Nelly, I'm into Heathcliff

Ruth Wilson, who played Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre 2006, speaks to Variety and comments on that role briefly.

"It's just about trying to take steps elsewhere and not to be stuck in one place," she says. "I'm always very aware of not being pigeonholed into particular categories. It's nice when people think 'Oh, is that the same girl who played "Jane Eyre?" ' " (Andrew Barker)

Jane Eyre has been retold for a YA audience in Jane by April Lindner. Angieville interviews her and gives away an ARC of the novel among US and Canada readers.

Lifeline Theatre's production of Wuthering Heights is featured - including a couple of pictures - by Broadway World.

The Atlantic describes Jonathan Franzen’s prose as 'juvenile', using the following example:

The language a writer uses to create a world is that world, and Franzen’s strenuously contemporary and therefore juvenile language is a world in which nothing important can happen. Madame Bovary’s marriage sucked, Heathcliff was into Catherine: these words fail the context not just because they are of our own time. There is no import in things that “suck,” no drama in someone’s being “into” someone else. (B.R. Myers)

The New York Times has an article on 86-year-old Lee Kuan Yew, 'the man who defined Singapore'. His current relationship with his wife is told as follows:

His most difficult moments come at the end of each day, he said, as he sits by the bedside of his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, 89, who has been unable to move or speak for more than two years. She had been by his side, a confidante and counselor, since they were law students in London.
"She understands when I talk to her, which I do every night," he said. "She keeps awake for me; I tell her about my day’s work, read her favorite poems." He opened a giant spreadsheet to show his reading list, books by Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Rudyard Kipling and Lewis Carroll as well as the sonnets of Shakespeare. (Seth Mydans)

And on a much lighter note, Torontoist comments on Michael Winterbottom’s series The Trip and tells about one of the scenes:

The stops on their circuit and intermittent car rides are pretense for Coogan and Brydon’s graceful comic interplay. Watching as they jibe each other, indulge duelling Michael Caine impressions, and break into Kate Bush’s "Wuthering Heights" (occasioned by their passing through a "wiley, windy moor") is unfailingly funny, and we’re lucky to be along for the ride. (John Semley)

And more pop culture: Goaly Moly brings up a 1994 picture of football/soccer player Ryan Giggs:

Giggsy was a wild young thing, with Heathcliff hair, . . . (Ollie Irish)

Yesterday we mentioned kisses and Wuthering Heights and today it's kisses and a more general 'the Brontë sisters' in The Huffington Post.

I dreamt of being asked to dance, but I especially wished to be kissed. Yes, kissed. That most racy activity, the culmination of the action in all the romantic books I used to read. From the pages of Jane Austen to the Brontë sisters, from Emma Orczy to Delly -- the latter being the very prolific author of many fabulous novels that formed "La Bibliothèque de la Rose" -- I had learned that a kiss sealed serious love and innocent passion. (Patrizia Chen)

More 'the Brontës' in general in The Punch (Nigeria) on the subject of pseudonyms and on Stuff, which is considering buying their books along with a few others' just for no reason at all to keep apace with current trends.

Loneliness, just like yesterday as well, is discussed - albeit rather more in depth - by Countercurrents, where Charlotte Brontë's poem Evening Solace is mentioned.

Jane Eyre is discussed by Amy's Slant on Literature, Według Agi (in Polish), Leaves That Are Green, Las mujeres que leen son peligrosas (in Spanish) and Silver Screen in a Red Envelope: A Diary of Time Wasted (the Franco Zeffirelli adaptation of the novel).

MrKooger666 has uploaded to YouTube a video of Brontë country with special attention to the steam train.

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