a look at the 2010-2011 season in St Louis and considers the musical adaptation of The Secret Garden to follow 'in the grand tradition of such literary masterpieces as "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights"'. Traces of these two works are also found by the Sarasota Herald Tribune in a review of an American Stage Theatre production of The Mystery of Irma Vep in St Petersburg, FL.

Les Brontë à Paris writes in French about Anne Brontë's tomb in Scarborough. As Leituras da Fernanda reviews Wuthering Heights in Portuguese. Awsumgal has posted a new update on the progress of her soon-to-be Edward Rochester doll. Finally, Flickr user thenikonkid has uploaded a picture of Wycoller Hall, said to be the real-life basis for Ferndean Manor in Jane Eyre.

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